Q&A with Andy Swartzentruber, landscape designer for Best of the CRANDIC winner Iowa City Landscaping What is your absolute favorite native tree and why? Bur Oak (Quercus macrocarpa). This is […]
Jordan Sellergren
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Canoe the Cedar River
There are 18,000 miles of river trails in Iowa, but the Cedar River is easy to access, wide enough to maintain a safe physical distance from anyone else there and […]
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A snacking guide to Witching Hour 2019
Since 2015, Witching Hour has worked to expand the consciousness of festival-goers by stretching imaginations and perceptions of what a festival can and ought to be: a two-day smorgasboard of obscure discussions and performances that take place just as the weather starts to turn horrible. I’m here to stretch how you imagine filling your gullets.
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LV Recommends: Pho Lucky
Recently, three Little Village staffers lunched at Pho Lucky to get a feel for Iowa City’s newest pho restaurant. Imagine, on a cold winter day, sitting like a warm cat in a big sunny booth right by the south windows of a tidy restaurant while you sip a sweet Vietnamese iced coffee or hot tea and wait for a big bowl of soup.
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LV Recommends: JiangHu Asian Street Food
When you order at JiangHu, approach the counter, grab an empty bowl and tongs and select from a variety of noodles, meats, seafoods, tofus, fungi, seaweed and vegetables.
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Let’s talk sex with Natalie Benway, sex therapist pursuing licensure
Natalie Benway, a therapist at Seva Healing Center in Coralville, incorporates sex therapy into her practice and is currently pursuing licensure through the American Association of Sex Educators, joining only one other licensed practitioner in the state of Iowa.
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Submarine down: Cedar Rapids sub shop closing after 32 years
Cedar Rapids is losing another sub shop and another historic building, so go while you can. Shawna Lane, owner of Sub City on First Avenue since 2003, will close doors for good on Friday, Dec. 22, “if I make it to Friday,” she said. “I’m not buying any more inventory.”
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Call for submissions: Trump cover contest
The first anniversary of the 2016 election is almost here, and Little Village is accepting cover submissions to commemorate the occasion.
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Relief drive for St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands
Little Village is gathering bug spray and batteries to be donated to the residents of St. Croix following the devastation of Hurricane Maria. Items can be dropped off at the Little Village office, 623 S Dubuque St, through Oct. 4.
