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Jayden's March Madness Review

Jayden’s March Madness Review

April 13, 2025 at 3:35 pm 0 comments

March Madness is now over and it all went by in One Shining Moment. There was excitement, disappointment, celebration, letdowns, and champions crowned. However, one thing there wasn’t much of was upsets.  On the men’s side, all four #1 seeds made it to the Final Four for the first timeRead More

DMACC's "Ride The Cyclone" musical takes you on a ride

DMACC’s “Ride The Cyclone” musical takes you on a ride

April 4, 2025 at 5:19 pm 0 comments

DMACC’s Theatre program is preparing for their musical, “Ride The Cyclone,” which will be performed April 4-6 and April 10-13, with the Sunday shows at 2 p.m. and all others at 7:30 p.m.. The performances are free and will be in the Black Box Theatre in  Building 5 on theRead More

Review: "The Brutalist" is an absorbing experience

Review: “The Brutalist” is an absorbing experience

February 6, 2025 at 12:35 pm 0 comments

“The Brutalist” is one of the last movies to close out 2024 and certainly made its mark into 2025. Brady Corbet’s period drama film stars Adrien Brody as a Holocaust survivor who emigrates to the United States in search of the American Dream until a rich client opens an opportunityRead More

DMACC prepares for spring musical

DMACC prepares for spring musical

January 26, 2025 at 8:30 am 0 comments

As the spring semester begins at DMACC, the drama department is preparing for its next production, “Ride The Cyclone.” Carl Lindberg, the professor of theatre and acting, has been teaching full-time at the Ankeny campus since 2018. He is excited about this play and hopes many students attend. Lindberg statesRead More

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“Swindlers” wraps up the fall semester for DMACC theatre

November 25, 2024 at 11:36 am 0 comments

Over the weekends between November 15 and 24 in the Blackbox Theater, the DMACC Theatre program put on a production of “Swindlers: A True-ish Tall Tale.”  The play was written by Noah Diaz and was directed by Brittany Rebhuan. The story follows a girl named Marie who feeling stuck inRead More

Bella's scary movie picks

Bella’s scary movie picks

October 2, 2024 at 12:07 pm 0 comments

With Halloween right around the corner, I thought as a horror fan it was very appropriate for me to give you a list of my top five scary movie recommendations to watch this year. These are in no actual order of importance because then that would be like asking aRead More

DMACC and Grand View make audiences go “Head Over Heels”

DMACC and Grand View make audiences go “Head Over Heels”

April 24, 2024 at 11:12 am 0 comments

By Kaylynn Bousman, special to the Chronicle “Head Over Heels,” originally by Jeff Whitty and adapted by James Magruder, is a jukebox musical featuring exclusively music by The Go-Go’s. The musical was showcased here in the DMACC Black Box Theatre as well as at the Grand View Viking Theatre fromRead More

Need new music? Here are Bella’s top five albums

Need new music? Here are Bella’s top five albums

March 27, 2024 at 11:50 am 0 comments

1. “A Brief Inquiry into Online Relationships” – The 1975 “A Brief Inquiry into Online Relationships” is The 1975’s third album and looks into society’s connection with technology, mental health, addiction, politics, and overcoming adversity and what it is like living and growing up in the age of technology. TheRead More