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Full Roast of Iowa City (Streaming)

admin — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 16:12:46 +0000

Here it is, folks! Below, we have the full roast of Iowa City ready to stream for your pleasure, hosted by Little Village Magazine and Prairie Lights Book Store. The video is courtesy of Ed Butler with editing by Yale Cohn. There are 13 videos total–one for each author or songwriter–so sit back, relax and enjoy some classic Iowa City roasting!

Yale Cohn’s Opening Remarks

Paul Seeman

Jennifer Hemmingsen

Ed Butler

Mitch Emerson

Denise Behrens

Atom Burke, read by Chris Bernat

Dave Martin

Jordan Jones

Caroline Dieterle

Tembi Bergin-Batten

Lorin Ditzler, read by Jana Stedman

Closing Remarks

Another Priceless Show by Joe

admin — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 22:01:41 +0000

From left to right: Holly O'Dell, Vicki, Joe, Dustin Busch, and keeping the beat in back behind Joe is Sonny Lott.

Image and Commentary Courtesy of Gregory Fischer

Just in from a California Tour, Joe and Vicki Price brought the boogie back to town. On Saturday night it was not just Joe’s foot that was stompin’ as the dance floor filled quickly and a glance around the room showed the rest were dancing in their chairs. Sonny Lott sang a fantastic duet with Joe and the great fiddle player Holly O’Dell, back from Nashville to attend a class reunion, joined the Price’s for much of the second set. Dustin Busch also sweetened the mix trading slide licks with Joe on lap steel guitar. All in attendance were thankful Joe and Vicki stopped in before they head back on the road for tour dates in Minnesota, Missouri, and Illinois.

CONGRATULATIONS TO JOE AND VICKI PRICE, WINNERS OF THE PEOPLE’S CHOICE INDEPENDENT MUSIC AWARD FOR BEST BLUES CD 2010

June/July 2010

admin — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 19:27:14 +0000

Flip through LV 93, from June/July 2010

Roast This Town!

admin — Fri, 28 May 2010 05:40:31 +0000

Greetings Iowa City! The deadline has almost arrived and we’ve received some terrific submissions thus far. We thought we’d share the following roast by Tom Dean to help keep those creative juices flowing. Yes, the deadline is right around the corner, but should you need a little extra time to hone your literary masterpiece, we’ll still consider late submissions. Are we not benevolent?

Iowa City Headlines from the Future
by Tom Dean

It’s July, so we’re roasting here in Iowa City. But this month Little Village has given us all a chance to do some of the roasting instead of being roasted. Of course, I’m talking about the “Roast This Town” Writing Contest. I hope you got your submission in by the deadline. And I hope to see a lot of you at “Live from Prairie Lights” at 3:00 p.m. on July 18.

Show us your chops

Is life in the City of Literature more grit than glamour?

Cry us a river!
(er, stream. Please limit roasts to 1,000 words or less)

Is poking fun the only way you know how to show your affection?
Roast IC in Iambic Pentameter!

love this town?
Yeah, we do too, and isn’t it a funny, funny place?

Nah. It’s you.
You’re funny. Write it down, send it in!

The rules

Formats: Prose, sonnet, video, audio, Flash or HTML file for those who want to dabble in electronic literature.

Prose Roasts: 1,000 words or less
Sonnet: English/Shakespearean only
Electronic: most of the usual formats are accepted – email us your questions (roast@littlevillagemag.com) if you aren’t sure.

Can I do it as a song? Heck yeah! Check out this video of Dave Moore roasting ol’ Coralville!

The roast will take place at 3:00 p.m. on July 18. Deadline for submissions: June 30, 2010

Submit to: Roast@LittleVillageMag.com

The Prize

A panel of LV editors will read the roasts anonymously, pick the wittiest among them, and invite the authors to come read their roasts in a special edition of Live from Prairie Lights.

Have a laugh, raise a glass!

The roast will take place, of course, at Prairie Lights Bookstore, and in the Times Club, where you’ll be able to find a decadent array of fine finger foods, wine and coffee.

This event is free and open to the public as part of The Iowa City Book Festival (July 16-18, 2010). More details are soon to come (exact time during the ICBF, for example!). For updates, keep an eye on this page, follow @LittleVillage or add us on Facebook.

