The Iowa City Jazz Festival brings a horn player with a deep jazz vitae to the Englert stage this Friday. Cornet player Ron Miles will play alongside Whirlpool…
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Hemp advocates hold fest for industrial crop in Iowa
The inaugural Iowa Hemp Fest sparks up tomorrow in Des Moines to promote agricultural freedom in Iowa. The free event is part of the Iowa Hemp Association’s (IHA) lobbying….
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Brian Fest III: Downtown music fest to benefit young musicians
A concert and fundraiser in honor of Brian Cretzmeyer, local musician and founder of the IC band Gglitch who died suddenly in 2010 from cancer, will be held at the Weatherdance Fountain Stage in downtown Iowa City from 1-8 p.m. this Saturday…
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Front Porch Music Festival to serenade Iowa City neighborhood
A neighborhood music festival in Iowa City will feature a jam session and open air performances played from porches this Saturday. The Front Porch Music Festival…
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Mobile library hits the road, seeks community support
With daily stops scheduled all around town, the Antelope Lending Library has begun its third year of slinging books and taking names in Iowa City. Several years ago, Cassandra Elton started the book lending project — a small, traveling library that makes various stops around Iowa City — with help from her friend, Beth Camp. They’re both librarians who studied together at the School of Library and Information Science at the University of Iowa…
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‘Invisible Faces’ art show opens tonight at PS1
A show featuring the work of eastern Iowa Latino artists opens tonight at Public Space One. The exhibit, Invisible Faces: Identity Portraits, is the culmination of over six months of bilingual workshops and classes with young people in Iowa City and West Liberty. The classes included photography and silkscreen printing, as well as critiques and […]
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Photos: IMU ground floor reopens after seven years
The Iowa Memorial Union ground floor reopened today after several years of reconstruction and renovation following the 2008 floods. At a ribbon-cutting ceremony held earlier today, President Sally Mason and other speakers acknowledged the participation of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and the Iowa branch of Homeland Security. FEMA awarded almost $500 million for […]
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Senior Center screening highlights food, family and culture
The University of Iowa is rounding out its “Food for Thought” Spring 2015 semester with a special screening of four short, first-person interviews at the Iowa City…
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Human Rights film festival kicks off this week
The Iowa United Nations Association (Iowa UNA) is hosting their inaugural film festival, Human Rights in the Heartland, this weekend at various locations in downtown Iowa City. The festival will show nine films in total, starting Thursday at Tippie College of Business with a screening of Black Rider (1993) at 7 p.m. Rebecca McPhail, an […]
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Long live community radio: Uptown Bill’s granted low-power FM radio license by FCC
Thanks to a campaign spearheaded by Iowa City Community Radio (ICCR), the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has granted a low-power FM radio…
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New bbq restaurant pops up on Iowa City’s north side
Pop’s Old ‘N New Bar-B-Que opened this Wednesday in Iowa City’s north side at the former location of The Pit Smokehouse (130 N Dubuque St.). The new eatery, which began renovations in February, is a creation by the owners of Wildwood Smokehouse and Saloon. Mike Ritchie, one of the owners’ fathers, has been overseeing much […]
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Iowa City residents take to the streets for ‘Raise the Wage’ march
In cities across the country, workers will be marching in the streets today to protest the minimum wage that they say isn’t enough for survival. The Center for…
