Photos by Steve Erickson | On display until June 8, 2012 | UI Hospitals and Clinics (Near the Rooftop Cafe on the 8th Floor) | FREE Benefit ft. Alejandro Escovedo w/ Illinois John Fever| May 19, 2012 | The Mill | $50/$60. | 19+ after 10 p.m. Diagnosed with breast cancer in Oct. 2010, Iowa City […]
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Haulin’ Ass: Keeping Secrets
Lost in Transition

When you read this, presumably sometime in May, who knows what the weather will be like? You might be covering your plants for tonight’s frost, or you might be heading out for ice cream because you’re sweltering in 100-degree heat. That’s the kind of spring it’s been. Granted, spring in Iowa is often full of […]
Your Town Now: Students Lobby for Sweatshop-Free Options

The name Alta Gracia means “high grace.” In the Dominican Republic, the Virgin of Altagracia is the protector of her people. Her name is invoked tenderly and with reverence by those seeking blessing on their land and on the many hands that help cultivate it, particularly in the poverty-stricken community named for her. Villa […]
American Reason on KRUI: 5/6/2012
Astrology Forecast for May 2012
FOR EVERYONE—Pathfinding. May opens the floodgates of possibility for many. For others, what May will not do is present an obvious, unobstructed path from point A to point B. However, the planets are helping. They will support improvisation, as long as you think big and plan carefully. Resilience and possibility lie beneath the chaos. Maybe […]
American Reason on KRUI: 4/29/2012
American Reason on KRUI: 4/22/2012
Busy Coworking to host first “Jelly” on April 19
ICAD Jelly | April 19 | Busy Coworking (218 E Washington St) | 10:00 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. | FREE Attention freelancers! Iowa City now has a permanent coworking facility! Busy Coworking opened its doors last week, and will partner with the Iowa City Area Development (ICAD) Group to host its first (free) coworking “Jelly” […]
American Reason on KRUI: 4/15/2012
Haulin’ Ass: Rough Night

Rough night: There’s a raunchy fête at one of the meet markets and ladies too young wander the streets boudoir-style looking like they’ve just emerged from Victoria’s Secret, wolf packs of skinny bitches high on cocaine. Meanwhile, one Ultimate Fighting championship or another is being broadcast at BWW. From corner to corner, ginned-up boys slug […]
Food for Thought – HF 589, the “Ag-Gag” Bill

In early March, the Iowa legislature passed HF 589, the law that has come to be known as the “Ag-Gag” bill. After months of public outcry over the original bill’s First Amendment implications—including a Slow Food Iowa petition that generated 41,000 signatures—the softened bill garnered bipartisan support in both the Iowa House and Senate, and […]