Jazz Corner of the World Encore with host Craig Kessler Mondays at 6:00pm Baritone Sax Masters Craig surveys 75 years of the baritone sax in jazz. We’ll hear from giants like Gerry Mulligan, Harry Carney, Sahib Shihab, Ronnie Cuber, Pepper Adams, Bob Gordon, Gary Smulyan, and a host of others. …
Hey, Jazz fans! Be sure to tune in this week as we celebrate the birthdays of trumpeters/composer/arrangers Mercer Ellington, Blue Mitchell, Quincy Jones and Terence Blanchard, singers Mark Murphy, Al Jarreau, Bobby McFerrin and Vanessa Rubin, organist Shirley Scott, drummer Roy Haynes and more. We’ll also mark the recording anniversaries of Buck Clayton’s “Jam Sessions …
Iowa BIG and Nexus Entertainment present The 5-Minute Film Festival March 16 at CSPS Hall. Iowa BIG offers high school students project-based learning opportunities with local companies and organizations. For the 5-Minute Film Fest, students coordinated entries, set up marketing and promotion, and will take the lead in running the event. More information about the …
President Biden delivers a defiant State of the Union address…beginning teachers would get a boost in pay under legislation passed by the Iowa House.
Cedar Rapids Museum of Art exhibitions, “Land/scape: Climate, the Environment and Beyond” and “Ravenous: Food in Art” are up and running for a couple more months and curator Julia Jessen is here to spill the bowls of fruit. In an effort to bring art and the museum directly to your home, exhibits will be available …
Biden and Trump roll to easy Super Tuesday victories…Republicans in Des Moines are proposing more changes to Iowa’s voting laws.
Former President Donald Trump gets a favorable ruling from the US Supreme Court…the Iowa legislature moves to take more control from local governments.
Congressional leaders have reached an agreement on six funding bills that would avoid a partial government shutdown…Caitlin Clark sets another record.
