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Watch 'Lincoln' on the Pentacrest: Iowa City Weekend Planner
ALSO: Great music, all-you-can eat breakfast for a good cause, and RENT debuts in Coralville.
Did I miss any good events happening this weekend in Iowa City? If so, let me know in comments and I'll add them to the list!
Weather for this weekend? Friday it appears there will be a chance of thunderstorms, but after that, Saturday and Sunday are predicted to be once again unseasonably cool, with highs in the seventies.
1. Hungry? Wanting to help someone out? You can do both.
All-You-Care-To-Eat Breakfast—benefitting juvenile diabetes research
Starts 7:00 a.m. Saturday
Hy-Vee, 1720 Waterfront Drive, Iowa City
You had me at breakfast.
This one was posted to our online events calendar. Read the description of the event below.
Got breakfast? Get your fill at an all-you-care-to-eat breakfast! Includes
pancakes, waffles, granola, fruit & yogurt parfaits, potatoes, breakfast
sausage and more (including gluten-free options)! All proceeds donated to the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation.
2. City Circle's RENT Opens at the Coralville Performing Arts Center
Friday, 7:30 p.m.
Coralville Performing Arts Center, 1301 5th St., Coralville
Weather for this weekend? Friday it appears there will be a chance of thunderstorms, but after that, Saturday and Sunday are predicted to be once again unseasonably cool, with highs in the seventies.
1. Hungry? Wanting to help someone out? You can do both.
All-You-Care-To-Eat Breakfast—benefitting juvenile diabetes research
Starts 7:00 a.m. Saturday
Hy-Vee, 1720 Waterfront Drive, Iowa City
You had me at breakfast.
This one was posted to our online events calendar. Read the description of the event below.
Got breakfast? Get your fill at an all-you-care-to-eat breakfast! Includes
pancakes, waffles, granola, fruit & yogurt parfaits, potatoes, breakfast
sausage and more (including gluten-free options)! All proceeds donated to the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation.
2. City Circle's RENT Opens at the Coralville Performing Arts Center
Friday, 7:30 p.m.
Coralville Performing Arts Center, 1301 5th St., Coralville
Cast members from City Circle’s 2009 sold-out teen production of RENT reunite to reprise their roles in this highly acclaimed Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize winning rock musical with music and lyrics by Jonathan Larson based on Puccini’s opera La Boheme
Tickets can be purchased online at http://www.coralvillearts.org/ or by calling 319.248.9370or in person at the CCPA box office at 1301 5th Street and at the Coralville Recreation Center at 1506 8th Street.
RENT will be performed August 2 and 3 at 7:30 pm and August 4 at 2 pm.
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3. Friday Night Concert Series: Jessie White Band and Chasing Shade
6:30 p.m. outside the Sheraton Hotel on the Pedestrian Mall
Hopefully the thunderstorms say away when the Jessie White Band and Chasing Shade entertain the crowd at the always delightful Friday Night Concert Series. Although in the case of rain, the Chauncey Swan Ramp tends to be the place where the performance is relocated.
If the Friday Night Concert Series gets spoiled by rain, you can always come back on Saturday for the Saturday Night Concert Series.
Here's the performer Bio for this one from the Summer of the Arts page:
Jesse White is an Iowa City native, and an up and coming performer around the corridor area. He has an extensive repertoire of original tunes that can be described as lyrically driven, Americana music. His performances focus on delivering catchy and energetic music to get crowds dancing, while connecting with individuals through intelligent lyrics and insights. To translate his sound to larger audiences, Jesse recruited several accomplished musicians in 2012 to form The Jesse White Band. The Jesse White Band has just begun recording their debut album.
Links: www.reverbnation.com/thejessewhiteband
4. Saturday Night Movie Series: "Lincoln"
PG-13, 2012, 150 mins.
Starring: Daniel Day-Lewis, Sally Field, David Strathairn
On a nice night in Iowa City, why not take in this Academy Award Winning feature from director Steven Spielberg about one of our greatest presidents in one of his greatest times of challenge.
Movies take place outside of Macbride Hall (on the East side of the building) at sunset (which varies from 9 p.m. to 8:15 p.m. later in the season).
5. Alex Bleeker and The Freaks (w. members of Real Estate)
The Mill
Tickets: $8
19+ show
Are you a fan of the indie rock band "Real Estate," or "Woods." Would you like some soulful indie action in your life in Iowa City? I think I have the show for you.
New Jersey-born Alex Bleeker is an old soul. For his sophomore album, How Far Away, he lets that come into play fully. Over 11 tracks, he deals with the autumnal phase of lost love, the point after the grieving subsides and you start figuring out what you’re supposed to do next. As with his last album, Bleeker cobbles together a ragtag collection of “freaks,” including Mountain Man’s Amelia Meath, who provides gorgeously weighty backing vocals on four tracks, Woods’ Jarvis Tanviere, Real Estate’s Jackson Pollis, Big Troubles’ Sam Franklin, among plenty of other like-minded musicians who lend sparkling instrumental flourishes and a full-bodied backbone to Bleeker’s pained yowl.
6:30 p.m. outside the Sheraton Hotel on the Pedestrian Mall
Hopefully the thunderstorms say away when the Jessie White Band and Chasing Shade entertain the crowd at the always delightful Friday Night Concert Series. Although in the case of rain, the Chauncey Swan Ramp tends to be the place where the performance is relocated.
If the Friday Night Concert Series gets spoiled by rain, you can always come back on Saturday for the Saturday Night Concert Series.
Here's the performer Bio for this one from the Summer of the Arts page:
Jesse White is an Iowa City native, and an up and coming performer around the corridor area. He has an extensive repertoire of original tunes that can be described as lyrically driven, Americana music. His performances focus on delivering catchy and energetic music to get crowds dancing, while connecting with individuals through intelligent lyrics and insights. To translate his sound to larger audiences, Jesse recruited several accomplished musicians in 2012 to form The Jesse White Band. The Jesse White Band has just begun recording their debut album.
Links: www.reverbnation.com/thejessewhiteband
4. Saturday Night Movie Series: "Lincoln"
PG-13, 2012, 150 mins.
Starring: Daniel Day-Lewis, Sally Field, David Strathairn
On a nice night in Iowa City, why not take in this Academy Award Winning feature from director Steven Spielberg about one of our greatest presidents in one of his greatest times of challenge.
Movies take place outside of Macbride Hall (on the East side of the building) at sunset (which varies from 9 p.m. to 8:15 p.m. later in the season).
5. Alex Bleeker and The Freaks (w. members of Real Estate)
The Mill
Tickets: $8
19+ show
Are you a fan of the indie rock band "Real Estate," or "Woods." Would you like some soulful indie action in your life in Iowa City? I think I have the show for you.
New Jersey-born Alex Bleeker is an old soul. For his sophomore album, How Far Away, he lets that come into play fully. Over 11 tracks, he deals with the autumnal phase of lost love, the point after the grieving subsides and you start figuring out what you’re supposed to do next. As with his last album, Bleeker cobbles together a ragtag collection of “freaks,” including Mountain Man’s Amelia Meath, who provides gorgeously weighty backing vocals on four tracks, Woods’ Jarvis Tanviere, Real Estate’s Jackson Pollis, Big Troubles’ Sam Franklin, among plenty of other like-minded musicians who lend sparkling instrumental flourishes and a full-bodied backbone to Bleeker’s pained yowl.
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