Cheered on by the Melrose Neighborhood Association, a committee led by Housing and Inspection Services Director Doug Boothroy recommended that vendors not be allowed to operate along Melrose Avenue on football gamedays. The committee reasoned that, since the area is zoned residential, anything short of a ban would constitute a willful disregard…
Public Space One
Iowa City Weekender: April 21-23
It’s a new, revamped Weekender. Well, sort of. It’s more like a return to form.
Little Village Live on KRUI 2/23/2011: OSG
The music was indeed Oh So Good, proving apt the acronym behind the clever shorthand of local funk band OSG. Unfortunately, the night’s audio recording turned out only some good. Songs were saved, however: almost fifteen minutes of saliva-inducing splendor.
Iowa City Weekender: April 14-17
More action than you can shake a very long stick at this weekend.
The Stage: Get in on the Act
Working Group Theatre Make it Better Iowa Sunday, April 17 at 4 p.m. Grand Ballroom, Hotel Vetro An earlier version of this story mistakenly stated there was a charge for […]
Astrology Forecast for April 2011
FOR EVERYONE ~ Impasse. Whether its parking space, health care, the public library, education, energy or water, we all share resources – and expenses. We need to cooperate and share […]
Your Town Now: The Month that was March 2011
Is This Heaven…? In a memo to the Iowa City Council, Police Chief Sam Hargadine and Transportation Planner John Yapp laid out the case for traffic-enforcement cameras in Iowa City. […]
Artists Funding Art
Patrons of the arts are often characterized as cultural or political fat cats who support artists financially to improve their social standing, make more money, or insert other, nebulous, self-serving […]
Show Photos: Skye Carrasco @ PS1 – 4/1
Skye stopped in to the KRUI camp at Public Space One on Friday to give folks a taste of what they’d be getting at the Mill later that night. Surrounded by soft, glowing fluorescent hatchets, (part of the art exhibit presently on display) Skye wove a tapestry of sound with her violin and her stunning voice.
Photos: Kim Gordon, Thurston Moore, Chris Corsano; Das Racist on KRUI – 3/31
Since KRUI has hunkered down at Public Space One for the week, they have seen a myriad of performers trek through. On Thursday, I snuck down there just in time to catch Kim, Thurston and Chris chatting with our lovely KRUI djs.
Little Village Live on KRUI: Santah 3/23/2011
Little Village Live airs Wednesdays from 5-6 PM on KRUI 89.7 FM. Santah joined us at Public Space One on March 23. Download and listen to their acoustic set of evocative, personal songs here.
Iowa City Weekender: March 31-April 2
Mission Creek is in full effect. Go check it out this weekend.