This comic was originally published in Little Village’s October 2026 issue.
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Public Nuisance — October 2026
This comic was originally published in Little Village’s October 2026 issue.
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Where to vote early in the last week before Election Day
Early voting in the Nov. 3 election is now in its final week. Early in-person voting will run through Monday, Nov. 2, the day before the election, and all mail-in absentee ballots must be received in the auditor’s office by 8 p.m. on Nov. 3, when the polls close on Election Day. Early in-person voting […]
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Diles Que No Me Maten, playing at xBk on Sunday, specializes in improv music, improv studios and sometimes improv accommodations
Formed in 2017, Diles Que No Me Maten is a Mexico City five-piece collective whose music dissolves genre boundaries. Their songs snake back and forth between post-rock atmospheres, experimental spiritual jazz stylings, indie rock drones, and Cuban- and Krautrock-inspired rhythms. “The whole way we move as a band has always been improvised,” bassist Andrés Lupone […]
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Letter to the editor: The process of solving ICCSD’s budget crisis is off to a bad start
I am writing to express my extreme disappointment with the first session of the Board Ad Hoc Attendance Boundary Analysis Committee on Thursday, Oct. 15. What took place was not productive or useful.
Posted inElection Coverage
Trump meanders through boasts, racist smears and praise for Vivek Ramaswamy’s attack ad in Iowa, joined by Hinson, Lahn, Bird, Mitchell and McGowan
“Can you believe I’m doing about 34 of these things?” President Donald Trump asked the people gathered in a hangar at the Sioux Gateway Airport for his rally on Thursday night. “Now, I don’t mind, I don’t mind. I don’t mind because I truly like the people here.” The Sioux City rally is part of […]
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Scaring and caring go hand in skeletal hand at this homemade Iowa City haunt
Alex Rain, the artist behind Alex’s House of Horrors, started 28 years ago with a single Frankenstein figure, who can still be spotted along the spooky walk between the front and back of their home. Rain’s creations range from local landmarks (The Black Angel) to figures from Greek myths to the delightfully, horrifyingly gory. Rain […]
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Parents of Derek Wulf, Zach Lahn’s running mate, file petition for $275,000 in unpaid rent amid foreclosure on son’s farm, criminal investigation
Derek Wulf was facing three lawsuits over unpaid debts, as well as a criminal investigation into whether some of the collateral to secure a loan had been illegally disposed of, when Zach Lahn chose him as his running mate in June. The following month, the candidate for lieutenant governor of Iowa was able to settle […]
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Zach Lahn outraises Rob Sand in final campaign stretch, with 76% coming from two out-of-state PACs
Republican candidate for governor Zach Lahn raised more money than Democratic Rob Sand during the three months between mid-July and the middle of October, according to campaign finance reports published by the Iowa Ethics and Campaign Disclosure Board (IECDB) this week. It’s the first time Lahn, or any candidate running for any office in Iowa this […]
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Book Review: ‘Raised’ by Eva Adderley
I tend to have mixed feelings about modern fairytales. Having grown up on the Grimm Brothers variety, I find that many of the ones I read miss the mark; they are too clean, too neat, with packaged morals and little subtlety. Raised by Eva Adderley avoids these pitfalls and is truly wonderful adult modern fantasy.
Raised follows Sadie Masonson shortly after her father, Arthur, has died. He abandoned her in their home village of the Liminal Place when he moved into the forest to live with a colony of bears—bears that eventually killed and ate him. Her difficulty processing their complex relationship is only heightened by the arrival of the wolf woman Ylfa, mourning the death of her own mother, and the sudden integration of Sadie’s girlfriend into her magical world.
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Jousting is no walk in the park, but it’s a lot more thrilling: ‘Everyone wants to see themselves in something like this’
A torrential morning downpour had soaked Deadpools and dashing knights alike, but the seats were packed at the Sleepy Hollow Ren Faire for the main event: the joust, produced by Iowa jousting company JoustEvolution. Two rows of wooden seats and a set of metal bleachers were filled shoulder to shoulder with cheerers and jeerers as horses […]
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After ‘long, drawn-out’ search process, the Iowa Board of Regents has picked a new Center for Intellectual Freedom director
The Iowa Board of Regents has selected Carson Holloway as the new director of the Center for Intellectual Freedom at the University of Iowa, opening a new chapter for the center amid conflict over its development. Board of Regents President Robert Cramer said he appreciated the “time and energy” center interim director Luciano de Castro […]
