Your Town Now: License to Complain
Iowa City, often called the Athens of the Midwest, is, like its more famous cousin, a hotbed of learning, activism and civic engagement.
Nonetheless, only an abysmally low 5.11% of registered voters (2,598 people) voted in our recent City Council primary election, while the other 48,222 registered voters living in Iowa City couldn’t be bothered to,...
Show Preview: Rubblebucket, 10/17/11 at Gabe's
After blowing the lid off the joint with their epic performance on the first night of Mission Creek last March, Rubblebucket is making its triumphant return to Iowa City tomorrow, October 17th, at Gabe’s.
Video: Roast This Town 2
Little Village Magazine’s Second Annual Roast of Iowa City had well over 200 people packed into The Mill and laughing it up for an hour as every last one of Iowa City’s sacred cows were gutted and cooked, every tender scab picked at, and every one of our town’s beloved “quirks” exposed as the grand...
Little Village vs. NaNoWriMo: Day 21
We only heard one side of the Dentist’s conversation but it was enough to discern where he and Rosso had planned to meet: some café on the pedestrian mall just adjacent to the same playground where Rosso and I had had our discussion just prior. Either he wanted a public space to avoid any drama...
Little Village vs. NaNoWriMo: Day 16
Sitting on the bench after Rosso left I started thinking about my life. Who was I, now, exactly? I truly didn’t know anymore.
I wasn’t one of the college boys ambling past me, unable or unwilling to lift their feet of the ground when the walked by - never had been. At that age I was...
NaNo Thoughts 1/3 of the way through:
Okay, so last night was my turn again and I cut and pasted all the daily entries between my last one and yesterday’s so I could read them all together as one chunk of text leading up to what I would write to keep the story going. Also, this allowed me to read the stuff...
Little Village vs. NaNoWriMo: Day 11
View all NaNoWriMo entries … After the third time I had dialed Kevin’s number and gotten his goddamned annoying voice mail message I decided to call Carol: no dice, left her a message also. I had never bothered to pay a lot of attention to his personal life, such as it was, since he arrived...
NaNoWriMo Week in review
Okay, time for my take on the overall process of our collaborative novel writing experiment thus far: First, I’m quite pleased with how it’s going and am impressed with the work that’s been coming in from all involved both for its quality as well as the fact that producing that amount of writing each day...
Little Village vs. NaNoWriMo: Day 4
View all NaNoWriMo entries … What, exactly, is there to talk about Mr. Cervetti?” he asked. “Lenny.” “What?” “You can call me Lenny,” I said. “Nobody calls me Cervetti except for my P.O.” “Ah, still on parole then?” he asked, “I wonder how your parole officer would feel about what you’ve been doing out here...
Little Village vs. NaNoWriMo: Day 1
View all NaNoWriMo entries “Did you see the moon tonight?” he said. “No,” I said, “why?” “It doesn’t even look real, it looks like a painting of the moon, like at an opera.” “Have you ever even been to an opera?” I asked him. “No,” he said, “why?” “Then how would you know what it...
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