Established 2001 | Always free! We’re back with another weekend full of events throughout our reader regions. Jonathan Richman, founder of the Modern Lovers and subject of our October Prairie Pop column, hits up the Englert in Iowa City. Meanwhile, Daily Show correspondent Jordan Klepper visits Cedar Rapids Paramount Theatre on his Suffering Fools tour. […]
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Letter to the editor: Vote Newman Abuissa for Iowa City Council
By Jason Weeks, Iowa City These days the news is coming in thick and fast: the abuses of the Trump regime in Washington, which threatens our basic rights and liberties, the copy-cat reactionaries in Des Moines, inflation, rising job losses and the affordability crisis all around, genocide in Gaza. Progressive people know that it is […]
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This weekend in Iowa: Refocus, Funniest Person in Iowa finals and the Roast of Iowa City
Established 2001 | Always free! It’s finally feeling like fall, perfect for the cornucopia of events in today’s Weekender. Refocus Film Fest begins tonight with a showing of Train Dreams at The Englert. Check our handy guide on the festivals offerings. It’s not just movies getting the love, as the Iowa City Book Festival and the Des Moines Banned […]
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Refocus returns on Thursday! Here’s a guide to 18 films on the festival lineup
FilmScene’s Refocus Film Festival returns to Iowa City Oct. 9-12 with a full platter of cinematic goodness. We asked our resident film scribes Ariana Martinez and Benji McElroy to share the shows they’re most excited to see. We also broke down the lineup by mood, with only a little fighting about what fit where. Click […]
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This week in Iowa: Miss Christine in Cedar Rapids, Metal & Tacos in Waterloo and more
Established 2001 | Always free! If the current news cycle has you zapped, consider some of the events featured in today’s Weekender. For laughs, Lucky Cat comedy is holding prelims for its Funniest Person in Iowa competition, with an extensive list of shows throughout our reader regions this weekend. For a fresh music experience in […]
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Little Village issue 345: October 2025
The rapture didn’t arrive in September, as some TikTokers predicted. Nor did arrive in 1979, the year cult leader John Robert Stevens had promised his followers a great tribulation. Society would be reborn in his image, centered out of a compound in southeast Iowa called Shiloh. The prophecy failed, but Shiloh lasted another four decades […]
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This weekend in Iowa: Panda Bear in Des Moines, experimental Indiana hip-hop group 81355 in Davenport and more
Established 2001 | Always free! We’re back with another Weekender of events throughout our reader regions. We know where one music super-fan will be this weekend. Jim Reiners, who attended close to 100 concerts last year, will be at the Englert to see A.J. Croce Thursday. Over in Cedar Falls, the third Lost Woods Festival hosts […]
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This weekend in Iowa: Mt Thrashmore in Cedar Rapids, an electronic pioneer in the Quad Cities and more
Established 2001 | Always free! We’re back with another batch of events in today’s Weekender. The Infinite Dream festival takes place at Hancher Auditorium in Iowa City. Another IC highlight is the “cello-and-kazoo-metal” stylings of Rushadicus with Weapon X at the PS1 Close House. In Des Moines, the Goth Rockers Vision Video hit up Lefty’s […]
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This weekend in Iowa: an evening with Dave Moore, Tropa Magica in Davenport and more
Established 2001 | Always free! Looking for local music and arts events? The Weekender has you covered. Morbid Saint plays Gabe’s with Frontal Assault, Traffic Death and Ill Omen. Roll into Hispanic Heritage Month with Festival Latino in Cedar Rapids or the opening of Aliza Nisenbaum’s “Dia de los Muertos” exhibit at the Des Moines […]
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This weekend in Iowa: Bomb Shelter comedy, Peelander-Z and festivals galore
Established 2001 | Always free! From songwriting and horror lit festivals to comedy showcases, there is a lot to do this first weekend of September. The Stanley Museum of Art kicks off its exhibition of Hayward Oubre with an opening reception Thursday night. The Indian Creek Nature Center in Cedar Rapids is hosting Awfully Folkin’ […]
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Little Village issue 344: The 2025 Fall Arts Preview
Add some local art to your autumn with this guide to upcoming festivals, concerts, exhibitions, theatrical productions and more in central and eastern Iowa. Inside: Why Iowa thespians are putting on increasingly provocative plays; Danielle Colby of American Pickers fame discusses her new museum of stripping arts in the Quad Cities; Lene Lovich plans an […]
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This weekend in Iowa: Goose at Hancher, the Iowa Music Awards hit the road
Established 2001 | Always free! Experts might call our recent weather a “false fall” but it’s real to us, dammit! Whatever it’s called, enjoy the cooler temps during the events in our Weekender. Jam band rockers Goose are at Hancher for a free outdoor concert tonight. Japanese art-rock trio TsuShiMaMiRe hit up two Iowa venues […]
