These eastern Iowa attractions are the subjects of eerie speculation, from a cursed statue to a ghostly mascot to Iowa’s most haunted asylum.
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Witching Hour — Track by track, part four: Creativity and culture
Excited for Witching Hour this weekend but not sure where to start? The curators of the Witching Hour festival have arranged a series of tracks to guide your steps and highlight the hope at the heart of the festival: that encountering the unknown within particular, relevant issues will inspire individuals to become more innovative in their questioning and creating.
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Witching Hour — Track by track, part three: Forging a path forward
Excited for Witching Hour this weekend but not sure where to start? The curators of the Witching Hour festival have arranged a series of tracks to guide your steps and highlight the hope at the heart of the festival: that encountering the unknown within particular, relevant issues will inspire individuals to become more innovative in their questioning and creating.
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Witching Hour — Track by track, part two: Think globally, act locally
Excited for Witching Hour this weekend but not sure where to start? The curators of the Witching Hour festival have arranged a series of tracks to guide your steps and highlight the hope at the heart of the festival: that encountering the unknown within particular, relevant issues will inspire individuals to become more innovative in their questioning and creating.
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Exclusive track: Elizabeth Moen and her band cover ‘I Put a Spell on You’
Elizabeth Moen and her bandmates — Justin LeDuc, Blake Shaw and Dan Padley — were out at Flat Black Studios earlier this month, recording tracks for their second LP, which they expect to release next spring. In between takes, they decided to have a little Halloween fun with the classic 1956 track “I Put a Spell on You.”
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Little Village magazine issue 230: Oct. 18-31, 2017
Flip through the pages of Little Village magazine issue 230. In this edition, Prairie Pop talks with DJ Spooky about his love of live sampling, past collaborations and upcoming music premiere at the Witching Hour festival. Also inside: The fight for science funding in 2017, a look at the Cedar Rapids-based eatery Gumption, local album […]
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Witching Hour — Track by track, part one: American Politics and Race and Gender in America
Excited for Witching Hour this weekend but not sure where to start? The curators of the Witching Hour festival have arranged a series of tracks to guide your steps and highlight the hope at the heart of the festival: that encountering the unknown within particular, relevant issues will inspire individuals to become more innovative in their questioning and creating.
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Iowa City gets roasted!
This Sunday, Little Village brings back one of its most beloved yearly traditions: the Roast of Iowa City. Now celebrating its eighth year, the Roast returns to the Mill stage for an evening of laughs and poking fun. The Roast is a terrific way to close out the final day of the Iowa City Book Festival. For the fantastic price of absolutely free, you can gather with selected roasters from the community as they take their most humorous stab at puncturing the inflated ego of our fair city.
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Livestream: The Green Room presents Peter Aguero on Monday, Oct. 9
At 7 p.m. on Oct. 9, The Green Room experiment culminates with a celebrity storyteller whose work is familiar to listeners of storytelling radio program the Moth: Peter Aguero. He is a Moth GrandSLAM champion, regular host of Moth shows and an instructor for the MothSHOP community program.
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Little Village magazine issue 229: Oct. 4-17, 2017
Flip through the pages of Little Village magazine issue 229. In this edition, Flat Black Studios’ Luke Tweedy looks back on the life and legacy of Record Collector owner Kirk Walther, an Iowa City institution who passed away on Sept. 35. Also inside: An interview with comedian Aparna Nancherla, columnist Thomas Dean reclaims the mundane, […]
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Livestream: The Green Room presents Khizr Khan on Monday, Oct. 2
The topic of democracy has become more pronounced as the nature of the institution — at least in its American context — seems imperiled. Khizr Khan, born in Pakistan but resident in America since 1980, embodies much of what democracy in its best sense means…
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Livestream: The Green Room presents Lisa Lucas on Monday, Sept. 25
At the Englert, on Sept. 25 at 7 p.m., Lisa Lucas will anchor a night that focuses on literature and its unique role in shaping homes that wonder about the mysterious and tolerate differences. As an added bonus, Kiese Laymon will provide a reading before her lecture. Mallory Hellman, director of the Iowa Youth Writing Project, will kick the evening off.
