For the past seven months, University of Iowa graduate student and Fulbright Scholar Vanessa Fixmer-Oraiz has been working on building a bamboo-frame bicycle to ride in RAGBRAI to raise awareness about the effects of global climate change on rural bamboo-craft communities in the Philippines. She hopes her trip, which she calls the “Bamboo on New […]
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Savage Love: The boys in the bandwidth
I am a gay man and have been in a relationship with my GGG boyfriend for more than three years. We are in our early 20s and have a good sex life. I just discovered that he has been engaging in what can only be described as cyber infidelity. He had a secret e-mail account, […]
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Left Hand Brewing returns to Iowa
Left Hand Brewing Company announced yesterday that a selection of its beers will return to Iowa in early August. Johnson Brothers of Iowa will distribute Left Hand’s brews across a number of Iowa locations, and the company says that the available beers will include Milk Stout, Sawtooth Ale, 400 Pound Monkey IPA, Black Jack Porter, Polestar Pilsner, Stranger Pale Ale and many seasonals like the Fade to Black series.
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Do the Robot: ‘Cyborg Support Group’ reads this Friday at Fair Grounds
For those still mourning the absence of Strange Cage, the high-energy reading series hosted by former Little Village arts columnist Russell Jaffe at Fair Grounds…
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Landlocked Film Festival Announces 2014 Lineup
Landlocked Film Festival has announced their 2014 film festival lineup, which features 59 films screening over the course of four days, Aug. 21-24. As usual, films will be screened at multiple Iowa City venues including FilmScene …
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Seattle-based country singer Dylan Jakobsen to play the Blue Moose Tap House
Dylan Jakobsen, an up-and-coming Seattle-based country singer, will be playing a solo acoustic show this Thursday at the Blue Moose. Eastern Iowa’s TJ Wilt and…
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12 oz. curls: Dubuque’s ‘Jubeck New World Brewing Company’ makes its debut
The Jubeck New World Brewing Company, a Kickstarter-funded nano-brewery that plans to be a place “where everybody knows your name,” has opened in Dubuque…
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Fellow musicians collaborate on tribute album for deceased IC artist
Areli “Jamal” Morgan River, also known as John Fields, Jamma Joe, Chapped Reggie and other personae, was an Iowa City writer, performer, painter, video producer…
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Book Plug: Stories of true crime
Blood Will Out: The True Story of a Murder, a Mystery, and a Masquerade By Walter Kirn The True American: Murder and Mercy in Texas By Anand Giridharadas HBO’s latest hit, True Detective, shows just how far the detective story has come. Edgar Allen Poe’s The Murders at the Rue Morgue launched the genre’s formulaic […]
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Watson and Holmes: Re-imagining the classic sleuth
Writer Kent Bollers and artist Rick Leonardi invite you to look up Sherlock Holmes at a new address. Oh, the detective still resides at 221B Baker Street. But in Watson and Holmes, Baker Street isn’t in London—it’s in Harlem. In the crowded landscape of recent and ongoing Sherlockiana, Watson and Holmes stands out because the […]
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Mobile food vending program starts today
The City of Iowa City pilot program for mobile food vendors starts today as five food carts set up shop in Chauncey Swan Park. The new program goes through October 31 and will allow vendors the opportunity to sell their food on Thursdays from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. and Fridays from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. in the downtown park.
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Roger Ebert documentary ‘Life Itself’ heads to FilmScene
Steve James’ documentary ‘Life Itself,’ opening at FilmScene on July 18, shares its title with the memoir of its subject, the late film critic Roger Ebert. Having only begun production in the final months of Ebert’s life, the documentary quotes Ebert’s memoir at length to supply narration and clarity, but one of the questions James is unable to get Ebert to answer before his death is “Why did you call your memoir Life Itself?” It’s a question the film itself leaves unanswered, at least explicitly, inviting us to ponder it of James’ documentary, just as he did of Ebert’s book.
