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I’m leaving Iowa City. For the vast lot of you who don’t know me, this means little. But after the most important six years of my life–and as an active community member in whatever journalistic and cultural outlets I could tap into–it’s kind of a big deal. Cue the nostalgic montage music.
The images of oil-covered birds, fish and marine mammals haunt us. The tar balls wash up onto formerly pristine beaches, the dispersants seep in long tendrils under the surface. Wetlands and estuaries are threatened, and the government and BP only just now seem to have some sort of grasp on managing the spill.
FOR EVERYONE ~ Temporary future shock. As August opens, we will all realize that the future has started happening, all around us, right before our eyes. Big changes will be coming willy-nilly, like it or not, ready or not, one after another. But we will also see that these changes do need to be thought […]
Friday was Iowa Hawkeye Football Media Day, and Little Village was there to do some hard-nosed reporting. We put Stephanie Catlett, author of Little Village’s “Townie Hawk” column, on the scene to ask the tough questions.
Issue 94 of Little Village Magazine has arrived. Read it all online!
Here it is, folks! We have the full roast of Iowa City ready to stream for your pleasure, hosted by Little Village Magazine and Prairie Lights Book Store. Video editing is by Yale Cohn, with video courtesy of Ed Butler. There are 13 videos total–one for each author or songwriter–so sit back, relax and enjoy some classic Iowa City roasting!
Yesterday marked Little Village Magazine’s first roast of Iowa City, complete with food and wine courtesy of Motley Cow Cafe and Okoboji Wines. Held at Prairie Lights and hosted by Little Village contributor Yale Cohn, Iowa City residents marched up one-by-one and emphatically put our beloved city in its place. For every bit of vitriolic humor, there was a generous helping of adoration of course, but boy was it fun to let loose on the City of Literature.
FOR EVERYONE ~ Transition with a capital “T.” In July, a lot of complicated things happen all at once. We bid a final goodbye to the world as we once knew it and welcome a new state of affairs. We begin dealing in earnest with the nitty gritty details of this transition. People go head […]
Instead of printing a dump of the raw police blotter, someone with a sense of humor at the PC is in charge articles about local arrests. You have to give credit where credit’s due.
“Barefoot” Adrianne B. does it again with her lush Iowa City Pride Parade photos
The 2010 Iowa Pride Parade & Festival couldn’t have asked for better weather, and I think the turn-out was pretty good, comfortably filling the Ped Mall from Washington Street to the fountain. Check out audio, video and photos from the day’s festivities inside.
The poet Marvin Bell has a favorite story he tells about a man dressed as a clown who robbed a downtown Iowa City Bank and then “fled on foot and melted into the crowd.” This, for Bell, was emblematic of the relaxed bohemian atmosphere of Iowa City. But that hippie dippie weird Iowa City has been in retreat for 40 years, and I wonder what sort of city will be taking its place.
The Iowa City City Council has passed some new ordinances (the 21-only ordinance and the anti-panhandling ordinance) that seem to be a direct attempt to control and channel the culture of downtown Iowa City. I can see how these two ordinances are meant to improve the safety and quality of life, but I have several problems with them.
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