People will be able to support reproductive rights and have a good time at the Auction for Access in Cedar Rapids on Saturday. The auction is a fundraiser for Iowa Abortion Access Fund (IAAF), which has helped women seeking to exercise their right to choose cover the cost of clinic expenses since 1978.
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Early voting starts in Johnson County
Early voting in Johnson County for the Nov. 7 election started on Wednesday. Voters will be able to cast ballots at the Auditor’s office in the Johnson County Administration Building in Iowa City. The office will be opened from7:45 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., Monday through Friday. The office will also be open on Sunday, November 5 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
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CSPS Legion Arts-commissioned ‘Pang!’ premieres in Cedar Rapids, exploring poverty on stage
Pang! CSPS Hall — Friday, Oct. 20 at 8 p.m. and Saturday, Oct. 21 at 4 and 8 p.m. Pang!, a production made up of three live radio plays about families struggling with hunger, will have its world premiere performances this weekend at CSPS Hall in the New Bohemia district of Cedar Rapids. Legion Arts, […]
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Witching Hour — Track by track, part two: Think globally, act locally
Excited for Witching Hour this weekend but not sure where to start? The curators of the Witching Hour festival have arranged a series of tracks to guide your steps and highlight the hope at the heart of the festival: that encountering the unknown within particular, relevant issues will inspire individuals to become more innovative in their questioning and creating.
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Exclusive track: Elizabeth Moen and her band cover ‘I Put a Spell on You’
Elizabeth Moen and her bandmates — Justin LeDuc, Blake Shaw and Dan Padley — were out at Flat Black Studios earlier this month, recording tracks for their second LP, which they expect to release next spring. In between takes, they decided to have a little Halloween fun with the classic 1956 track “I Put a Spell on You.”
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Letters to the editor: Meghann Foster for Coralville City Council
A number of community members have written to Little Village in support of Meghann Foster, who is running for the Coralville City Council. Here is a collection of their letters to the editor:
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Cedar Rapids ICE agents arrest woman and hold her without bail even though she has papers to be in the U.S.
Asucena Natareno Ramirez has been held without bail in an Iowa jail since Oct. 3, and her attorney still can’t get a satisfactory explanation for why she was arrested. Natareno Ramirez, a native of Guatemala who has been living with relatives in Mount Pleasant while her application for asylum is under consideration, was at the Cedar Rapids office of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) for a routine check-in when ICE agents arrested her. Her attorney Dan Vondra was informed by phone that the agents had an administrative arrest warrant that alleged she is present in the country “in violation of the law.”
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Iowa City Council to vote on smoking ban for city parks
The Iowa City Council will vote on a proposed ordinance banning the use of tobacco products in city parks at its Tuesday night meeting. In addition to prohibiting smoking, the measure will also ban the use of smokeless tobacco. And because of an existing city regulation, if smoking in parks is banned, vaping in parks will also be automatically banned.
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Little Village magazine issue 230: Oct. 18-31, 2017
Flip through the pages of Little Village magazine issue 230. In this edition, Prairie Pop talks with DJ Spooky about his love of live sampling, past collaborations and upcoming music premiere at the Witching Hour festival. Also inside: The fight for science funding in 2017, a look at the Cedar Rapids-based eatery Gumption, local album […]
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From vaccines to iPhones, innovation depends on federal funding that is now under threat
Science has served as the source of U.S. innovation for decades, but it has recently been under attack with funding for basic science in the United States at a 40-year low.
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DJ Spooky’s ‘Explorer I Remix’, featuring sounds made by Van Allen radiation belts, will premiere at Witching Hour
DJ Spooky’s new Explorer I Remix emerged from a collaboration between this visiting artist and a group of University of Iowa scientists, musicians, librarians and archivists. It will celebrate the 60th anniversary of a satellite launched in 1958 used to discover Earth’s radiation belts (known as the Van Allen belts in honor of UI scientist James Van Allen).
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Beach Fossils mull over today’s insane times in their dreamy new album ‘Somersault’
The Brooklyn-based shoegaze band, performing in Iowa City next week, have traded urban escapism for political commentary in their lyrics. Witching Hour audiences can expect the Beach Fossils to “go off the rails” during their live show.