Iowa City mostly prefers to see itself as the proverbial “Athens of the Midwest.” We need to be the “Borscht Belt of the Midwest” now and then and pop a few of those over-inflated ego balloons. We need to tap into our inner Rodney Dangerfields and realize that maybe, sometimes, we gotta admit we get (and maybe deserve) no respect! I’m grateful to Our Mag for providing a venue for some good-hearted but reality-checking ribbing. If we can’t laugh at ourselves . . . wait a minute, do Iowa Citians ever laugh, period? Didn’t I hear that the city was replacing the “No Humor Zone” signs at the city entrances?

I love this town more than any other place I’ve ever lived. And I also often think it’s the most ridiculous. Those two things probably go hand in hand in some way. So here’s my little contribution to the roast. I’ve swiped from Conan O’Brien (who is still MIA from the airwaves) and his “In the Year 2000” bit. I’ve adapted his shtick as my own “Headlines from the Future.”

So let the roasting begin – ya hockey puck!

Vatican Nixes Plan to Relocate to Downtown Iowa City; Says City Won’t Budge on Requiring First-Floor Retail or Office Space

Dale Helling Retires after 18 Years as Interim City Manager

No-Sticking-Your-Tongue-Out-at-People-on-the-Ped-Mall Ordinance Takes Effect

Iowa City Fends Off Another Annexation Attempt by Coralville

Co-op Says New Iowa City Store Imminent in 2030; Last Surviving Original Member Vows to Barricade Self in Van Buren Street Building with 50-Pound Bags of Kamut He’s Saved Since 1970

Iowa’s Largest Mall to Open in New Tiffin Liberty; HyVee to Take Over Empty Coral Ridge Building

Iowa City Claims Another Pulitzer; Winner Confirms He Remembers Passing by Herbert Hoover Highway Exit on I-80 Once on Way to Colorado

Large Group Protests Changing Clinton Street to One Way at City Council Meeting; Claim that Constitutional Right to Go Any Direction They Want Would Be Violated

North Liberty Prepares for First Heritage Festival, But No One Remembers Anything before 1995

First Press-Citizen Online Commenters Ice Cream Social Disbands after Five Minutes Because of Obscene Name-Calling and Racist Diatribes; Organizers Blame “Socialist Obama” and “Nanny-State City Council” for Event’s Failure

Press-Citizen to Go from Twice- to Once-a-Week Publication; Page Count Will Increase from One to Two

Coralville Demolishes Last House in Newly Annexed City of Hills, Ready to Break Ground on Coral Hills Theme Park and Health Care Clinic

Many Iowa City Restaurants Contemplate Closure after National Restaurant Association Outlaws Overused Menu Terms; List Includes “Infused,” “Ganache,” “Confit,” “Medallions,” “Rubbed,” “Chevre”

School Board Promises Third High School in 2040-2045 Strategic Plan; Not Sure of Funding Sources

UNESCO Approves Iowa City’s Application as “City of Cool Coffee Shop Cup Designs”

Summer of the Arts Launches New Annual “Floating Globs of Foam on the Iowa River Festival”

University Files Lawsuit Against Local Bumblebees for Trademark Violation

Iowa City Refuses Rezoning for World’s First Fast-Food-Chain-Megaplex; Coralville Offers TIF to Developer

Republican for U.S. House Wins in Johnson County for First Time in Over a Century; Election Nullified with Proof that Candidate Possessed by Ghost of George McGovern

Iowa City Celebrates Being on the List of “Top Ten Cities That Think They Deserve to Be on the Most Top Ten Lists”

Thomas Dean Thinks He’s Funny; Little Village Editors Respond, “Now, THAT’S Funny.”

May 2010

admin — Mon, 03 May 2010 15:07:36 +0000

Flip through LV 92

Open publication – Free publishing – More music

Reel IC: The Way We Get By

admin — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 14:32:00 +0000

The Way We Get By
Bijou Theatre
Saturday, April 24, 7pm

Why did buying DVDs become all the rage in the 2000s? Director commentaries. Just as interesting as watching the film (or, often more so) was listening to the people who made the movie talk about the work, the thought process and the people on the other side of the camera.

Commentaries succeeded because they took the concept of a filmmaker Q&A and delivered it to your living room.

Saturday we get to experience the real thing again. A bona fide Q&A, with real filmmakers, in the flesh. It’s the kind of event that turn moviegoers into a film community.

The Way We Get By is an acclaimed documentary about the aging volunteers who welcome troops back from overseas deployment. Director Aron Gaudet and producer Gita Pullapilly will show the film at 7pm and answer questions after the screening. And if 7pm is past your bedtime, there’s a 2pm showing too.

