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A FREE WEEKLY ENTERTAINMENT GUIDE FROM IOWA INFORMATION MEDIA GROUP<br />

MARK YOUR CALENDARS!<br />

<strong>DIS</strong>COVER! MAGAZINE<br />

MAY 18, 2024<br />

Full of<br />

FUN<br />

Barefoot Bar celebrates<br />

summer with Full Moon Party<br />

— SEE PAGE 10<br />

Pretty<br />

as a picture<br />

Pearson Lakes Art Center hosts photography exhibit<br />

— SEE PAGE 5<br />

Off to<br />

MARKET<br />

Ritual<br />

Farmers Market in the Park<br />

set for Saturdays this summer<br />

— SEE PAGE 9<br />

Kelly DeVitt’s “Ritual” exhibit is on display at<br />

the PLAC — SEE PAGE 6<br />

Your source for weekend fun in N’West Iowa<br />

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<strong>DIS</strong>COVER! | MAY 18, 2024<br />

Contents | 3<br />

5<br />

Pieces:<br />

6<br />

Pieces:<br />

7<br />

Other<br />

9<br />

Community:<br />

10<br />

Pearson Lakes Art Center<br />

hosts photography exhibit.<br />

Kelly Devitt comes full<br />

circle with her new exhibit.<br />

Happenings: Other<br />

must-see area events to check out.<br />

Farmers Market<br />

in the Park set for Saturdays.<br />

Event: Barefoot Bar celebrates<br />

summer with Full Moon Party.<br />

Screen<br />

new at the box office<br />

The Strangers:<br />

Chapter 1<br />

R | 90 min.<br />

After their car breaks down, a<br />

couple driving cross country to<br />

begin a new life in the Pacific<br />

Northwest is forced to spend the<br />

night in a secluded rental, where<br />

they are terrorized from dusk till<br />

dawn by three masked strangers.<br />

IN THIS ISSUE<br />

10<br />

The next Full Moon Party is set to take place at the Barefoot Bar in Okoboji at<br />

7 p.m. Thursday, May 23. The band GoodRoad will be providing live music.<br />

Limited release movies are not included in “What’s New.” Only films that receive an average “C” or better rating by movie<br />

