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Read issue 301 » Welcome to the fourth annual Best of the CRANDIC issue! From Aug. 1-Sept. 30, Little Village readers cast their votes in more than 200 categories, from Best Library to Best Local Band, Best Bartender to Best Defender of Science, Most Unique Shop to Hardest Fightin’ Union. Voters had the option to […]

Read issue 300 » Welcome to the 300th issue of Little Village magazine! The 2021 Give Guide highlights dozens of local nonprofit organizations that deserve your dollars this winter, as well as retailers and artists selling gift-worthy goods right here in eastern Iowa (who needs a global supply chain?). Featured orgs include the Great Plains […]

Read issue 299 » Time to stockpile seasonings, batten down the freezers, stuff the sausages and hide the steak knives, America! In this issue, Little Village jumps into the juicy trenches of what Joni Ernst, Kim Reynolds and Fox News call the “War on Meat,” liberals’ heinous (and fictional) campaign to force the vegan lifestyle […]

Wriggle into a cozy sweater and get hyped for fall book, music, film and theater premieres with this issue of Little Village. Pittsburgh Pirate Dock Ellis is famous for pitching a no-hitter on LSD in 1970, but there was much more to the African-American athlete than gimmicks. CR’s Mirrorbox…

Read issue 297 » Houses, hotels and historic haunts of all sizes are highlighted in the August issue of Little Village. Families and business owners are still rebuilding after the derecho, but emerging stronger than ever. The Highlander has evolved from a ’60s supper club into one of Iowa City’s hippest hotels, while the century-old […]

Read issue 296 » Welcome to Rec’d, Little Village’s inaugural summer recreation guide. (Out just in time for LV’s 20th anniversary!) Drop in on Iowa City’s tightknit skateboarding community, and their efforts to improve the city’s outdated skatepark. An LV editor spends a weekend at L.V. Campground in Coggon, Iowa, where the clothing is optional […]

Read issue 295 » Iowa is far from a hip-hop capital, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t ingenious emcees, badass b-boys and b-girls, rising rap stars and rhyme-hungry audiences here in the Hawkeye State. In this issue, meet TheZeffsterr, the self-styled “Lazy Billy G.O.A.T.” of rap and founder of the Iowa City hip-hop label Critical […]

Read issue 294 » At the turn of the millennium, Liz Crokin was a University of Iowa journalism and political science student, a college Republican eager to meet the likes of George W. Bush and John McCain. In 2021, she’s one of QAnon’s most unrelenting advocates, undaunted by the COVID-19 pandemic, Trump’s election loss and […]

Read issue 293 » April 2020 was the time for buckling down and doing the right thing for your family’s safety. A year later — after countless Zoom mishaps, cabin-fever-driven tantrums and mixed messages from elected officials — “the right thing” is trickier to determine. Five local parents spoke with Little Village about multitasking, making […]

“We’re not out of the water yet.” Six months after the University of Iowa eliminated the women’s swimming and diving program (and in the midst of a Title IX lawsuit against the school), Athletic Director Gary Barta gathered the team to let them know their sport would be returning for the 2021-22 season after all. But what might sound like a happy ending provoked “mixed emotions” among the athletes — six of their teammates had already transferred…

Read issue 291 » Like a box of chocolates, the February issue of Little Village is full of surprises and partially hydrogenated palm kernel oil. Talya Miller gets knotty with an introduction to bondage play, while Chris Wiersema presents an autobiographical odyssey about his vasectomy. Long-distance relationships can be hard, especially around Valentine’s Day—and especially […]

Read issue 290 » In the first issue of Little Village’s 20th year in print(!!!), five local artists create comics imagining a modern utopia; Donna Cleveland (host of the Thread the Needle podcast) dissects the “elaborate architecture of segregation” in the Midwest, including Johnson County, Iowa; and NaRa Thai Cuisine in Cedar Rapids gets a […]