Perhaps freedom isn’t free, but 4th of July weekend is!
Jazz Fest (July 3-5) is bringing some of the biggest names in Jazz to downtown Iowa City — all for our very free enjoyment — AND, when the festival finishes around 9:30/10?  The Mill is inviting the musicians over for jam sessions both Friday and Saturday [...]

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The Red Avocado likes us! Enough to host a fundraising dinner in our favor, at least. The oh-so-tasty organic whole foods restaurant will be giving half of its profits (half!!) to support the presence of Iowa City’s only alt-monthly, us. Please join us in deliciousness from 5 to 8:30pm, Wednesday, June 24 (tomorrow!!).
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The IC Weekender is sponsored by the Mississippi Valley Blues Festival, July 2-4, 2009
Ah, just when we’ve started to recover from Arts Fest, the weekend is here again! Big thanks to Andre Perry and The Mill for bringing yet another world-class band to Iowa City–Last night’s Rock Plaza Central (http://www.rockplazacentral.com/) show was definitely one to [...]

One morning in April, I went to take my dog outside before I had to leave for work. I stepped onto our porch on Iowa Avenue and saw a young skinny man standing still on the sidewalk across the street. A woman with a video camera stood at a distance from him. Moments later, the [...]

As of 2009, there is only one Bicycle Friendly Business (BFB) in the state of Iowa, and it is located in our very own Iowa City.
The League of American Bicyclists named the Broken Spoke as a bronze level BFB last March. According to the League, which has 300,000 members, only 47 total businesses in the United [...]

Superintendent Lane Plugge’s office on Dubuque Street is in the three-story brick building that used to be Henry Sabin Elementary School. The elementary school closed in 1979. Now it’s the Iowa City Community School District’s administration building, and site of increasingly fractious school board meetings on the second and fourth Tuesdays of the month. Plugge [...]

We’ve lost another one, too soon.
On February 25, Bill Holm passed away at age 65.
Bill Holm was one of our great writers of the Midwest and of place. He was literally a giant of a man—closer to seven feet than six, enormous Viking build, beard and hair—first reddish and then, over time, a magnificent white—that [...]