Entertainment

Even the most eccentric passions of working-class England — long a favored reservoir of feel-good underdog tales — have seldom featured as much spandex as “Fighting With My Family.” Patrick “Rowdy Ricky Knight” Bevis (Nick Frost) and Julia “Sweet Saraya” Bevis (Lena Headey) are your average parents, raising a couple of tykes in Norwich, England, to stand up for themselves, work together, and, you know, maintain a firm choke hold. ...

The Clay County Fair announces the Country Gold Tour — starring Leroy Van Dyke, Jimmy Fortune of the Statler Brothers, T. Graham Brown, Steve and Rudy Gatlin, and Moe Bandy — as part of the SRG Concert Series in the Sleep Number Grandstand at the 2019 Clay County Fair at 7:30 p.m. Monday, Sept. 9...

For the first time on one stage - the fine arts meet the performing arts. Artrageous will be held Sunday, March 17 at Lauridsen Performing Arts Theatre in Okoboji starting at 1 p.m. with a performance at 3. Admission is $25, or $10 for students. Combining visual and performance art, this very alive family-based show appeals to all ages, with audience interaction, and lots of visual and musical scenes. In addition, the cast will hold an outreach (Art Reach) prior to the show. ...

Best Musical Tony Award winner Kinky Boots is coming to northwest Iowa for one show at the Orpheum Theater in Sioux City. Showtime is 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, March 13. Tickets are on sale, ranging from $25-83. Call 712-279-4850 or see orpheumlive.com. Based on true events, Kinky Boots tells the heartwarming story of two people with nothing in common — or so they think! Charlie is a factory owner struggling to save his family business. ...

If you’ve ever watched TV’s hugely entertaining “Jane the Virgin,” you’ll know that its star, Gina Rodriguez, is one of the most engaging, charismatic and relatable actresses out there. It was only a matter of time before she headlined a big-studio movie — a truly welcome development. But Rodriguez and her fans deserve better than “Miss Bala,” a disappointingly bland and formulaic Hollywood remake of a much grittier and bleaker Mexican thriller...

Summer may seem a long way off right now, but plans are in full swing for a rocking season of concerts at Buoy’s Bar and Grill (Casino Beach Marina) in Storm Lake. The 2019 schedule begins with a Summer Kickoff Party May 25, featuring Salty View’s Acoustic Review band out of Fort Dodge...

Dustin Bogue, a native of Sac City, will perform Friday, March 1, in a solo show at Captain’s Getaway in Arnolds Park. Bogue’s passion for writing and performing country music stems back to his early childhood. At just 8 years old his grandfather bought him a yard sale guitar and taught him his first three cords. ...

Buena Vista University’s theatre department will present two short plays by Edward Albee. The productions “At Home at the Zoo” and “The American Dream” are directed by students Dernisha Hoover, Chicago, Ill., and Chancellor Johnson, Nashua, respectively. ...

The River Rats Dueling Pianos duo will be in the Majestic Pavilion at Arnolds Park Amusement Park for a Valentine’s Day concert. Doors open at 6:30 p.m., show starts at 7 p.m.. Tickets are $10. Jim Steinworth: After years of Rock - n - roll bands, Jim began doing the ‘Dueling Piano’ act in 1990. He has helped open and performed at clubs around the country. He has also ‘dueled’ in Minor League ballparks, NHL hockey games, and amusement parks...

Spencer Community Theatre presents “The Dixie Swim Club” starting this week. Five Southern women, whose friendships began many years ago on their college swim team, set aside a long weekend every August to recharge those relationships. Free from husbands, kids, and jobs, they meet at the same beach cottage on North Carolina’s Outer Banks to catch up, laugh and meddle in each other’s lives. ...

The Storm Lake High School Jazz Choir performed Monday evening in competition for State judges as groups from around the region sang at SLHS Auditorium. The group earned straight 1 ratings at the Vocal Jazz Festival. / Pilot photos by Dana Larsen

The Cherokee Symphony Mid-Winter Concert, the second of this symphony’s 63rd season, will be performed Sunday, February 24, 2019, at the Cherokee Community Center at 4 p. m. A full orchestra, musicians representing 20 communities, will be under the direction of Ted Hallberg, LeMars cellist, orchestra director and music coordinator for the LeMars Community School District...

Growing up means never apologizing for who you are, and what you’ve been through. For Kelsea Ballerini, one of country’s new voices, growing up also meant having the courage to put it all – the loss, the love and the highs and lows of life – into song. The result? Unapologetically, Ballerini’s sophomore LP, a collection of songs – all which she wrote or co-wrote, as on her Gold-certified debut The First Time – meant to share her experiences over the past two years like a sonic journal...

Karl L. King Municipal Band will perform for the Karl King’s Annual Birthday Concert, 3:30 p.m., Sunday, February 17. The show is at Decker Auditorium at Iowa Central Community College, One Triton Circle in Fort Dodge. Admission is free.

