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2011-2012 Movie Awards Season Underway
Posted Wednesday, November 30, at 8:46 PM Each winter, several national organizations sponsor lavish ceremonies that award the accomplishments of movies released during the previous year. During the coming winter 2011-2012, awards ceremonies will recognize excellence in movies released during calendar year 2011...
Houston, We Have a Competition: Spirit of Harmony Chorus In my previous blog entry, "Spirit of Harmony Chorus: A Group of 'Gypsies, Tramps & Thieves'," www.dickinsoncountynews.com/blogs/1403/entry/43817, I wrote about one of my favorite regional choruses and my pleasure at being asked to emcee its 2011 Friends and Family Night on Monday, October 3...
Spirit of Harmony Chorus: A Group of "Gypsies, Tramps & Thieves" I'm a fan of the Spirit of Harmony Chorus, http://spiritofharmonychorus.org, which includes the Northern Lights Quartet. The chorus has been in existence since 1980, it's been competing in regional and international competitions since 1982, and last year, November 2010, members performed their 30th anniversary show...
American Experience Films presents Stonewall Uprising Earlier this month, I received a request from Arthur Breur, Editor of ACCESSline: Iowa's LGBT+ Newspaper, to view "American Experience Films presents Stonewall Uprising," premiering on PBS on Monday, April 25, 2011, 8:00-9:30 p.m. CT, and submit a write-up for the May 2011 issue...
Beatles events showcase collaboration between arts organizations & genres This past Friday, April 1, the Beatles performed at the Sami Bedell Center for the Performing Arts in Spirit Lake. Well, sort of. It wasn't an April Fools' Day joke. Instead, it was a performance by "Yesterday & Today: The Interactive Beatles Experience."...
Entertainment highlights celebration of life of Scott D. Baumgard The arts and the ecology communities lost a friend and supporter one week ago when a fatal traffic accident claimed the life of Scott Douglas Baumgard, June 17, 1977 - March 18, 2011. Scott was married to Deidre Rosenboom, and together they founded Keep Okoboji Blue, www.keepokobojiblue.com, and owned and operated the Wine Bar and Art Gallery, www.winebarandartgallery.com, in Olde Town Arnolds Park. Since it opened in 2007, their business has been a partner of ArtsLIVE, www.artslive.com...
Predicting the Oscars 2011: AMPAS 83rd Annual Academy Awards The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), www.oscars.org, hosts the annual Academy Awards, http://oscar.go.com, a.k.a. the Oscars, a.k.a. Hollywood's Biggest Night, a.k.a. the Gay Super Bowl, (my favorite nickname). Nominations for the 83rd Annual Academy Awards, honoring excellence in movies released in 2010, were announced on Tuesday, January 25, 2011. ...
Okoboji Summer Theatre 54th Season, June 6 - August 14, 2011 The only professional summer stock theatre company within several hundred miles of the Iowa Great Lakes, the Okoboji Summer Theatre (OST), www.okobojisummertheatre.org, will be celebrating its 54th season during summer 2011. The OST is owned and operated by Stephens College in Columbia, Missouri, www.stephens.edu. ...
A Rare Opportunity in "Waiting for Superman" I'm subscribed to the "News from Fridley Theatres, Inc." weekly newsletter email updates for the cinemas owned and operated by Fridley Theatres, www.fridleytheatres.com, within a 50 miles radius of the Iowa Great Lakes. Following Fridley's closings of the Riviera Theatre in downtown Emmetsburg in 2009, (which reopened under new ownership later that year), and the Spencer 3 Theatres in downtown Spencer in 2010, (covered in an earlier entry of this blog and which remains closed), there are three remaining Fridley theatres within that area, as follows.... ...
Partying with Ballet Nebraska and "The Nutcracker" Some patrons of the arts, even dance patrons, are somewhat blasé about The Nutcracker, I'm not one of them. To me, a good production of The Nutcracker combines the best of ballet and theatre. That's why, when the Sami Center 2010-2011 Star Season was announced, I was so pleased to learn that the Friends of the Sami Center had arranged for Ballet Nebraska, http://balletnebraska.org, a relatively new dance company, to perform The Nutcracker at the Sami Bedell Center for the Performing Arts, 612 28th St., Spirit Lake, Iowa.. ...
2010-2011 Movie Awards Season Underway Each winter, several national organizations sponsor lavish ceremonies that award the accomplishments of movies released during the previous calendar year. During winter 2011, the awards ceremonies will recognize excellence in movies released during 2010...