critics on both coasts and the Midwest are included in “Good Stuff.”<br />

If<br />

PG | 108 min.<br />

A man can see and talk to people’s<br />

imaginary friends, befriending<br />

those that have been forgotten<br />

or discarded. However, some<br />

imaginary friends, lacking love and<br />

friendship, turn to the dark side<br />

and must be stopped.<br />

Dune: Part<br />

Two<br />

Mean Girls<br />

Ordinary<br />

Angels<br />

The Promised<br />

Land<br />

American<br />

Star<br />

PG-13<br />

166 min.<br />

★★★★★<br />

PG-13<br />

112 min.<br />

★★★★★<br />

PG<br />

118 min.<br />

★★★★★<br />

R<br />

127 min.<br />

★★★★★<br />

R<br />

07 min.<br />

★★★★★<br />

Paul Atreides unites with Chani and the Fremen<br />

while on a warpath of revenge against the conspirators<br />

who destroyed his family.<br />

New student Cady Heron is welcomed into the<br />

top of the social food chain by the popular girls<br />

called “The Plastics,” ruled by the conniving<br />

queen bee Regina George.<br />

Sharon Steves discovers a renewed sense of<br />

purpose when she meets Ed Schmitt, a widower<br />

working hard to make ends meet for his two<br />

daughters.<br />

In 1755, Captain Ludvig Kahlen sets out to conquer<br />

a vast uninhabitable land with a seemingly<br />

impossible goal; to cultivate valuable crops and<br />

build a colony for the King.<br />

An assassin is on a final assignment in to kill<br />

a man he has never met. When his target is<br />

delayed, he finds himself drawn to the island,<br />

people and a ghostly shipwreck.<br />

what you can rent or stream<br />

Side Trip:<br />

Are your patio pots filled with colorful<br />

blooms? Is your garden planted? Or<br />

are you waiting for two consecutive<br />

days without rain before attempting to get<br />

seeds in the ground?<br />

I’ve visited a couple<br />

of greenhouses in the<br />

last week in search of<br />

flowers but resisted<br />

the temptation to<br />

buy vegetable plants.<br />

As much as I’d enjoy<br />

the fresh produce,<br />

nurturing the plants<br />

throughout the summer<br />

has not proven<br />

to be my strength in<br />

recent years.<br />

By midsummer, I<br />

end up feeling guilty<br />

when grasshoppers eat my green beans and<br />

blight takes over my tomato vines.<br />

I’m sticking with herbs again this year<br />

— basil, rosemary, thyme, oregano and<br />

such. I picked those up at the greenhouse<br />

last week and have been keeping them alive<br />

in their little pots waiting for an evening<br />

that I’m home and that it’s not raining.<br />

Herbs seem to do just fine without attention<br />

from me, and while it’s not much,<br />

they do add a touch of freshness to summer<br />

cooking.<br />

My very sad tulips come back each year, a<br />

few persistent strawberries (that the birds usually<br />

eat before we get to them) and the chives.<br />

And now the mint.<br />

If you have ever had a patch of mint, you<br />

know what I’m talking about. The shoots<br />

are springing up everywhere, taking over the<br />

herb garden little by little, seemingly each<br />

day. But that mint did come in handy for<br />

the week leading up to the Kentucky Derby<br />

when my son asked about the ingredients<br />

to make a mint julep.<br />

I couldn’t provide him with the traditional<br />

metal cup for serving, but finding enough<br />

mint was not a problem.<br />

Now that I think about it, this may be the<br />

summer of mojitos.<br />

<strong>DIS</strong>COVER! is your guide to all the special<br />

events and activities in the greater northwest<br />

Iowa, southwest Minnesota, southeast South<br />

Dakota and northeast Nebraska areas. It is<br />

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<strong>DIS</strong>COVER! | MAY 18, 2024<br />

