If you generally don’t vote in local primary elections but are pissed off by current County Attorney Janet Lyness’ practice of prosecuting nearly everyone charged with victimless crimes, such as possession and use of marijuana and public intox, you can do something about it. Make it a priority to vote—and to get your friends to […]
April 2014
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80/35 announcement: Conor Oberst, Ziggy Marley, Best Coast to perform
The 80/35 Music Festival released a portion of its 2014 lineup yesterday, unveiling the names of more than 20 participating bands and musicians…
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Little Village Magazine issue 153 – April 16 – May 6, 2014
Flip through the pages of Little Village magazine issue 153. In this edition, Chicken Little reviews Mondo’s Saloon, all hell breaks loose for cabbie Vic and Erica Blair takes a look at the University of Iowa’s reliance on coal…
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IC DOCS incoming: Annual film fest kicks off this Thursday
Co-hosted by FilmScene, the Bijou film board and the UI College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, the Iowa City International Documentary Film Festival (IC DOCS) will run for its 12th season, April 17-19 at FilmScene. The festival seeks to provide a nominally competitive forum for short works of experimental documentary film in order to consider alternative views of what it means to document, and indeed what it means to experience reality itself. IC DOCS is entirely student organized and will feature both locally-produced and international films no longer than 30 minutes in length.
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Savage Love: Girls
I’m a 26-year-old girl, and my boyfriend is bi. I assumed he would be less jealous than the average man. After all, a lot of bi men have faced irrational jealousy from women. But my BF is more jealous than average. He accuses me of having slept with my male friends in the past. He […]
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Talking Movies: Ernest & Celestine is a refreshing animated film for both children and adults
Among other animated films of the moment — including the delightful The Lego Movie — the French-Belgian Ernest & Celestine is a breath of fresh air. It lasts…
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12 oz. Curls: Deschutes’ Hop Henge IPA
While watching the second half of the NCAA men’s basketball championship game earlier this month, I enjoyed a bottle of Hop Henge Experimental IPA, brewed by the Deschutes Brewery of Bend, Ore.
According to the beer’s webpage, Hop Henge is Deschutes’ “annual exercise in IBU escalation … it’s all hop, no apologies.” Available January through April, Hop Henge is brewed with “an outrageous amount of Centennial and Cascade hops.” The beer is also heavily dry hopped, a brewing process where hops are a
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The Architect: How Frankie Knuckles helped lay the foundations of contemporary DJ culture
At first, I thought it was some kind of tasteless April Fool’s joke when I learned that Francis Warren Nicholls, better known as the pioneering house music…
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Preach the Blues: Bo Ramsey and Highway 12 play The Mill this Saturday
Bo Ramsey and his band, Highway 12, will be playing The Mill this Saturday for what will surely be a legendary night of folk-rock and blues, with Kelly Pardekooper…
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Talking Movies: Captain America is back with his best adventure yet
Captain America returns for an engaging, tense and action-packed thriller of a sequel, Captain America: The Winter Soldier. The opening of Marvel’s newest film…
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Saturday at the Englert: Ten tiny performances make for one big event
Ten diverse artists, on a sixteen square foot stage, with only five minutes per act. While these may be ten tiny performances, they add up to one big event…
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Boozehound: Fireball Cinnamon Whiskey Review
Can’t stand the taste of regular old whiskey? Well, you’re in luck, because right now, we are living in a golden age of whiskey infusions. The idea of adding a little bit of flavor to whiskey is far from new—Wild Turkey’s honey infusion (known as American Honey since 2006) has been around since 1976. But, since the introduction of Jim Beam’s Red Stag cherry infusion in 2009, it seems everyone had gotten in on the action.