Top Ten "Must See" Flicks During Year-end Holiday Season 2010 The night before last, Monday, December 6, I went online and read the following email message, sent earlier that day by Andrea Kemp, Staff Writer for the Dickinson County News (DCN)... In a message dated 12/6/2010 1:14:00 P.M. Central Standard Time, akemp@dickinsoncountynews.com writes:...
Lording Over the ILCC Music Department 11th Annual Elizabethan Madrigal Feaste My previous blog entry on the "Iowa Lakes Community College Music Department" was posted on Saturday, March 27, 2010, www.dickinsoncountynews.com/blogs/1403/entry/33985. It's high time I revisit this wonderful provider of arts and entertainment here in northwest Iowa, and today is a good day to blog about the Iowa Lakes Music Department, www.iowalakes.edu/music, because this evening I'll be "lording over" its 11th Annual Elizabethan Madrigal Feaste...
SCT Playhouse grand re-opening & dedication remains grand As I've noted previously, one of the frustrations of being a volunteer blogger for the online edition of a newspaper is that by the time one gets around to blogging about an event, it's already been covered by the paper's paid staff or by other regional publications...
Passing of an OST legend: Fritz Lennon, Jan. 27, 1937 - Oct. 3, 2010 Fritz Lennon passed away at the VA Hospital in Sioux Falls, South Dakota on Sunday, October 3. He was a true legend of the Okoboji Summer Theatre (OST), www.okobojisummertheatre.org. If I remember correctly, Fritz's first summer as an actor with the OST was in 1965, during the OST 8th Season. ...
7th Annual Artisans Road Trip (A.R.T.), October 1-3, 2010 Friday evening greetings from the Wine Bar and Art Gallery, www.winebarandartgallery.com, in Olde Town Arnolds Park, my final stop on this month's First Friday Art Trek, one of my favorite monthly traditions! I've blogged previously about this event, most recently my August 5, 2010 entry, "First Friday Art Walk Expands to Art Trek," www.dickinsoncountynews.com/blogs/1403/entry/36411...
Only two more days for "16 to Life" in Okoboji The independent film "16 to Life," written and directed by Okoboji native Becky Smith, is now showing at the CineMagic Great Lakes Cinema 7 (GLC7), www.cinemagictheatres.com; however, the run will end after showings this Thursday, September 30. Instead of waiting for this excellent indie film to come out on DVD, take advantage of this opportunity to see it how it was meant to be seen, on a big screen in a legitimate cinema...
The Irony of Involvement in the Arts It always seems ironic to me that when one is directly involved in the arts, especially the performing arts, one has significantly less time to participate in the larger arts scene - to enjoy the arts as a member of the audience and to support the arts as a patron...
First Friday Art Walk Expands to Art Trek About three months ago, on Friday, May 7, 2010, I submitted a blog entry, "First Friday Art Walks Resume in Olde Town Spirit Lake," www.dickinsoncountynews.com/blogs/1403/entry/34779. Beginning with this month's first Friday, August 6, tomorrow from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m., the monthly event expands from the First Friday Art Walk, featuring two of the galleries in Olde Town Spirit Lake.....
Goodbye to Spencer 3 Theatres One of the frustrations of free blogging for the online edition of a newspaper is that by the time I draft an entry, often the newspaper and/or other publications have already covered the subject, and usually in greater detail because the stories are being written by staff writers rather than volunteer bloggers...
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I'm a lifelong summer resident of Arnolds Park and the Iowa Great Lakes, born in 1964, and I moved here year-round in 2002. My parents initiated my love of arts and entertainment when they took me to the Okoboji Summer Theatre (OST) Boji Bantam Children's Theatre beginning in the late 1960s and to OST mainstage productions beginning in 1971. I support the arts in general, especially live theatre, music, dance and performance art, but my primary passion is movies. My weekly column, "Down in Front: At the Movies with F. Joseph Wilson," is published in the Dickinson County News and the Okobojian. Disclaimer 1: I'm new to blogging so the content of this "Arts & Entertainment Matters" blog is a work in progress, changing over time. For now, it covers arts and entertainment in and near the Iowa Great Lakes. Disclaimer 2: While I enjoy both performing and visual arts, I'm more active and familiar with performing arts. For outstanding coverage of visual arts, I recommend the "Creative Culture" blog by fellow DCN blogger Deidre Rosenboom. Disclaimer 3: Readers are reminded that columns and blogs are often a matter of personal opinion, taste is subjective, and subjective opinion should not be confused with objective fact.
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