[vc_row full_width=”” parallax=”” parallax_image=””][vc_column width=”1/1″][vc_column_text] Expertly curated by area food and culture mavens, festivals combine a selection of dining, drinking and cultural options to offer fun for the whole family. [vc_separator color=”orange” align=”align_center” border_width=”4″][/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row full_width=”” parallax=”” parallax_image=””][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_column_text] Top Chef: Downtown February 27, Iowa City, hotelVetro downtowniowacity.com In this friendly competition, local restaurants prepare signature […]
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LV Recommends: 7 must-visit breweries and taprooms across the state of Iowa
[vc_row full_width=”” parallax=”” parallax_image=””][vc_column width=”1/1″][vc_column_text] With this selection of home-grown breweries, you’ll be sure to sample the wide variety of brews Iowa has to offer and hopefully find a new favorite or two along the way. [vc_separator color=”orange” align=”align_center” border_width=”4″][/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row full_width=”” parallax=”” parallax_image=””][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_column_text] Alluvial Brewing Company 3715 W. 190th St., Ames Located on an […]
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2016 Grocer guide for the Iowa City area
[vc_row full_width=”” parallax=”” parallax_image=””][vc_column width=”1/1″][vc_column_text] No matter how you grocery shop—once a week or on the daily, at the supermarket or at the hole-in-the wall grocer—be sure to visit these purveyors to find out what’s fresh. [vc_separator color=”orange” align=”align_center” border_width=”4″][/vc_column_text][vc_column_text] The bigger, better supermarket Popping up all over these days are grocers who seemingly handle […]
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2016 Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) guide for the Iowa City area
[vc_row full_width=”” parallax=”” parallax_image=””][vc_column width=”1/1″][vc_column_text] Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) allows community members to purchase shares, or memberships, from area farms. Early-season contributions help farmers properly gauge the community’s needs and, in return, community members receive CSA shares of farm-fresh product, without paying the overhead required by retail sales. Remember that many farmers require commitments early […]
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Experience: The Iowa City area’s quintessential ‘neighborhood pubs’ and dive bars
[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/1″][vc_column_text] Belly up to the bar at these comfortable-but-basic neighborhood pubs and follow the lead of the locals and regulars. [vc_separator color=”orange” align=”align_center” border_width=”4″][/vc_column_text][vc_column_text] The New Shack Tavern 2545 Old River Rd. S.W., Cedar Rapids You might bump into your uncle at The New Shack Tavern. You know, the uncle who taught you how […]
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Spotlight: How quinceañera celebrations mark transitions for individuals and communities across Iowa
By Cristina Ortiz [vc_separator color=”orange” align=”align_center” border_width=”4″] On a sunny summer day in 2006, I found myself in the vestibule of a Catholic Church in Marshalltown, Iowa helping to tie the underlayer of a giant pink hoopskirt which encased a very excited 15-year-old girl. The enormously poofy skirt was the stuff of small children’s princess […]
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Notes from the inside: An interview with Oakdale Warden Jim McKinney
Notes from the Inside features writing by inmates serving time in Iowa prisons. Little Village editors have made only minor adjustments for style. This is an excerpt of a longer interview. By Tom S. & Jon S. On Wednesday, Dec. 23, Oakdale Warden Jim McKinney was good enough to take some time out of his […]
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Little Village magazine issue 194: Mar. 2-15, 2016
Flip through the pages of Little Village magazine issue 194. In this edition, you’ll find a look at how Tiffin’s teens responded to the city’s call for an age-based minimum wage, an interview with the frontwomen of Freakwater, a peek at Buzz Salon’s trip to New York for Fashion Week: Men’s and much more!
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Little Village magazine issue 193: Feb. 17 – Mar. 1, 2016
Flip through the pages of Little Village magazine issue 193. In this edition, you’ll find a look at Iowa City’s premiere Oscar party, columnist Tom Dean’s analysis on how building facades affect the routes we take, a tribute to David Bowie’s love affair with experimental theater and much more!
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Amazing! With three simple photos, Sikh Iowan protester completely destroys Donald Trump
“He wasn’t wearing one of those hats was he? … And he never will, and he never will …” These are the remarks Donald Trump made a little over a week ago after Iowan Sikh protester (and former Little Village editor) Arish Singh was thrown out of his rally in Muscatine, Iowa. Today those words have […]
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Little Village magazine issue 192: Feb. 3-16, 2016
Flip through the pages of Little Village issue 192. In this edition, you’ll find an interview with writer and UI professor Deborah Elizabeth Whaley on her new book, Black Women in Sequence: Re-inking Comics, Graphic Novels, and Anime. Also in issue 192: The return of cabbie Vic Pasternak, an interview with musician Bobby McFerrin, the latest relationship advice from Dear Kiki and much more!
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Little Village magazine issue 191: Jan. 20 – Feb. 2, 2016
Flip through the pages of Little Village magazine issue 191. In this edition, you’ll find a look at Afrofuturism’s arrival in Iowa City, an interview with Iowa Writers’ Workshop alum Garth Greenwell about his new novel What Belongs to You, an overview of Iowa City development in 2016 and much more!
