Place Your Bets Fundraiser at Cedar Rapids Theatre
Cedar Rapids Theatre hosts a fundraising night at the Iowa Theatre Building with card games using play money and live entertainment from 7 to 9 p.m. featuring Guys and Dolls previews and the George Jazz Trio. Tickets are 25 dollars, 15 for TCR partners, and advance sales are available online or by phone.
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Cedar Rapids
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TCR
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Museum hosts old fashioned Independence Day at Hoover Museum
WEST BRANCH The Herbert Hoover Presidential Museum presents An Old Fashioned Independence Day on July Fourth starting 1 30 p m in the museum auditorium. The Marengo Civil War Band performs at 1 30 and 3 p m followed by a 2 15 p m theatrical piece by a presidential troupe with actors as Samuel Adams James Madison Mary Ball Washington and John Adams. Concerts and performance are free, though gallery admission applies.
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Herbert Hoover Presidential Museum
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James Madison
Mary Ball Washington
John Adams
Blues and BBQ festival moved to July in North Liberty
The fifth annual Liberty Centre Blues and BBQ festival is now set for July 23 from noon to 10 p.m. at Liberty Centre after being canceled May 29 due to weather. Performances include Dave Zollo and the Body Electric Kevin B F Burt and the Investigators and Bob Dorr and the Blue Band with Ellis Kell Band stepping in for Avey Brothers. The free family festival features kids games inflatables petting zoo fishing a barbecue contest beverage garden and free fireworks at 9 45 p.m.
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Seersucker Struts From Capitol Hill To Fashion Runway
The seersucker fabric known for 20th century summers reemerges in Washington with a Seersucker Social Bike Ride and new designer pieces. Event founder Eric Channing Brewer seeks a sequel while designers blend vintage stripes with modern cuts for hot-weather style. Experts advise mixing traditional fabric with contemporary pieces to avoid overdone looks.
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Sington Post
Mississippi
Trent Lott
Seersucker
Capitol Hill
India
Washington
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Lyndon Johnson
Cam
Senate
Madras
Washington, D.C
Eric Channing Brewer
Tom Wolfe
Robert Byrd
Ethan Drath
Georgetown Prep Trove
Sherman Pickey
Colonel Sanders
Emerson Fry
Emerson Made
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Fry
Online Fashion Playtes Lets Tweens Design Their Clothes
Aspiring tween designers can create garments on FashionPlaytes.com choosing basics and customizing with colors ribbons appliques rhinestones and buttons. An avatar models the look and orders ship in two to three weeks with items priced from about 9 to 25 dollars.
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Rod Stafford Haywood
FashionPlaytes.com
Tim Gunn
Florida
Lori Lipkin
Sabrina
Ava Shaw
Lisa Shaw
Ava
Online DIY design sites for tweens to adults
A guide lists sites for young makers and teens to design apparel. It covers ByKidsOnly IndiCustom SpreadShirt Zazzle Customink FabricOnDemand Fabricly Garmz Blank-Label WorldOfAlfa ShirtsMyWay ProperCloth and more with options from jeans to T shirts and dress shirts.
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ByKidsOnly.com
IndiCustom.com
SpreadShirt.com
Zazzle.com
Customink.com
FabricOnDemand.com
Fabricly.com
Garmz.com
Garmz
Blank-Label
WorldOfAlfa
ShirtsMyWay
ProperCloth
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