When the trailer for the Best Documentary Feature winner at the Tribeca Film Festival, Natchez, first played at FilmScene, my initial, curious response was eclipsed by my partners’ who said, “I’ve been there. We had a family reunion there.” Even before watching the film, its themes of history and tourism were placed firmly on our lap, already haunting the theater. How far away was the past, really?
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The fourth Coralville Asian Festival brought together singers, dancers, drummers and dragons
The temperature in S.T. Morrison Park was already hitting 80 degrees when the sound of drumming started just after 1 p.m. on Saturday afternoon. The heat, however, didn’t stop hundreds from turning out for the opening of the fourth annual Coralville Asian Festival (CAF). This year’s festival kicked off with a performance by the Soten […]
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Futile Wrath — May 2026
This comic was originally published in Little Village’s May 2026 issue.
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Letter to the editor: Zach Wahls is a proven fighter and advocate
By Sue Ellen Tuttle, Ames There is a person who taught at Iowa City West Junior High in 2004 that is my hero, even though I’ll likely never meet them. An assignment they gave ignited a future of identifying and fighting for civil rights and social justice in one of their students who would go on […]
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State Sen. Catelin Drey knows Iowa’s in a cancer crisis. She’s living it.
In January, state Sen. Catelin Drey stood at a podium on the Senate floor in front of her colleagues representing all corners of Iowa. She told them that she was about to speak candidly on a topic both “personal and political.” Behind her, legislators and staffers appeared to be half-listening, looking at their laptops and […]
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Letter to the editor: Rod Sullivan lacks the temperament to be trusted in leadership
By Tom Carsner, Iowa City Supervisors V Fixmer-Oraiz and Jon Green stood up for worker’s rights, fairness, and justice when they opposed Supervisor Rod Sullivan’s unprecedented and arbitrary firing of Board Executive Director Guillermo Morales in September 2024. Sullivan arbitrarily ignored County employee policies about “for cause” termination, progressive discipline, and basic employee rights. Sullivan […]
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Letter to the editor: A District 4 voter considers the future
By Finch VanDyk, Iowa City I’m standing at the ballot box and staring down the future of Johnson County. Like it or not, there it stretches in front of me: 50, maybe 60 years lived in these 613 square miles. What kind of future will it be? Two names stare back at me from the […]
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Letter to the editor: Supervisor Mandi Remington is everything we need in local office
By Kelcey Patrick-Ferree, Iowa City, District 5 On June 2, we will hold a primary election that includes Johnson County Supervisors. Because Republicans have decided that 3 counties in Iowa are no longer permitted to decide whether or not to use districts for Supervisors, we have had our 2024 local election undone. Mandi Remington, who […]
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Letter to the editor: Zach Wahls for U.S. Senate
By Tom Rocklin, Iowa City I’ve known Zach Wahls since he was a boy. He is committed to fighting for all of Iowa’s families, whatever they look like, and he’s got the smarts, the drive, and the energy to do it. Zach has a deep understanding of Iowa’s and the nation’s challenges and the policy […]
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Letter to the editor: I want to forgive Rod Sullivan
By David Sterling, Iowa City I met Rod Sullivan shortly after helping start the local Democratic Socialists of America chapter. At the time, we were a small organization with limited reach and little institutional power. Rod did not have to pay attention to us, but he did. He showed up to events. He encouraged younger […]
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Book Review: ‘2008’ by Susan McCarty
It’s official, I’ve reached an age when books set in the past are set in my past. With Susan McCarty’s 2008 I found myself so deeply rooted in a former decade, I instinctively reached for the Fall Out Boy CD I played so many times it became unreadable. An uncanny experience, even if the book […]
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Album Review: Jacob Lampman — ‘Jacob Lampman’s Ego Death’
Jacob Lampman's Ego Death by Jacob Lampman When singer-songwriter Jacob Lampman and his cohort take the stage and you spot the upright bass, flute, mandolin, electric and acoustic guitars, you may ask yourself, “What kind of music am I about to hear?” The instrumentation conjures up bluegrass or folk, but the sounds that emanate from […]
