Iona Fortune
Performer, Costumer,
& Art Historian
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History of Angelo’s Cocktail Lounge and the Di Giacomo Venues in Omaha, NE
Angelo’s Cocktail Lounge began its life at 1017 South 10th Street, operating by the early 1950s in the heart of Omaha’s downtown entertainment district. The… Read more.
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Burlesque at the Wagner Opera House | Moline, IL
In the American Midwest of the 1890s and early 1900s, an “opera house” was less a temple to grand opera than a multipurpose engine of… Read more.
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Dancers, Decency, and Double Standards: Iowa’s 1986 Nude Dance Scandal
In the spring of 1986, a bachelor party at a rural tavern outside Des Moines unexpectedly became the center of a statewide political firestorm. What… Read more.
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