Bienvenidos, everyone. This weekend’s holiday is a little silly as it is basically a Mexican holiday that doesn’t really exist in Mexico. I think I’m okay with Cinco de Mayo though, as an American day of celebrating Mexican culture. Either way, it’ll likely serve as a reminder of why I stay away from tequila. It’s […]
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“The Burg: A Writer’s Diner” Launched 4/24 – Reading 5/8 at Prairie Lights
I tend to feel a bit possessive of Hamburg Inn. It’s always the first stop for my boyfriend and me when he visits Iowa City, and I’m pretty convinced the pork tenderloin was created solely for my benefit. The magical thing about Hamburg, though, is that most of the people I know feel the same […]
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Iowa City Weekender: April 26-28
Hello, hello. Come on in. Get settled in for another dose of the Weekender. Here’s how it’s going to work this week: This weekend, especially Thursday (tonight) is nuts and there is simply too much to write about. For the most part my blurbs are unnecessary for these things. For example, I think we all […]
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Photos: Late works by Mauricio Lasansky
This afternoon, some friends from the Des Moines Art Center’s Print Club are in Iowa City visiting the studios of active UI professors Anita Jung and Susan White, and the late Mauricio Lasansky. Lasansky, who passed away earlier this month, is the founder of the UI printmaking department. He is universally recognized as one of […]
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LVTV | William Fitzsimmons “Passion Play” – LIVE @ PS1 [Mission Creek 2012] // 3/28/2012
LIVE at KRUI’s Lounge @ Public Space One [March 28] [Mission Creek 2012]
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Iowa City Weekender: April 19-21
Welcome to another edition of the Weekender. Right off the bat I should mention that it’s VEISHIA week in Ames Iowa. VEISHIA takes place over six days and is a celebration of music, art, culture and education. I’ve never had a chance to experience the festival myself, but from what I’ve heard it’s a total […]
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Record Collector celebrates its 30th Anniversary with Record Store Day
Smooth black discs, with indentations that serve as a path for a needle to follow, generate music that must be flipped over when the first side is complete. They can’t be easily reproduced like CDs or massively downloaded from a server, and they certainly can’t be shuffled. Yet, there’s a whole day dedicated to celebrating […]
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Show Preview: Musical Charis @ Uptown Bill’s Tuesday April 17
WHO: Musical Charis WHERE: Uptown Bills’s 730 South Dubuque Street, Iowa City, IA 52240 WHEN: 7PM Tuesday April 17th, 2012 Uptown Bill’s is an Iowa City music venue that doesn’t get the same coverage as the bars in town that feature live music. But UB’s deserves special mention because it’s much more than a place […]
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ARTicle: The Art of Hospitality: The Hotel at Kirkwood Center
Look just beyond Iowa City, a quick highway drive up 380, to The Hotel Kirkwood Center. The ambitious building is a multi-million-dollar endeavor, melding 5-star hotel swankiness with an upscale conference center, inspired restaurant, office complex and art collection. Three hundred pieces, to be exact, all procured by Arbe Bareis, Kirkwood’s Fine and Performing Arts […]
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Talking Movies: Is Wes Anderson a Sellout?
Have you seen the new Wes Anderson? No, I don’t mean the new Wes Anderson film (that would be Moonrise Kingdom, set to premiere at this year’s Cannes Film Festival!), I mean the new Wes Anderson ad for the Hyundai Azera–two ads, in fact, which his ardent fans pass around the internet as if they […]
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The Stage: Grad Students Take a Bow: New Play Festival 2012
At the end of every spring semester, The University of Iowa Theatre department brings us its annual New Play Festival. Composed of several new works written and directed by MFA students. Since the first NPF more than twenty years ago, the festival has been dedicated to bringing new works to the public within a short […]
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Show Preview: Koplant No and Slip Silo – April 14 at the Blue Moose
This Saturday at the Blue Moose Taphouse, two bands who are joined at the head (i.e. overlapping personnel) will be having a CD release party, for the new Slip Silo CD. If you aren’t familiar with these guys, they’re mostly graduates of the University of Iowa Jazz program. Like other alumni (I’m looking at you, […]
