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Des Moines Tribune from Des Moines, Iowa • 45

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THE DATEBOOK Dm Mom Tribune April 9, 1 981 4'i 5 j4 1 Music Maharishi International University Fieldhouse, Fairfield. Tickets $3.50. Call 1-472-5031. 'The Octopus" El Teatro de la Esperanza production, 8 p.m. April 14.

Old Main Auditorium, Drake University. Tickets $3 for adults, $2 for Drake students. Call 271-3119. "The Robe" Drama, 7 p.m. April 17-18 and 6 p.m.

April 19, Family Life Center at First Church of the Open Bible, Beaver Avenue and Hickman Road. Free-will offering. Wednesday and Friday, and 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturday. Tax help, noon-3 p.m.

Tuesdays and 7-9 p.m. Thursdays Eight-week adult art course, starting 6:30 tonight; $1 fee; preregister "Kids: Grow a Plant," 4 p.m. April 15 Easter egg hunt, for ages 3-8, 10 a.m. April 18 Mini-relays, for ages 5-13, 1-5 p.m. April 18; preregister Storytimes, for ages 3-6, a.m., every Monday, Wednesday and Friday Call to join Library Reading Club.

North Side Library at Park Fair Shopping Center, Second and Euclid avenues, 283-494). Hours: 10 a.m.-9 p.m. Monday-Thursday; 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Friday, and 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturday.

Coffee corner, 2 p.m. Friday Spring rummage sale, 10 a.m.-4.30 p.m. Saturday Family film festival, 10:30 a.m. Saturday Modpodge Eggs, for ages 7 and up, 4 p.m. April 13; 75-cent fee; preregister Easter egg craft, for ages 6 and up, 4 p.m.

April 14 Tax assistance for low-income and senior citizens, noon-3 p.m. Thursdays through April 15. South Side Library, 1111 Porter 283-4940. Hours: 9 a.m.-9 p.m. Monday-Thursday; 9 a p.m.

Friday; 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturday, and 2-5 p.m. Sunday Reopening Saturday after repair of fire damage. West Des Moines Public Library, 1105 Grand West Des Moines, 223-1575. Hours: 9 a.m.-8:30 p.m.

Monday-Thursday; 9 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Friday-Saturday, and 2-5 p.m. Sunday. Film: "Star Trek: Trouble with Tribbles," 2 p.m. Saturday Easter egg hunt, for ages 2-5, 1 p.m.

Saturday. bassist Dave Milberg, 8 p.m. April 14, Memorial Union. Iowa State University, Ames. Tickets $1.50.

Call 1-294-6672. Des Moines Harp Ensemble Spring concert. 7:30 p.m. April 14. Brody Junior High School.

2501 Park Ave. Free. Band concert Drake Concert Band I. 8 p.m. April 14, Hall of the Performing Arts, Twenty-sixth Street and Carpenter Avenue.

Free. Clark Terry and his Big Band Friends of Jazz concert. 7:30 p.m. April 16, Fort Des Moines Hotel Grand Ballroom, Tenth and Walnut streets. Tickets $10 for members, $15 non-members.

Call 288-7274 or 223-0044. Theater Charlie's Showpiece dinner theater "On Golden Pond," through April 26. Buffet from 6:30 p.m. Wednesdays-Saturdays, 5 p.m. Sundays.

Tickets: $12.75 'Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays and Sundays; $14.95 Saturdays; $9.75 noon matinee April 15. Reduction for students and senior citizens for evening performances. At Fifth and University, avenues. Call 282-5181. Ingersoll Dinner Theater "Oklahoma" through April 18.

Tickets: $12 Thursdays, $13 Fridays, $14.75 Saturdays and $9.95 Sundays. Discount tickets for students, senior citizens and groups. Buffet from 6:30 p.m. Call 2744686. Texas Opera Theatre Civic Music' Association production, 8 p.m.

tonight, Civic Center. By series subscription, with guest tickets available to members. Call 278-9967. "The Shadow Box" Theatre in the Ground production, 8 p.m. tonight through Saturday and April 15-18, Des Moines Community Playhouse, 831 Forty-second Street.

Tickets $4. Call 277-6261. "Spoon River Anthology" ACTORS' production, 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday and April 16-18, ACTORS' Studio, 120 Abraham Drive, Ames. Tickets $4.

Call 1-292-6691. "Comedy of Errors" National Shakespeare Company production, 8 p.m. Sunday, Dn Moines Symphony With guest violinist Ruggiero Ricci, 8:30 p.m. Saturday and 3 p.m. Sunday (free dress 7 p.m.

Friday) at the Civic Center. Tickets $11. $8 and discounts for students and senior citizens. Call 243-1120. Marshall Tucker Band Rock concert with special guests, New Riders of the Purple Sage, 8 p.m.

