Co-hosted by the American Chemical Society, various UI departments, the City of Iowa City and statewide organizations, the first-ever…
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Lights, camera, LUNAFEST
LUNAFEST, now in its third year, is a nationwide traveling film festival that will visit 150 cities in 2014. This year’s festival features nine award-winning short films by, for and about women. The lineup includes comedy, drama, documentary and animated films.
Reduce, reuse and celebrate at the first annual ‘Craft Your Environment’ fair
With Earth Day right around the corner, the Salvage Barn, Operated by Friends of Historic Preservation, is hosting the first annual reuse-themed craft fair…
Your Town Now: Stop pot prosecution now
If you generally don’t vote in local primary elections but are pissed off by current County Attorney Janet Lyness’ practice of prosecuting nearly everyone charged with victimless crimes, such as […]
Savage Love: Girls
I’m a 26-year-old girl, and my boyfriend is bi. I assumed he would be less jealous than the average man. After all, a lot of bi men have faced irrational […]
Savage Love: Thrills and spills
I’m an old guy, fast approaching geezerdom. After 45 years of marriage to the same woman, the sex has fallen off to zero. We otherwise have a great and comfortable […]
Community organizations working to change the way we talk about sexual assault in Iowa City
Members of the Iowa United Nations Association (UNA), and Monsoon United Asian Women of Iowa (MUAWI) teamed up to host the “Your Voice. Our Future.
Iowa City schoolteacher launches door-side glass recycling service
Those little blue recycling bins that dot the curbs of Iowa City’s residential neighborhoods are convenient, freely provided (to single-family homes) and…
The Northside’s New Do: HABA Salon Opens
Not everyone has a penchant for style. Specifically, I address those college students whose need for comfort is so great that they graze through the day in sweatpants, hair in a bun or tucked under a frayed cap and wearing old boots caked in a winter’s worth of salt and mud.
Astrology forecast for April 2014
ARIES (March 21-April 19): In his novel The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Milan Kundera says that the brain has “a special area which we might call poetic memory and which […]
Girls director Jesse Peretz: ‘We are going to definitely go to Iowa City and we will be shooting some there’
It looks like the cast and crew of HBO’s Girls might be coming to Iowa City after all. Although the University of Iowa declined HBO’s request to film on…
Fossilmania runs wild in Iowa City this weekend
In the midst the hubbub of the seemingly omnipresent Mission Creek events this week, you might miss out on “the largest show in the world that exhibits fossils exclusively.” Fossil […]