The Iowa City Madrigal Singers are set to celebrate the Yuletide season with a dinner to support United Action for Youth this coming weekend. The event consists of a-cappella and instrumental music and a four-course dinner with wassail.
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‘Make art. Shoot a video. Play in a band.’ Gen X rockers reunite in Iowa City to encourage the next generation
“At the Old Threshers Reunion this summer, you’re going to come across some old pumps, tractors and hay balers, and there’ll be too-cute nanny goats and freckled girls in pigtails,” said musician David Murray, summing up the annual festival in Mt. Pleasant, Iowa that celebrates the state’s agricultural heritage. “If you go to the Old […]
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With 50th anniversary celebrations suspended, UAY continues focusing on youth well-being online
Fred Rodgers said, “When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, ‘Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping.’” During the current global pandemic, there have been countless helpers both internationally and locally, and Iowa City’s United Action for […]
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Iowa City to be renamed Iowa Rock City
By order of a special “rocklamation,” the City of Iowa City will officially change its name to “Iowa Rock City” on March 28, 2015. The one-day name change was approved at tonight’s Iowa City Council meeting. The rocking initiative is the brainchild of University of Iowa communications professor and Little Village columunist Kembrew McLeod, who […]