Saturday, Hilton Coliseum, Ames. Tickets $9.50. Call 1-294-2436. "The Foggy River Boys" Music-comedy show, 8 p.m. Saturday, North High School auditorium.

Tickets $4 for adults, $2 for children 11 and under. Call 282-7770. Cardinal Keynotes ISU singers' spring show, 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday, Music Hall Recital Hall, Iowa State University, Ames. Tickets $2.

Call 1-294-5364. String trio Links Inc. concert by Prudence McDaniel, cello; Willa Collins, piano, and Anne Harris, violin, 1:30 p.m. Sunday, Levitt Auditorium, Art Center. Free.

Simpson Collage Choir Concert, under the direction of Dr. Robert L. Larsen, 8 p.m. Sunday, First United Methodist Church, Indianola. Free.

Organ Recital By David Stinson, 2:30 p.m. Sunday, St. Patrick's Roman Catholic Church, Bayard. Free. Faculty recital Tenor Donald Simonson in concert, 8 p.m.

Sunday, Music Hall Recital Hall, Iowa State University, Ames. Free. Call 1-294-5364. C. Buell Upa Contemporary Music Festival Lecture-recital, April 13; chamber music concert, April 14; Iowa State wind ensemble and choirs, April 15.

All at 8 p.m. in the Music Hall Recital Hall, Iowa State University, Ames. Free. Call 1-294-5364. Iowa Jazz Championships Finals, 7 p.m.

April 16, C.Y. Stephens Auditorium, Iowa State University, Ames. Tickets $4 for adults, $2 for students and senior citizens. Call 1-294-5364. Maintenance Shop Jazz pianist Vernon Windsor in solos and improvisations, and with Libraries All libraries will be closed Easter Sunday, April 19.

East Side Library, 2559 Hubbell phone 283-4942. Hours: 9 a.m.-9 p.m. Monday-, Thursday; 9 a.m.-6 p.m. Friday; 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturday, and 2-5 p.m.

Sunday. Tax help for elderly and low income, noon-3 p.m. Thursdays and p.m. Saturdays Tole painting workshop, 9 a.m. -3 p.m.

Saturday Open house for entrants in student photography contest, 3 p.m. Sunday Babysitting classes, for ages 10 and up, 4 p.m. April 13-17; preregister Toddler storytime, for ages 2-3, 10 a.m. April 14; preregister Foster care program discussion, 7 p.m. April 14 Financial planning seminar, 2 and 7 p.m.

April 16; preregister Film: "Foul Play," 2 p.m. April 18. Franklin Avenue Library, 5000 Franklin 283-4271. Hours: 9 a.m.-9 p.m. Monday-Friday; 9 a.m.-5 p.m.

Saturday, and 2-5 p.m. Sunday. (Library open during remodeling project.) Storytimes for ages 3 Mi to kindergarten, 10 a.m. Thursdays Tax help, 9 a.m.-noon Tuesdays, 7-9 p.m. Wednesdays and 1-4 p.m.

Thursdays. Main Library, First and Locust streets, 283-4152. Hours: 9 a.m.-9 p.m. Monday-Thursday; 9 a.m.-6 p.m. Friday, and 9 a.m.

-5 p.m. Saturday. Foster care program discussion, 7 p.m. April 15. Mid City Library, 1305 University 283-4593.

Hours: 9 a.m.-9 p.m. Monday, Tuesday and Thursday; 9 p.m. See Hear Art Center Grand Avenue at Polk Boulevard. "Nancy Graves: A Survey," 64 paintings, sculptures and works on paper; on display through May 3. Call 277-4405.

Botanical Center 909 E. River Drive. "Springtime Delight." display of Easter lilies, hydrangeas, daisies, marigolds and other colorful blooms through May 12. Hours: 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Mondays-Thursdays; 10 a.m.-9 Wednesday-Thursday, and with Jack Lester on banjo, Friday.

No cover. Phone 287-6611. Wakonda Lounge, 4229 Fleur Drive Brainchild, 9 p.m.-l a.m. Friday-Saturday. No cover.

Phone 285-9375. (A sinfully subjective slate of some of the classier attractions in and around Des Moines, most of which serve strong drink and good sound. Schedules provided by nightspots could change.) Creek Band. 9 p.m.-l :30 a.m. Friday, 10 p.m.-l :30 a.m.

Saturday. $1 Phone 1-795-2922. Mr. B's, 112 Main Ames Monterrey, 9:30 p.m.-l:30 a.m. tonight-Saturday.

$1 cover weeknights. $2 Friday and Saturday. Phone 1-232-4661. Ramada Inn, 4685 N.E. Fourteenth St John Buck, p.m.

Mondays-Saturdays. No cover. Phone 265-5671. Tony's Lounge, 918 E. Euclid Ave.

Ben Collier, 8:30 p.m.-l :30 a.m. Monday-Saturday. No cover. Phone 266-9143. Hangar Lounge, Best Western Airport Inn, 1810 Army Post Road Brandywine, 9 p.m.-l a.m.

