Comedian-storyteller Mike Birbiglia is bringing his award-winning brand of storytelling to the Englert Theatre on Tuesday as part of his…
Eric Kuehl
Eric Kuehl is currently a Junior at the University of Iowa, majoring in Journalism and pursuing a Writing Certificate. He is interning at Little Village for the Spring semester, primarily writing about music.
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7th annual EntreFEST kicks off Wednesday in downtown IC
EntreFEST—Iowa’s annual celebration of entrepreneurship—will take place in Iowa City for the first time this year.
As the state’s biggest entrepreneur conference, the event is part summit, part festival and part resource hub. It aims to bring Iowa innovators together to celebrate and foster entrepreneurship. The University of Northern Iowa is the event’s primary sponsor (the UNI Regional Business Center Entrepreneurship Outreach team was responsible for developing the idea and getting the festival off the ground in 2008), but for the…
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Comedian Chris D’Elia just wants to make you laugh this Friday, is that so wrong?
It’s about that time for Hawkeye students. One more weekend before the dreaded finals week. Do you stay in this weekend, and get a headstart on studying? Or…
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UI School of Music takes a crack at German Operetta with ‘Die Fledermaus’
Interested in cooky German operettas? Of course you are. This weekend at the Englert Theatre, the UI’s School of Music will be performing the famous…
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Saturday at the Englert: Ten tiny performances make for one big event
Ten diverse artists, on a sixteen square foot stage, with only five minutes per act. While these may be ten tiny performances, they add up to one big event…
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Get down with the darkness at Public Space One
Down for a gloomy and doomy metal show this weekend? Baton Rouge-based Thou and hometown heroes Aseethe will be at Public Space One this Saturday at 1 p.m. Thou is not for your casual listener. As the case with most doom metal, their lengthy songs often shift from calm to frantic in just one riff […]
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Mission Creek Spotlight: Dead Rider, Foul Tip, Sweet Chariot
Experimental noise, drum and bass, and progressive sludge metal. These are the styles of the three very different bands that will close out the Mission Creek Festival Sunday at The Mill. Chicago’s Dead Rider is the headliner…
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This Sunday at Gabe’s: Zombies, aliens and rock n’ roll
One band believes the Zombie Apocalypse has already begun. The other claims to be non-human from an alien planet. A little extreme, I know. But then again, hard rock has always been an outlet for the obscure.
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Dr. Terry Wahls to visit the ICPL for reading, discussion
Iowa City’s Dr. Terry Wahls will discuss and read from her new book, The Wahls Protocol: How I Beat Progressive M.S. Using Paleo Principles and Functional Medicine, at the Iowa City Public Library this Saturday at 2 p.m. In 2000, Dr. Wahls was diagnosed with Relapsing Remitting Multiple Sclerosis. By 2003, she had transitioned to […]
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Show Review: For Today preaches Christ through metal at the Blue Moose Tap House
Christian metal takes a lot of flak from those who say religious themes have no place in metal. Bands like For Today, however, stand as a testament that…
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Sunday at PS1: Kareem Khubchandani wants to teach you some Lessons in Drag
Kareem Khubchandani’s Lessons In Drag performance Sunday at Public Space One will be diverse in every sense of the word. The LGBT activist and…
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Straight Outta Lübben: We Butter the Bread with Butter Head to the Blue Moose
Not-so-popular metalcore bands come to Iowa City all the time, but Friday’s show at the Blue Moose Tap House should be truly unique. How so, you…
