Hello and welcome to another edition of the Weekender. Here’s what’s happening in your chilly town this weekend! THURSDAY Gerhard Loewenberg // Prairie Lights // 7:00 PM // Free From Prairie Lights: University of Iowa’s Professor Emeritus Gerhard Loewenberg will read from his new memoir, Moved by Politics. In his memoir, Loewenberg tells of twelve experiences […]
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On The Beat: What shows are in store for the winter migration
Iowa City has been pretty quiet over the past few weeks. That tends to be the case when a big chunk of the population migrates to Chicagoland (or wherever), and another chunk goes into hibernation. We all must accept the fact that less people in town means fewer shows. That is not to say that […]
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A-List: The Seagull Society: SAVED! Open-Mic Storytelling Event Jan. 25
The Seagull Society: SAVED! Open-Mic Storytelling Event Jan. 25 | 8 p.m. Public Space One (129 E. Washington) Iowa City’s iconic Seagull Society presents another night of open mic, pull-no-punches storytelling based around the theme SAVED! “What saved you?” the group asks on its Facebook event page, “The light? The bell? The goalie?” Join this […]
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Iowa City Weekender: January 17-19
Hello and welcome to another edition of the Weekender. If it’s alright with you, I’m just going to jump right in. Here’s what’s going on in Iowa City this weekend: THURSDAY The Felice Brothers w. Terrible // The Mill // 9:00 PM // $12 Adv., $15 Day Of It is refreshing to learn that The […]
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Iowa City Weekender: January 4-5
Hello and welcome to the first Weekender of 2013! I hope everyone is recovering from NYE celebrations, because it’s almost time to get back up and out there. Things are starting to pick up this weekend. We’ve got a few relatively rare performances from bands with Iowa City ties, one of which will take place […]
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The Tube: America’s Favorite Scapegoat
I was recently in Austin, Texas, for a television studies conference. Yes, people actually study TV. While I was there, I picked up a copy of the publication Infowars, which is either a collection of conspiracy theories or a collection of truths, depending on your point of view. The cover illustration for this issue depicts a […]
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Music: Elite Eight Albums of the Year 2012
If nothing else, 2012 can be described as the Year of Easy Listening. A multitude of indie bands (Beach House, The Walkmen, Divine Fits), beat makers (Flying Lotus, Lindstrom, Crystal Castles) and hip-hop artists (Killer Mike, El-P, Big KRIT) put out strong, extremely listenable albums, which, in turn, made it difficult for anything to really […]
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American Reason: The Ten Percent – Matt & Vik debate the case of Abigail Fisher vs. UT Austin
Matt Sowada: On Oct. 10, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in the case of Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin. At issue in the case is whether or not the University’s use of “race” as a factor in undergraduate admissions is permitted under the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. While we’ll […]
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Opinion: The Visual Rhetoric of Public Space
For Laura Rigal, 15-year UI faculty member and professor of English and American Studies, the visual rhetoric of the ads for Park @ 201, the new Moen Group building on the Pedestrian Mall, composes a compelling archive of how Iowa City has been impacted by Anglo-European settlement, federal funding, finance capital, contestations over public space […]
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LVTV | Milk & Eggs on Little Village Live! // 09/19/2012
LITTLE VILLAGE LIVE 09.19.2012 Milk & Eggs “Don’t Know How” “A Woman You Love” “Little Sweetheart” “Birdhouses” “What The Doctor Said” |Milk & Eggs https://www.facebook.com/milkaneggs?fref=ts |Facebook @ http://www.facebook.com/LittleVillageLive |Public Space One @ http://publicspaceone.com/ |KRUI @ http://krui.fm/
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The Best Fries in Iowa City
The election is over and still we are the United States of America. Still we are united by our fundamental principles of blurting out whatever we want whenever and to whomever we want to, drinking oceans of flavored vodka and creating fake Twitter accounts of celebrities we like. Most of all, however, we are latticed […]
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Arts Review: Gaia Nardie-Warner’s “Limelight”
I stopped by Public Space One the day after the opening of Gaia Nardie-Warner’s “Limelight,” and the gallery space had its fluorescent lights on. These had been turned off during the opening, so that track lighting provided the paintings’ only illumination. I therefore experienced them under both flattering and unflattering lights, and was struck by […]
