Flip through issue 105 of Little Village.
July 2011
Posted inFood & Drink
Date Night
So you think you know the Iowa City food scene? With several new restaurants opening their doors of late, it may be time for you to reconsider your options. If you’re looking to impress the belly-dancing goddess from College Green you finally scored a date with, allow us to recommend a few of the dishes […]
Posted inCommunity/News, UR Here
UR Here: Blowing the Place Down
The spring and summer of 2011 have been historically devastating. An earthquake and tsunami in Japan rival Hiroshima and Nagasaki. EF5 tornadoes in Joplin, Missouri, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, and throughout much of the South have killed more people than any outbreak in six decades. Wildfires have burned more of Arizona to the ground than ever before. […]
Posted inCommunity/News
Your Town Now: Here's Looking at You, John Millar
Back in March, I mentioned a presentation given by John Millar of Divaris Real Estate in Virginia Beach, VA. A press release indicated that Millar had been invited by a “coalition of businesses, developers, community members, The University of Iowa and the City of Iowa City,” on account of his being “an expert on the development of mixed-use college town centers.” Since then, the city and university have hired Millar at $55,000 as a consultant.
Posted inArts & Entertainment
The Writers' Wordshop
Much of the celebration of the 75th Anniversary of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop has involved the program’s graduates coming together to reflect on the craft of writing. In June, the Workshop hosted an alumni reunion and this month sees the publication of We Wanted to Be Writers, a series of conversations with Workshop graduates discussing […]
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Hot Tin Roof
Hot Tin Roof: Hermaphrodite in Iowa
You think kissing your inner thighs is easy. You think you can stand there while I lick you ON and OFF. It’s true. There is electricity. That new currency you have been paying me with. For kissing me, you say, I will pay you with my electricity, my chemistry, my biological appliances. My reply: Surely […]
Posted inFood & Drink
On the Table
Imagine five-hundred humpback whales. Twelve max-weight 18-wheelers. These amount to one million pounds–or the milestone reached by Iowa City’s Table to Table, a charitable organization that rescues food to support local service agencies that assist the hungry, homeless and at-risk. And for the first time in its 15-year history, Table to Table rescued more than […]
Posted inArts & Entertainment
The Tube: The Queen Isn't Dead
According to my Tumblr feed, all the hip kids are raving about David Lynch’s early ‘90s serial drama Twin Peaks. Bloggers such as high school pop culture genius Tavi Gevinson of Style Rookie wrote about not just the “teen bedroom” aesthetic, but the artifacts left behind after the death of a teenage girl, a theme […]
Posted inCommunity/News
Online Together
“There’s some wack shit floating round about social media making us lonely & isolated. Can’t make us what we already are,” tweeted @srharris19 on July 4. As internet giant Google rolls out its new social network, Google+, we’re given the opportunity to reinvent our strategy for using social media. Now is the perfect time to […]
Posted inFood & Drink
The Hops: Hefeweizen
August kind of sucks. Summer vacation ends (for those who still have it), there is no reason to drive to Missouri for fireworks and the beginning of football season is painfully close. Basically, it is 31 days of heat, humidity and perseverance. Thankfully, there is hefeweizen. Brewed with over 50 percent malted wheat, refreshing on […]
Posted inArts & Entertainment
The Stage: Summer Takes a Bow
For reasons known only to God and the bureaucrats, school starts in Iowa City in August instead of waiting decently until after Labor Day. Despite the resumption of scholarly activity, however, August is very much the dog days in this town. The novelties of summer–the outdoor concerts and splashing in the fountain, the sudden increase […]
Posted inArts & Entertainment
On the Beat: Counting down
Seemingly no one hates Counting Crows more than Guided by Voices frontman Robert Pollard. An oft-cited gem from his 2005 stage-banter album, Relaxation of the Asshole, goes something like this: “I wanna know how the guy from the Counting Crows used to fuck everybody from Friends? How the fuck’d he do it? He’s an ugly […]