Pieces | 5<br />

Pretty as a<br />

PICTURE<br />

Pearson Lakes Art Center<br />

hosts photography exhibit<br />

At a Glance:<br />

WHAT: “Okoboji’s Photographic<br />

Palette”<br />

WHERE: Pearson Lakes Art Center,<br />

2201 Highway 71, Okoboji,<br />

IA<br />

WHEN: April 18 -July 06<br />

COST: Free to view<br />

CONTACT: 712-332-7013<br />

ONLINE: www.lakesart.org<br />

KATE HARLOW | STAFF WRITER<br />

They say that a picture is worth a thousand words.<br />

The newest photography exhibit at the<br />

Pearson Lakes Art Center says a lot more<br />

than that.<br />

“Okoboji’s Photographic Palette” is on exhibit<br />

in the Weaver Lobby Gallery and McIlrath Landing<br />

Gallery from April 18-July 6.<br />

This exhibit was curated by local photographer<br />

Tom Gustafson and features 11 local artists. The<br />

exhibit works alongside his book by the same<br />

name. The collection features some photography<br />

veterans as well as some photographers for whom<br />

this will be their first gallery exhibit.<br />

“This show is exciting because we have photographers<br />

who have used their medium and art<br />

form in a lot of different ways from those who do<br />

it for a magazine or newspaper, to those who have<br />

a passion for it and others who have made it into<br />

their business,” said Danielle Clouse Gast, the visual<br />

arts director at the Pearson Lakes Art Center.<br />

The subject matter that the exhibit features is<br />

also something that Clouse Gast is excited about.<br />

“It’s a really fun combination of photographers<br />

and it’s so fun to see their different views of the<br />

Iowa Great Lakes — it’s one location but there are<br />

so many different perspectives,” Clouse Gast said.<br />

Giving locals a chance to show off why they<br />

love the Iowa Great Lakes is something that<br />

Clouse Gast enjoys about this exhibit.<br />

“I enjoy any chance the art center has to feature<br />

where we live and to feature local artists,” Clouse<br />

Gast said. “When people walk into the art center<br />

they are greeted with the Okoboji landscape from<br />

a variety of perspectives — from night captures to<br />

drone photography.”<br />

Make sure to take in the exhibit and see just<br />

what words these pictures communicate to<br />

you. F<br />

Okoboji | Iowa


MAY 18, 2024 | <strong>DIS</strong>COVER!<br />

6 |<br />

Pieces<br />

Going on Now!<br />

DON’T<br />

MISS<br />

OUT!<br />

Kelly Devitt’s “Ritual” exhibit is<br />

on display at the Pearson Lakes<br />

Art Center in Okoboji from May<br />

16-July 20. PHOTOS BY RYLAN<br />

HOWE<br />

At a Glance:<br />

WHAT: Kelly Devitt — “Ritual”<br />

WHERE: Pearson Lakes Art Center,<br />

2201 Highway 71, Okoboji, IA<br />

WHEN: May 16-July 20<br />

COST: Free admission<br />

CONTACT: 712-332-7013<br />

ONLINE: www.lakesart.o<br />

RYLAN HOWE | STAFF WRITER<br />

Ritual<br />

Kelly Devitt comes full circle with new exhibit<br />

Student, intern, featured artist.<br />

It’s a full circle moment for<br />

Kelly Devitt with her new exhibit,<br />

“Ritual,” now on display at the<br />

Pearson Lakes Art Center in Okoboji.<br />

“As a kid I actually took a lot of<br />

courses here at the art center and I<br />

actually interned here when I was<br />

doing my undergrad at Iowa State, so<br />

this is definitely super special,” Devitt<br />

said.<br />

Devitt had actually begun pursuit<br />

of a career in interior design when<br />

she took a ceramics class. That pivoted<br />

her toward a degree in integrated<br />

studio art followed by a master’s degree<br />

in fine arts from the University<br />

of Massachusetts — Darthmouth.<br />

“Ritual” is derived from work she<br />

began during her grad school years<br />

and is her first major body of work<br />

outside of that time frame.<br />

A series of anthropomorphic ceramic<br />

pieces in vibrant as well as a<br />

wall installation will inspire reflection<br />

and introspection in the viewer.<br />

“This show is very<br />

much about the daily<br />

rituals and practices<br />

we have in the sense<br />

of doing the same<br />

motions over and over<br />

again, primarily in<br />

terms of taking care<br />

of one’s body,” Devitt<br />

said. “The piece on<br />

the wall is made of<br />

around 150 CeraVe<br />

bottles — lotion I put on every day<br />

and created from models I made. A<br />

lot of the work started in grad school<br />

and morphed into being about confidence<br />

or a lack of confidence. I find<br />

a lot of viewers can relate to the work<br />

in some sort of bodily way.”<br />

Even attempts to stitch together<br />

mistakes in a particular work fit into<br />

the overall theme of the show.<br />

“I very much embrace the mistakes<br />

and the flaws and so when there are<br />

mistakes I’m able to punch in medical<br />

sutures. It’s also about the idea of<br />

fixing something that maybe can’t be<br />

fixed,” Devitt said.<br />

Devitt invites viewers to inspect<br />

the pieces and check out those mistakes<br />

up close and personal.<br />

“Having the viewer come close<br />

and experience the materiality of it,<br />

interacting and questioning what<br />

it’s made out of — that’s important<br />

to me,” Devitt said. “Ultimately the<br />

overall theme is about one’s confidence<br />

and sense of belonging and<br />

how we’re all connected through the<br />

structure of our bodies.” F<br />

Okoboji | Iowa


<strong>DIS</strong>COVER! | MAY 18, 2024<br />

Other Happenings | 7<br />

Cyclone Tailgate Tour<br />

The 18th annual Cyclone Tailgate<br />

Tour is coming to the Roof Garden<br />

Ballroom at Arnolds Park at 5:30<br />

p.m. Tuesday, May 21.<br />

