CEDAR RAPIDS — The 18th annual Fab Five show choir event is this Saturday, Feb 4, in the Performing Arts Center at Prairie High School, on the College community Campus. Groups from Prairie, Washington, Jefferson, Kennedy, and Linn-Mar will showcase performances with singing and professionally choreographed dance. There are two shows on Saturday, a Prep [...]
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Clowning around is serious business for Steve-O, a 1997 graduate of the Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Clown College. That training provided the springboard the trick-skateboarder needed to jump from cruise ship clown to Hollywood stunt maniac. He’s built a career around outrageous feats of derring-do in the “Jackass” television, film franchises and live [...]
continue »The UNI Gallagher-Bluedorn Performing Arts Center’s 2011-2012 season will take audiences on a world tour without even having to leave their seats. Performances will feature Chinese dance, rip-roaring comedy, an arena-rock love story, dazzling ballroom dancing, Celtic musicians, riveting African dance and more. Tickets go on sale to the general public Monday, Aug. 1, at [...]
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A wide variety of events and free admission proved to be the right combination for the 2011 Linn County Fair, which shattered attendance records. The fair ended Monday night, July 11, at the Linn County Fairgrounds in Central City with attendance estimated at 34,000 for the week. Attendance was up 9,000, or 35 percent, from [...]
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From Jaymz Larson CENTRAL CITY – The Linn County Fair presents Saliva in concert as their headlining musical act. This year’s concert is scheduled for 7 p.m. Thursday, July 7, at The Linn County Fair grandstands. This is an all-ages show. Local bands Downward Fall and Inch 75 open the show. Saliva was formed in [...]
continue »OELWEIN — Organizers stopped Oelwein’s fireworks show Saturday over safety concerns after debris and burning embers rained on the crowd. Organizers set off only a few fireworks when they discovered the blasts were going off too close to the ground and too close to the crowd. Oelwein Fire Chief Wally Rundle said a firefighter was [...]
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The man suspected of killing his wife and fleeing to South Dakota earlier this month told investigators he “lost it and blacked out” during an argument in their Greene home. Thomas J. Petersen, 39, of Greene, now faces a charge of first-degree murder in connection with the June 4 stabbing death of his wife, Judy [...]
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An Iowa City woman is facing theft charges after she allegedly sold more than 1,000 square feet of the University of Iowa’s carpet. Christine M. Douglas, 36, of Meadow Ridge Lane, has been charged with second degree theft. Police say Douglas sold the carpet for $500. The UI says the carpet was worth more than [...]
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Former Agriprocessors manager Sholom Rubashkin will be featurned in the CNBC TV series “American Greed” this month. Rubashkin, 51, of Postville, was convicted in November 2009 of 86 counts of fraud, money laundering, and failure to pay livestock producers in a timely manner. The charges stemmed from a May 2008 immigration raid at the kosher [...]
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A deluge from a burst pipe has forced officials to cancel a performance of the Blue Man Group at the Gallagher-Bluedorn Performing Arts Center at the University of Northern Iowa in Cedar Falls. UNI spokesman Jim O’Connor told the Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier that a sprinkler pipe broke Tuesday morning while gear was being loaded for [...]
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