The Illinois Parables FilmScene — Friday, Apr. 22 at 7 p.m. Chicago-based visual artist Deborah Stratman will be screening her film The Illinois Parables at 7 p.m. at FilmScene Downtown. There will be Q&A following the film. Admission is free to the public, though space is limited. Through video and sculpture, with sound and image, […]
Tim Taranto
Tim Taranto is a writer and artist from New York. He is a graduate of Cornell University and the Iowa Writers' Workshop. He advocates taking ones bloated nothingness out of the path of the divine circuits.
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Iowa City poet Elizabeth Willis finalist for 2016 Pulitzer Prize
It was announced this week that local poet and Iowa Writers’ Workshop instructor Elizabeth Willis was selected as a finalist for the 2016 Pulitzer Prize in poetry for her collection Alive: New and Selected Poems (NYRB 2015). This year marked the centennial of the Pulitzer Prizes in journalism and the arts. Other recent Iowa Writers’ […]
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Catch a shopping buzz across downtown Iowa City with these hemp-inspired products
[vc_row full_width=”” parallax=”” parallax_image=””][vc_column width=”1/1″][vc_column_text] In anticipation of the 4/20 holiday season, Little Village recommends some friendly hemp-based and cannabis-inspired products from some of our local buds. [/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row full_width=”” parallax=”” parallax_image=””][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_column_text] [/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_column_text] Eco Lips Hemp USDA Certified Organic Lip Balm Find it: at New Pioneer Co-op Buy it: $3.69 When the munchies strike, […]
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New deal: Interactive public art installation comes to downtown
When it became clear that a sewer renovation project on Washington Street in downtown Iowa City would obscure the streetscape for nearly eight months, the Iowa City Downtown District turned to local artist Thomas Agran for help. Agran has been responsible for the murals at both the Cedar Rapids and Iowa City New Pioneer Co-op […]
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Hancher and Joffrey Ballet announce collaboration for new ‘Nutcracker’ set in World’s Fair Chicago
In 1987, Robert Joffrey’s Chicago-based ballet company held the world premier of their production of Tchaikovsky’s The Nutcracker at The University of Iowa’s Hancher Auditorium. At a press conference held Tuesday on stage at the nearly completed Hancher Auditorium — nearly eight years after the original facility was destroyed by historic floods — Hancher Executive […]
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Cartilage conundrum: The story behind cauliflower ear
Wrestling fans from all over the country made the pilgrimage to Carver Hawkeye Arena this weekend, where the nation’s wrestling elite, dreaming gold medal dreams, grappled to punch their ticket to the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Summer Olympic Games. So I know the question on everyone’s minds: what was the deal with all of those […]
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LV Recommends: The Humpty
I think I was twelve the first time I ever got “tight.” The culprit was eggnog. It was a holiday party, and my brother, some friends and I snuck out of my dad’s office, where the kids had been detained, and emerged into a dining room full of drunk adults (drunk friend’s parents, drunk teachers, […]
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LV Recommends: Desperate Measures by Big Grove Brewery
If you’ve walked into the beer cooler at John’s or stopped in for a draft at the Sanctuary, you’ve probably noticed that the craft beer world is sweet on sours. The brewers at Big Grove Brewery in Solon are particularly smitten with the sour style and are featuring them as part of their Measures Series. […]
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Botany: Flex your culinary muscle and impress your guests with this tasty recipe for roasted spaghetti squash
What does a zucchini and an acorn squash have in common? Genetically speaking, everything. Pumpkins, summer squash, spaghetti squash, pattypan, delicata, acorn squash and zucchinis are all domesticated variants of the same species of the new world vine cucurbita pepo. So the difference between a pumpkin and most squashes is equivalent to the difference between […]
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Botany: Where to find Dryad’s Saddle and how to cook them
A few days after a particularly Old Testament-like storm, I noticed what looked like the Starship Enterprise sprouting from the trunk of a maple. It was a massive disc-shaped fungus known as the Dryad’s Saddle. These parasitic polypores are some of the first mushrooms to appear in the woods during morel season in the spring, […]
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Interview: Matisyahu on the Torah, reggae and following the voice of God
Matisyahu The Englert Theatre — Saturday, Oct. 31 at 7 p.m. At the age of 36, the rapper Matisyahu has been in the game for over a decade. He has undergone many transformations physically and artistically throughout his career and will be bringing his distinct brand of Judaic- and Reggae-inspired hip hop to the Englert […]
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Musician Lenka Lichtenberg to bring multi-lingual spirituality to Cedar Rapids
Lenka Lichtenberg Czech Slovak Protective Society — Wednesday, Nov. 4 & Thursday Nov. 5 at 7 p.m. Lenka Lichtenberg sings in English, Czech, French and Yiddish (she is a Cantor). Her songs have roots in Eastern European, Arabic, Spanish and Indian traditions among many others. She will be performing with her band at the Czech […]
