Want to see these stories sooner? Subscribe to LV Daily and get news, events and amusing facts sent straight to your inbox, Monday through Friday. No AI or spam, ever! Monday, Nov. 2 Say what you want about the Trump administration’s failed economic policies — they’re keeping the tarp industry busy. The president’s team used […]
Emma McClatchey
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The Daily Weekly (Oct. 26-30): New Trump/Epstein revelations, Czech history, RFK Jr.’s racism
Want to see these stories sooner? Subscribe to LV Daily and get news, events and amusing facts sent straight to your inbox, Monday through Friday. No AI or spam, ever! Monday, Oct. 26 As the Josh Turek campaign unveils another ad highlighting the Democrat’s support for trans sports bans and federal restrictions on gender-affirming care […]
Posted inFood & Drink
Eat like a John Waters character
Not every food scene Waters filmed is as unspeakable as Divine’s final bite in Pink Flamingos. From Mr. Pinky’s eclairs in Hairspray to the pizza aroma Polyester audiences inhaled via Odorama scratch-and-sniff cards (in between the scents of glue and gasoline), Dreamland joints occasionally make the stomach rumble amid all the churning. Here are some […]
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Photos: Epstein survivors speak in Cedar Rapids as bookmobile of released files tours Midwest
The rolling “Donald J. Trump and Jeffrey Epstein Memorial Reading Room” stopped in Des Moines, Iowa City and Cedar Rapids last week. On Sunday, Raygun hosted the bookmobile at its CR retail store, as well as a reading by survivors of Epstein’s abuse. It marked the first time Epstein survivors have made an appearance with […]
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Des Moines Public Library eliminates Sunday hours amid citywide budget cuts due to new state law
The Des Moines Public Library will eliminate Sunday service hours at two of its largest branches, Central and Franklin Avenue, after Oct. 25, the Board of Trustees decided Wednesday. The change is a direct response to a $750,000 budget cut — part of a broader effort by city officials to cut costs after a new […]
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Iowa Writers’ Workshop alum and instructor Garth Greenwell critiques workshop model as ‘fraudulent’
“Who ever thought it was a good idea?” Iowa Writers’ Workshop professor and alumnus Garth Greenwell asks in a Substack post published on Wednesday morning. Titled “Why I Don’t Believe in Workshop Anymore,” the essay lays out why Greenwell has decided not to teach “traditional, critique-based” writing workshops going forward. “That’s a slightly scary pronouncement, […]
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Four programs helping immigrants, refugees and underserved Iowans grow a farm business
Iowa has farmland in abundance, but astonishingly little of that land is used to grow food for humans — especially not food for Iowans. It’s too bad, because the state is full of folks with the skills and desire to nourish their community, and support their family in the process. Many of these would-be farmers […]
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International produce you might find at the farmers market
Incubator farms are a sandbox — if that sandbox was full of fertile soil and eager pollinators. Refugee and immigrant farmers grow many fruits, veggies and flowers beloved by Iowans, including tomatoes, lettuce, cabbage, microgreens, watermelon, peaches, sunflowers, onions, radishes, beets, zucchini, squash, carrots, potatoes, sweet potatoes, sweet peppers and hot peppers. Other crops favored […]
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Former Little Village publishers and editors reflect on 25 ‘wild, beautiful and sometimes scandalous’ years in print
Comments from Little Village publishers and editors, former and current, were compiled by editor-in-chief Emma McClatchey and edited for length and clarity. 2001 Icon publishes its last issue on Jan. 25. Five months later, former staffer Todd Kimm begins publishing Little Village along with Icon alumni Beth Oxler, Andria Green and Steve Horowitz. Todd Kimm: […]
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Rep. Jeff Shipley is on a crusade. If you’re not with him, you might be a ‘fagtard’
Content warning: Homophobic and ableist slurs. On March 3, state representative Jeff Shipley posted a photo from the Iowa House floor holding up a box of ivermectin. Specifically, the Republican from Fairfield was holding a box of apple-flavored IverCare paste. The label showed a horse silhouette and a feeding syringe. “OTC ivermectin now being debated […]
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Iowa is home to a colorful variety of THC beverage and candy brands. They could all disappear come November.
Last year, after the longest government shutdown in U.S. history, Congress finally passed a stopgap funding bill — and ignited a ticking timebomb for the billion-dollar THC beverage industry. A provision slipped into the bill at the last minute changes federal law to effectively ban hemp-derived cannabis (delta-9) products starting Nov. 12, 2026. Even the […]
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Where the grass is greener: 10 dispensaries just over the border in Illinois
Since Illinois legalized recreational marijuana in 2020, dozens upon dozens of state-licensed dispensaries have opened or expanded beyond medicinal offerings in the Land of Lincoln. As a result, Iowans willing to hop over the Mississippi for the boutique weed-buying experience have more options than ever. THC products cannot be legally transported across state lines. This […]
