Iowa City has been buzzing with debate over the university turning down a major filming opportunity. Regardless of whether HBO cameras will be appearing…
April 2014
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Mission: Community
April ushers in the vibrant colors of springtime (finally!), but it also sounds the first notes of our community’s festival season. The Mission Creek Festival is here! Highly anticipated for its stellar lineup of musicians and other artists, Mission Creek is always an enjoyable showcase of the cultural vibrancy of our home. Iowa City’s festivals […]
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Book Review: The Empathy Exams by Leslie Jamison
“Empathy,” Leslie Jamison explains in the first essay of her debut collection, “comes from the Greek empatheia — em (into) and pathos (feeling) — a penetration, a kind of travel. It suggests you enter another person’s pain as you’d enter another country, through immigration and customs, border crossing by way of query: What grows where you are? What are the laws? What animals graze there?”
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Five reasons to see Jenny Hval tonight at The Mill
Sometimes fortune smiles upon you and there’s a Mission Creek show that seems perfectly catered to you. For this music nerd, that show is the Jenny Hval and Mark McGuire show tonight at The Mill. I think I’ve told no less than 50 people about my love for Jenny Hval, an experimental, art pop musician […]
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Along The Way: Mark McGuire shares the details of his journey to the here and now
The Mission Creek Festival kicks off tonight with an incredible set of opportunities to get social at FilmScene, get schooled by Laurie Anderson at the Englert…
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Read an excerpt from Pranksters: Making Mischief in the Modern World
Prairie Pop columnist, Kembrew McLeod, will be reading from his new book, Pranksters: Making Mischief in the Modern World, at Prairie Lights this…
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Letter to the Editor: Finding Favor in the Smokiest Places
I have spent a good portion of my college career drinking coffee and chain-smoking in a unique and bizarre coffee and cigar shop. This coffee shop of mine contains every social degenerate you could imagine, all of whom have an intense interpersonal connection with me just from also being deemed a “regular.”
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Mission Creek Spotlight: Dead Rider, Foul Tip, Sweet Chariot
Experimental noise, drum and bass, and progressive sludge metal. These are the styles of the three very different bands that will close out the Mission Creek Festival Sunday at The Mill. Chicago’s Dead Rider is the headliner…
