The origin myth of cinema is that when the Lumière brothers gave the first public screening of their 50-second documentary The Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat Station in 1896, the audience screamed and ran to the back of the theater in fear of the image of the oncoming locomotive. As hexing as the […]
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ARTicle: A visit to Walnut Farms: Institute of Art. Agriculture and Burning Shopping Carts
It’s another hot Iowa City summer night and in the woods, the trees hang tired and droopy. Black leaves gently shiver against a cascade of smoke rising from a 10-foot-high bonfire. Sparks of flame jaunt into the sky and crackle alongside an endless drone of mating insects. A huge hand-painted mural covered in dreamlike poetic […]
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Hot Tin Roof: Two Ant Farms – Cheap!
By Deanne Wortman On sale at TJ Maxx, $5 each—Uncle Walt’s Ant Farm Kit. I bought two for my grandson, Dean, the Bug Boy, so we could learn more about nature together. We unpacked the ant farms and read the instructions carefully. We did just as Uncle Walt said. We set up the ant farms on […]
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LVTV | Paleo on Little Village Live! // 8/08/2012
———————————————————————————————————————————————————————- ——————————- LITTLE VILLAGE LIVE ——————————– – 8.8.2012 – Paleo ===== 1/2 2/2 ===== |Paleo http://www.facebook.com/schmaleo/ — |Facebook @ http://www.facebook.com/LittleVillageLive — |Public Space One @ http://publicspaceone.com/ |KRUI @ http://krui.fm/
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UR Here: Phasebook Update
I’m kind of an almanac-y guy. I like a day’s statistics—what the high and low temperatures were, the average temperatures, the precipitation. I like to note where a day is in the annual round—solstices, equinoxes, cross-quarter days and everything in between. I like weird holidays (as I finish writing this on August 20, it’s National […]
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Talking Movies: Movie Time – FilmScene’s Fall Programming Lineup Gets Underway
Once upon a time our downtown was lit by the Astro, the Englert, and the Campus Theaters. One by one they faded. Only the Bijou, our solitary star, still flickers. A leviathan named Marcus took over. But after a long period in which darkness reigned, we’re on the verge of a new era for the […]
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ARTicle: Art on Demand at the Iowa City Public Library
Where does art live? If you’re in the Iowa City area, can abide by some very generous checkout times and can offer it the promise of shelter for a month or so, art can live with you, thanks to the Iowa City Public Library’s Art-To-Go Collection. Also, if you’re a local artist, it might just […]
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LVTV | Sean McConnel of Cold Country on Little Village Live! // 8/1/2012
———————————————————————————————————————————————————————- ——————————- LITTLE VILLAGE LIVE ——————————– – 8.1.2012 – Sean McConnell ===== “Take It From Me” “Fly On Your Wall” “Little Bird” “Carried Away With The Wind” ===== |Cold Country http://coldcountry.bandcamp.com/ — |Facebook @ http://www.facebook.com/LittleVillageLive — |Public Space One @ http://publicspaceone.com/ |KRUI @ http://krui.fm/
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LVTV | William Danger Ford + Christy Brown-Kwaiser on Little Village Live! // 7/25/2012
——————————– LITTLE VILLAGE LIVE ——————————– – 7.25.2012 – William Danger Ford Christy Brown-Kwaiser ===== William Danger Ford (1/2) (2/2) === Christy Brown-Kwaiser – “What’s So Silly About Mary” Christy Brown-Kwaiser ===== |William Danger Ford {http://soundcloud.com/williamdangerford} |Christy Brown-Kwaiser {http://soundcloud.com/christy-brown-kwaiser} — Facebook @ http://www.facebook.com/LittleVillageLive — Public […]
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LVTV | We The Ravine on Little Village Live! // 6/20/2012
We The Ravine from Iowa City, Iowa performing at Public Space One on June 20th, 2012. —- “Ulcers” “Handsome Tail” “(Uninspired Religious Story, or, Otherwise Untitled)” To hear more from We The Ravine, visit their soundcloud @ http://soundcloud.com/we_the_ravine Little […]
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Rotten Tomatoes University of Iowa Experience Reviews: – Switch – Up: My University of Iowa Experience (Tom Podczerwinski)
“Rotten Tomatoes” is a review writing and critiquing class being offered as a section of “Writing Commons: A Community of Writers” at the University of Iowa. For many of these authors, this is their first publication. Switch-Up: My University of Iowa Experience By Tom Podczerwinski I remember a time when I asked my friend about […]
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ARTicle: A Little More Room for Art in Iowa
You don’t have to be a mathlete—or even a little mathletic—to know that there are multiple parts to an equation. You have the numbers of course, or parties involved. You have the function. Are they going to multiply? Divide? And what will the outcome be? For art’s sake, there’s no better illustration of this than […]
