Welcome to the weekend, fair Weekenders! If you own a house, cheers to you. If you don’t, you are most likely moving this weekend. Where to? Probably within a couple of blocks from where you live now.

Why? Why do we do this? I don’t know, tradition, I guess.

I know, this is so last weekend, but high-fives to the Iowa City Book Festival, Camp Euforia and Pitchfork. You could say that these three don’t really compete (I personally wanted to be at all three of them), and I know Pitchfork isn’t in Iowa City, but they were all major draws for eastern Iowans [...]

This weekend we have two of Iowa City’s main events for summer 2010 – Camp Euforia and the Iowa City Book Festival. Here are some info and links to help you get primed for both…

Cirque Stupendo takes over the Ped Mall this Saturday! See the show guaranteed to amaze onlookers young and old with mind boggling juggling and shocking feats of balance and strength! But that’s not all, folks. There’s plenty of excellent live music entertainment to be had this weekend, so come on in and see what you might be missing.

Whatever kind of music you are into, there is a festival for you this weekend. In Des Moines, it’s time for 80/35. Daytrotter is bringing a spectacular “Barn on the 4th of July” show to Maquoketa, and for the 20th year, the Iowa City Jazz Fest is here.

Like many adults, I often close my eyes very hard, squeeze’em shut for a long time, cover my ears and scream until I am convinced on a core level that I am entitled to a trip to the swimming pool.

The nice thing is, here in campus town it hardly takes any time at all. With so many people operating on the academic calendar, the school’s-out-for-summer attitude is gloriously contagious, and yes I will take seconds.

Greetings Iowa City and Thank You for this sun. Anybody get flooded? Yup. Sucks? Yeah. 
THURSDAY
Health Screenings | Emma Goldman Clinic | 3-7 pm | FREE
A great reason to support this weekend’s Pride festivities is to celebrate this aspect of GLBT culture: Few communities do more to keep the conversation alive. You know [...]

The Weekender usually offers a list of tips for things to do in Iowa City. It’s easy, there’s a constant stream of amazing music and activities, and you all want to hear about them, or you wouldn’t read this. But the greatest thing to do in summer is the simplest one: Just being outside.

Being in public. Catching a breeze and seeing who or what’s been hiding indoors all winter. This weekend there are plenty of shows and activities that you can hit up, but the simpler pleasures of hanging out in Iowa City’s public spaces are going to be harder to come by this year than they have been in the past, and well, I wanna talk about it.

THURSDAY
“DreamHome” Dreamwell Theatre Fundraiser | North Ridge Pavilion in Coralville | 6:30 p.m. | $20
The nonprofit Dreamwell Theatre company in Iowa City has produced a multitude of artistic performances over its 13 year history, but what the company still lacks is a permanent space to operate. The “DreamHome” project intends to change this. Join the [...]

Get your nuclear disarmament on at Public Space One. The event will include a number of entertaining and informative segments, including music performed by Bad Heart Bull. Check out the full itinerary:

- Presentation on TOTB’s Disarmament Summer Campaign