Print Edition

As the school year starts and seasons change, Little Village has assembled our most thorough Fall Arts Preview yet. On the cover: Iowa City’s Rachel Yoder (Nightbitch) and Garth Greenwell (Cleanness, Small Rain) sit down for an author-on-author conversation on the verge of major career milestones. Plus: Prairie Pop columnist Kembrew McLeod explains how the […]

Iowa’s landscape may be a fraction of a percent of what it was in its pre-agriculture glory days, but conservationists have worked out some promising recipes for a rebooted, deep-rooted grassland. When you mix some classic ingredients — native plants, plentiful pollinators and symbiotic mammals like bison — they tend to form an ecosystem resembling […]

It’s hard to take pride when you’re forced to hide. In this issue, Little Village talks to a local org selling Pride flags to benefit LGBTQ Iowans in need, as well as the trans chaplain of a University of Iowa campus ministry that defied the church to keep its doors open to queer clergy and […]

An alt-weekly writing about college basketball? In May?? Must be the Bluder effect. In this issue, LV explores how a lifetime immersed in Iowa women’s basketball paid off for Lisa Bluder, Caitlin Clark, Hannah Stuelke and Hawkeye fans everywhere — and what happens when a national phenomenon hits close to home. Also inside: Meet the […]

Sometimes it’s the journey, not the destination. In this issue of Rec’d, Little Village invites you to discover a trail or blaze a new one: Find the bicycle that’s right for you, and a local bike co-op to help you keep it tuned and well-used. Learn about each of the overnight towns along the hilliest […]

Read the issue >> Everybody say grace! This month, Little Village dug into the Iowa roots of the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, a 45-year-old organization of LGBTQ “nuns” out to make a point about religious — and personal — freedom. Also in this issue: Iowa City musician and activist Tara McGovern prepares to defend their […]

Read the issue >> Punchlines. Parenting. AI art. Soothing cups of coffee. Trump’s arrest. History repeating itself. Healing. In Little Village’s 2024 Arts Issue, local comic artists imagine what the new year might have in store. Also inside: New restaurants make an impression in Cedar Rapids and Des Moines; the Englert Theatre gets ready to […]

Life is like a Little Free Library; you never know what you’re gonna get. But unlike school libraries in Iowa, at least you know the contents of your neighborhood take-a-book-share-a-book box haven’t been censored to comply with Iowa Republicans’ definition of “appropriate” reading material. In this issue, Little Village breaks down the book-banning restrictions in […]

Sit back and enjoy this episode of LV! True Hollywood Story — the tale of when Oscar winner Donna Reed got a call from her old high school chemistry teacher (and a Manhattan Project scientist) in Denison, Iowa, asking if she’d help him get a movie made about the horrors of the atomic bomb in […]