A petition to change the current Iowa City Charter, which would reduce the number of signatures needed to put forth a city council initiative or referendum vote, has started to circulate around Iowa City. Martha Hampel and Caroline Dieterle are part of a group that is collecting signatures for the petition. Hampel said the purposed […]
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Iowa native Alisabeth Von Presley to perform at McGrath Amphitheatre
Rockstar Alisabeth Von Presley will bring her love for sequins, pleather pants and theatrical flair to the McGrath Amphitheatre (475 1st St SW, Cedar Rapids) stage tonight at 6 p.m. For the price of $5, fans can enjoy the performance of the Marion, Iowa native. Presley, who has been a cornerstone of the local arts […]
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Letter to the Editor: Vote JP Claussen for ICCSD School Board
By April Dirks, PhD, Iowa City Dear Iowa City Voters: Please take a moment on July 19th during a special election to vote for JP Claussen for the open seat on the Iowa City School Board. As an educator and a long term Iowa City resident with two children in the elementary school system myself, […]
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Chain & the Gang to headline all-ages show at Trumpet Blossom Cafe
The prolific Ian Svenonius returns to Iowa City this weekend — he’ll be taking the stage with his current musical project Chain & the Gang, Sunday at 10 p.m. at the Trumpet Blossom Cafe. Svenonius previously served as the Mission Creek Festival’s artist-in-residence. Is there a cover? Yes. $8, but doesn’t it feel good to […]
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Mission Iowa City to hold school board candidate forum
Mission Iowa City, with moderator Daniel Boscaljon, will hold a public forum with the school board candidates on Monday, July 11. The event will begin at 7 p.m. in meeting room A of the Iowa City Public Library. The forum will feature candidates J.P. Claussen, Paul Roesler and Janice Weiner, who will take questions from […]
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How Dungeons & Dragons and spelunking birthed the internet
There is this great moment in Gustave Flaubert’s Madame Bovary when Emma — the main character — stares at a mirror at home. She’d just cheated on her husband for the first time, and finds herself dazzling, mesmerizing, whole in the intimacy of her bedroom. Had she owned a smartphone, she would have taken a […]
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Chance Kirchhof of Critical Hit Games talks running a community-focused gaming store
Critical Hit Games is an Iowa City gaming store founded with the mission of being a gaming store with a community focus. I’ve been visiting pretty regularly since I first moved to the area a few years ago, and find it to be a great place to game in a fun and open environment. People […]
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Op-ed: How the word of God can inform our citizenship
I sometimes wonder if the United States of America is a failed experiment. I can say that, because I have lived in two countries besides this one and often draw some stark comparisons and conclusions. I also say that as a patriot, because I love this country. But at the same time, I often find […]
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UR Here: On embracing the value of doing nothing
As a typical middle-class grade-schooler in the ’60s, three months of freedom lay before me after the last school bell rang in June. This was a time when many moms stayed home to raise the kids and when summer camps and special classes were few and far between — for many of us, due to […]
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Notes from the Inside: Perceptions of Freedom
Notes from the Inside features writing by inmates serving time in Iowa prisons. Little Village editors have made only minor adjustments for style. Parades, picnics, family gatherings and fireworks! All are America’s traditions that celebrate our independence on the Fourth of July. This is our national holiday recognizing our freedom. Yet exactly what does freedom […]
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LV Recommends: Sauce Bar & Bistro
When people ask me to recommend Italian food in Iowa, it prompts a string of questions that usually culminates in, “Do you mean real Italian, or, like, sickly sticky cream sauce and overcooked pasta like you’d get at a chain Italian restaurant?” Usually, thankfully, they mean the former, in which case, I often send them […]
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Arms Race Pale Ale by Big Grove Brewery is LV’s July 2016 Brew of the Month
It’s that time of year when bicyclists are hitting the trails and country roads hard, training for RAGBRAI. One popular and effective (some may even say masochistic) route runs from Iowa City to the old Sutliff Bridge via the beastly hills of Sugar Bottom Road. It is a ride worthy of the beer of the […]
