Lookin’ to get down, but not sure where to go this weekend? It’s OK; happens to the best of us. Don’t let Monday find you with no great stories to share. Little Village has the lowdown on this weekend’s can’t-miss shows. Friday Iowa Arts Festival: Joan Osborne w/ Pieta Brown Downtown Iowa City — Friday, […]
Genevieve Trainor
Genevieve Trainor lives in Iowa City, Iowa. Passions include heavy music, hoppy beer, and hidden rooms.
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No Mo’ FOMO: This weekend’s hottest shows, in summary
Lookin’ to get down, but not sure where to go this weekend? It’s OK; happens to the best of us. Don’t let Monday find you with no great stories to share. Little Village has the lowdown on this weekend’s can’t-miss shows. Friday Zeshan Bagewadi and the Transistors Downtown Iowa City — Friday, May 25 at […]
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No Mo’ FOMO: This weekend’s hottest shows, in summary
Lookin’ to get down, but not sure where to go this weekend? It’s OK; happens to the best of us. Don’t let Monday find you with no great stories to share. Little Village has the lowdown on this weekend’s can’t-miss shows. Friday Charlie Parr w/ Tommy Santee Klaws The Mill — Friday, May 18 at […]
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‘One October,’ from Iowan-turned-New Yorker Kacy Ross, comes to FilmScene
It’s 25 minutes in before anyone in the film One October uses the word gentrification. But every shot, every beat of the film is infused with the specter of that term. Rachel Shuman’s 2017 documentary, showing tonight at FilmScene, is a narrow snapshot of a changing city, on its surface.
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Five questions with: Hannah Weeks, Nimbus Dance Works dancer from Iowa City
Hannah Weeks, born and raised in Iowa City, is returning to her hometown for the Iowa Dance Festival Saturday. She’s been with the Nimbus Dance Works company for three seasons and serves as a dancer and the assistant director of programming. Weeks attended the the University of Iowa, Nolte Academy of Dance and City Ballet of Iowa as well as the University of North Carolina School of the Arts and Alonzo King Lines Ballet Training Program.
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‘Les Misérables,’ Kristin Chenoweth and ‘Letters from Iraq’: Hancher announces 2018-19 season
Hancher Auditorium has announced its 2018-19 season, and it’s jam-packed with the most prestigious music, theater and dance touring the region. Tickets go on sale to the general public Aug. 1, but donors who gave over $100 to Hancher in the last year should watch their mail for the season brochure with early ordering instructions. A full season schedule can be found on the Hancher website.
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‘Minding the Gap’ between friendship and fulfillment
Minding the Gap is touted as a coming-of-age film, an exploration of manhood in 21st century America. It is definitely those things. But it’s also something more. Or, rather, it takes something more and adds it to what we as viewers should expect from that genre of film.
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Nellie McKay and her dog Bessie are coming to Cedar Rapids
When delightful East Coast songstress Nellie McKay makes a tour stop in Cedar Rapids this weekend, she won’t be alone. “She will be coming to Iowa, her first time in Iowa,” McKay said in a phone call of her travel partner, her beloved rescue dog Bessie. “She’s looking forward to lots of skips and rolls.”
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Cinco da Blues supports KCCK’s blues library
One listen to Gloria Hardiman’s voluminous voice is really all the impetus you need to head out to the Mill on Saturday, May 5 for the first Cinco da Blues fundraiser for radio station KCCK (tickets $20). But the Chicago blues great isn’t just performing for Cinco da Blues — she was also a driving force behind its creation.
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Five questions with: Phil Hester
This Saturday, May 5, millions of comic books will fall into the hands of eager fans at the 16th annual Free Comic Book Day. Joining the fun in-store at Daydream Comics for Free Comic Book Day is artist, writer, University of Iowa alum and Iowa native Phil Hester. He’s been supporting Daydreams for years, since he was a student at UI.
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‘Don’t hold anything back’ — The world finally catches up to Lavender Country
Lavender Country w/ Good Morning Midnight, David Dondero The Garden Club — Monday, April 30 at 7 p.m., $10 NOTE: The event information here corrects the print calendar in Little Village issue 242 Forty-five years ago, activist and self-proclaimed “country hick queer” Patrick Haggerty drew on his own life-long passion for country music and assembled […]
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New tour and augmented reality app explore Ana Mendieta’s Iowa City
Artist Ana Mendieta came to Dubuque in 1961 at age 12 as a refugee from Cuba. She discovered her love of art there, navigating junior high school with limited other means of expression (her English was not yet good). But it was in Iowa City where her signature brand of bloody, violent and boldly feminist artwork was honed. She earned both a BA and an MA in painting as well as an MFA in intermedia at the University of Iowa, studying under Hans Breder, intermedia program founder who passed away last year.
