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I’m tearing my house apart looking for a piece of paper. The hunt delays the grief. That paper led me to take all of Ira “John” Rapson’s classes and to gratefully leap when he called me back into his ensembles years after graduation, playing first in jazz vespers, then in Hot Tamale Louie and now […]
IT’S LITTLE VILLAGE’S 20TH ANNIVERSARY. Sign up for home magazine delivery: SUBSCRIBE >> Help us write the next big story: SUPPORT >> THE WEEKENDER Your weekly editor-curated arts compendium If you can’t find music you love to indulge in this weekend, it might be time to broaden your horizons! With everything from Nikki Lunden’s Natural Habits to the […]
The City of Cedar Rapids and Advocates for Social Justice (ASJ) are seeking a local artist to paint a mural highlighting themes of social and racial justice, and celebrating the city’s diverse community. The mural will be painted on the Five Seasons Parking Ramp at 400 1st Ave NE. Artists interested in applying are asked […]
Anthony Jensen didn’t know who Amara Andrews was when her name first came up during an Improv Incubator brainstorming session, as the group was trying to figure out potential guest performers for an upcoming show at CSPS in Cedar Rapids. Jensen, who co-founded the improv group in 2018, told Little Village he googled her name […]
IT’S LITTLE VILLAGE’S 20TH ANNIVERSARY. Sign up for home magazine delivery: SUBSCRIBE >> Help us write the next big story: SUPPORT >> THE WEEKENDER Your weekly editor-curated arts compendium The Johnson County Fair and the Iowa City Downtown Block Party are both this weekend, plus a reading from the Midwest Writing Center, Riverside Theatre’s take on “The Winter’s […]
Adam Knight’s smile was as bright as the sunny evening sky while we chatted for a few moments ahead of the opening night (July 15) performance of Riverside Theatre’s production of Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale on the Festival Stage in Iowa City’s Lower City Park. Knight, Riverside’s producing director and director of The Winter’s Tale, […]
Matt L. Drabek doesn’t just provide tragic history lessons of American hegemony in his new book Left Foreign Policy: An Organizer’s Guide (Base and Superstructure Press). With references as diverse as Noam Chomsky and Star Trek: The Next Generation, he provides the context of ongoing developments that make this book timely. Of equal importance, he […]
Donika Kelly’s The Renunciations (Graywolf Press) sees its greatest impact when panned out to see the full picture. Zooming out adds nuance. On the whole, Kelly is, as the title suggests, rejecting the contents inside. They are framed within units of time that repeat: NOW, THEN, AFTER. The renunciations, then, are Kelly’s reckoning. This elegiac […]
Pop Fluff by Hex Girls In typically warped Hex Girls humor, the back of the 10” vinyl version of Hex Girls’ new EP Pop Fluff shows a taxonomic chart with the caption “Hex Girls feed off of the energy of heterotrophs.” The food chain presented includes “Evil” and “Truth,” “Death,” “Boredom,” “Sex” which leads to […]
Real Manic Time by SLW cc Watt Being Iowa City’s — scratch that, Iowa’s — most prolific songwriter for years, you would think it would be hard to keep surprising people. While most of us gorged on trashy Netflix documentaries or started and stopped fad hobbies to fill in for the lack of human contact, […]
IT’S LITTLE VILLAGE’S 20TH ANNIVERSARY. Join us at the Little Village HQ open house party July 20: RSVP >> Become a sustaining member or make a contribution: SUPPORT >> THE WEEKENDER Your weekly editor-curated arts compendium Gray skies got you down? Restore yourself this weekend with a wide array of events perfect for getting you into a […]
For two decades, comedian and author Nathan Timmel has been making people laugh with his stand-up routines. Since moving to Iowa in 2007, he’s been a regular at Penguin’s in Cedar Rapids, as well as frequenting the open mics at the Yacht Club and Studio 13 in Iowa City. His first novel, We Are 100, […]
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