Weekend arts and events in Cedar Rapids and surrounding area
Local weekend calendar features University Theatres Spring Storm at 8 p.m. in Theatre B, UNI Beausoleil concert at 7 30 p.m. on campus Cedar Falls. Cedar Rapids Opera Rigoletto at Theatre Cedar Rapids shows 8 p.m. Friday and 2 30 p.m. Sunday. Also gallery demos at History Center 1 3 p.m. Saturday and Arctic Blast 2001 events at Jones Park with sno disc golf and sledding. Additional activities include ballroom dancing in Waterloo and a Winter Film Festival at Effigy Mounds with multiple showings.
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University Theatres Gallery
Beausoleil
Gallagher-Bluedorn Performing Arts
UNI
Cedar Falls
Cedar Rapids Opera Theatre
Giuseppe Verdi
Theatre
Cedar Rapids
Third St. SE
History Center
First Ave
Ridge Runners
Jones Park
May’s Island
East Iowa
Squaw Creek Lodge
Cedar Valley United States Amateur Ballroom Dancers Association
Waterloo Center For the Arts
Order of Eagles
DJ Scoot-A-Boot
Eagles Club
Highway 1 West
Iowa City
Effigy Mounds National Monument
Grand Canyon
Franklin returns to air with polka request show
Cedar Rapids Kralik known as Dave Franklin resumes hosting the Sunday Morning Polka Show on KMRY AM 1450 from 9 to noon after briefly retiring. Listeners and sponsors prompted the comeback with mail and phone requests. Big Band Jump shifts to noon to 2 PM.
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Cindy Cullen
Chapman Gazette Arts & Entertainment
Cedar Rapids
Dave Franklin Kralik
Kralik
Dave Franklin
Kcrgam
Kmry-Am
Rick Sellers
KMRY
Kmry Radio
Blairs Ferry Rd
Bruce Greenwood Sees JFK Realism In 13 Days Role
Canadian actor Bruce Greenwood visits Dallas sights while promoting 13 Days in which he plays John F. Kennedy. He discusses adopting a realistic portrayal, JFK’s intellectual depth, anti-Catholic challenges, and the映画’s aim to remind viewers how close the world came to nuclear ruin during the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis.
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Knight Ridder
ALLAS
Dallas
Bruce Greenwood
Kennedy Memorial
John F. Kennedy
Jfk
Jackie
Marilyn Monroe
Roger
Donaldson
Kennedy
Greenwood
Ashley Judd
Steven Culp
Robert F. Kennedy
Roger Donaldson
Camelot
Kevin Costner
Kenny O'Donnell
Smoking on Screen Surges in 1990s Say Dartmouth Study
Dartmouth researchers reviewed 250 top films from the last decade and found 87 percent include tobacco use with about one third showing identifiable brand logos. The study notes a tenfold rise in actor brand endorsements since the 1989 industry pledge and warns of nudging youth toward smoking.
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Congress
Hollywood
Humphrey Bogart
Dartmouth
Sargent
Madeline Dalton
Dalton
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National Czech & Slovak Museum & Library
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