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Questions for the Moon: Dead Horses come to The Mill
The Dead Horses will open for Joe Pug at The Mill this Friday, Sept. 20. Tickets are $15 in advance; $18 at the door. The duo has been performing together for nearly a decade, two constants in a band that has waxed and waned over those 10 years.
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As Oscar season approaches, FilmScene’s fall lineup is ripe for the picking
A Jeff Goldblum-led drama about a lobotomy-happy physician; a documentary on beekeeping traditions in Macedonia, and another chronicling the fraught one-child policy in China; a remake of a 2006 Oscar-nominated foreign film, starring Julianne Moore and Michelle Williams; a quiet thriller about a Pentecostal snake-handling cult
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Benefit concert to support local food movement will celebrate the memory of Kurt Michael Friese
Field to Family’s 2019 Local Food Festival will feature a celebration of the memory of one of the nonprofit’s founders with the Kurt Michael Friese Memorial Benefit Reception and Concert on Wednesday. Friese died unexpectedly in October 2018, at the age of 54. He was a renowned local chef and restaurateur, who along with his wife, Kim McWane Friese, owned and operated Devotay
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This Week in the Village: Sept. 8-14
Catch up on the biggest headlines, videos and photos published by Little Village in the past week.
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Two opportunities to see co-authors of Holocaust memoir ‘Survivors Club’ in Iowa
The co-authors of the Holocaust memoir Survivors Club: The True Story of a Very Young Prisoner of Auschwitz will be in West Des Moines and Ames for two presentations hosted by the Iowa Jewish Historical Society (IJHS) on Sept. 15 and 16.
Posted inFood & Drink
La Wine Bar & Restaurant is taking over the former BeerBurger space in downtown Iowa City
After being home to two short-lived burger joints — Zombie Burger and BeerBurger — the space at 180 E Burlington St is getting is getting a fresh start. La Wine Bar & Restaurant will bring an Asian-style bar to downtown Iowa City. “I want to try to make something different,” owner ShanShan Kong told Little Village.
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Bever Woods neighborhood under consideration for historic landmark status
The first neighborhood survey scheduled as part of Cedar Rapids’ Historic Preservation Plan will start this month, with an analysis of the historic qualities of the Bever Woods neighborhood. The city received an $18,000 Certified Local Government grant from the state for the survey, which will be completed in two parts by Wapsi Valley Archaeology.
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Iowa Attorney General Tom Miller joins antitrust investigations of Google and Facebook
Iowa Attorney General Tom Miller announced this week that he’s one of eight state attorneys general leading an investigation in Google’s business practices. The probe is aimed at determining whether the company is violating antitrust laws.
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Letter to the editor: Larix decidua, in memoriam
In the early morning hours of Sept. 10, 2019, the world lost a treasured, tired friend. The European larch tree, of Iowa City, was uprooted in a storm that claimed two other campus trees. She didn’t so much die as she was ripped from the earth that fed her. Nothing can survive absent nourishment. The moon that night was waxing gibbous;
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Going after ‘the crowd that loves to hate’ country radio: Ward Davis plays Wildwood
For over a decade, Ward Davis did his best at playing the role of a Nashville songwriter. Then, somewhere in there, everything changed.
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The historic Cherry Building celebrates 100 years of community, creativity
Mark Stoffer Hunter, the leading historian of Cedar Rapids and its buildings, was researching the history of the New Bo District’s Cherry Building when he spotted a familiar face in an old photo. It was his great-grandfather. Also in the photo was a member of the Chadima family. Stoffer Hunter showed the photo to David Chadima, who currently
