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Arts & Entertainment
Little Village Live on KRUI 4/6/2011: Lake Street Dive, D. Bess, That One Guy
Performances by the merry songsters of Lake Street Dive and one-man loop squad D. Bess fit on either side of a That One Guy interview. Result? A sweet and wacky sandwich of an episode that you can listen to over and over.
Little Village Live on KRUI | Mission Creek Edition 3/30/2011
In this eighth release in the Little Village Live podcast series, Ex-Action Model and Nathaniel Rateliff perform at Public Space One during the 2011 Mission Creek Festival.
Iowa City Weekender: May 5-7
The weekend is so action filled, you can’t shake a stick at it. The weekend will only laugh at your feeble attempts.
Photos: Lexicon Collective presents Beyond the Hemline – 4/23
Spring in Iowa City brings a handful of hair and fashion shows, and Beyond the Hemline has set the bar high this season. The Lexicon Collective, with the help of local stores, designers and other businesses, took over the White Lightning Wherehouse for an entire evening of fashion, titillating entertainment, and music.
Upcoming Shows: The Pines Return to Iowa for May Shows
The Pines just wrapped up an April East Coast tour run in support of Jeffery Foucault and are coming back to Iowa for a run of shows in May as well as a radio appearance on Little Village Live on KRUI.
The KRUI appearance will be Wednesday, May 4th broadcasting from Public Space One. Come out to the studio to see the show live from 5-6 PM and there will be snacks provided by New Pioneer Co-op!
The Pines will be gracing the stage at the Mill Restaurant in Iowa City on Friday night as well. Seth Winger is opening and tickets are $10. Doors are at 8PM.
On the Beat: F’n A, It’s May!
On May 1, 1965, at an annual celebration in Prague, Allen Ginsberg was crowned the King of May. The tradition of May Day and its royalty was founded back in […]
Talking Movies: Is Quentin Tarantino Overrated?
The featured director this month in the Englert’s American Filmmakers Series is Quentin Tarantino. True Romance, which he wrote but didn’t direct, is showing Tuesday, May 10, and Pulp Fiction, […]
The Tube: No Rating Points for Trying
When CBS president Les Moonves hired Katie Couric for a $15 million-a-year anchor gig at the Evening News back in 2006, he was riding a mandate from the Corporate Board […]
The Stage: Local Playwrights Debut
First things first: The winner of last month’s contest is Rachael Carlson, who not only came up with a reference to urine in Shakespeare but also came up with one […]
A Legacy at Work
This month, Iowa City artist Tomás Lasansky releases his monograph, Icons and Muses. To flip through its pages is to be brought back to an experience many Iowa Citians will […]
The Tube: No Rating Points for Trying
When CBS president Les Moonves hired Katie Couric for a $15 million-a-year anchor gig at the Evening News back in 2006, he was riding a mandate from the Corporate Board […]