Entertainment

Pieces from the current exhibit of Buena Vista University student art at the Witter Gallery in Storm Lake.

The spring music schedule is taking shape for InnSpiration Winery in Linn Grove. The Friday night concert schedule starts May 3 with J. Jeffrey Messerole, an indie folk-alt county singer-songwriter from Spirit Lake. Messerole masterfully blends the sound of his guitar, with haunting lyrics, and harmonica to tell gritty American tales. ...

As famous as the amusement park at Arnolds Park itself, the Queen II is an Okoboji favorite. In the late 19th century, the lakes region became a resort area and the small steamboats and sailboats could not keep up with the flow of vacationers. The Queen, a large steamer, was constructed, along with other larger boats, to accommodate this new need. ...

The Spamalot plot revolves around the legend of King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table, absurdly retold with elements that are both derived from the original Monty Python film and unique to the musical performance. Skylar Finch, a senior arts management and Spanish double major, plays the Lady of the Lake and is excited to share this unique story with the audience...

Prolific musician and television host Mollie B will be performing as part of a fundraiser event for Santa’s Castle, Saturday, August 3. The site has been changed from earlier plans, and the event will now be held at the Knights of Columbus Hall in Storm Lake to allow for more capacity...

Buena Vista Community Theatre has selected the cast for the upcoming musical “Shrek.” Rehearsals start Monday, April 22nd, at the Roxy Theatre. Show dates are June 14-16 and 21-23. The cast includes: Shrek - Nate Titus Fiona - Liz Gregg Donkey - Andrew W. Wobbema...

Hellboy is back and he’s got a dirty mouth and a man bun. The third film in the comic adaptation franchise has a new director, a new writer and a new look — led by a swashbuckling hellion who uses expletives and wears one of the most ridiculed hair styles in decades...

Sanford Museum & Planetarium will be hosting an event about the stories and legends of Martin Treptow, a WWI hero who lived in Cherokee. The event starts on Saturday, May 4, and goes from 2 p.m. – 3:30 p.m. Speaker, Bob Spurlock will present on his research of Martin Treptow’s life. ...

Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Sioux City has announced that metal sensations In This Moment, Killswitch Engage and Clutch will perform as part of the Battery Park Tailgate Series on Thursday, July 18. Siouxland metal band SAUL will open the show beginning at 6 p.m...

Viral sensation #IMOMSOHARD will bring their unique comedy act to the Orpheum Theatre in Sioux City on Wednesday, July 10 at 7:30 p.m. Tickets sales have opened. Moms, best friends and funny ladies Kristin Hensley and Jen Smedley are the creators of the viral web-series #IMOMSOHARD, where they discuss the good, the bad and the funny about motherhood – with the help of a bottle of red wine. In addition to a performing tour, they’ve written a popular book of the same title...

Arnolds Park Amusement Park has announced the lineup for its 2019 Grand Opening Series at the new Roof Garden. To kick off the new Roof Garden, Arnolds Park Amusement Park will be hosting a Grand Opening Concert Series. Tommy James & The Shondells will start the series with a concert on Friday, Aug. ...

“No one is ever really gone,” says the voice of Luke Skywalker in the first teaser trailer for “Star Wars: Episode IX,” which audiences finally learned will be called “Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker” Friday at a fan event in Chicago. The closely guarded film from director J.J. ...

Cinco de Mayo with tequila, tacos, and nine holes of golf, Saturday, May 4, at the Buena Vista University Golf Course at Lake Creek Country Club. Tee time is 4 p.m. with food to follow play. This is a group golf event with no score counted (only hole prizes). Bring your friends and have some fun...

Closing out the 59th Mainstage Season at Spencer Community Theatre, the sunny and funny tale “Mamma Mia” unfolds. On a Greek island paradise, on the eve of her wedding, a daughter’s quest to discover the identity of her father brings three men from her mother’s past back to the island they last visited 20 years ago...

Meet Grass Fed Mule... the Miles Davis inspired indie folk and bluegrass quartet from St. Louis, Missouri. If somone looking for something different, here it is - in concert at Byron’s in Pomeroy, Sunday, April 21. Showtime is 5 p.m. Drawing energy from their river town roots in bluegrass, old-time, blues, indie folk and jazz, the band’s upbeat shows flood the ears with strong vocal harmonies and instrumental finesse, featuring sounds of claw hammer banjo, harmonica and mandolin...

Holy superhero fatigue, Batman, “Shazam!” is actually good. OK, so it’s basically “Big” with superheroes and villains instead of businesspeople and girlfriends, but director David F. Sandberg has infused his film with so much heart and charm that it hardly matters. Even the deficiencies, like the sluggish beginning and the random, ridiculous villains, fade away under a haze of goodwill because unlike so many big spectacle action pics with sequels in mind, “Shazam!” actually sticks the landing...