The film won a Special Jury Prize at the SXSW Film Festival and showed on PBS in November.

Here are the details from the Bijou website:

VISITING FILMMAKER EVENT: THE WAY WE GET BY

In conjunction with the Iowa City/Johnson County Senior Center, the Bijou Theater is hosting a full day of events surrounding the documentary film THE WAY WE GET BY, about a group of senior citizens who gather daily at a Maine airport to greet American soldiers who are departing to or returning from tours of duty overseas. The documentary tells a personal story, not a political one, that demonstrates how community involvement can significantly improve the life of seniors in America. The filmmakers, Aron Gaudet and Gita Pullapilly, will be in attendance for two screenings of the film, as well as a panel discussion and filmmaker Q + A (see schedule of events below). Visit bijoutheater.org for more details. All events are free to the general public:

Watch the trailer!

SHOWTIMES:
SATURDAY, APRIL 24:
2:00 – Film screening-THE WAY WE GET BY
3:45-5:00: Post-screening panel discussion-“Aging and the Importance of Community Involvement and Active Lifestyles”
7:00: Film screening-THE WAY WE GET BY
8:30-9:00: Post-screening filmmaker Q+A

April 2010

admin — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 15:40:12 +0000

Flip Through LV 91, April 2010

Mission Creek 2010: 4/2/10 (PHOTOS, VIDEOS)

admin — Sat, 03 Apr 2010 20:48:09 +0000

Friday night was another epic evening in Iowa City. Unfortunately there isn’t much here yet from the early short sets from 6-8 pm, Dawn’s at Dusk.

This was actually a highlight of the evening. about 10 different acts, each doing a ten minute set, often with no set up in between, this was a very well-organized event that offered a fabulous variety of talented (mostly solo) acts, culminating with a mind-erasing roar from Alex Body aka Shitty Wizard – there were no merry gnomes out gallivanting, for this was certainly the darkest hour of whatever magical tale Shitty Wizard haunts. Still, as for me, I left totally, completely, very happily … nonplussed.

Here are some images and videos from Mission Creek 2010, Friday night

CONTRIBUTE IMAGES, VIDEOS OR COMMENTARY TO THIS ARCHIVE

Photos by Matt Butler for Little Village

Created with Admarket’s flickrSLiDR.

Meat Puppets Photos by Sarah Neighbors

Videos by Drew Bulman for Little Village

Christopher the Conquered

Meat Puppets

Meat Puppets wanted to do something special for Iowa City, the Mill and Mission Creek so they decided to bust out the guitar they used when they performed with Nirvana in their legendary appearance on Mtv’s Unplugged. According to their tour manager this is an extremely rare treat – so what an honor! Thanks Meat Puppets, it’s great to know you love us back!

VIEW MEAT PUPPETS PHOTOS BY SARAH NEIGHBORS >>>

Roommate

D. Bess

VV Brown

The Gglitch

Little Dragon

Mission Creek: 4/1/10 (PHOTOS, VIDEO)

admin — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 15:13:48 +0000

Photos by Matt Butler for Little Village

Created with Admarket’s flickrSLiDR.

Dredge at Blue Moose, Photos by Cliff Thompson for Little Village

Created with Admarket’s flickrSLiDR.

Nethervoid at Blue Moose, Photos by Cliff Thompson for Little Village

Created with Admarket’s flickrSLiDR.

Videos by Drew Bulman for Little Village
Caroline Smith and the Good Night Sleeps

School of Flyentology

Headlights

Database

Over-Gain Optimal Death

Acid Mothers Temple

David Bazan

Bomb Squad

3/31/10: Mission Creek (PHOTOS, VIDEOS)

admin — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 14:27:24 +0000

Xiu Xiu at Gabe's 3/31/10

Wed 3/31 Photos by Matt Butler

Created with Admarket’s flickrSLiDR.

The drummer and bassist of the Booker T band stop in the Yacht Club for a drink at 2 a.m. and lay down an ILL ASS freestyle set.

impromptu addition to the Mission Creek lineup. from Matthew Butler on Vimeo.
Video by Matt Butler for Little Village

Tune Yards

Video by Clancy Clark

Tune Yards

Video by Clancy Clark

The Daredevil Christopher Wright

Video by Drew Bulman for Little Village

Carusella

Video by Drew Bulman for Little Village

Molly Ringwald

Video by Drew Bulman for Little Village

Beast Wars

Video by Drew Bulman for Little Village

Sarah Mannix and the Wandering Bears

Talk Normal

Capgun Coup