Avi Lapchick, Assistant Arts Editor
• August 31, 2023
If you made the decision to walk along the Iowa River’s north banks Tuesday evening, you’d likely be met with the quiet serenity of leisurely water and the comforting breeze of a hot day finally...
Over 50 restaurants and hundreds of community members participated and enjoyed the 15th Annual Taste of Iowa City that occurred downtown on Tuesday. After postponing the event for a week because of extreme...
Upbeat music filled the Pedestrian Mall in downtown Iowa City this weekend with the scents of spices and sizzling meat wafting between white tents as vendors sold colorful handmade accessories.
The...
Thousands flocked to the Pedestrian Mall on Saturday for the 11th annual Iowa City Latino Fest, celebrating Latinx cultural heritage. Various vendors sold food while community members enjoyed traditions,...
Texas county rock singer Joey Green played alongside bandmates at Wildwood Smokehouse and Saloon in Iowa City on Saturday. His show was opened by Texas folk artist Erick Willis.
Green gained popularity...
Since the Stanley Museum of Art’s opening a year ago, thousands of visitors have viewed the museum’s original collection from the University of Iowa Museum of Art that was destroyed in the 2008...
A group of University of Iowa alumni wanted to bring a space to Iowa City for artists to sell vintage and locally-sourced goods. Since the first IC Flea last October, the market has doubled in size.
“Iowa...
Iowa City’s annual flea market was held at the PS1 Close House in Iowa City on Sunday.
The Market has become a staple of Iowa City’s young artist scene, featuring vendors selling vintage clothes,...
On one side, an explosion of glorious pink, girly-girls dressed in the glitter and frills of their dreams. On the other side, serious faces fit for a cologne ad, with their hats tipped below their eyes...
Behind a plume of cigarette smoke on the walk up to The James Theater’s Gilbert Street entrance was a portal to the pinnacle of the 1990s punk rock scene: welcome to Illiterati Fest 2.
The...
Following the announcement of the Infinite Dream festival set to take place this fall, as well as the earlier report of a new Broadway subscription series, the University of Iowa’s Hancher Auditorium...
Leslie Lehr wears many hats: writer, director, mother, and survivor. In her new book, “A Boob’s Life,” released in March of 2021, Lehr describes how she realized a broader, cultural obsession...
