The Iowa City Farmers Market announced Monday that it will soon accept EBT cards, a food assistance program. It also plans to start accepting debit cards and credit cards from all patrons by the opening of the market season on May 3. Previously, it was up to individual vendors to choose whether or not to […]
Lucy Morris
Lucy Morris is the News & Culture Editor of Little Village. You can reach her at lucy@littlevillagemag.com.
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Happening now: Guster is playing a surprise set at Clinton & College Streets
Indie rock band Guster is playing a surprise set this afternoon in front of the Bernie Sanders table at Clinton and College streets today, Feb. 1 at 3:30 p.m. The band is currently on tour, traveling between shows in Chicago and Kansas City, and decided to make an impromptu stop in Iowa City, according to […]
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Your last minute guide to Iowa caucusing
The day is finally here: the Iowa caucuses take place tonight, Feb. 1. If you need a refresher on how to partake in the political tradition, here’s your cheat sheet for getting out there tonight. Note: One of many unique things about the Iowa caucuses is that the rules vary by county. This guide is […]
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Goat on the run
On Friday afternoon, the University of Iowa Office of Strategic Communication released a statement asking residents to be on the lookout for a rogue animal: Just before 9 a.m. Friday, a goat escaped a portable carrier at the University of Iowa Research Park while being transferred to a vehicle for transportation to a housing facility. […]
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Givanni’s owners say they may reopen in current space
Changes may be coming to Givanni’s. Rumors earlier this week suggested that the Italian-American Ped Mall mainstay may be closing or replaced by another restaurant altogether. Though details are still in flux, Jason Alt, business manager at Etre Restaurant Group (which owns Givanni’s), confirms that a shakeup may be in the restaurant’s future. In an […]
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Hamburg Inn says no plans for ‘drastic change’ under new owners
Hamburg Inn No. 2 owner Dave Panther said today that the sale of the historic restaurant has been pushed to next week. A manager at the restaurant on Wednesday said the sale was planned for that day, but Panther later clarified, “We were going to sign the papers today, but there’s a few things that […]
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Hamburg Inn No. 2 is sold
The owners of Hamburg Inn No. 2 sold the historic Linn St. restaurant today. This is the first time in its 60-plus year run that the business has left the hands of the Panther family. The reach of the diner, founded in 1948 and beloved for its brunches and pie shakes, as well as its […]
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Laverne Cox lecture canceled
A talk by actress and activist Laverne Cox, slated for next Monday, Feb. 1 at 5 p.m, at the Iowa Memorial Union, has been canceled due to a “recent scheduling conflict,” according to a press release from the University of Iowa Office of Outreach and Engagement. The lecture was to be part of the Just […]
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John’s Grocery is back: Grand reopening on Thursday, Jan. 21!
For more than two weeks, fans of John’s Grocery (401 E. Market St.), known as much for its vast beer selection and late night snacks as for its deli sandwiches and selection of convenient drugstore supplies, suffered while the store underwent renovations. But the Iowa City institution is now fully back in action, and will […]
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Iowa City author Garth Greenwell hopes to break the ice for queer writers working in Bulgaria
Garth Greenwell’s debut novel, What Belongs to You, begins when an American high school teacher meets a young prostitute named Mitko in the bathroom basement of Bulgaria’s National Palace of Culture. The book that unspools their relationship is already poised to be one of the best of the year. It takes us through Sofia, Kentucky and a complex web of memory that makes us consider the ways all of our relationships are shaped by need and longing, both emotional and material. That longing is woven into our narrator’s very fiber and the complex country that surrounds him and the charismatic, complicated Mitko.
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Dumpling Darling to open brick and mortar location in Iowa City
Dumpling Darling, the popular purveyor of Korean-style dumplings sold at retail locations and farmers markets in the area, will shack up with Pop’s Old ‘N’ New Bar-B-Que (130 N Dubuque St.) to open its first brick and mortar location the first week of February. “I met the guys at Pop’s while vending at [the] same […]
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Oxford restaurant Augusta will re-open in Iowa City in February
Augusta, the popular New Orleans-style restaurant in Oxford will be shutting its doors and relocating to Iowa City next month. The restaurant’s co-owner, Jeri Halperin, confirmed that the operation will take over the space recently vacated by bicycle-themed restaurant Ride (630 Iowa Ave.) in time for their Mardi Gras celebration on Feb. 9. An opening […]
