Happy Tuesday and don’t forget to register to vote!
Our highlight this week is the downtown Music Walk. The event highlights many local musicians playing everything from indie rock and pop to jazz and acapella. More than 30 businesses and organizations will host music acts.
Also this week, Ames High homecoming begins, how theater shaped politics, learn about the Morrill Act and the Parc calls Ghostbusters.
Anthony Capps, Editor
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Event Spotlight
Music
5 to 8 p.m. Thursday, Downtown Ames
Music Walk is a free family-friendly event showcasing businesses in downtown as well as local musicians at more than 30 locations.
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Calendar of Events
Ongoing
🎥 Cyclone Cinema: Toy Story 5
7 p.m. Thursday through Sunday, Carver 101 — Woody, Buzz, Jessie and the rest of the gang's jobs are challenged when they're introduced to electronics, a new threat to playtime. (Free)
Tuesday, Sept. 15
Live music and other events
📖 Dog-Eared Books Thrills & Chills Book Club (Body Double by Hanna Johnasson) — 5:30 p.m., Ames Public Library
🎶 The Old 13 String Bandit w/ Wally Neal (folk) — 7 p.m., Alluvial Brewing ($7/$10)
Wednesday, Sept. 16
🎭 The Play's The Thing: The Role of Theatre in Our Democracy From Colonial Times to Today
6 p.m., 2630 Memorial Union — From colonial pamphleteering to modern-day protest performance, political theater has shaped American democracy in ways that standard history books rarely capture. Professor Joel Eis uncovers the hidden role theater has played in shaping public opinion, dissent and civic identity throughout U.S. history. (Free)
Other events
📖 Your Best Self Book Club (Unapologetically Ambitious by Shellye Archambeau) — 6 p.m., Ames Public Library
🎲 Bored? Games! — 6:30 p.m., Ames Public Library
🎥 Doc Talk – Iowa: And The Broken Circle — 7 p.m., KHOI (Free)
Thursday, Sept. 17
🏛️ The “Morrill” of the Story
Noon, Farm House Museum — Join curator Allison Sheridan to explore the lasting impact of the Morrill Act of 1862 and the rise of the land-grant university system that reshaped access to education, innovation and opportunity across the nation. (Free)
👨🏫 Learn with the League: 250 Years of Indigenous Nations and the U.S.
7 p.m., Ames Public Library — Join Sebastian Braun, director of American Indian Studies and professor of political science at Iowa State, in looking back at the United States relations with sovereign Native nations, taking stock of where these relations came from and where they stand. (Free)
Live music and other music
📖 Dog-Eared Official Book Club (American Fantasy by Emma Straub) — 10 a.m., Dog-Eared Books
🎶 Rambler Kane / Luke Callen (folk) — 7 p.m., Alluvial Brewing ($9/$12)
Sports
⚽ Soccer: Iowa State vs. Colorado — 6 p.m., Cyclone Sports Complex
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Friday, Sept. 18
🎥 Flicks and Food Trucks: Ghostbusters
7 p.m., The Parc — Join us at the Parc for a special showing of the original Ghostbusters. Food trucks open at 7 and the movie begins at 7:45. This is the last event at the Parc this season.
Live music and other events
🎨 Reception – Works by Maggie Douglas — 5 p.m., Gallery in the Round
📖 Found in Translation Book Club (On Earth as It Is Beneath by Ana Paula Maia) — 7 p.m., Raygun
🎶 Crunch Brothers (classic rock) — 7 p.m., Alluvial Brewing ($7/$10)
🎶 Gizzae (reggae) — 8 p.m., Maintenance Shop ($10/$15)
🎶 Glass Knuckle EP Release Party (indie rock) — 9 p.m., Mary Jane's ($10)
Sports
🏊♀️ Swimming and Diving: Cardinal & Gold — 4 p.m., Beyer Pool
Saturday, Sept. 19
🌽 Main Street Farmers’ Market
8 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., Main Street — This week’s special event comes from the return of the Ames Bookmobile, plus music by Boone Fiddler.
📖 Family Farm Festival with Author Jill Esbaum
9:30 a.m., Ames Public Library — Celebrate all things farming with fun activities and a visit from Great Reads from Great Places author Jill Esbaum. Outside the library, families can get up close with big tractors and farm machinery, pet farm animals at a petting zoo and visit with local Co-ops and CSAs.
Live music and other events
🎥 Twenty Years of the Met in Cinemas: An Anniversary Celebration — 1 p.m., Movies 12 ($14)
🎶 Jinnouchi Power (indie rock) — 7 p.m., Mary Jane's ($5)
Sports
🏈 Football: Iowa State vs. Bowling Green — 11 a.m., Jack Trice Stadium ($44+)
Sunday, Sept. 20
🎨 The American Story Chronicled in Glass
2 p.m., Virtual on Zoom — Join Farm House Museum curator Allison Sheridan as she uncovers how American glassmakers captured moments of national identity, political change, everyday life and popular culture in stunning detail.
Live music and other events
🎥 Heaven in Stone and Glass — 7:30 p.m., Movies 12 ($11.50)
Sports
🥎 Softball: Iowa State vs. NIACC — 2 p.m., Cyclone Sports Complex
Monday, Sept. 21
🎉 Ames High Homecoming Parade
6:30 p.m., downtown — Celebrate Homecoming Week with the annual parade in downtown Ames.
Other events
📖 Love & Other Monsters Book Club (Daggermouth by H.M. Wolfe) — 5:30 p.m., Ames Public Library
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On our radar
🎉 Oct. 15: Ames Voice Anniversary Party, Ames Regional Economic Alliance
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