By Kate Winterink, Iowa City Hello, Johnson County. I would like to briefly introduce myself. My name is Kate Winterink. I have been a proud Johnson County resident for the past two years. I moved down here from Black Hawk County and what inspired me to move down here is seeing how Johnson County is […]
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Letter to the editor: Hunger is not someone else’s problem in Ankeny
By Amy Tagliareni, Ankeny; candidate for Iowa House Ankeny is a community known for its growing neighborhoods, strong schools and families who work hard to build a good life. But there is another reality that deserves our attention: some of our neighbors are struggling to put food on the table. According to the Des Moines […]
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Album Review: 10 Watt Robot — ‘Weather Beacon Black’
Following the recent passing of Dave Kendall, the journalist who created and hosted MTV’s pioneering alternative music program 120 Minutes, tributes were posted to social media acknowledging his influence during a time when there were few places to find new music. In our corner of the world, people celebrated Kendall for frequently featuring Iowa bands, […]
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The Dubuque Museum of Art is a rare exhibition of Sauk art from solely Sauk artists and curators Janae Grass and Tony A. Tiger in their ancestral homeland
“I just want these things to exist…rather than in my head or in an archival picture somewhere,” said artist Janae Grass (Sac & Fox/Absentee Shawnee/Mvskoke) in an interview over Zoom. Grass, a silversmith and beadwork artist from Tulsa, Oklahoma, was talking about her artistic output. “Whether it’s on a wall or on a person, I just want these things to be out in the world.” Grass co-curated the exhibition Echoes of Time and Place: Sauk Art and Culture with fellow artist Tony Tiger (Sac & Fox/Seminole/Mvskoke). The exhibition, which opened Oct. 3 at the Dubuque Museum of Art, marks the first major exhibition made up entirely of Sac & Fox artists outside of Oklahoma. There are three Sac & Fox federally recognized tribes: the Meskwaki Nation in Tama, the Sac & Fox Nation of Missouri in Kansas, and the Sac & Fox Nation headquartered in Oklahoma. Echoes of Time and Place reunites Sac & Fox, or Sauk, artists from the Oklahoma land with their ancestral homelands in Iowa.
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Horsecope — October 2026
This comic was originally published in Little Village’s October 2026 issue.
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In Iowa City, No Kings rally-goers demand Fatou Traore’s return, encourage early voting; opponents of jail bond proposal make their case
Hundreds gathered at the Pentacrest on Saturday morning for the No Kings Vote Early rally. The Iowa City rally was one of almost 3,000 No Kings events across the county, including 30 in Iowa, intended to boost early voting ahead of the Nov. 3 election. The crowd in Iowa City was smaller than the last […]
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Ballet Des Moines’ October show includes the world premiere of a Poe adaptation, dark poetry and a graveyard of ghosts
Stirring the cauldron of creativity, Ballet Des Moines will conjure a captivating evening of dance with its frightfully fantastic Ghost Stories, Oct. 23 and 24. The first official performance of the company’s 2026/27 season after a preview in August, Ghost Stories includes Nevermore, another world premiere from the unbridled imagination of the company’s resident choreographer, […]
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Letter to the editor: Straight men need to do better
By Chris Apling, Iowa City Dear straight men, as a fellow straight man, I wish I could make you love the women in your life that love you, but I can’t. I wish I could say: Once upon a time, the infinite universe exploded into existence stars and planets, and out of all of the infinite possibilities […]
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A British horror fanzine made in Iowa has compelled Hammer heads around the world for 54 years
Before the internet, fanzines were the lifeblood of genre fandom. Produced by enthusiasts rather than professional publishers, these homemade magazines connected horror, science fiction and fantasy fans who often felt isolated in their own communities. Created on typewriters, assembled with scissors, glue and photocopiers, and distributed through conventions, specialty bookstores and the mail, fanzines became […]
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Letter to the editor: Christina Bohannan will fight against corruption
By Janay Pearce, Iowa City Congresswoman Mariannette Miller-Meeks owes Iowans some answers. Miller-Meeks has been spending her time in Congress gutting health care and raising insurance premiums, all while being in the pocket of the insurance industry, taking hundreds of thousands of dollars and voting their way. Miller-Meeks is corrupt through and through. She has […]
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President Trump is coming to Iowa ‘to get truly fantastic Warriors elected,’ even as polls show his popularity in the state has plummeted
President Donald Trump said on Truth Social on Thursday night that he’s coming to Iowa twice before the Nov. 3 election “to get truly fantastic Warriors elected.” The first Trump rally will be in Sioux City on Thursday. The rally will begin at 4:30 p.m. although speeches are not scheduled to start until 6 p.m., […]
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Review: Iron Lung plays ‘an all-timer kind of show’ for hardcore fans at Deadwood
On most Tuesday nights, Iowa City’s beloved Deadwood Tavern is a calm, quiet space, filled with not much more than the sounds of light chatter and the collision of billiard balls. But on the night of Tuesday, Oct. 13, there would be no such peace, as the bar welcomed Seattle’s legendary powerviolence duo Iron Lung […]
