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Cedar Rapids Gazette

Location

Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America

Date

Mar 01, 1980

Page

12

ZZ Top dazzles Cedar Rapids crowd on first tour in three years

About 8 500 fans at Five Seasons Center welcomed ZZ Top back to the road after a 1976 hiatus. The Texas trio Billy Gibbons Dusty Hill and Frank Beard delivered a hard driving hour long set with two encores and a Rockets opening act.

ZZ Top Texas Cedar Rapids Five Seasons Center Deguello Santa Ana Alamo Billy Gibbons Dusty Hill Frank Beard California Detroit The Rockets Chuck Berry Carol

Fetler Wins 1980 Iowa School of Letters Short Fiction Award

James Fetler, a San Francisco writer and teacher, wins the 1980 Iowa School of Letters Short Fiction Award for a collection of nine stories. The 11th annual competition drew 240 manuscripts at the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop. Fetler’s Deliberate Collisions will be published by University of Iowa Press. the $1,000 prize is from the Iowa Arts Council. Fetler teaches American literature at Foothill College in Los Altos Hills, California.

Iowa City UPI James Fetler San Francisco Iowa School of Letters Fetler University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop University of Iowa Press Iowa Arts Council Foothill College Los Altos Hill, Calif

The Prize Fighterand More At Local Theaters Saturday

Listings show theaters presenting multiple films including The Prize Fighter Hero at Large Saturn 3 The Electric Horseman The Rose Norma Rae Kramer vs Kramer 10 The Last Married Couple in America The Revenge of the Pink Panther Quadrophenia and daily classifieds in the Gazette Want Ads.

Iowa Plaza — “Saturn Eastown II America

Irish Brigade Concert Planned by Limerick Duo in Davenport

Gerry Goodwin and Mike Wallace from Limerick now living in Davenport perform Monday night March 3 at 7 at the Knights of Columbus Hall. SAPADAPASO sponsors. tickets $4 at the door. The duo recently appeared in Cedar Rapids January 7 and have played in Omaha Des Moines and St Paul. They start a six month tour in St Louis in July.

Gerry Goodwin Mike Wallace Limerick Ireland Davenport Knights of Columbus Sapadapaso

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