Weekender

Established 2001 | Always free! Kick off Pride Month with DBQ Pride Festival on Saturday or La Cage Aux Folles at CSPS Hall on Sunday. Read Malcom MacDougall’s review before you sit down for the show. Iowa City, Des Moines, and the Quad Cities are bringing the music this weekend with scores of gigs to […]

Established 2001 | Always free! This weekend you can catch the Terminator of contemporary rock music at Davenport’s Capitol Theater, or if folk-pop is more your speed, see Liliana Asta live at Dimensional Brewing Company in Dubuque. Tonight, Bob Dorr plays the blues at Octopus College Hill, and on Friday, Origami Summer comes to Gabe’s […]

Established 2001 | Always free! There’s almost too much to do this weekend in our reader regions, but that just means you can have your pick to kick off the summer. JPEGMAFIA comes to Val Air Ballroom in Des Moines on Friday, and Shining Realm celebrates their album release at Gabe’s on Saturday. Rebel Queens […]

Established 2001 | Always free! Finals got you down? Never fear, the Weekender is here. Catch a free community film screening in Iowa City or Brother Trucker’s album release at Noce in Des Moines. See the Cedar Rapids Museum of Art’s exhibition on clothes before it closes, or enjoy a night of live music at […]

Established 2001 | Always free! The events start coming and they don’t stop coming in today’s Weekender. In the mood to browse some art? Cedar Rapids and Waterloo have you covered, with gallery openings for Jayson Reid and Saw Naing Lin at CSPS Hall and a new exhibition by Ethan Edvenson at Waterloo Center for […]

Established 2001 | Always free! It’s another Weekender bursting with events. Deb Talan celebrates the release of her solo album at the Englert in Iowa City. (She discussed the highs and lows of her post-divorce life in an interview with Little Village this week). Tomorrow is the first Friday of the month, which means Mainframe Studios is […]

Established 2001 | Always free! The sounds of today’s Weekender range from ukulele in Des Moines to abstract sound collage in Rock Island. Andrew Hoyt busts out his uke in his EP release show at Wooly’s this Friday. Rozz-Tox hosts psychedelic jazz artists Direct Mutant Action, with Rock Island-based opener Systems. Indiana screamo band Usurp […]

Established 2001 | Always free! It’s another weekend filled with an eclectic array of things to do in our reader regions. Perhaps you had no plans to visit a church this Easter weekend? Could a National Medal of the Arts recipient change that? The Fisk Jubilee Singers will perform with Cornell College choirs at the […]

Established 2001 | Always free! At times, pulling out highlights from our Weekender can feel like Mad Libs. How else could we get Mason Ramsey and Bill Murray in the same sentence? Fill out your own weekend plans among the ex-Ghostbusters, viral kid yodelers and other events in our reader regions below. The Weekender is […]

Established 2001 | Always free! April kicks off the spring festival season with the return of two long-running fests: Mission Creek Festival in Iowa City and the Cedar Rapids Independent Film Festival in Marion. No need for any FOMO in our other reader regions, though. In Des Moines, musician/historian Seth Hedquist will present his ode […]

Established 2001 | Always free! There is a lot to celebrate and come out in solidarity for this weekend. Iowa City’s Trumpet Blossom hosts a night of music and resistance via a fundraiser for Iowa Trans Mutual Aid. Cedar Rapids again proves it’s a metalhead destination with the March Metal Madness show at The Ideal […]

Established 2001 | Always free! We don’t care if there’s snow or strange dirty-brown rain (which is a thing now) we’re catching one of these shows this weekend. Trumpet Blossom has a trio of performers slated for Friday night. Mars Hojilla and emily the band visit from Illinois while Allegra Hernandez takes a break from their Girls […]