By Diana Nollen/ SourceMedia Group Loni Love wants her audiences to live, love and laugh. She’s taking that message on the road all year, coast to coast. She was at the Mississippi Moon Bar in Dubuque last night (2/1), and has a two-night stop at Penguins Comedy ...
By Diana Nollen/ SourceMedia Group “The level of artistic ability in this area is as deep and rich as our black soil,” says artist Stan Wiederspan of Cedar Rapids, a fixture on the Eastern Iowa art scene. That’s precisely why the Cedar Rapids Museum of Art will ...
By Diana Nollen/ SourceMedia Group CEDAR RAPIDS — Since being earnest was apparently so important in Victorian England, let me be frank here and now: "The Importance of Being Earnest" is one of the most thoroughly hilarious and satisfying shows Theatre Cedar Rapids has staged in ...
By Diana Nollen/ SourceMedia Group Pieta Brown has a name that instantly makes you sit up and take notice. And no, she isn’t named after the famous Michelangelo sculpture at the Vatican, in which Mary holds the body of her crucified son, Jesus. She owes her name ...
By Diana Nollen/ SourceMedia Group Stew & The Negro Problem Thursday, Feb. 2, 2012 Stew and Heidi Rodewald have a thing or two to say about Iowa City. Stew & The Negro Problem is a rock band with a flair for biting social satire and witty wordplay. This ...
By Diana Nollen/ SourceMedia Group “In matters of grave importance, style, not sincerity, is the vital thing.” “The truth is rarely pure and never simple.” Oscar Wilde penned both lines in his celebrated play, “The Importance of Being Earnest.” The first captures the essence of his comedic indictment of ...
By Diana Nollen/ SourceMedia Group Oscar Fingal O’Flahertie Wills Wilde was the rock star of his day, part of the upper echelon of the Victorian British society he thumbed and the decadence he embraced in his writings, from the novel “The Picture of Dorian Gray” to ...
By Diana Nollen/ SourceMedia Group CEDAR RAPIDS — Time doesn’t stand still, even for an estate like Brucemore that gives modern visitors a snapshot of the past. “Brucemore is always evolving. One of the strengths of Brucemore is that it has always adapted to the needs of ...
By Diana Nollen/ SourceMedia Group Orchestra Iowa: ‘Fire and Ice’ Saturday and Sunday, Jan. 21 and 22, 2012 Baby, it’s cold outside, but Orchestra Iowa is offering a double shot to warm your soul this weekend with the fiery music of Sibelius’ fifth symphony and his most famous ...
By Diana Nollen/ SourceMedia Group The artists on “Iowa Duets” hail from the Tall Corn State, but their imagery pops far afield, with worldly artistry and appeal. Rockin’ jazz guitarist Pat Smith of Coralville and classically trained bass player Richard Wagor of Cedar Rapids have created something ...
