The regular meeting of the Kirkwood Board of Trustees will take place November 14, 2024. Time, place, and meeting agenda can be found at this link.
Culture Crawl 990 “Well, To Impress a Girl”
Caleb Rainey’s poetry has made him one of Iowa’s best-known artists (shortly after this interview was recorded, he won The 2024 Iowa Author Award for poetry). Nov. 8-9, he hosts the third annual Mic Check Poetry Fest, featuring both renowned poets like Rudy Francisco and Iowa’s Poet Laureate Vince Gutera, with jazz accompanying the poetry by the Blake Shaw Quartet. The weekend will also include workshops and a poetry slam
BONUS – Make sure you watch until the end to hear Caleb recite one of his poems!
Tickets and more information at IowaCityPoetry.com. Keep up with Caleb at thenegroartist.com and Blake on Instagram at theeblakebass.
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KCCK’s Featured Album for November 2024
The KCCK Featured Album for November is “A Little Taste” from Rebecca Kilgore. The celebrated vocalist honors her good friend and colleague Dave Frishberg, who passed away in 2021, focusing on a program of his songs along with his collaborations with Johnny Hodges, Johnny Mandel and Alan Broadbent. Sadly, Ms. Kilgore was diagnosed with dementia earlier this year and has now retired from performing, making this her final documented recording. “A Little Taste: A Tribute to Dave Frishberg” is on Cherry Pie Records. Purchase
Culture Crawl 989 “That One Line”
There’s one line in “A Few Good Men” that everyone knows, even if they never saw the Jack Nicholson/Tom Cruise/Demi Moore film. But the movie started as a Broadway play, one of the early works by celebrated writer/producer Aaron Sorkin, who went on to make legendary projects like The West Wing.
Scot Hughes does double duty in the RHCR Theatre production, directing and playing Col. Jessep ( who says That One Line). Grant Blades plays the young lieutenant charged with finding “the truth” behind the hazing death of a Marine at Guantanamo Base.
Nov. 1-3 and 8-10 at CSPS in Cedar Rapids. Tickets and info at www.rhcrtheatre.com.
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Talking Pictures 10-30-24
“Apartment 7A” (2024 Paramount+ prequel to 1968’s “Rosemary’s Baby”) and “Halloween III: Season of the Witch” (1982) with Hollis Monroe, Phil Brown and Ron Adkins.
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Culture Crawl 988 “Come For The Dancing Cow”
In this second culture crawl installment of the Kirkwood fall production of “Into the Woods,” we chat with student actors Jacob Cacioppo (playing The Baker), Laci McHenry (playing The Baker’s Wife), and director Emma Kostiv. This funny, emotionally charged, mysterious, dark, and exciting show runs for two weekends with six showings, including two matinees.
Nov 1, 2, 7 & 8 @ 7:30pm and Nov 3 & 9 @ 2pm in Kirkwood’s Ballantyne Auditorium.
Tickets can be purchased at kirkwood.edu/ballantyne
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Culture Crawl 987 “Hey, I Wrote That!”
TKM Productions presents the first play written by Iowa theatre mainstay and TKM co-founder Deb Kennedy. A cast full of Deb’s friends and past collaborators bring her anecdotes and reflections to life in “It’s a Girl Thing.” The stories are by turn hilarious, heartwarming, and emotional as Deb takes the audience through marriage, motherhood, and illness.
Nov. 1-3 at the Amana Center for the Performing Arts. Tickets and info at tkmtheatricalproductions.com.
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New Music Monday for October 28, 2024
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A select number of musicians throughout history have left indelible marks, taking the music to new heights on their instruments. J.J. Johnson was one of those. He was the first to adapt the complexities of bebop to the trombone, and every subsequent style on the instrument has been shaped upon the building blocks he diligently constructed. When the opportunity arose to celebrate his 100th birthdate in Indianapolis, the place where his life both began and ended, and to do it in the city’s acclaimed jazz club, The Jazz Kitchen, trombonist John Fedchock couldn’t pass it up. “Justifiably J.J.,” recorded in March of this year, also features some of top players from the Indy area including pianist Steve Allee, bassist Jeremy Allen and drummer Sean Dobbins.
Formed in 2019, Free Spirits—led by pianist and composer Teri Parker—was originally conceived as a tribute to the talents of legendary pianists Mary Lou Williams and Geri Allen. Whether performing Parker’s originals or songs from Allen and Williams, the group has a playful, soulful sound all its own, a deep chemistry that has developed over years of performances, rehearsals and recordings. The new album, “Peaks and Valleys,” was recorded after a residency at Toronto’s Rex Hotel, and has all the energy and nuanced interplay one would expect from some of Canada’s best musicians. It features compositions from Williams and Allen, and a brand new five-song suite written by Ms. Parker.
Also this week, celebrated jazz vocalist Rebecca Kilgore pays tribute to a frequent collaborator of hers, the late composer and pianist Dave Frishberg, with “A Little Taste”; London-born saxophonist, composer and bandleader Nubya Garcia shares her new album, “Odyssey”; and saxophonist Javon Jackson highlights some of his favorite film music with “Javon and Nikki Go to the Movies.”