What: Join Waukee Parks & Recreation and the Waukee Park Board for an all-day celebration of our nation’s independence. July 4 activities start at 3 p.m. with a parade. Then, Centennial Park fills up with fun for the whole family featuring inflatables, live music from Abby Normal at 5 p.m.,
Read More →ArtPlace America announced that Prairie Rivers of Iowa’s Lincoln Highway Heritage Byway is one of 70 finalists for the 2017 National Creative Placemaking Fund (NCPF). ArtPlace selected these 70 proposals from 987 applications, making Prairie Rivers of Iowa’s project one of just 7 percent of the projects across the country
Read More →Waukee, Iowa — The Waukee Area Arts Council presents Sundays in Centennial Sponsored by Stivers Ford Lincoln and Shottenkirk Waukee Chevrolet. Free Sunday concerts will be presented starting with The Waukee Arts Festival Saturday, July 8 concert at 6:30 p.m. in Centennial Park in Waukee. Bring your picnics, lawn chairs, and
Read More →DES MOINES, IA (June 2017) – The Des Moines Art Center is pleased to announce the appointment of Jared Ledesma as its new assistant curator. Ledesma’s first exhibition at the Art Center, “I, too, am America,” opens this fall, and will feature political and activist art from the 1930s to
Read More →Roll out the red carpet: The third annual Cloris Awards ceremony is set for 6:30 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 27, at Hoyt Sherman Place. Named for the Oscar-winning Des Moines native — who attended the 2016 ceremony — the Cloris Leachman Excellence in Theatre Arts Awards celebrate outstanding contributions, both on stage
Read More →By Adam Rogan Melissa Etheridge holds many titles. Rocker. Guitarist. Singer. Advocate. Grammy Award winner. Lesbian. Kansan. Cancer survivor. She’s kind of a new-age hippy, even though she grew up during the hippie generation. Consistent, at the very least. Etheridge is all about peace and love and acceptance. She practically
Read More →On June 27, Bronze515 launches its new airbrush contouring service, the first to offer this service in the Des Moines area. Contouring is a process that enhances muscle definition during an airbrush tan. “I wanted to offer a new service to Des Moines and those clients seeking an enhanced UV-Free experience. The tanning industry within the Des Moines metro needed to be spiced up a bit, and I am
Read More →DES MOINES – Music director and conductor Joseph Giunta and the musicians of the Des Moines Symphony are pleased to perform The Des Moines Symphony’s 24th annual Yankee Doodle Pops, Iowa’s largest single-day concert event. This free, outdoor concert takes place Monday, July 3 2017 at 8:30 p.m. on the
Read More →TajMo: The Taj Mahal & Keb’ Mo’ Band with The Black Pacific are set to perform at Hoyt Sherman Place on Wednesday, Sept. 13 at 7:30 p.m. Tickets go on sale today, buy them here. See blues titans Taj Mahal and Keb’ Mo’ share the stage with their band for an
Read More →Drum Corps International’s World Champion “Bluecoats” drum corps will join six other top corps to perform in competition for 3,000 fans from all across Iowa — the event starts at 7 p.m. Location: Johnston Stadium, N.W. 62nd Ave., Johnston (near the middle school) Tickets: Visit www.colts.org/celebration_dm.html or go to Charter
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