Even the word coming off of someone’s lips in a casual conversation–burlesque–drips like satin off the shoulder. Â Its an old fashioned word, one that my Nana would have used only in one of her raciest jokes to her closest girlfriends. Â Somehow through its mythology I only had a vague notion of this kind of performance. […]
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My Mission Creek schedule for tonight
My Mission Creek Festival agenda for tonight (gonna need my bike for this…) 6-8 Dawns at Dusk (I’m late! gotta go!!) 8:00 – Shame Stevens The Englert Theatre 8:20 – Samuel Locke Ward and the Boo Hoos at the Mill 8:50: Porno Galactica at PS1 9:05: Joe Jack Talcum at Mill 9:25: The Western Front […]
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Mission Creek 2010 Preview: Dustin Busch
Local guitarist and luthier Dustin Busch will open for Booker T. this Wednesday night at the Englert as part of the 2010 Mission Creek festival. Busch plays regularly – solo and with Illinois John Fever – and you’ll catch him breaking it down informally all around town, semi-regularly on the patio at the Red Avocado, […]
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Iowa City Weekender: February 11-14
THURSDAY Green Drinks | Red Avocado | 5:30 pm | Free admission – great wine list! This weekend, start your love fest with an alcohol infused meditation on the big things we sometimes take for granted – fresh air, potable water, that’s right… the environment! If you heart the environment despite it’s occasionally godawful temperatures, […]
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Iowa City Weekender: January 28-February 1
This week’s Weekender is brought to you by the ICPL eAudio collection Greetings, Weekenders! Thank you to all who tuned in last night for Little Village Live, our weekly radio show over at KRUI, and a huge thank you to special guest Ben Schmidt for the wonderful live in-studio performance. Accompanied by the terrific Larry […]
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Iowa City Weekender: December 3-5
This Weekender is sponsored by UI Fine Arts Council… Aaaaahh. Nothing like the smell of newsprint in the morning. The fresh ink on crisp pages, not yet dogeared and smudged with love. That’s right folks, a brand new Little Village – December’s Holi-D.I.Y. special, the insider’s guide to the hippest holidays around – is hittin’ […]
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Show Review: Keller Williams at the Englert 10/23/2009
A hyperactive Jimmy Buffet breaks through the weed smoke and patchouli to win over fans of all ages – with gentle humor, loopy romanticism and mad skills on the gee-tar.
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Iowa City Weekender : 10/22 – 10/25
Halloween starts early with so much music it’s scary!
-Keller Williams closes a kick-butt week at the Englert
-Human Aftertaste start with a song and then eat your face, right in front of your friends, at the Picador
-Intermedia Open House boggles brains out at the olde Menarts
-Ghost Stories at Oakland Cemetery’s “Black Angel”
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Album Review: The Avett Brothers
The Avett Brothers I and Love and You Sony Records http://www.theavettbrothers.com/ North Carolina’s The Avett Brothers have always had a few too many ideas for their own good. The band’s 6th studio album, I and Love and You, fits into the lose framework of Americana, but within those confines the brothers Avett are all over […]
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Iowa City Weekender – Sept 3-6
THURSDAY Lupe Fiasco | Hubbard Park (Jefferson and Madison, across from the IMU) | 8 pm | FREE SCOPE Productions, the University of Iowa’s Student Commission on Programming and Entertainment, brings us Lupe Fiasco, Grammy-winning hip-hop artist from Chicago. Be sure to make it by 6 for free food and fellowship at the pep rally, […]
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Iowa City Weekender – August 27-30
Dear Students, I know the rain is a drag, but trust me, sunshine is not a required element in your ardent intellectual pursuit. What you need is to complement your academic endeavors with a heaping weekendful of fine international cinema! So I give to you, live (well, mostly prerecorded) from the greatest city in the […]
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Talking Movies: Screening Evil
One morning in April, I went to take my dog outside before I had to leave for work. I stepped onto our porch on Iowa Avenue and saw a young skinny man standing still on the sidewalk across the street. A woman with a video camera stood at a distance from him. Moments later, the […]
