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Richard Blais
<p>Richard Blais is a successful chef, restaurateur, James Beard nominated cookbook author and television personality. Perhaps most recognizable as the winner of Bravo’s <em>Top Chef All-Stars</em>, he brings his "stand up cooking" show to Riverside Casino on September 19th.</p><p>It will be an interactive live cooking and comedy set. The show features a behind the scenes look at celebrity chef life along with unique cooking techniques and equipment. It is equal parts, cooking, comedy, magic and science. For safety reasons, on-stage food is not served to the crowd.</p> 2020-02-28 21:00:00 -0600
9/19/208:00 p.m.Riverside Casino & Golf Resort®Riverside -
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NewBo Freedom Block Party
<p>The Cedar Rapids Freedom Festival is excited to announce the FIRST EVER NewBo Freedom Block Party in 2020! Save the Date - Thursday, July 2nd at NewBo City Market from 6 - 9 PM!</p><p>Our friends at <a href="https://www.videogamesetc.com/" target="_blank">Video Games Ect.</a> will be bringing along the tv's and gaming consoles for Super Smash Bros and Mario Kart Tournament(s) for prizes and braggin' rights!</p><p>Grab a set of headphones, select the DJ of choice, and jam out to the Block Party's first ever Silent Disco, courtesy of <a href="https://www.in-any-event.com/index.html" target="_blank">In Any Event </a> PLUS we'll have an appearance by <a href="https://www.facebook.com/djbryanleegenx/" target="_blank">DJ Bryan Lee</a> AND Z102.9's DJ Lady J!</p><p><a href="https://newbocitymarket.org/" target="_blank">NewBo City Market</a> vendors and Food Trucks will be on site for food/drink purchases, live music on stage featuring <a href="https://www.facebook.com/howsursister" target="_blank">HYS</a>, and more--PERFECT for a night out with family and friends on the Eve before the 4th of July Eve!</p><p>The NewBo Freedom Block Party would not be possible without the support of <a href="https://www.riversidecasinoandresort.com/" target="_blank">Riverside Casino & Golf Resort </a>and <a href="https://www.shipblx.com/" target="_blank">BLX, Inc</a>!! Cheers!!</p> 2020-02-24 21:00:00 -0600
7/02/206:00 p.m.NewBo City MarketCedar Rapids -
Author Event: David Philip Mullins
<div data-block="true" data-editor="1fqsc" data-offset-key="3cb4s-0-0"><div data-block="true" data-editor="ai2dp" data-offset-key="15v6r-0-0"><div data-offset-key="15v6r-0-0"><span data-offset-key="15v6r-0-0"><span data-text="true">About the Book</span></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="ai2dp" data-offset-key="aqbaf-0-0"><div data-offset-key="aqbaf-0-0"><span data-offset-key="aqbaf-0-0"><span data-text="true">Inspired by the disaster of May 4, 1988, The Brightest Place in the World traces the lives of four characters haunted by an industrial disaster. On an ordinary sunny morning in 2012, a series of explosions level a chemical plant on the outskirts of Las Vegas. The shock waves are felt as far away as Fremont Street. Homes and businesses suffer broken windows and caved-in roofs. Hundreds are injured, and eight employees of the plant are unaccounted for, presumed dead.</span></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="ai2dp" data-offset-key="320np-0-0"><div data-offset-key="320np-0-0"><span data-offset-key="320np-0-0"><br data-text="true"></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="ai2dp" data-offset-key="ef0m2-0-0"><div data-offset-key="ef0m2-0-0"><span data-offset-key="ef0m2-0-0"><span data-text="true">One of the missing is maintenance technician Andrew Huntley, a husband and father who is an orbital force in the novel as those who loved him grapple with his loss. Andrew’s best friend, Russell Martin—an anxiety-plagued bartender who calms his nerves with a steady inflow of weed—misses him more than he might a brother. Meanwhile Emma, Russell’s wife—a blackjack dealer at a downtown casino—tries to keep her years-long affair with Andrew hidden. Simon Addison, a manager at the plant who could have saved Andrew’s life, is afflicted by daily remorse, combined with a debilitating knowledge of his own cowardice. And then there’s Maddie, Andrew’s only child, a model high-school student whose response to the tragedy is to experiment with shoplifting and other deviant behavior.</span></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="ai2dp" data-offset-key="8udr4-0-0"><div data-offset-key="8udr4-0-0"><span data-offset-key="8udr4-0-0"><br data-text="true"></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="ai2dp" data-offset-key="bt73v-0-0"><div data-offset-key="bt73v-0-0"><span data-offset-key="bt73v-0-0"><span data-text="true">About the Author</span></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="ai2dp" data-offset-key="4455c-0-0"><div data-offset-key="4455c-0-0"><span data-offset-key="4455c-0-0"><span data-text="true">David Philip Mullins is the author of Greetings from Below and an associate professor of English at Creighton University. He is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop; and his fiction has appeared in many publications, including The Yale Review, Ecotone, Cimarron Review, Fiction, and Folio.</span></span></div></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="1fqsc" data-offset-key="c78j-0-0"><br></div> 2019-12-30 19:00:00 -0600
6/18/206:00 p.m.M & M BookstoreCedar Rapids