The Storm Lake Public Library will show the final film in its Wild Wild West Film Series on Monday, February 11, at 1 p.m.. This month’s film is directed by the Coen brothers and stars Josh Brolin as outlaw, Tom Chaney and Jeff Bridges as Rooster Cogburn, the man who’s hunting him down. Light snacks will be served courtesy of the Friends of the Library...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Who will be inside the suit remains unknown but “The Batman” has a release date. Warner Bros. on Wednesday announced that Matt Reeves’ stand-alone Batman film will hit theaters in June 2021. Ben Affleck was previously set to star in the film following his performances in “Justice League” and “Batman v. Superman,” but a new Caped Crusader is to be cast...

NEW YORK — The Beatles’ farewell documentary “Let It Be” is getting an encore, and a reinvention. “Lord of the Rings” director Peter Jackson announced Wednesday that he is making a new film out of some 55 hours of footage — shot in January 1969 — that has never been seen by the public. ...

DES MOINES - Zac Brown Band’s winning combination of country, bluegrass, reggae and Caribbean music hits the Iowa State Fair Grandstand for the first time, August 11 at 8 p.m. Known for chart toppers that include “Chicken Fried,” “Goodbye in Her Eyes,” “Sweet Annie” and “Jump Right In,” Zac Brown Band: The Owl Tour tickets go on sale Friday, February 8 at 9 a.m...

Metal band Saul out of Sioux City has quickly been building a following among hard rock fans. The group will make a local appearance Friday, March 1, at the VFW in Cherokee. Saul is the result of a profound passion for music shared by brothers Blake and Zach Bedsaul. ...

Ryne Doughty will be in concert at Byron’s in Pomeroy, Sunday, February 17. Showtime is 5 p.m. Doughty is a roots-americana musician out of Des Moines, whose music is deeply rooted in real life stories of love, loss, work and play. His stripped down, earthy sound is directly influenced by the small, rural town where he was born and raised - Washington, Iowa. ...

Country star David Lee Murphy will be performing at the Hard Rock Resort in Sioux City, February 22. Showtime is 8 p.m. Tickets are available now, starting at $27. Million-selling singer-songwriter David Lee Murphy had no plans to make a new record until a country superstar made them for him...

Buena Vista Community Theatre is preparing for its 2019 Summer Mainstage production, “Shrek The Musical.” Auditions will be held in April, with show dates June 14-16 and 21-23. stage director Tessa Baxter, Storm Lake, and music director Corbet Butler, Alta, will bring the show to life on the historic Roxy Theatre stage in Alta...

The Beach Boys are coming to the Sioux City Orpheum Theatre on Thursday, May 9 at 7:30 p.m. Tickets for the newly-announced show went on sale February 1, starting at $54.50. You can capsulize most pop music acts by reciting how many hits they’ve had and how many millions of albums they’ve sold. ...

The Arthurian legend gets a modern and more youthful spin in ”The Kid Who Would Be King,” a surprisingly delightful film full of action, heart, a crazy-haired Patrick Stewart (as “old” Merlin) and a few genuinely good gags, and it really couldn’t have come at a better time...

=The premise for ”Arctic ” is so simple it’s almost silly to describe: Stranded man tries to survive. It’s also been done more than a few times in movies, so it’s understandable if hearing that invokes a yawn. And yet with barely any dialogue, traditional storytelling methods or even a cute pet or inanimate object to help, director Joe Penna and star Mads Mikkelsen have made a riveting and precisely plotted film worthy of other greats in the genre...

The Clay County Fair announces a night with Foreigner as part of the SRG Concert Series in the Sleep Number Grandstand at the 2019 fair on Saturday, Sept. 7, at 7:30 p.m. “One of the greatest rock acts of all time will be a perfect start to the 2019 fair,” fair manager Jeremy Parsons said. “I know this high energy show will have the crowd singing along the whole time.”...

By MARK KENNEDY Pilot Reviews It’s said that January is one of the prime months that Hollywood chooses to dump its most embarrassing films and “The Upside” doesn’t exactly disprove that notion. Few films in memory have squandered so much acting talent in such a cliche-ridden, exploitative and dishonest way. It deserves its frozen grave...

Treat yourself to a Valentine’s Comedy Banquet featuring Phil Callaway on Thursday, February 14, starting at 6:30 p.m. at Summit Church in Alta. You’ll love his clean, inspiring comedy, jammed with laughter and award-winning anecdotes of hope! Callaway is a best-selling author of 25 books and hosts a daily radio program “Laugh Again” which is broadcast across North America, the UK, and English-speaking Africa. His humorous perspectives on life and family have gained him a worldwide audience...

Metal band Saul out of Sioux City has quickly been building a following among hard rock fans. The group will make a local appearance Friday, March 1, at the VFW in Cherokee. Saul is the result of a profound passion for music shared by brothers Blake and Zach Bedsaul. ...

Tickets go on sale this week for a concert by The Band Perry, at the Hard Rock Resort in Sioux City. Showtime is March 1, 8 p.m., at Anthem auditorium. Grammy® Award-winning superstar sibling trio The Band Perry are an unstoppable presence in modern music. Now, after selling two and a half million albums, 12 million singles, and racking up over a 1.75 billion combined streams of their songs, the story of Kimberly, Reid, and Neil is again evolving in incredible new ways...