Blog Entries tagged 'Arts and Entertainment'

Bottle and Glass

rustinlarson@gmail.com — Tue, 14 May 2013 01:00:00 +0100

Vintage Trucks, Mammoth Bones and Root Beer Floats

source@lisco.com — Fri, 13 May 2011 01:00:00 +0100

Saturday, May 14 is Iowa Museum Day! With the weather gods dashing any hopes for a warm and sunny weekend, museum-hopping might be just the ticket. Many are offering free or reduced admission, and some have special one-time only events.

Take the Iowa 80 Trucking Museum, for st

Finding Fairfield and the Holiday Spirit

burt@fairfieldfirst.biz — Wed, 01 Dec 2010 01:00:00 +0100

Iowa Films Win Big at the Wild Rose Film Festival

burt@fairfieldfirst.biz — Sun, 07 Nov 2010 01:00:00 +0100

I just back from the Wild Rose Independent Film Festival in Des Moines last night. It is a week-long affair that r

Pray N Play

tony@tonyellis.com — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 01:00:00 +0100

I've just been on the phone with my wife discussing the movie Eat Pray Love or, as the local cinema in Ottumwa where she saw it billed it, Eat Prey Love, which I assume is the arachnid version.

I haven't seen the movie yet but I read the bestsellin

Salute to the Fairfield Arts and Convention Center

burt@fairfieldfirst.biz — Tue, 04 May 2010 01:00:00 +0100

Fairfield First salutes the Fairfield Arts and Convention Center and the City of Fairfield for structuring a public-private partnership that supports the continued success of our Sondheim Center

Iowa's Hairapalooza!

burt@fairfieldfirst.biz — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 01:00:00 +0100

From the Huffington Post:

While no one was looking, Fairfield, Iowa has become

The Lake Shore Limited

rustinlarson@gmail.com — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 01:00:00 +0100

In some past life I must have been late for a train. Overburdened with luggage, breathless, I can see me running, fedora whisked from my head by the wind. Only by some feat of strength, some last surge of energy, am I able to clamber aboard the moving coach, neither helped nor encouraged

Navigating the Neo Nar Nor Nebula

rustinlarson@gmail.com — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 01:00:00 +0100

Before You Decide on What Fairfield Should Do with the FACC, READ THIS!

source@lisco.com — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 01:00:00 +0100

Whether you think the Fairfield Arts & Convention Center is a fiscal fiasco or a fabulous small-town amenity, please read this guest editorial from Mark H. Cohen for the facts of the matter.

A Conversation with a Small Cactus

rustinlarson@gmail.com — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 01:00:00 +0100

Some thoughts about that: if not in an opera house then here under the girders of a new civilization in which the contemplative norm is that of a cheeseburger with a face full of sesames. McCheese is one's neighbor and mayor, and his clown same-sex partner is a cook of sorts, and I gues

Erin Gee & Colin Gee at Carnegie Hall

source@lisco.com — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 01:00:00 +0100

I know, I know: I've been a slacker blogger lately. But now I have something truly noteworthy to share. This past Monday evening, I was fortunate enough to catch two fabulous former Fairfieldians (and dear

James McCartney in Fairfield Concert

source@lisco.com — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 01:00:00 +0100

It’s a triple whammy—headlining the November 14 David Lynch Foundation concert in Fairfield are Laura Dawn with The Little Death, plus perennial favorite Donovan, AND very special guest. . . James McCartney, who will be making his debut performance unde

New Poems by Michael Carrino

rustinlarson@gmail.com — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 01:00:00 +0100

Michael Carrino holds an M.F.A. in Writing from Vermont College. He is an English lecturer at the State University College at Plattsburgh, New York, where he is co-editor and poetry editor of the Saranac Review. His publications include Some Rescues, (New Poets Series, Inc.) Under This Combustib

Canadian Memoir: Marina Nemat's Prisoner of Tehran

source@lisco.com — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 01:00:00 +0100

Have you read

Sustainable American Indian Community Conference

burt@fairfieldfirst.biz — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 01:00:00 +0100

President Bill Clinton will deliver the opening address via a special
videotaped message to leaders of Indian Country who will be participating in
the American Indian Sustainability Conference, which will be held September 25 to 27 at Maharishi University of Managemen

A Few Things Straight about Flame Skunks, Abraham Lincoln, and the Endless Tunnels of Paradise

rustinlarson@gmail.com — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 01:00:00 +0100

Flame skunks. They is a problem to most home owners, be all they don't know it though. Pesky little fellers, git in your basement and start feedin off the lint of most furnace filters. You can tell 'em by their plumpish skunk bodies, but they's head's just like a gas broiler wi

Rock and Roll Fantasy

tony@tonyellis.com — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 01:00:00 +0100

Dim the lights. Queue the sound. I'm about to take the stage...

The applause is deafening. After a few quick instructions from my technical advisors, Matthew, age 6, and Andrew (age 9), my warm up act, who has just ripped a perfect version of Hendrix's Purple Haze, I head into into a gritt

Tiny Circus & Colin Gee

source@lisco.com — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 01:00:00 +0100

I'm still here in Ontario, waiting for my U.S. visa to process, but if I were in Iowa I'd probably head to Des Moines' Art Stop next Friday (Sept. 11) to catch Tiny Circus . In a world of larger-than-life Imax movies and Loudapaloozas, this quiet little

Canadian Lit: The Flying Troutmans by Miriam Toews

source@lisco.com — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 01:00:00 +0100

While I'm up here in Canada waiting for my U.S. work visa to be processed, I figure there&