Whether it’s choosing the farmers market over Walmart or the Haunted Bookshop over Amazon, Iowa City denizens have a fondness for supporting locally-owned small businesses. In one arena, however, the ability to shop locally is hindered by a complex combination of factors including zoning laws, differing approaches to “economic development” and conservative Midwestern morality. Unlike […]
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Stylists from Iowa City’s Buzz Salon head to NYC for Fashion Week: Men’s
Photos courtesy of George Eganhouse A recent trip to a conference in Miami turned out to be fortuitous for hairstylist George Eganhouse and four of his colleagues at Iowa City’s Buzz Salon, all of whom scored passes to work backstage last month at New York Fashion Week: Men’s. During a whirlwind day in NYC, Eganhouse […]
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Winter is coming: Survive in style with LV’s seasonal fashion guide
During a conference two weeks ago, a colleague in my graduate program asked me for advice about winter shoes. “Where did you move from, again?,” I asked. “Santa Barbara,” she said, wincing slightly, “but I got a coat, so I’m feeling less worried … ?” While many undergraduate, graduate, and professional students—and faculty/staff—arrive here from […]
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Interview with an icon: Benji Carlisle’s gender nonconforming style
“I cut my hair off and bought a button down, and discovered the power I have when I walk with my shoulders back,” Kate Hawbaker-Krohn said…
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Fitting In: Shopping for gender nonconforming clothes in Iowa City
When it comes to clothing options for gender nonconforming people living in Iowa City, shopping can be difficult even if one’s aesthetics align…
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Interview: Lucas Mann on his new book about his brother’s deadly heroin addiction
Lucas Mann is the author of ‘Lord Fear’ (Pantheon, 2015), a book-length essay that examines the life of his brother Josh, who died of a heroin overdose…
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Interview: Author Kiese Laymon on his return to Mississippi and the struggles that come with writing honestly
Mission Creek’s Writer in Residence this year is author and…
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Finding the flaws in flawed reviews of ‘Dear White People’
“Having something important to say,” opines The New Yorker’s Richard Brody in his review of Dear White People, “isn’t the same thing as making an important movie, or even a good one.” While Brody found the film to be a too-tame series of “epigrammatic, calculatedly provocative monologues” meant to “simulate” controversy instead of actually causing it, for the most part, critics, audiences and the bulk of the non-racist internet love Dear White People.
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Five Halloween costume ideas that prove sexiness is a state of mind
Halloween is only one week away, but the Iowa City parties have already started. Still deciding on a costume? Ditch the generic and/or offensive …
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Style: 10 fashion trends for fall
As Meryl Streep explains in her amazing, “cerulean sweater” speech in The Devil Wears Prada, even if one “doesn’t care” about fashion or solely shops second-hand, what happens on the runways of New York City, London, Paris and Milan directly affects what is being sold to you. Trends presented during last February’s Fall/Winter 2014/2015 fashion […]
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NYC fashion designer Todd Snyder returns to his Iowa roots with new clothing line and store
At first listen, you might think that Todd Snyder — Iowa’s most successful clothing designer — only speaks in soundbites. “Halston came from Des Moines.”
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Des Moines’ Badowers named one of the best menswear stores in the country by Esquire
Iowa fashion aficionados take note: The September edition of Esquire magazine lists Des Moines’ Badowers as the second best menswear store in the country…
