Time to celebrate Gay Pride in the third gayest city in the U S of A!
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Little Village: June/July 2010 Issue
Flip through LV 93, from June/July 2010
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2010 Iowa Arts Festival Video Recap
With well over one hundred artists, culinary row and musical performances by Sonny Landreth, The Pines and Darrell Scott, last weekend’s Iowa Arts Fest drew thousands to downtown Iowa City.
Check out the following video to see what you may have missed at the 2010 Iowa Arts Festival–and to remind yourself why it’s great to be in Iowa City.
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100 Percent
Henri Harper filled a difficult position at Iowa City’s City High School for the last 11 years as the juvenile court liaison, helping students transition back into the classroom after personal and legal problems instead of letting them become part of a drop-out statistic. But in December 2007, after a series of fights at City High, Harper realized that his official post at the school wasn’t enough. Along with students, their parents and community support, Harper started the Fas Trac College Bound Program–originally consisting of six black students but eventually growing to more than 40 students from all backgrounds.
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Summertime
I first realized adults live lives quite different from children when I was 10 or so and asked one of my father’s employees what his plans were for the summer.
“Work,” he said, somewhat confused by my question.
“You don’t get the summer off?”
“No,” he said, “nobody does.”
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UR Here: Challenging Change
In the raging underage/binge drinking debate in Iowa City, a couple of familiar refrains keep singing: “You can’t change the drinking culture,” and “Downtown Iowa City’s economy will collapse,” the latter with various subpoints (the downtown economy is heavily bar-dependent, so there will be mass vacant storefronts, many jobs will be lost, tax revenue will plummet, etc., etc.). These talking points are repeated ad infinitum by many, but especially the student population. Underlying both of these arguments is a fundamental belief that things cannot change from their current state. The universe always tells us that nothing is further from the truth.
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Down the river
Commentary: June/July 2010 ~ Two years ago in June, the water began creeping. The rain didn’t stop and the water creeped and creeped. Everyone we knew still went to work, shrugging beneath black umbrellas, minds and eyes on the sky. Kids went to school, dogs got walked, and the river slowly wrapped a watery arm […]
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Iowa to Me
“Stand up and introduce yourself,” said Mrs. B. “Umm…Hi, my name is Bonkuya. Nice to meet you all,” I said. These were the first words to have ever exited my mouth when I first got to City High. I was new to Iowa, and even though I had lived here for about a week before […]
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The N.E.W. Way
Features: June/July 2010~ It’s a seemingly simple solution. Need more women in leadership roles? Then hire more of them, right? Wrong. According to Kelly Thornburg, coordinator of Iowa N.E.W. Leadership, an intense six-day workshop for young women, much more diversity and many more women are needed to help find innovative solutions for modern problems. Thornburg […]
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Big Bonds
Features: June/July 2010~ On a chilly, rainy afternoon in May, two young Iowa City women searched downtown and the pedestrian mall for a place to get a cheap manicure. It’s a normal thing for two young women to do–especially in a college town–but for Kelsey Godwin, 22, and Wakemia,12, it’s a chance to get to […]
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Stars Over Iowa City: June 2010
Astrology: June 2010~ FOR EVERYONE ~ The road to somewhere new. June’s vibes will tear up all roads leading to the past and break our links with life as we knew it. They will leave us with a whole lot of questions about the future, too. But June’s vibes will also empower the innovators, the […]
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Roast This Town!
Greetings Iowa City! The deadline has almost arrived and we’ve received some terrific submissions thus far. We thought we’d share the following roast by Tom Dean to help keep those creative juices flowing. Yes, the deadline is right around the corner, but should you need a little extra time to hone your literary masterpiece, we’ll still consider late submissions. Are we not benevolent?
