In this issue of Little Village magazine, you’ll find interviews with performance artist Laurie Anderson and author Angela Pelster, a fresh set of local album reviews and much more…
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Guest opinion: Why I interrupted Sally Mason
By Chelsea Bacon In my backpack were several posters and two rings of duct tape: one black, one yellow. School Pride, you know? Outrage boiled over in the past few days, coming to a head over University of Iowa President Sally Mason’s ineffectual, inaccurate statements about rape. When asked by the Daily Iowan about the […]
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Little Village Magazine issue 149 – Feb. 19 – March 4, 2014
Flip through the pages of Little Village magazine issue 149. Inside you’ll find an interview with former Nickelodeon host Marc Summers, the latest edition of Savage Love and much more…
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Landlord Stories: Animal house
My father has been a landlord in Iowa City for as long as I can remember. Over the years, I’ve met and heard about some of his very interesting tenants. He is a relaxed and easygoing man. He learned early on that when it comes to…
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Landlord Stories: A so-called ‘noisy neighbor’ copes with her downstairs landlord
I have been in town a little over two months, having moved to Iowa to take a new job. My closest friends are a three-hour drive away, and the weather…
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I used to be a landlord
The past few years, I went from being a married homeowner to a divorced apartment-dweller—the tired old story all too familiar to you fans of George Jones. During this time, I’ve had two landlords and they couldn’t be more different, but they agree on one…
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Landlord Stories: Privacy on trial
On Dec. 31, 2013, Iowa City landlord Gene Miller was convicted of six counts of invasion of privacy–nudity for peeping on six female tenants in two of the rental properties he owns in Iowa City. He was caught in the act…
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The Age of Discrimination: Finding a clean, well-kept rental was the least of this couple’s worries
This past April, my partner and I decided to live together. Both of us work at the University of Iowa and our jobs are in proximity to the downtown area…
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One family refuses to give up on its appliances, even if their landlord already has
It saddens us to know that one day, possibly soon, our garbage disposal will leave its earthly bonds, becoming another in a long legacy of appliances whose…
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Little Village Magazine issue 148 – Feb. 5-18, 2014
Flip through the pages of Little Village magazine issue 148. Featured in this issue are tales from renters and landlords alike, a look at the controversial city planning survey and much more…
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Raw Story: Iowa man who alerted police to meth lab fights to have his home removed from DEA register
A man in Iowa is fighting to have his home removed from the Drug Enforcement Agency’s list of former methamphetamine production labs. Six years ago, avid…
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Little Village magazine issue 147: Jan. 22 – Feb. 4
Flip through the pages of Little Village magazine issue 147. Let guest editor (and freelance illustrator) Benjamin Mackey be your guide for this very special issue. It’s an all-art extravaganza!
