Though Doreen Ketchens has toured internationally as a featured act, there is little doubt that she won’t feel right at home when she and her touring act, ‘Doreen’s Jazz,’ play the intimate stage of The Mill. After all, she’s built her whole career on playing in the most up-close and personal of settings: The streets of New Orleans.
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Interview: Louie Anderson performs tonight at the Englert Theatre
Louie Anderson brings his stand-up act to the Englert Theatre tonight, giving attendees a chance to catch one of the true breakout stars of the 1980s comedy…
Electronic cumbia music from Argentina heads to Landfall Festival
Argentina’s La Yegros, dubbed the “first lady of digital cumbia,” performs tonight at CSPS Hall for the Landfall Festival of World Music. La Yegros came into her own…
Grinnell Fall Music Lineup: Traxman performs tonight at the Gardner Lounge
A night of vanguard DJ performances come to Grinnell College tonight with a show featuring Chicago Footwork Legend Traxman, profiled in LV‘s fall music preview…
Landfall tonight: Check out the music of southern Italy
Canzoniere Grecanico Salentino kicks off the seventh annual Landfall Festival of World Music tonight at CSPS Hall. Though the group is true to the tradition of the pizzica dance music of Southern Italy, their music has a distinctly modern vibrancy, as can be seen in the video for “Nu te fermare,” a song from their 2012 album Pizzica Indiavolta…
Interview: Brooks Wheelan on the LA comedy scene, SNL and his return to Iowa City
Brooks Wheelan returns to the Iowa City area with performances tonight at Penguin’s and tomorrow at The Mill as part of “The Brooks Wheelan Falls…
Tom Cotter, master of the one-liner from America’s Got Talent, performs tonight at Penguin’s
“The morning of my sixteenth birthday, my whole family tried to surprise me with a car. But they missed.” With sharp one-liners like this, the kind that sneak up…
IWP Cinematheque screens Opium War Tuesday
The International Writing program presents Opium War tonight at 7:30 on campus in room E105 of the Adler Journalism Building. The film is being shown as part of Cinematheque, a […]
Interview: NYC comedian and TV writer Kevin McCaffery performs this weekend at Penguin’s
Kevin McCaffery, a stand-up comedian and writer based in New York City, will be performing at Penguin’s Comedy Club on Friday Sept. 5 and Saturday Sept. 6…
5th annual Roast of Iowa City set for Sunday
The 5th annual Roast of Iowa City is upon us, a yearly event where we invite members of our community to take their most humorous stab at puncturing the inflated ego of our fair city. If you think you have what it takes to be a roaster, send your entry to…
Following his departure from SNL, UI alum Brooks Wheelan announces stand-up tour
Comedian and Iowa-native Brooks Wheelan has announced two performances in the area this coming month, Wooly’s on Sept. 10 and The Mill on Sept. 13, as part…
Comedian Jimmy Pardo, Conan’s Crowd Pleaser, returns to his Roots with Penguin’s Performance
Jimmy Pardo has made a name for himself through his quick-witted, energetic, free-associative style of “crowd work” comedy, a genre of stand-up that…