Marcus Zusak The Hotel at Kirkwood Center — Sunday, Mar. 13 at 5 p.m. Each year, the Linn Area Reads program of the Metro Library Network (a coalition of the Cedar Rapids, Marion and Hiawatha Libraries) chooses a book for area residents to read and discuss together at a series of free public events. This […]
Genevieve Trainor
Genevieve Trainor lives in Iowa City, Iowa. Passions include heavy music, hoppy beer, and hidden rooms.
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Just announced: Floodwater Comedy Festival adds Jak Knight to the roster
Jak Knight The Mill — Sunday, Apr. 24 at 7 p.m. The Floodwater Comedy Festival is expanding its line-up today with the announcement of a new headliner to the mix: Los Angeles-based comedian Jak Knight. Knight has been featured on Comedy Central’s The Meltdown with Jonah and Kumail and has appeared on @Midnight. He has […]
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Just announced: Black Mountain at The Mill
Black Mountain The Mill — Wednesday, Jun. 15 at 8 p.m. Formed in 2004, Vancouver band Black Mountain has released three albums and half a dozen EPs in their 12 years together, most on the preeminent Jagjaguwar, their current label. On Apr. 1, they’re set to release their fourth studio album, the aptly titled IV. […]
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Multi-genre performer Dahlak Brathwaite visits Cedar Rapids for shows, workshops
Dahlak Brathwaite – Spiritrials CSPS — Thursday through Saturday, Mar. 10-12 at 8 p.m., with Q&A to follow There’s an intersection where poetry, theatre and music meet. The distinctions between them blur there. The categories cease to matter. This is performance at its purest, at its truest, at its most historic and its most transcendent […]
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Album Review: Sweet Cacophony – Wind, Sand & Stars
The members of Iowa City-based folk quartet Sweet Cacophony have been playing music collectively for many decades. However, these lifelong musicians didn’t meet each other until recently. Life threw them together at the Hilltop Tavern’s Friends of Old Time Music jam sessions, which harmonica/accordion player Dennis Roseman has long organized. Peter Rolnick (guitars/mandolin), Jim Delaney (guitars/percussion) and Dave Parsons (bass/whistle) were the first to come together, in 2013. Roseman joined them soon after.
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Rapper Vince Staples returns to Iowa City
Vince Staples Blue Moose Tap House — Monday, Mar. 7 at 6:30 p.m. “What is the ‘little village?’ ” Vince Staples asks. We’ve only just begun our interview, and he’s beaten me out the gate with the first question. He seems a bit trepidatious and, once I’ve fumbled through an awkward answer about the song […]
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St. Louis’ Foxing heads to Iowa City
Foxing Gabe’s — Saturday, Mar. 5 at 6:30 p.m. “Foxing is a band,” the bio on the St. Louis-based group’s Bandcamp page asserts. “Someday Foxing won’t be a band.” This graceful impermanence permeates the band’s ethos — from their name (taken from a term for the way that brown spots appear on, and eventually obfuscate, […]
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A fresh take on opera with ‘cmetq’
cmetq Riverside Theatre — Monday, Feb. 29 at 7:30 p.m. A brand new opera will receive its Iowa City premiere tonight, Feb. 29. Written by current University of Iowa Grant Wood Art Colony Fellow and Visiting Assistant Professor of Music Christopher Jette, cmetq (which refers to “communication etiquette”) is an exploration of the changing understanding […]
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A new grant for a new hat: Curt Oren pays it forward
We all remember the hat, right? Way back when the year 2015 was winding to a close, the powers that be at Buzzfeed — or at least one lucky writer — helped bring Iowa City musician Curt Oren’s story to the world, when he landed smack dab at the top of the website’s list of […]
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Just announced: Matt Bellassai at the Iowa Memorial Union
Matt Bellassai Iowa Memorial Union — Wednesday, Apr. 6 at 10 p.m. The University of Iowa Campus Activities Board announced on Tuesday that BuzzFeed writer and comedian Matt Bellassai will be on the schedule this spring, with a late night event at the IMU in April. Bellassai is most known for his wildly popular video […]
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Chamber Singers of Iowa City to perform Arvo Pärt’s ‘Passio’
The Chamber Singers of Iowa City First Presbyterian Church at 3 p.m. — Arvo Pärt’s Passio Clinton Street Social Club at 5 p.m. — Northern Lights fundraiser Contemporary composer Arvo Pärt was born in Estonia in 1935. When you listen to his music performed, you can hear echoes of the story that the piano he […]
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Mission Creek Festival offers a teaser event at Iowa River Landing
Mission Creek @ IRL Various venues — Saturday, Feb. 20 at 2 p.m. Mission Creek Festival, in conjunction with the Iowa City/Coralville Area Convention & Visitors Bureau and Iowa River Landing, is presenting a free series of events on Saturday afternoon at the Iowa River Landing complex in Coralville. Framed as “a taste of Mission […]
