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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 starters.Free admission and balloons for the kids. Here’s what you can do: watch vintage trucking films! See antique trucks

Finding Fairfield is a short documentary I made and features the real and funny stories of how Savannah Quinn, David Paterson read about Fairfield in Mother Earth News, Troy Van Beek googled 'enlightenment' while working in Africa and found Maharishi University of Management, and the band Truckstop Souvenir and musicians Arthur Lee Land and Carol Lee fell in love with Fairfield after performing

 

I just back from the Wild Rose Independent Film Festival in Des Moines last night. It is  a week-long affair that runs through November 11 at the best movie theater in Iowa, the Fleur Cinema and Cafe. 

It is becoming for independent movies what the Iowa caucuses are to politics - an important launch pad.The Iowa film-making community may be small but they are a committed, passionate bunch that

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 for the Performing Arts. Our Arts and Convention is a world-class venue at the heart of our Cultural and Entertainment District. The success of the private fundraising to cover the existing leases and the