This is the only thing you will need to navigate New Year’s Eve in Iowa City.
Yacht Club Iowa City
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On the Beat: Hometown sound
In Everything But The Girl’s “25th December” (one of those great non-Christmas Christmas songs that end up on “indie xmas” mix tapes), Ben Watt sings about the quintessential winter feeling: regret. “I’m thirty and I don’t know nothing no more,” he whines in the way that only British people can whine, thinking about old friends, […]
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Iowa City Weekender: December 2-5
The week has been cloudy and grey. The weekend will not. I will not allow it.
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Iowa City Weekender: November 18-21
Bundle up and get to these events. You can shake your groove thing, laugh, hear beautiful songs, see amazing things, or remember how hard it was to be 10. All of these are better ideas that sitting in your house this weekend.
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Iowa City Weekender: November 11-15
A special long version of the Weekender. From Thursday to Monday.
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Album Review: Katharine Ruestow – Self-titled
You might be familiar with Katharine Ruestow as one of the Diplomettes–the female vocal duo that fronts the Iowa City Soul and R&B group The Diplomats of Solid Sound–or as part of Iowa City band New Beat Society, which gigged around town in 2005 and 2006 and released one EP, Bare Essentials. Ruestow’s self-titled solo […]
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DVS1 @ Blue Moose Sat 10/9, Or Why You Should Care About Real Dance Music
REAL Dance Music touches down on Saturday night! There will be an evening of House and Techno dance music at the Blue Moose tomorrow, ending a drought in Iowa City of proper dance music events.
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On the Beat: October’s bag of tricks
Best known for Halloween, its costume-and-trickery grand finale, October leaves almost everything to the imagination. The theme of surprise and disguise has also been a trend this year in local music promotion. With the rapidly changing venue scene, including new owners/bookers/venues, a bunch of shows popped up that had people saying, “Really? That show is happening there?.
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Iowa City Weekender: September 30-October 2
Iowa City is pulling out all the stops to welcome visitors for homecoming weekend, so here are the things we are most looking forward to: THURSDAY The Poison Control Center w. Utopia Park, Mumfords | Gabe’s | 7:00 p.m. | $5, All Ages Some of the state’s most promising indie artists will be at Gabe’s […]
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Iowa City Weekender: September 16-20
Where’s a holiday when you need one? This weekend started last night with Pezzettino and Mike Mangione at the Blue Moose, and it won’t stop till late-late-late on Monday night…And in between? Oh, let me tell you!
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Iowa City Weekender: September 9-12
Hookahs n Funk | Goodbye, Casiotone | Hood Internet | Football Football Football | Literature | Jazz | Park Life | All the weekend you can handle
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Binge Drinking, B.C.
Between the city council’s passage of the “21-Only” ordinance aimed at keeping those under the age of 21 out of Iowa City bars after 10 p.m. and The University of Iowa’s new “Think Before You Drink” initiative aimed at cracking down on tailgating-related drinking, the powers that be are hoping to alter the course of the river of booze that flows through Iowa City.