“This is a tremendous opportunity for<br />

our staff to engage with Cyclone fans<br />

across the state,” Iowa State Director of<br />

Athletics Jamie Pollard said. “We are so<br />

grateful for our loyal fans who travel to<br />

Ames for all of our events, and the Tailgate<br />

Tour affords us the opportunity to<br />

return the favor and visit them in their<br />

home areas.”<br />

All Cyclone Tailgate Tour stops will<br />

feature ISU head coaches and staff along<br />

with Cy and the spirit squads interacting<br />

with fans, signing autographs and handing<br />

out athletics swag. Each stop is free<br />

and open to fans of all ages.<br />

While tour event lineups may vary, this<br />

year’s tour will feature ISU Director of<br />

Athletics Jamie Pollard, football coach<br />

Matt Campbell, men’s basketball coach<br />

T.J. Otzelberger, women’s basketball<br />

coach Bill Fennelly, volleyball coach<br />

Christy Johnson-Lynch, wrestling coach<br />

Kevin Dresser, the “Voice of the Cyclones”<br />

John Walters and, of course, Cy.<br />

These family-friendly events will<br />

include giveaways, food and beverage<br />

available for purchase, and allow fans<br />

the opportunity to connect with fellow<br />

Cyclone fans in celebration of Iowa State<br />

Athletics. All children in attendance will<br />

also receive a gift courtesy of the Cyclone<br />

Club.<br />

The evening stops include a program<br />

beginning at 6:30 p.m., with the Des<br />

Moines kickoff event program beginning<br />

at 7 p.m. Official Iowa State merchandise<br />

from Cy’s Locker Room will be available<br />

for purchase at all evening stops too.<br />

WHERE: Roof Garden Ballroom, 91 Lake<br />

St., Arnolds Park, IA<br />

WHEN: 5:30 p.m. Tuesday, May 21<br />

COST: Free<br />

CONTACT: 712-332-2183<br />

ONLINE: www.roofgardenballroom.com<br />

Classics and Pops<br />

concert<br />

Whether you’re a fan of jazz, pop,<br />

country, blues, folk, rock ’n’ roll<br />

or classical music, the Worthington<br />

Area Symphony Orchestra has your<br />

favorite genre covered this month.<br />

“Classics and Pops,” their spring concert<br />

scheduled for 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, May<br />

21, at Memorial Auditorium Performing<br />

Arts Center, features a collaboration with<br />

the nationally renowned men’s vocal octet,<br />

Cantus.<br />

As a result, the 90-minute concert will<br />

touch on a variety of musical tastes, ranging<br />

from Billy Joel’s “Lullabye” (Goodnight,<br />

My Angel) to Marvin Gaye’s “Dancing<br />

in the Street” to Aaron Copland’s<br />

“Hoedown” and more.<br />

“The audience will truly have a good<br />

time and will recognize a lot of the popular<br />

tunes we’ll be sharing,” assured Beth<br />

Habicht, a WASO violinist and leadership<br />

team member. “Cantus planned a tour to<br />

towns in southwest Minnesota and contacted<br />

us — and we’re so excited to have<br />

them.<br />

Indeed, the Twin Cities-based Cantus<br />

performs at least 80 concerts in an average<br />

year; in 2024, their travels will take<br />

them to Ohio, Illinois, Michigan, Georgia,<br />

Alabama, Arizona and Tennessee,<br />

among other locations.<br />

Recent Cantus engagements have been<br />

at St. Paul’s Ordway Center for the Performing<br />

Arts and Landmark Center and<br />

at Westminster Hall and the Luminary<br />

Arts Center in Minneapolis. In past years,<br />

they’ve sung to sold-out houses at the<br />

Kennedy Center for the Arts and toured<br />

China, Taiwan, South Korea, Colombia<br />

and Scandinavia.<br />

Therefore, the chance to hear (close to<br />

home and for a reasonable ticket price)<br />

the classically trained ensemble, known<br />

for its members’ entertaining flair, tuneful<br />

voices and harmonies that prompt<br />

swooning, is one that shouldn’t be<br />

missed, organizers emphasize.<br />

“It would cost a lot more to hear Cantus<br />

at a Twin Cities venue,” said Tammy<br />

Makram, managing director of Memorial<br />

Auditorium. “I’m thrilled for WASO and<br />

Worthington to have Cantus here; it will<br />

be one of those nights that will lift you<br />

right out of your seat, and I especially like<br />

that they’re doing both classics and pops<br />

music.”<br />

In addition to the Tuesday evening<br />

concert, Cantus will share a daytime program<br />

with Worthington middle and high<br />

school students.<br />

As WASO wraps up its 14th anniversary<br />

year, collaborating with Cantus is a fitting<br />

way to mark another annual milestone.<br />

WHERE: Memorial Auditorium Performing<br />

Arts Center, 714 13th St., Worthington,<br />

MN<br />

WHEN: 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, May 21<br />

COST: Tickets $20 for adults, Students $3<br />

CONTACT: 507-376-9101<br />

ONLINE: friendsoftheauditorium.com


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Community | 9<br />

I’m most looking<br />

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our community come<br />

together once again<br />

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Off to<br />

MARKET<br />

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At a Glance:<br />

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Park<br />

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a.m.-12:30 p.m. from Memorial<br />

Day weekend through Labor Day<br />

COST: Varies<br />

ONLINE: www.farmersmarketinthepark.com<br />

KATE HARLOW | STAFF WRITER<br />

Summer is back and so are the farmers markets.<br />

The Farmers Market in the Park is a lot<br />

more than just a great place to find fresh, local<br />

produce.<br />

Every Saturday from 8:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. from<br />