The original “Dumbo” was released in the summer of 1941 while Germany was spreading across Europe and war was breaking out in the Pacific. Crafted as a simpler Disney fable after the more extravagant “Fantasia” disappointed at the box office, “Dumbo” — only 64 minutes in length — took flight just as far more chilling creations were taking to the air...

Bruce Hornsby & Dave Mason will be live at Preservation Plaza 198 Lake Shore Dr, Arnolds Park, Iowa 51331 Saturday, August 10, at 7:30 p.m. – 10:30 p.m. The event is hosted by Arnolds Park Amusement Park Bruce Hornsby Bruce Hornsby, the creatively insatiable pianist and singer-songwriter from Williamsburg, Virginia, always has succeeded on his exceptional gifts, his training, and his work ethic. ...

The Sioux City Community Theatre, 1401 Riverside Blvd. in Sioux City, presents “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare, (abridged)” April 19 through May 5. The performances are at 7:30 p.m. with matinees on Sundays at 2 p.m. An irreverent, fast-paced romp through the Bard’s plays, The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged) was London’s longest-running comedy having clocked a very palpable nine years in London’s West End at the Criterion Theatre, Join these madcap men and ladies in tights as they weave their wicked way through all of Shakespeare’s comedies, histories, and tragedies in one wild ride that will leave you breathless and helpless with laughter.. ...

Hollywood, in its infinite irony, has resurrected a tale about the unholy perils of resurrection. The mean roads and mangy cats of Stephen King’s “Pet Sematary” are back from the dead in Kevin Kölsch and Dennis Widmyer’s vividly acted, blandly condensed remake of Mary Lambert’s 1989 movie, adapted from King’s 1983 novel. ...

The Clay County Fair announced Jon Pardi and special guest Jake Rose as part of the SRG Concert Series in the Sleep Number Grandstand at the 2019 Clay County Fair at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Sept. 13. “It will be exciting to have this great night of country music on Friday night at the fair,” Clay County Fair Manager Jeremy Parsons said...

Popular midwest pop rockers Judd Hoos have been announced as a kickoff act for the summer concert series at Arnolds Park. They will be in concert Sunday, May 26, with doors opening at 7 p.m. and the show starting at 8 p.m. at the Majestic Pavilion...

Matthew McConaughey is at his dirt bag finest as a good-time Charlie stoner-poet named Moondog in Harmony Korine’s “The Beach Bum,” a bizarre and transfixing carnival of vulgarity and vice. In some ways it’s the part he was born to play. Whether or not that’s a good thing for him, or unsuspecting audiences, is unclear, but McConaughey gives and bares (nearly) all for this film. ...

IV Play will appear in an outdoor concert at King’s Pointe in Storm Lake, Saturday, June 6. Showtime is 9 p.m. The Mankato-based band gets everyone out of their seats with a mixture of pop rock covers from the likes of Motley Crue, Bruno Mars, Styx, Lady Gaga and Keith Urban...

Despite being a sophomore, Mason McGrew has already produced and directed a TV series showing at 5 p.m. Saturdays on KCAU Channel 9 in Sioux City. “Buena Vista University Quiz Bowl,” an Iowa Quiz Bowl League academic competition in a game-show style setting, features teams from 20 Iowa high schools and one from South Sioux City High School in Nebraska. ...

Family Fun Night at Storm Lake Elementary School drew a big, enthusiastic crowd this week. Parents and children enjoyed a hot dog meal, visited booths by many organizations including The Bridge and Iowa State Extension, and children got to pick out a free book to take home. / Pilot photos by Dana Larsen...

A hilarious and insightful recreation of an actual lecture that the world famous humorist and author would have given during his highly acclaimed world tour culminating in 1905

The fifth annual Rock’n Bac’n Brew’n crowded the Clay County Regional Events Center Saturday in an evening which began with event goers trying all kinds of bacon and beer creations, before ending with plenty of singing and dancing to the Johnny Holm Band. ...

What do an orphan train rider, a kidnapper, a betrayed wife, a church missionary, a wealthy businessman, a land baron’s wife, a maid, a farmer, a college student, an immigrant and a newspaper reporter have in common? They all had ties to Iowa, and their stories would forever become intertwined with the saga of the opulent Titanic, which struck an iceberg and plunged to the bottom of the North Atlantic in 1912...

The first big area celebration of the season, the Cherokee PRCA Rodeo, will bring on a new entertainer on board for the May 30-June 1 run. Dusti Crain Dickerson grew up in a rodeo family.  Her father, Ronnie Crain, and uncle Kevin Crain, began putting on rodeos when Dusti was 3 years old.  She carried the American flag and competed as a barrel racer.  The St. ...