CEDAR RAPIDS — “I don’t think kids can do that.” That’s the wrong thing to say to Lynne Waggoner-Patton, but also the right thing. From that challenge sprang The Silhouettes, coming to the Paramount Theatre in Waggoner-Patton’s hometown Tuesday night, Nov. 20. A Denver company wanted her to create a show using photographs, shadows, imagery [...]
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New employees Tony Tomash (see photo) joined Bernardi Investment Services Inc. His responsibilities include investment and planning services as well as assisting with strategic growth and oversight of the company. AW Welt Ambrisco Insurance announced new staff members Nancy Rohwedder (see photo) as receptionist/administrative assistant, Tyler Riddle (see photo) as client services agent in the [...]
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Click here to see how The Gazette’s Max Freund created this time lapse video: CEDAR RAPIDS – A different kind of ballet came to the Paramount Theatre on Monday, bringing clean lines, lifts and turns as Nesper Sign Co. workers delicately repositioned the refurbished marquee above the theater’s boarded-up entrance. It’s one of the most [...]
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Orchestra Iowa and VenuWorks, which has a city contract to manage the Paramount Theatre, have reached an agreement to jointly manage the historic entertainment facility in downtown Cedar Rapids. Orchestra Iowa and VenuWorks will work together in the programming, marketing, sales and operation of the Paramount. The city-owned theater, constructed in 1928, was heavily damaged by [...]
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With Saturday night’s opening of the Opus Concert Cafe, Orchestra Iowa has taken a paramount step in its ongoing flood recovery. The new street-level facility at 119 Third Ave. SE also will provide a doorway to the Paramount Theatre’s Hall of Mirrors when that historic facility reopens in the fall of 2012. The Opus jewel [...]
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The City Council can give and it can take back. Such was the case this week, when a council majority shifted gears after it decided three weeks ago to turn the management of the Paramount Theatre over to its principal tenant, Orchestra Iowa. Tuesday evening, the council voted 7-1 — Mayor Ron Corbett was left [...]
continue »CEDAR RAPIDS — Groundbreaking for the Paramount Theatre restoration and expansion is set for 1 p.m. Wednesday, June 29 in front of the facility’s marquee, City Hall says. On Tuesday, the City Council learned that the apparent low bidder for the first of two pieces of the construction work at the theater beat the engineer’s [...]
continue »By Diana Nollen HIAWATHA — In December, Bethany Wheeler, 19, and her parents, Lu and Jeff, bought her the equivalent of a new car. It’s jet black and sounds heavenly when Wheeler revs it up. She expects it to take her far. In June, she will take her new concert-grand harp to Washington, D.C., where [...]
continue »Ferocious phoenix By Diana Nollen I believe everything Tim Hankewich tells me. So when the Orchestra Iowa maestro told me last spring that he was most looking forward to this weekend’s Shostakovich violin concerto, that’s reason to sit up and take notice. And buy a ticket or two. That’s a ringing endorsement in a season [...]
continue »By Diana Nollen Orchestra Iowa will be a symphony on the go next season. The venerable ensemble based in Cedar Rapids will be reaching out to even more corners of the Corridor and the state with its 2010-11 season, “The Sound is All Around.” Season tickets go on sale Monday (4/26/10) at the Symphony Center, [...]
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