The following is a look back at the history of the Iowa City improvisational music scene featured in Music of the Moment, a documentary screening this…
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Comedian and actor Barry Rothbart performs at the Mill
Barry Rothbart, performing this Thursday at the Mill, apparently does it all. The up-and-coming comedian has already landed himself on The Tonight Show and Conan…
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Green Gravel announces Eddie Pepitone, Josh Androsky and Brandie Posey for its 2015 festival
Green Gravel announced today that comedians Eddie Pepitone, Josh Androsky and Brandie Posey will be featured in the 2015 Green Gravel Comedy festival…
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Riff Raff comes to the Blue Moose Tap House to get weird
Riff Raff, a rapper who represents the avant-garde of white-boy rap or the greatest punchline that genre has ever produced (or maybe both), performs at the Blue Moose Tap House on Thursday, Dec 4. …
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Yelawolf brings hardcore southern rap to the Blue Moose
Featured prominently on Eminem’s just-released Shady XV album, rapper Yelawolf takes his “Slumerican Made” tour to the Blue Moose Tap House on…
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Lorna Landvik reads from ‘Best to Laugh,’ a novel account of ’80s stand-up
Minnesota novelist Lorna Landvik reads tonight at Prairie Lights from Best to Laugh, a book which tells the story of Candy Pekkala, a young woman who uproots…
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Interview: Charles D’Ambrosio, new Writers’ Workshop faculty member, reads at Prairie Lights
Charles D’Ambrosio, a new faculty member of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and the award-winning author of The Dead Fish Museum and The Point…
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W. Kamau Bell, host of ‘Totally Biased,’ performs stand-up at The Mill for ‘Oh Everything’ tour
The ‘Oh, Everything’ title refers to Bell’s approach to comedy where he brings his humor and progressive outlook to bear on a whole range of issues…
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Green Gravel Comedy Fest: ‘Too Many Cooks’ creator heading to Iowa City, more announcements to follow
Lee Keeler, organizer of The Green Gravel Comedy Festival, an Iowa alternative comedy festival that began last year, announced today that the 2015 festival…
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Gary Numan, of ‘Cars’ fame, performs at the Blue Moose
Since the 1990s, when musicians like Trent Reznor and Marilyn Manson began citing his music as a major influence, Numan has earned considerable esteem for the various directions he has taken electronic music in and his continuing contributions to the genre.
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Your sketch, if you choose to accept it: Mission IMPROVable heads to the Englert
Mission IMPROVable takes to the Englert stage this Friday, and, in case neither the word play or the capitalization tipped you off, an evening…
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Southern rapper on the rise: Big K.R.I.T. performs tonight at the Blue Moose Tap House
Big K.R.I.T. (King Remembered In Time) lays down his smooth southern hip hop tonight at the Blue Moose Tap House. K.R.I.T., a Mississippi native…
