Giorgio Moroder singlehandedly invented the electro-rockin’ sound of eurodisco, and since the late-1970s, European artists have continued to expand the possibilities of dance music. This year’s Pitchfork Music Festival features some of the most cutting-edge dance artists from across the pond. Neneh Cherry July 18, 4:35 p.m. Neneh Cherry first rose to prominence in 1989 […]
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Iowa City’s most iconic bars: A look at George’s past and present
One never knows who they’re going to run into or what they’ll see when they visit a bar. I like old bars, especially ones with the right kind of atmosphere; the…
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Prairie Pop: An interview with mischievous media mogul Paul Krassner
In 1958, Paul Krassner founded The Realist, a magazine that inspired a generation of satirists and alternative-media moguls. You can draw a straight…
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Loop interview: South London Psych-rockers return after 22 year hiatus
This is your brain. Crack. This is your brain on Loop. Sizzzzzzzzzle. Born in 1986, dead by 1991 and recently arisen from the ashes, this seminal British band specializes…
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Screenshot: It’s time for video games to enter the humanities curriculum
Ever since the first versions of the video game Oregon Trail appeared in the early 1970s, the notion that video games might have a productive place in a…
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Laurie Anderson interview: An artist of her own invention
Laurie Anderson isn’t solely responsible for me turning out a little bit weird, but she still played a significant role in skewing my worldview. I stumbled across her Big Science album not long after it was released, when I was an impressionable young teenager. This 1982 record contains her unlikely hit single “O Superman (For […]
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Prairie Pop: Who’s watching big brother?
Iowa native and UI alum Cindy Cohn is the Legal Director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF). The National Law Journal named her one of the 100 most influential lawyers in America in 2013, noting, “if Big Brother is watching, he better look out for Cindy Cohn.” On Saturday, March 1—at noon in Meeting Room […]
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Prairie Pop: Power Ballads 101
Last year, Little Village turned over Kembrew McLeod’s “Prairie Pop” column to Umläut Nideldick—the legendary German song doctor and rock and roll life coach. Once again, we are proud to reprint Nideldick’s latest keynote address at the Eurovision Academy of Musical Arts (EAMA). Thank you, my fellow rockers! I am here to speak about what […]
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Pee-wee’s (remastered) Christmas Adventure: An interview with Paul Reubens
This year marks the quarter century anniversary of Pee-wee’s Playhouse Christmas Special, perhaps the most mind-bending holiday special ever aired by…
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Screenshot: An ode to the days of cheating
There are some things missing from most games these days—elements of gameplay that were once essential parts of the home gaming experience. Extra lives, for example, are a thing of the past, obviated by the ability to save one’s game, and by the ubiquitous “autosave.” With extra lives, so too goes the “Game Over,” the […]
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Art City: Finding the art of Sharpless auctions
Update: Columnist Russell Jaffe is holding an art sale of his own! Details available here. There are two things to know about Sharpless Auctions when you enter, and they both have to do with art: The first is that you have to be prepared to know how unprepared you are, and the second is that […]
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IC History: Reexamining the cold case files
Though Iowa City has never experienced a debacle on the scale of the Villisca axe murder, or crime rates like those seen in big cities, it has had its share of unsolved murders and missing persons. In late 2009, a state cold case unit was established and nearly 150 cases were listed on their website […]
