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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Big Dreams
Features: February 2010 – Valentine’s Day is nearly upon us: the season of love and kisses, of hearts and flowers, of infinite romantic possibility, right? “Let’s face it,” says Angie Toomsen of Dreamwell Theater. “It’s a totally lame holiday that glosses over the true complexity of human relationships and makes people feel like crap if […]
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Iowa City Weekender: February 4-7
Greetings, Weekenders! Big thanks to Caleb Hawley and Reed Waddle for being our special guests on last night’s edition of Little Village Live – our weekly radio show, Wednesdays 5-6 pm on KRUI. Check back soon for video clips of their live in-studio performance. Tune in next week for a special Tuesday edition – that’s […]
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Sam Locke-Ward & Kate Kane – Live @ Java House 2010-01-29
The Java House has been branching out into having more live performances of late, and a week after a wonderfully raucous show at the Mill, Kate (of Lipstick Homicide & Boo Hoos) and Sam (of Miracles of God & SLW & the Boo Hoos) did an acoustic show. Pictures by the lovely and talented Barefoot […]
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The Boo Hoos, Lipstick Homicide, Hott, and Old Panther Live 1-23!
I hauled out the trusty Zoom H4 to the Mill last Saturday night, and recorded some good ol homegrown Iowa Rock & Roll. So Here it is, with no commercial interruption! All pics (except the first) were taken by the person I know only as Barefoot Adrienne — see all her pictures from the night […]
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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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Little Village Weekender: January 21-24
– “Live from Prairie Lights” kicks off its Spring 2010 series with a reading from Daniyal Mueenuddin
– Datagun dusts off the stage at the Picador for a CD release party
– Yoga marathon at Heartland Yoga
– Celebrate 7 years of good times at the Yacht Club with 7 bands for $7
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Iowa City Weekender: January 14-18
The Laramie Project opens at Theatre Cedar Rapids
Local Hip Hop throwdown at PS1
Fleece begins at birth – sewing party to benefit UIHC NICU
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Iowa City Weekender: January 7-9
Advertising in the Weekender is cheap and easy – Contact us here! Eerily quiet downtown today. Classic snowy tree scenes, the deafening, paranoia-inducing sound of snow creaking under your boots – or is it just me? Thankfully in Iowa City there are many ways to fight cabin fever, but it seems this week that live […]
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Iowa City Weekender: New Years Eve
This week’s Weekender is brought to you by Eco-Iowa City’s Green New Year’s Eve Party Nice idea, Eco-Iowa City – Register your ‘green resolution’ and chart your progress (publicly, on the online forum, or privately, like confession and stuff, on their server) for 4 months, from New Year’s Day to Earth Day, April 22, 2010. […]
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Brittany Murphy's Lesser Known Movies
So, writing about a movie star when they die isn’t exactly my thing, but Brittany Murphy dying got to me. And I wouldn’t write about it at all except that through random trolling for movies with Melissa, I saw a few of her lesser known movies that were interesting. To wit: Sidewalks of New York […]
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Iowa City Weekender: December 17-19
This week’s Weekender is brought to you by Iowa City Public Library’s Online Resources/Mango Languages! A balmy 29 degrees outside, no complaints from me! What have we to look forward to this weekend? THURSDAY Staff Show | Dawn’s Hide and Bead Away (220 E. Washington) | 5 pm | FREE If your inner crafter was […]
