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Weekender, May 6: A foraging walk with the Coralville Community Food Pantry, the Corridor Jazz Project’s student concert, FilmScene in the Park

Posted on May 6, 2021 by Celine Robins

THE WEEKENDER Your weekly editor-curated arts compendium Explore Motown, jazz, eco-art, contemporary ballet and more with this weekend’s selection of the finest events from local venues and artists! If you know of an upcoming virtual, outdoor or otherwise safely distanced event that you’d like to see in the Weekender, email lv@littlevillagemag.com to tell us about […]

Cortado: ¡Por favor, pongan cumbia!

Posted on May 6, 2021 by W. Alex Choquemamani

Y cuando llegué al trabajo ví a la Maritza bailando la cumbia sampuesana de Aniceto Molina. «La cumbia sampuesana, la que bailan con ganas», se escuchaba por el parlante de la cocina del restaurante. El sonido del acordeón de Aniceto Molina era electrificante, contagioso, rebosante. Maritza daba pasos pequeños, movía lentamente las caderas, y luego […]

The Coralville Community Food Pantry offers music, poetry and dance in exchange for support fighting food insecurity

Posted on May 5, 2021 by Genevieve Trainor

Over the last several years, the food insecurity rate in Johnson County was dropping. According to interactive maps from the organization Feeding America, it went from 13.9 percent in 2016 down to 8.2 percent in 2018 and maintained that in 2019. But a projection the site ran for the impacts of COVID-19 predicted a rise […]

Inspired by hymns, farmland and Enya cassettes, Des Moines musician Annalibera is a retrofuturist mastermind

Posted on May 5, 2021 by Kembrew McLeod

Nebraska native Anna Gebhardt is the mastermind behind Annalibera — a decade-long recording project that is synonymous with herself, and which also performs as a band. She came across the name via Quaderno Musicale di Annalibera, the title of a piano piece by Italian 12-note serial composer Luigi Dallapiccola, which translates as “The Musical Notebooks […]

Weekender, April 29: Duos, Noam Chomsky, Roxane Gay

Posted on Apr 29, 2021 by Celine Robins

THE WEEKENDER Your weekly editor-curated arts compendium Duos Day is here! Don your favorite old Mission Creek festival T-shirt and get your tix here. Don’t sweat it if you want to catch Roxane Gay on Thursday and Noam Chomsky on Friday instead, though—Duos is available to stream until Sunday at midnight, so you can do […]

Gina Nutt talks terror ahead of her Mission Creek Festival 2021: Duos reading

Posted on Apr 27, 2021 by Sarah Elgatian

Night Rooms is unlike anything I have ever read. So much so that I have repeated that phrase to anyone who will listen, including the author. I asked Gina Nutt, over email, light-headed at the opportunity to talk to someone I had already decided was a pioneer, how this book came to be. “I have […]

Weekender, April 22: A reading of Shakespeare’s sonnets, Grant Wood Fellow Johnathan Payne, a playlist for Earth Day

Posted on Apr 22, 2021 by Celine Robins

THE WEEKENDER Your weekly editor-curated arts compendium Happy Earth Day! Enjoy your weekend outside by exploring with the kids, rallying to support your community or listening to a live sonnet reading. It all honors the earth! If you know of an upcoming virtual, outdoor or otherwise safely distanced event that you’d like to see in […]

Watch: Behind the scenes of Iowa City’s No Touching Sessions, now in its second season

Posted on Apr 22, 2021 by Jason Smith

What began as an idea two friends had in May 2020 for a “pandemic project” has now begun its second season. In the “No Touching Sessions,” Crystal Sherman and Dan Miller use the stage at Gabe’s to create a virtual concert experience, giving local artists a new outlet for their music and viewers an opportunity […]

Riverside dives deep and resurfaces with ‘Sonnets for an Old Century’

Posted on Apr 20, 2021 by Genevieve Trainor

The last time we spoke, Riverside Theatre producing artistic director Adam Knight impressed upon me his desire to re-imagine the face of professional theater in Iowa. For years, Riverside has been producing intimate, small cast shows with many of the same heavy-hitters: stellar productions, to be sure, but familiar. It would be easy to doubt […]

Book Review: ‘Trouble in the Stars’ by Sarah Prineas

Posted on Apr 19, 2021 by Genevieve Trainor

How do we teach empathy? Numerous studies have been done that attribute increases in empathy to reading fiction — any fiction. But (and this may just be my own personal biases speaking here) I’d argue that science fiction has the edge. In it, we’re faced with characters that are so, well, alien from ourselves that […]

Book Review: ‘Farm Boy, City Girl’ by John “Gene” E. Dawson

Posted on Apr 19, 2021 by Mike Kuhlenbeck

John “Gene” E. Dawson’s memoir Farm Boy City Girl: From Gene to Miss Gina, A Memoir (MiRiona Publishing) blends personal narrative with the history of his family and the times in which he lived (1931-2020), chronicling his life as a genderfluid gay man coming of age in the changing cultural landscape of Iowa, St. Louis, […]

Weekender, April 15: Mirrorbox’s ‘Credible,’ Blame Not the Bard, a reading with Maria Kuznetsova

Posted on Apr 15, 2021 by Celine Robins

THE WEEKENDER Your weekly editor-curated arts compendium This weekend’s vibe is decidedly brainy, so I hope you brought your thinking caps. Prairie Lights presents readings from Maria Kuznetsova and Andrea Bajani; Grow Johnson County teaches teen gardeners the ropes; Art in the Afternoon presents Jason Snell, a multidisciplinary programmatic and AI creator; Dasia Taylor, Iowa […]

Arts & Entertainment

Weekender, May 6: A foraging walk with the Coralville Community Food Pantry, the Corridor Jazz Project’s student concert, FilmScene in the Park

Cortado: ¡Por favor, pongan cumbia!

The Coralville Community Food Pantry offers music, poetry and dance in exchange for support fighting food insecurity

Inspired by hymns, farmland and Enya cassettes, Des Moines musician Annalibera is a retrofuturist mastermind

Weekender, April 29: Duos, Noam Chomsky, Roxane Gay

Gina Nutt talks terror ahead of her Mission Creek Festival 2021: Duos reading

Weekender, April 22: A reading of Shakespeare’s sonnets, Grant Wood Fellow Johnathan Payne, a playlist for Earth Day

Watch: Behind the scenes of Iowa City’s No Touching Sessions, now in its second season

Riverside dives deep and resurfaces with ‘Sonnets for an Old Century’

Book Review: ‘Trouble in the Stars’ by Sarah Prineas

Book Review: ‘Farm Boy, City Girl’ by John “Gene” E. Dawson

Weekender, April 15: Mirrorbox’s ‘Credible,’ Blame Not the Bard, a reading with Maria Kuznetsova

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