Vince Staples Blue Moose Tap House — Monday, Mar. 7 at 6:30 p.m. “What is the ‘little village?’ ” Vince Staples asks. We’ve only just begun our interview, and he’s beaten me out the gate with the first question. He seems a bit trepidatious and, once I’ve fumbled through an awkward answer about the song […]
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UR Here: A tense encounter on the Pentacrest turns transcendental
Recently, as I approached the University of Iowa’s Jessup Hall on my way to work one cold morning, a wide wingspan of majesty and terror flashed past my eyeline. A red-tailed hawk swooped past me not six feet away and landed elegantly upon a low branch in the Austrian pine to my left. A raptor’s […]
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St. Louis’ Foxing heads to Iowa City
Foxing Gabe’s — Saturday, Mar. 5 at 6:30 p.m. “Foxing is a band,” the bio on the St. Louis-based group’s Bandcamp page asserts. “Someday Foxing won’t be a band.” This graceful impermanence permeates the band’s ethos — from their name (taken from a term for the way that brown spots appear on, and eventually obfuscate, […]
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Series will offer ‘Reel Movies for Real Needs’ at Sycamore Cinema
Special needs-welcoming Zootopia showing Sycamore Cinema — Saturday, Mar. 5 at 10:30 a.m. Beginning next Saturday, Mar. 5, the spring portion of a film series specifically for children with autism and special needs will launch at Sycamore Cinema (1602 Sycamore St., Iowa City). Part of a Marcus Theatres initiative called “Reel Movies for Real Needs,” […]
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Little Village magazine issue 194: Mar. 2-15, 2016
Flip through the pages of Little Village magazine issue 194. In this edition, you’ll find a look at how Tiffin’s teens responded to the city’s call for an age-based minimum wage, an interview with the frontwomen of Freakwater, a peek at Buzz Salon’s trip to New York for Fashion Week: Men’s and much more!
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Comedian Rachel Bloom talks Iowa, Seth Green and transcendental meditation
Rachel Bloom The Englert Theatre — Saturday, Mar. 5 at 8:30 p.m. As part of the Green Gravel Comedy Festival, Rachel Bloom, Eric Dadourian and Megan Gogerty, with host Dan Gill, perform live at the Englert Theatre on Saturday, Mar. 5. Tickets are $12–17 for this event; festival passes and a full line-up listing are […]
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Minimum wage hike raises questions about equal pay in Johnson County
The town of Tiffin is growing fast. The population was under 2,000 people in 2010, but by 2020 it’s expected to swell to 3,400. Today, there are few jobs for anyone in Tiffin, unless you’re building a housing unit. Next to the high school, developer Jim Glasgow is building more than 200 housing units. He’s […]
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Now available for library checkout: laptops
Books, DVDs, video games and now laptops: This week, the Iowa City Public Library adds computers to its collection of items available for checkout. As of today, Mar. 1, five Lenovo laptops equipped with the Windows 7 operating system and Microsoft Office Professional 2013 software will be available to patrons. Currently, there are 40 computer […]
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A fresh take on opera with ‘cmetq’
cmetq Riverside Theatre — Monday, Feb. 29 at 7:30 p.m. A brand new opera will receive its Iowa City premiere tonight, Feb. 29. Written by current University of Iowa Grant Wood Art Colony Fellow and Visiting Assistant Professor of Music Christopher Jette, cmetq (which refers to “communication etiquette”) is an exploration of the changing understanding […]
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A new grant for a new hat: Curt Oren pays it forward
We all remember the hat, right? Way back when the year 2015 was winding to a close, the powers that be at Buzzfeed — or at least one lucky writer — helped bring Iowa City musician Curt Oren’s story to the world, when he landed smack dab at the top of the website’s list of […]
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UAY building to move to Breder property
On Feb. 26, the nonprofit organization Friends of Historic Preservation announced that the United Action for Youth (UAY) main office at 422 Iowa Ave., which was slated for demolition late this spring, will instead be moved to the property of retired Iowa faculty members Hans Breder and Barabara Welch Breder. Their home at that site […]
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Sen. Grassley will meet with Obama next week over Supreme Court selection
Iowa Senator Chuck Grassley announced yesterday that he, along with Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, will meet with President Obama next week to discuss a Supreme Court replacement for the late Justice Antonin Scalia. The pair of senators released a joint statement, calling it a “welcome” opportunity to also “further discuss matters of mutual interest, […]
