I hauled out the trusty Zoom H4 to the Mill last Saturday night, and recorded some good ol homegrown Iowa Rock & Roll. So Here it is, with no commercial interruption! All pics (except the first) were taken by the person I know only as Barefoot Adrienne — see all her pictures from the night […]
January 2010
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Iowa City Weekender: January 28-February 1
This week’s Weekender is brought to you by the ICPL eAudio collection Greetings, Weekenders! Thank you to all who tuned in last night for Little Village Live, our weekly radio show over at KRUI, and a huge thank you to special guest Ben Schmidt for the wonderful live in-studio performance. Accompanied by the terrific Larry […]
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Little Village Weekender: January 21-24
– “Live from Prairie Lights” kicks off its Spring 2010 series with a reading from Daniyal Mueenuddin
– Datagun dusts off the stage at the Picador for a CD release party
– Yoga marathon at Heartland Yoga
– Celebrate 7 years of good times at the Yacht Club with 7 bands for $7
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"Copyright Criminals" Premieres Tomorrow Night on PBS
Produced by LV contributor Kembrew Mcleod and University of Iowa Associate Professor, and Benjamin Franzen, U of I graduate. Copyright Criminals explores the issue raised by the collision of Remix Culture with current laws. This will be shown at 8AM, 2PM and 7PM tomorrow, January 19th. **UPDATE: Iowa Public Television will air Copyright Criminals in […]
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Iowa City Weekender: January 14-18
The Laramie Project opens at Theatre Cedar Rapids
Local Hip Hop throwdown at PS1
Fleece begins at birth – sewing party to benefit UIHC NICU
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Iowa City Weekender: January 7-9
Advertising in the Weekender is cheap and easy – Contact us here! Eerily quiet downtown today. Classic snowy tree scenes, the deafening, paranoia-inducing sound of snow creaking under your boots – or is it just me? Thankfully in Iowa City there are many ways to fight cabin fever, but it seems this week that live […]
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Avatar — Savages not just Noble, but Neon
I checked this out last night, and as a cinematic entertainment I really enjoyed it. As a movie it’s much, much better than “Titanic,” which was an immensely successful entertainment, but also mawkish, sentimental and plodding. Avatar is a more rigorously plotted and realized piece of film making, and gets points for advancing the state […]
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Grab Winter by the Snowballs
When it gets as cold as it did after our first real snowstorm of the season a few weeks ago, it gets so you don’t notice it anymore after a while because it’s not a thing to “notice” so much as it’s the only thing you’re thinking about to begin with. It was, in retrospect, […]
