Don’t call it a comeback: The overhead projector — a post-chalkboard and pre-SMART Board classroom technology, and staple of “you know you’re old when …” articles — is relevant once again as Iowans craft creative solutions to hospitals’ supply needs during the COVID-19 pandemic. N95 masks, the most effective personal protective equipment (PPE) against the […]
Emma McClatchey
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Iowa City Animal Center encourages donations to their pet food pantry
As the community copes with unemployment, social distancing and mixed messages from federal, state and local leaders, even those less at risk of contracting COVID-19 are seeing their worlds shift — from kids to pets. While some pets may be relishing the extra couch time with their housebound humans, a stretched budget can affect all members of the family.
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From Momofuku to Main Street: Chef Sam Gelman returns to Iowa City
If you’re hoping to have a career in the restaurant industry, you better be open to change, says Sam Gelman. His own career has taken him from unpaid kitchen jobs in Iowa City to overseeing two of the most anticipated North American restaurant openings of the
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As they mark their first anniversary, Iowa City Student Climate Strikers turn down award, join ‘digital strike’
Every week since they began demonstrating outside of the Iowa City Community School District offices on March 15, 2019, the Iowa City Student Climate Strike has reiterated their message of climate action through social media, letters to the editor and, of course, in-person protests. Massimo Biggers, Alex Howe, Ian Martinez, Maddie Peterson and the other […]
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Mission Creek Festival 2020 is canceled, may reschedule
The 15th annual Mission Creek Festival is the latest event to fall to the coronavirus pandemic. Festival organizers sent an email just before 6 p.m. Thursday announcing the cancellation of the festival “in its current form” due to the public health risk. Originally scheduled to take place at various downtown Iowa City venues April 1-4, […]
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Fashion Forward: YouTuber and dubstep aficionado Erin Crawford wears her ‘weirdness’ on her sleeve
Erin Crawford’s hair has been dyed blue for only around four years, but it might as well be her natural hue. “I love my blue hair,” said the University of Iowa student. “A lot of people ask me why I haven’t done a new color or if I’ll do a new color, but I just […]
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Spring will put Iowa City’s new trap-neuter-return program to the test
If all goes according to plan, Iowa City residents will soon start seeing fewer stray cats wandering their neighborhoods, and the cats residents do see will have the tip missing from one of their ears. The Iowa City Council passed a trap-neuter-return (TNR) ordinance in August
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Two houses represent a forgotten period of segregation in Iowa City, University of Iowa history
The houses at 942 Iowa Ave and 914 S Dubuque St in Iowa City may seem nondescript — just another couple of old, off-campus rental properties for college students — save for the rust-brown metal signs out front. These signs, funded by a grant from the National Park Service, detail the background of the Iowa Federation Home and Tate Arms house, which have had quiet but important roles in the history of Iowa City and the University of Iowa.
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‘Cats’ is back out of the bag as FilmScene hosts four special screenings
“You will believe,” promised the first trailer for Tom Hooper’s Cats, the film adaptation of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s stage musical, itself adapted from T.S. Eliot’s collection of poems Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats. There was something ominous, perhaps even mildly threatening about this tagline. What will we believe? That the strangest Broadway hit of all time would make a good movie?
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The cast of ‘Napoleon Dynamite’ is coming to Cedar Rapids
Attention former early ’00s teens: Dig your “Vote for Pedro” tee out of the old-clothes trash bag in the back of your childhood bedroom closet, fill your pocket with tots, grab a Chapstick and head to Paramount Theatre on Sept. 27 to meet your, uh, heroes. Three stars of the 2004 indie comedy Napoleon Dynamite are coming to Cedar Rapids
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Camp Euforia’s 2020 festival will be its last
Organizers of the Camp Euforia music festival, including the founding band Eufórquestra, have announced that the event will discontinue after the 17th annual fest this summer. Camp Euforia began as an appreciation party for fans of Iowa City-based funk-fusion group Eufórquestra. But since that first festival in 2004, the event has expanded
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Leon Bridges, Of Monsters and Men, Old Crow Medicine Show and more set for Hinterland Fest
Iowans will be rockin’ like a wagon wheel at the sixth annual Hinterland Music Festival, Friday, July 31 to Sunday, Aug. 2. On Tuesday, Fest organizers announced 24 artists on their 2020 lineup, including classic country stars, alt-rock bands and everything in between.
