Rec’d, Little Village’s annual recreation issue, returns to highlight hobbies that get Iowans off the couch — and the one recreational activity Republicans are determined to keep criminal.
The Iowa City Aerohawks have been gathering by the landfill to fly radio-controlled planes since the Nixon adminstration. Now forced to dump their beloved dumpside airfield, the team is on the hunt for a new home. Meanwhile, pro wrestlers with central Iowa’s 3XW open up about the thrill of the ring. (“We are circus performers. We are stuntmen. We are comedians,” former AEW wrestler KJ Orso told LV. “We are improv actors. Illusionists. Athletes. We are all of this rolled into one, right?”)
Also in this issue: A free “trishaw” program in Johnson County offers riders of all ages and abilities the chance to feel the wind in their hair, the University of Iowa Powwow returns with fresh determination, a Des Moines artist innovates the Emotionalist style, Day Party fest spotlights Iowa City’s south side, and a West Liberty writer offers context for the recent surge in cartel violence in Mexico, en español y inglés.
Plus: Why a decade of Iowa leaders keep rejecting bills to create common-sense, poll-tested and lucrative legal marijuana programs, and how a provision in the “One Big Beautiful Beautiful Bill” could kill Iowa’s flourishing hemp-derived cannabis beverage industry later this year.
Cover by Jordan Sellergren