Memorial Day weekend through Labor Day,<br />

Farmers Market in the Park offers a wide array of<br />

products and entertainment at their location at<br />

Arnolds Park Amusement Park.<br />

This is the sixth season of Farmers Market in<br />

the Park and they are so grateful for the response<br />

they’ve had from the community for the past five<br />

years.<br />

From the vendors to the entertainment lineup,<br />

the Farmers Market in the Park continually<br />

changes to keep things fresh and keep customers<br />

coming back.<br />

Every week there will be different offerings in<br />

terms of music, kids activities and vendors.<br />

“Part of what makes our market unique is that<br />

we highlight our vendors and add an aesthetic<br />

with music, kids activities, and yoga,” said Krissy<br />

Thiessen, who started and runs the event. “This<br />

year we have a full schedule of bands, yoga with<br />

The Studio Yoga and Barre, and kids activities<br />

from various local establishments every Saturday.”<br />

This year, there will be a great variety of vendors<br />

to check out each week.<br />

“We have 42 vendors this season. I think all of<br />

them offer something unique and are worth highlighting.<br />

However, our crowd can expect a lot of<br />

our returning vendors paired with a few new ones<br />

including Alpha’s Alternatives (hemp products),<br />

Nova Patisserie (freshly made crepes), Pleasant<br />

Lake Peppers (wide variety of hot sauces), and<br />

Boji’s Bloody’s (homemade Bloody Mary mixes),”<br />

Thiessen said.<br />

Thiessen is excited about offering up an event<br />

to bring local producers and the community together.<br />

“The goal of Farmers Market in the Park has<br />

always been to increase awareness and advocate<br />

for buying local as well as building community<br />

around that goal. We love that our golden rule<br />

of the market is ‘you must make or grow your<br />

own items.’ Everyone carefully hand-crafts their<br />

products and creates something truly special,”<br />

Thiessen said. “Increasing community awareness<br />

of these products is our mission. I also want to<br />

mention that we could not accomplish any of this<br />

without the huge amount of support from our<br />

sponsors!”<br />

Thiessen is excited for this summer’s Farmers<br />

Market in the Park — to be bringing people together.<br />

“I’m most looking forward to seeing our community<br />

come together once again to support all<br />

these local growers and craftsmen,” Thiessen said.<br />

“It is such a heart warming and special event and<br />

we couldn’t be more thrilled with the level of<br />

growth we’ve seen since our first season.” F<br />

Arnolds Park | Iowa


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MARK YOUR<br />

CALENDARS!<br />

Full<br />

The weather has warmed up and the<br />

sun has begun to shine over the Iowa At a Glance:<br />

Great Lakes.<br />

WHAT: Full Moon Party — GoodRoad<br />

And during the summertime when the<br />

sun goes down the party is just getting<br />

WHERE: Barefoot Bar, 24457 178th St,<br />

started at the Barefoot Bar in Okoboji.<br />

Okoboji, IA<br />

That’s because they once again have a WHEN: 7 p.m. Thursday, May 23<br />

loaded schedule for their Full Moon Party<br />

COST: No cover charge<br />

series.<br />

“We’re looking forward to bringing CONTACT: 712-332-7303<br />

back Johnny Holm Band and we have ONLINE: www.parksmarina.com<br />

Icons of Country and Jacuzzi Puma out of<br />

Minneapolis and we kick things off next RYLAN HOWE | STAFF WRITER<br />

Fun<br />

of<br />

week with GoodRoad from Sioux Falls,”<br />

said Trevor Johnson, marketing specialist<br />

with Parks Marina.<br />

The first Full Moon Party is indeed set<br />

for 7 p.m. Thursday, May 23, and will feature<br />

all the customary fun of the Barefoot<br />

Bar’s most popular event.<br />

“You know whenever there’s a full<br />

moon people act a little crazy so why<br />

not throw a party,” Johnson said. “We<br />

celebrate in style with our legendary seafood<br />

boil and it gets packed so come early.<br />

Barefoot Bar celebrates summer with Full Moon Party<br />

There’s nothing better in Okoboji than<br />

dancing under the palm trees and howling<br />

at the moon.”<br />

GoodRoad is no stranger to the Barefoot<br />

Bar and most recently appeared on the<br />

stage there during Winter Games, when<br />

Johnson noted that they really brought the<br />

party and he expects nothing less with the<br />

first Full Moon Party of the year.<br />

Join in on the fun in the Iowa Great<br />

Lakes. F<br />

You know whenever<br />

there’s a full moon<br />

people act a little<br />

crazy so why not<br />

throw a party.<br />

Trevor Johnson<br />

Okoboji | Iowa


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