There are moments when you’re eating, and you sigh with certainty that nothing has ever tasted so perfect. These moments can happen often in the Iowa City area, if you know how to look for them. Here’s a starter guide…
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Farmer Spotlight: An interview with Lois Pavelka and Bill Ellison of Pavelka’s Point Meats
On their small farm nestled between Solon and Mount Vernon, Lois Pavelka and Bill Ellison of Pavelka’s Point Meats have set the local standard for sustainable…
Guide: CSA in the Iowa City area
Community supported agriculture, or CSA, allows community members to purchase shares, or memberships, with area farms. Contribution early in the season allows farmers to properly gauge demand. In return for purchasing a CSA share, community members receive farm-fresh product, without the retail markups.
Guide: Iowa City bars & their most popular drinks
Whether you are looking for a club, a pub or to fill your stein with the latest craft beer release, downtown Iowa City has a lot to offer a drinking crowd. Explore some of the area’s bars through their most popular drinks.
Interview: Simeon Coxe of Silver Apples discusses his beginnings in oddball musicals and the lawsuit that changed his carreer
Sometimes rock and roll is stranger than fiction, and when you add experimental…
Prairie Pop: Behind the door of Studio 54
Studio 54 was more than just a nightclub — it was a pop culture supernova. “To me, the best room in the city has always been Studio 54,” says Jim […]
Prairie Pop: How the Village People conquered the mainstream
Performance artists and matrimonial ceremonies usually don’t mix, but the Village People have nonetheless been a wedding party staple for years…
Prairie Pop: The secret history of Craig Leon, punk’s electronic-music innovator
Craig Leon made a name for himself producing the first New York punk records by The Ramones, Richard Hell & The Voidoids, Blondie and Suicide. But who knew…
Prairie Pop: Exploring the endearing punk past of ‘The Fast’
For every hitmaker that emerged from the mid-1970s New York punk scene, like Blondie or Talking Heads, there were several more obscure groups like The Fast. Well, actually, no one […]
Astronaut Chris Hadfield interview: On space and copyright oddities
Last year, Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield and his son Evan cooked up an out-of-this-world family project: a cover of David Bowie’s 1969 hit “Space Oddity…
Interview: Blondie’s Gary Lachman on his early days in NYC and lifelong fascination with the occult
For a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee, Gary Lachman has had an unusual career trajectory. In the mid-1970s he joined Blondie as their boy wonder…
How electronic music pioneer Giorgio Moroder laid the foundation for modern dance music
When Giorgio Moroder appears at this year’s Pitchfork Music Festival on Friday, July 18, he’ll be the oldest artist there—by a long shot. Nevertheless, this 74-year-old…