The movies have a strange relationship with the mass shootings that have recently plagued our country. When the police arrested James Eagan Holmes for the massacre at The Dark Knight […]
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Album Review: Eric Pettit & Tim Buhmeyer – We Are In Rome
Guitar, Banjo, Harmonica and Voice. Stop me if you’ve heard this one already. Eric Pettit and Tim Buhmeyer have the folk musician’s most glorious delusion—that they can make something new and unique with the same tools everyone’s been using since forever. Or maybe they have the folk musician’s perfect addiction—it feels so good to play this kind of music that you just can’t stop doing it.
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Album Review – Megan Buick
Megan Buick’s self-titled album feels like the aural equivalent of Jan Svankmajer’s surreal, stop-motion film Alice—a fractured take on the Lewis Carroll classic. Svankmajer’s imaginative recreation of Wonderland constantly treads the fine line between delightfully imaginative and eerily unsettling; Buick’s lo-fi psychedelic folk embraces a similar duality.
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ARTicle: A take on Jeff Robinson and Michael Rutherford’s Water and Stone
It took buying a cup of coffee at The Times Club (the coffee shop in Prairie Lights, 15 S. Dubuque St.), sitting down at a table to review the show […]
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The Tube: Free yourself from traditional cable packages
In the second installment of a two-part series on a la carte television, Melissa Zimdars asks whether viewers can already unbundle themselves by moving away from traditional cable packages and […]
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Haulin’ Ass: Vision Quest
I wheel for the curb to snatch a flag at the Deadwood, a shivery black dude waving twenties overhead, international sign for “Avoid Me.” I also see too late a […]
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A guide to the recently-saved pieces of Iowa City history
In the old residential neighborhood located along the 300 block of East Jefferson Street and the 200 block of North Gilbert Street is a concentration of some of the city’s […]
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Astrology Forecast for February 2013
FOR EVERYONE: February is a tipping point. Scarcely anyone doubts that major changes are urgently needed. At the same time, though, everyone knows that those in power are against the […]
Posted inFood & Drink
The Hops: Great River Brewery’s Farmer Brown Ale is our brew of the month
Two weeks after their 800-pound canning line was stolen last summer, the brewers at Davenport’s Great River Brewery welcomed Charlene to their team. Hauled from Colorado on a rental truck, […]
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Ron Gilbert’s The Cave further blurs the line between video games and art
Once upon a time, media were supposed to be mediums, agents for revelation. Aristotle defined classic tragedy as a way to trigger catharsis, while Plato believed in poetry as a pedagogical tool that would lead people to virtue. Now there is an attitude that some media are only vehicles for cheap entertainment and alienation, especially TV and video games. But, while I can’t speak to television, video games can in fact be a path to epiphany and enlightenment—the way every art form should be.
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UR Here: Valuing the Faraway
I like to think of this time of year as “in deep.” As I write in late January, no snow is on the ground, and we have had our share […]
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Crafty: Love letters for your Valentine
Dear Little Village readers without a significant other: Hello, and thanks for reading! It’s February, the month of candy hearts, roses, love and chocolate covered things. You’re single, and I’m […]
