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From free sweet corn and SpongeBob on stage to Lana Del Rey and NASCAR — here’s what’s happening July 31-Aug. 3.
The Cedar Rapids Downtown Farmers Market celebrated its 20th season with a special dinner by Cobble Hill. Have a taste with ...
Gregg Bentler served as an announcer for Hawkeye baseball games, gymnastics meets, and men’s basketball games.
Omaha's Weather Leader is tracking extreme heat followed by strong to severe storms overnight. Meteorologist Luke Vickery has the latest in the forecast you trust.
On this episode of Everyday Foodies with The Hotel at Kirkwood Center, Chef Brian shares 3 tasty ways to enjoy sweet corn this summer!
Among the top-ranked dishes were Maine’s blueberry pie with vanilla ice cream, Mississippi’s barbecue ribs with comeback sauce, and Alabama’s peach cobbler. Each dish was praised for capturing the ...
All plants have a self-cooling process called transpiration. It's essentially the plant version of sweating. When it's hot out, leaves release water through the pores in their leaves. That water ...
The Midwest has been inundated with rain, heat, oppressive humidity and "corn sweat". In fact, meteorologist Ryan Maue says the heat index hit 115°F Sunday night in Iowa — and 20°F to 25°F of that was ...
July and August is a common time of the year for extreme heat and humidity. One of the contributing factors is the mature corn crop releasing moisture into the atmosphere. One acre of mature corn can ...
As an American, we all should feel an affinity for corn. It is the season. The other day I walked into my kitchen after a ...