For two years, a collaboration of brewers from the Boston Beer Company and Weihenstephan worked to develop a unique new beer. The result, the champagne-like Infinium, was brewed in accordance with the German Beer Purity Law of 1516 with a process that is still patent pending. On its webpage, the beer is praised as “groundbreaking” […]
Things to do in Iowa City
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Iowa City Weekender: November 29 – December 1
Hello and welcome to another edition of the Weekender. Another solid weekend awaits us. Here’s the scoop: THURSDAY The King Khan & BBQ Show // The Mill // 10:00 PM // $12 Adv., $15 Day Of Spawned from ‘90s garage punk, the King Khan & BBQ Show have recently reunited. After a bitter breakup and falling out between […]
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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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A-List: God-Des & She – Gabes Dec. 4
God-Des & She w/ I.C. Kings | Gabe’s | Dec. 4 8 p.m. | $8/$12 God-Des & She (“God-Des” as in “goddess”) combines the spirited rap lyrics of God-Des with the soulful vibrato of She to create a proud-to-be-me vibe of love and happiness. She’s astounding vocals can reach the emotional heights of those of […]
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Talking Movies: Skyfall Review – It’s a Man’s World.
I don’t know what’s more shocking: that twenty-three James-Bond movies have been made over the past fifty years, or that I’ve seen them all willingly. To understand why Skyfall, Sam Mendes’s fine reboot of the 007 myth, is such a supremely enjoyable movie, we need to understand why even the aggressively bad Bond flicks, of […]
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Interview: Uncommon Feat – The Hood Internet
A few weeks ago I asked The Hood Internet’s STV SLV if he was interested in chatting with me for Little Village. Under the one condition that we refer to it as “Lil Village,” he agreed. Here are the highlights: LV: Let’s talk about FEAT. I’ll let you explain what it is, exactly because it’s […]
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The Stage: Theatre Cedar Rapids’ Underground New Play Festival
One of my best friends used to work at a state-run hospital for convicts who required intense psychiatric care. She once observed, “Hearing a guy say ‘Jesus told me to kill my wife’ is enough to turn anybody off of religion.” When I learned that Tom Deiker, a playwright featured in Theatre Cedar Rapids’ (TCR) […]
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Iowa City Weekender: November 23-24
Hello and welcome to another edition of the Weekender. I’ve decided to cut out Thursday this week because it’s Thanksgiving and well, nothing is really happening. For those of us who are staying in town, it’s going to be pretty quiet around these parts for the next few days. That said, there are still a […]
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On the Beat: Reunion Rock
Kelly Pardekooper began his musical career right here in Iowa City. Though currently based in Indianapolis, Pardekooper certainly hasn’t abandoned his Iowa roots. His 2011 album, Yonder, was produced by celebrated Iowa City country legend, Bo Ramsey. The album features plenty of Ramsey’s guitar work and consists of mostly live recordings at Minstrel Studios, […]
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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 […]
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Prairie Pop: Putting the Mental back in Instrumental
My son Alasdair turns two next month, and lately he has been immersing himself in the wild world of sound. If mom walks up the creaky wooden stairs to his bedroom, he’ll say, “Mommy sound!” Or, when I crack open a PBR, Alasdair points to the can and blurts out, “Daddy sound!” A train whistle […]
