Looking for something new? These eight new restaurants deserve a spot on your short-list. Maggie’s Farm Pizza 1308 Melrose Ave, Iowa City A long-time NewBo and Iowa City Farmer’s Market favorite, Maggie’s Farm Pizza opened their independent brick and mortar restaurant on the west side of Iowa City in August 2017. In collaboration with local […]
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2020 Guide: A-Z Restaurants in the Iowa City area and Cedar Rapids
Use this index as a guide to find your next favorite meal. This exhaustive list of restaurants, bars, cafés and bistros covers a range of budgets and a multitude of palates—there truly is something for everyone here. Price range is indicated on a scale of $ to $$$$ and accounts for each establishment’s average price […]
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Little Village magazine issue 238: Mar. 7-20, 2018
Flip through the pages of Little Village magazine issue 238. In this edition, following a historic state basketball championship between Iowa City’s West High and City High, we invite students from the two schools to write about the opposing team’s head coach. Also inside: Columnist Brandon Soderberg takes a look at what Trump’s supposed favorite […]
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Iowa City’s high school girls basketball dynasty
The Iowa City West High School girls basketball team’s victory over City High’s previously undefeated team in the finals of the Class 5A state championship on March 2 wasn’t just a great game, it was a history-making one. For profiles of City High Coach Bill McTaggart and West Coach BJ Mayer, Little Village turned to the experts — high school journalists.
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Watch: Sudanese-American women in Iowa City explain Sudan fashion
“I feel like it’s important to represent myself, my culture or my identity.” Sudanese immigrants Mai Salih, Mazahir Salih, Hayat Osman and Entisar Jafar share and discuss Sudanese fashion, defined by comfort, color and modesty — from Mai’s sparkling $500 taub specially ordered for a wedding, to Mazahir’s simpler but cherished set of Sudanese garments. […]
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Little Village magazine issue 237: Feb. 21 – Mar. 6, 2018
Flip through the pages of Little Village magazine issue 237. In this edition, LV takes a look at the history of the Hawkeye Marching Band’s first female drum majors during WWII. Also inside: Blues artist Kevin “B.F.” Burt opens up about his craft, Iowa City looks back on beloved sound engineer Dennis Jones, the story […]
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Exclusive track: Elizabeth Moen’s cover of ‘True Love Will Find You In the End’
Just in time for Valentine’s Day, Iowa City songbird Elizabeth Moen releases a dreamy cover of avant-pop singer-songwriter Daniel Johnston’s 1985 call to action love song “True Love Will Find You in the End.”
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Iowa City pummeled by storm of kids using the WiFi
Iowa City residents barely avoided pandemonium as a forecasted blizzard dumped nearly 1.25 inches of snow over the area Thursday afternoon and into the evening. Residents were not surprised yesterday to receive phone calls, voice mails, text messages and emails from Superintendent Stephen F. Murley at 4:16 p.m., 4:17 p.m., 4:18 p.m. and 4:19 p.m. declaring in advance the closure of all area schools as a measure to keep residents safe from a snowfall that very nearly re-coated sidewalks cleared just days before.
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Little Village magazine issue 236: Feb. 7-20, 2018
Flip through the pages of Little Village magazine issue 236. In this edition, LV takes a look at what local advocates are doing to turn the #MeToo into lasting change. Also inside: Eastern Iowa animal lovers share their adopted pet love stories, LV talks with sex educator and therapist Natalie Benway, the Instant Pot takes […]
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Fashion Forward: Tim Shang, former University of Iowa student and Instagram stories master
I’m originally from China. My hometown is a small-sized city, but a small-sized city in China still has 1 million people. I came to Iowa for college, my major was finance, and I just graduated from University of Iowa. Soon, I will go to an internship in New York. After my internship, I will go to graduate school and after graduate school I will probably work in financial services, like growth management.
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Little Village magazine issue 235: Jan. 17 – Feb. 6, 2018
Flip through the pages of Little Village magazine issue 235. In this edition, LV talks to Iowa City resident John Hopkins about his life on the road as a sound engineer for beloved sludge and stoner metal bands, magician Nate Staniforth opens up about the importance of wonder and the trouble with “magic tricks,” Cedar […]
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Iowa City’s John Hopkins graduated from Gabe’s to become one of metal’s most renowned sound engineers
For the past decade, legendary Iowa City citizen John Hopkins has been living on the road as a highly sought-after front-of-house tour sound engineer for some of the heaviest and most beloved sludge and stoner metal bands in the galaxy: the Melvins, Corrosion of Conformity, High on Fire, Orange Goblin, Weedeater, Neurosis, Boris, Uncle Acid & the Deadbeats, Alabama Thunderpussy, Municipal Waste, Buzzov•en and others.
