By Diana Nollen/ SourceMedia Group Visitors to Claude Monet’s gardens in Giverny, France, will soon be able to hear what Dan Knight saw as he strolled the hallowed grounds in 1999. So will Eastern Iowans. Knight, a local pianist with global renown, has turned his impressions of the ...
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 ‘West Side Story’ Feb. 7 to 12, 2012 Could it be? Yes, it could. Something’s coming, something good. And we no longer have to wait. The first national tour of the 2009 Broadway revival of “West Side Story” is coming to the Civic ...
By Diana Nollen/ SourceMedia Group Sam Knutson is on a treasure hunt across Iowa. He’s not looking for buried loot or lost trinkets. He’s looking above ground, at ways to bring more music to the state’s treasure trove of opera houses. He’s mining his finds into The Iowa ...
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 ...
