Photo by Natalia Araujo, 2014 Intermedia Showcase Enjoy the unexpected, indefinable, unconventional and unknowable at the Intermedia Showcase Shabang!!! this Friday at 6 p.m. at Public Space One (120 N. Dubuque St.). The event will feature performance, installation, audio and video works by University of Iowa School of Art and Art History Intermedia students. Community […]
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Adam Burke is Little Village's photo editor.
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Interview: ‘Give Us the Ballot’ author Ari Berman reads Saturday at Prairie Lights
Photo by Yoichi Okamoto (from the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum) Voting, that most basic of democratic rights, is often taken for granted by Americans. And few are more aware of this dilemma than than Ari Berman, whose new book, Give Us the Ballot: The Modern Struggle for Voting Rights in America, examines the […]
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NextGen urges students to quiz candidates about climate change
Zack Davis, the State Director of NextGen Climate, toured college campuses in Sioux City, Ames, Cedar Falls and Iowa City last week to push his group’s message into the forefront of the Iowa caucuses. Davis spoke with fellow students about transitioning to a 50 percent clean energy energy production goal by 2030, encouraging them to […]
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Obama and Writers’ Workshop prof Marilynne Robinson talk books, democracy and Christianity
The New York Review of Books today released its first installment of a two-part conversation between President Obama and his favorite author, Marilynne Robinson, professor at the Iowa Writers Workshop. In the talk, Robinson tells the president, “I think that the basis of democracy is the willingness to assume well about other people.” Obama said […]
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Chauncey tower question splits council candidate forum
Less than fifteen minutes into last night’s city council candidate forum on environmental issues, moderator Tom Carsner split the field with a question about the direction of the tax-increment-financed (TIF) development known as the Chauncey Tower. Sitting councilors Rick Dobyns and Jim Throgmorton went back and forth on the project after Carsner asked the field, […]
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Verizon reps withdraw application to build Iowa City-based cell tower after community backlash
On Thursday, Sept. 24, city officials received word that Selective Service Consultants, a Kansas-based company working on behalf of Verizon Wireless to secure a cell tower site, has withdrawn its application to construct a controversial cell tower at Iowa City’s Oak Grove Park. SSC’s decision to withdraw was based on the city’s recommendation to deny […]
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Hooten Hallers to set Gabe’s ablaze on Thursday
Hooten Hallers Gabe’s — Thursday, Sept. 24 at 10 p.m. Raucous roots rockers the Hooten Hallers, hailing from Columbia, Missouri, will bring their rockabilly rough and dirty blues tunes to Gabe’s this Thursday.. Their music is primarily co-written by co-founders Andy Rehm (drums/vocals) and John Randall (guitar/vocals), but they’ve begun including more songs by their […]
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Solon council votes to keep wages at $7.25
Solon City Council unanimously passed an ordinance to opt out of the first-in-the-midwest minimum wage increase last night. Instead of allowing the lowest paid in their town a moderate raise, the council decided to keep their city’s wage floor at the state minimum, opposing the Johnson County ordinance passed last week that will raise the […]
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Trump supporters shame Jack Trice (and all of humanity) at Jack Trice Stadium
History doesn’t always repeat itself, but sometimes there are frightening echoes. Saturday at Jack Trice Stadium in Ames, Iowa, racist supporters of Donald Trump made clear that the memory of the martyred football player Jack Trice has all but been forgotten. Trice, who’s father had been a Buffalo Soldier and slave, was the first black […]
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Q&A: School board candidates tackle sustainability issues and STEM education
This week, Field to Family, Backyard Abundance and Ecopolis co-hosted a school board candidate forum on sustainability issues and STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) education in the Iowa City public school system. They’ve shared their questionnaire and all the candidate responses exclusively with Little Village. You can watch their forum, held Sept. 1 in the […]
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More than a dozen candidates vy for open spots on the ICCSD School Board
Ed. Note: We have received a couple of comments about this article, specifically the inclusion of personal comments about candidate Brianna Wills made by former ICCSD School Board Vice President Tuyet Baruah. We appreciate the feedback, but stand by the article as written. Baruah’s status as a public figure who served six years on the […]
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Second wage hike vote set for Thursday
The Johnson County Board of Supervisors unanimously passed its first reading of the minimum wage ordinance that would be the first of its kind in Iowa. The countywide wage hike would gradually raise the minimum hourly wage to $10.10 per hour by January 1, 2017. After two more votes scheduled for Sept. 3 and 10, […]
