FilmScene has been playing three-dimensional movies since they opened, but all of it has been children’s fare, including Frozen, Polar Express and Hugo, as part of The Picture Show — a low-priced children’s and family series sponsored by MidWestOne Bank. Now, FilmScene has become one of the only theaters in the country to screen Goodbye […]
Adam Burke
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City Council may hold public hearing on whether to designate cottages as historic landmarks
The Iowa City City Council decided Tuesday to schedule a special session that could determine the fate of three historic cottages currently facing demolition…
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#InTheseBoxes at CSPS creates a community of memories
Performing on International World AIDS Day, Dudley Saunders orchestrated an intermedia experience Monday evening at CSPS that brought many to tears. It would take a lifetime, or several, to encapsulate his show, “In These Boxes,” because the work brings together the lives of so many. Most of “In These Boxes” directly addresses the scourge of […]
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South Dubuque cottages served with eviction notice, awaiting new inspection report
A group of 19th-century cottages on the 600 block of South Dubuque Street underwent a new round of inspections Monday morning…
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Growing big ideas: Ecopolis unveils restorative model for IC development
Taking shape this winter in Iowa City after an initial meeting last May, the Ecopolis is becoming a reality here. About 50 people met at Beadology on Tuesday to…
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SEIU proposes new contract at UIHC
The Service Employees International Union (SEIU) presented a proposal for a new contract to the University of Iowa Health Care (UIHC) that will be negotiated with the Iowa Board of Regents. After bargaining, the two-year contract will be voted on by over 3,000 SEIU members at UIHC, the largest union group in Iowa City. Jim […]
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Hilary Clinton Rallies voters for Braley
After finishing a close third in the Iowa presidential caucuses less than eight years ago, it’s understandable that former first lady, lapsed New York senator, ex-secretary of state, and new grandmother Hillary Rodham Clinton might be cool on campaigning in Iowa. She arrived in Cedar Rapids Wednesday to stump for senate candidate Bruce Braley, and […]
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Protesters call out Ernst on minimum wage, women’s rights
U.S. Sen. candidate Joni Ernst brought her pal, Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul, to Iowa City Wednesday for a campaign event that was marred by multiple protesters who interrupted their speeches on the steps outside Gilmore Hall on the University of Iowa campus. Right before the candidates arrived, the event was pushed outside. Shouting “Raise the […]
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First Lady stumps for Braley in IC, jokes about ‘Bailey’ gaffe
Possibly the biggest question ahead of a voter turnout rally for Bruce Braley was how or if First Lady Michelle Obama would address her recent and repeated flub of Braley’s name during an early October event at Drake University when she referred to Braley as “Bailey” seven times. Mrs. Obama, reading from a teleprompter, joked […]
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Photo project highlights what women carry in self defense
Guarded, a photo series by Taylor Yocom, was recently published in a Loyola University student magazine, and now the University of Iowa photography…
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Sen. Bernie Sanders Campaigns in Waterloo and Dubuque
On the same weekend that a coy Hillary Clinton was eating fried steak in Indianola, across the state, in an under-the-radar red-meat stump speech that was literally a call for a “political revolution,” Senator Bernie Sanders made clear his intentions to crowds in Dubuque and Waterloo that he would run for the nation’s highest office.
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Fellow musicians collaborate on tribute album for deceased IC artist
Areli “Jamal” Morgan River, also known as John Fields, Jamma Joe, Chapped Reggie and other personae, was an Iowa City writer, performer, painter, video producer…
