Iowa City-based community organization Edible Outdoors (EO) will host a potluck dinner party at the Wesley Center of Public Space One this Saturday, Nov. 7 at 6 p.m. The ultimate goal of the potluck is to bring together hunted, fished, foraged or homegrown goods, though store-bought items will be accepted and shared just the same.
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Voyeuristic Intention: Rocky Horror comes to the Englert
The Rocky Horror Picture Show The Englert Theatre — October 30 & 31 at 11:50 p.m. The Englert Theatre will host two nights of good, clean (yeah, right) Rocky Horror Picture Show fun this Halloween weekend. The 1975 cut classic invades theaters on the regular, and for those who don’t know, costumes, props, and acting […]
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Katy Perry to rally for Hillary Clinton in Des Moines
Who: Katy Perry, California Gurl What: You’re gonna hear her roar … at a rally for Hillary Clinton. When: Saturday, October 24 (exact time TBA), before the Iowa Democratic Party’s annual Jefferson-Jackson Dinner Where: Downtown Des Moines (exact location TBA) Why: Because Madeline Albright is busy. Because somehow, maybe, feminism? Because you gotta reach millennials […]
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Freaky, Raw and Open: Rebecca Wolff to read at Prairie Lights with Emily Hunt and Christian Schlegel
Live From Prairie Lights: Rebecca Wolff, Emily Hunt & Christian Schlegel Prairie Lights Bookstore — Wednesday, Sep. 30 at 7 p.m. New York City is considered — or at least considers itself — the epicenter of culture. As a native Manhattanite, however, poet and novelist Rebecca Wolff felt an early onset of asphyxiation in the […]
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IC Community Theatre’s production of ‘Damn Yankees’ proves ‘All you really need is heart’
Damn Yankees Johnson County Fairground — through Sunday, Sep. 27 On Friday, Sep. 18 Iowa City Community Theatre opened its 60th season with its production of the musical Damn Yankees, directed by Katie Boothroyd. With music and lyrics by Richard Adler and Jerry Ross, and book by George Abbot and Douglas Wallop, this 1955 classic […]
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Sumac Tea? Yes, please!
No doubt you’ve noticed those funky bushes bearing fuzzy red tufts along the Cedar or Iowa rivers. Those botanicals are staghorn sumacs (Rhus typhina), and they can make a delicious late-summer drink that the First Peoples have been brewing for hundreds of years. (Think hibiscus-tea-meets-pink-lemonade!) A good friend taught me how to harvest and brew […]
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Talking Movies: ‘abUSed’ in the Heartland
Screening: abUSed: The Postville Raid Iowa City Public Library — Wednesday, Sep. 23 at 6:30 p.m. In a presidential election shaping up to be a personality contest, immigration has become one of the few real issues on which there’s substantive disagreement both between and within the major parties. The Guatemalan documentarian Luis Argueta’s abUSed: The […]
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Pro Tips: How to Learn Your Kids
Welcome to your September Pro Tips! Do you have a burning question or burning sensation? Either way, hit me up at askwaynediamante@gmail.com and I’ll let you know what your problem is. Dear Wayne, Refugees are flooding into Europe, more than a quarter million people have been killed in the Syrian civil war and ISIL is […]
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Comic Series ‘Saga’ Does Planetary Parenting Right
Parenthood is often the death of media entertainment. Friends, How I Met Your Mother, Murphy Brown — shows like these attempted to swaddle their audiences in overused parenting tropes without relinquishing their pre-pregnancy attitude. Typically, the ratings for these shows drop because writers struggle to effectively characterize the new mommy and daddy characters in their […]
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Creative Matters: Composer David Lang lectures on music and its secret powers
David Lang Lecture University of Iowa Art Building West — Wed., Sept. 16 at 7:30 pm David Lang is one of the United States’ most performed composers and is the recipient of numerous honors and awards, including the Pulitzer Prize. He was Musical America’s Composer of the Year in 2013, and Carnegie Hall’s Debs Composer’s […]
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Paypal donation test
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10th annual Iowa City Zombie March set for Saturday
Iowa City Zombie March Happy Hollow Park (850 Brown St.) — Saturday, Sept. 12 at 5 p.m. This year marks the 10th anniversary of the Zombie March, Iowa City’s favorite undead charitable event. These friendly hordes of zombies are “pro-living and un-dead.” Once a year, members from all over the community come together to raise […]