Tuesdays-Saturdays. No cover. Phone 287-6464. Hilton Inn, 6111 Fleur Drive Ray Faubus, 9 p.m.-l a.m. Tuesdays-Saturdays.

No cover. Phone 287-2400. Holiday Inn South, 2101 Fleur Drive London Bridge, 9 p.m.-l :30 a.m. Mondays-Saturdays; Country Boys, m. Thursdays; West Des Moines Dixieland Band, p.m.

Wednesdays. Phone 283-171 1. The Iron Horseman, Rural Route, Otkaloosa Darrell Thomas and the Billboard Cowboys 9 p.m.-l :30 a.m. Tuesdays-Saturdays. $2 cover.

Nashville Club, 1820 E. Army Post Road Blue Sky Band, 9 p.m.-l :30 a.m. Wednesdays-Saturdays and p.m. Sundays. $1 cover Friday-Saturday.

Phone 287-3490. Quackers Lounge, Hyatt Des Moines, 6215 Fleur Drive Rex Howard, 8 p.m.-midnight Mondays-Thursdays. Segue, 9 p.m.-l a.m. Friday-Saturday. No cover.

Phone 285-1234. Reo's, 1511 E. Army Post Road Train, 8:30 p.m.-l :30 a.m. Friday-Saturday. $1 cover.

Phone 285-9414. Rlccelll's, 3803 Indianola Road Merrill Sparks (Mario) at the piano, 7-11 p.m. Tuesdays-Thursdays and 8 a.m. Fridays. No cover.

Phone 243-9632. Stuart Anderson's Cattle Company, 4901 Fleur Drive Bill Scarpino on piano NORTH Brad's Sixth Avenue Saloon, 5215 N.W. Sixth Ave. Aces and Eights, 9 p.m.-l:30 a.m. 9 p.m.-l:30 a.m.

tonight-Sunday. $1 cover tonight and Sunday, $2 Friday and Saturday. Phone 243-9600. Broken Arrow, Polk City Wapsie River Band, 9 p.m.-l:30 a.m. tonight-Saturday.

$1 cover Thursday, $2 Friday and Saturday. Phone 984-9316. The Dallas, 4417 N.W. Sixth Drive Steve Whiting Band, 9 p.m.-l:30 a.m. tonight-Saturday.

$1.50 cover Friday and Saturday only. Phone Dave's Roadhouse, Highway 65, Bondurant Stumpwater, 9 p.m.-l a.m. Saturday. No cover. Phone 265-3399.

The Distillery, 1509 S. Ankeny Desert Rose, 9 p.m.-l :30 a.m. tonight-Saturday. No cover. Phone 964-0262.

The Filmore, 300 S. Seventeenth Ames Jonesin, 7 p.m.-2 a.m. tonight and Saturday. $2 cover. Jonesin and new-wave rock group U2, 9 p.m.

Friday. $5 cover. Phone 1-232-3259. Fox Run, 233 State Madrid Skeeter EAST Adventureland Inn, 1-80 and Highway 65 Black Label, p.m. Monday-Thursday; 8:30 p.m.-l :30 a.m.

Friday-Saturday. No cover. Phone 265-7321. Bud Helmers Lounge, 1833 Avenue Frederick M. Hubbell Great Titanic, bluegrass band, 8 p.m.-l a.m.

Saturdays. No cover. Phone 266-9461. Domino's Restaurant and Lounge, 1201 E. Euclid Ave.

The Oil Pans, 10-11 p.m. Thursdays; High Gear, 9 p.m.-l:30 a.m. Thursdays-Saturdays; p.m. Sundays. No cover.

Phone 266-6686. Frank's Lounge, 3940 McDonald Ave. Renegade. 9 p.m.-l :30 a.m. Friday and Saturday.

$2 cover. Phone 266-921 7. J.C.'s Tap, 2600 Dean Ave. Reno and the Bar Room Buddies, 9 p.m.-l :30 a.m. Friday.

5 p.m.-l :30 a.m. Saturday. No cover. Phone 266-9309. Joe's Too Lounge, 3418 E.

Fourteenth St. Buffalo Road, 9 p.m.-l :30 a.m. Friday and Saturday. No cover. Phone 266-9423.

New Keg, Highway 6, Altoona Boot Hill, 8 SOUTH Another World, 6404 Fleur Drive Randy and Dave, 9 p.m.-l a.m. Saturday. No cover. Phone 285-9567. Falbo's, Fleur and Valley drives Judy Brown and Brian Tabach, 7 p.m.-midnight, Tuesdays-Saturdays.

No cover. Phone 244-6231. Flash's, 401 N. First St, Indianola Young Brothers Band, 9 p.m.-l :30 a.m. Saturday.

No cover. Phone 961-9986..

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