What do you get when over 2000 kids fill the seats for a hockey game? Screaming, shrieking, and never ending energy.
The Bears hung tough. But in the end, it wasn’t enough to beat the rival Packers in Green Bay.
On November 12, Nuovo Testamento graced Iowa City with their music live at The James Theater as a part of The Englert Theatre’s Track Zero concert series. I attended the concert that night, fully ready to boost a move myself.
Local Iowa City band Twin River Revivalist put on a great show last Halloweekend. With songs that can charge up any crowd, their next show at Elray’s this Friday, Dec. 5th is sure to be a good one.
I sat down with multi-instrumentalists Jano Rix before his gig with The Wood Brothers at The Englert Theatre on November 12th. Taking a beat to touch on what shaped him artistically, his favorite illustrators, and the impact dancing has had in his adult life, Jano let us into how he makes a chaotic world feel focused and comfortable.
Good. Better. Best…Again. The Bears keep the Chi-train moving, routing the Eagles in an NFC slug fest.
George’s Buffet is an unassuming dive bar sat just off of the one-way, westbound, Market Street. The small structure is saddled between an alley leading back to another side street and a modern imposing building housing The Webster (a high-end feature in Iowa City’s restaurant scene) on the corner of North Linn Street. Further up the road is the Bluebird’s parking lot, and its corresponding classic diner.
The Blind Boys of Alabama took the whole crowd of The Englert Theater to church this last Friday night.
An album review of Strong Asian Mother’s new EP “Lynx Africa.”
Spending 20 minutes getting ready for an 8:30 class while some of your girl peers obviously spend an hour or more is so frustrating.
Iowa City Observations is a continuing column in which I venture out into the streets of Iowa City and ask people to inspire me, as well as make probably irrelevant observations about Iowa City itself.
Walking around the University of Iowa campus, one thing you don’t expect to see if students and faculty smoking cigarettes on the side of the street.
Check out Caroline Rose’s brave new american album, I Will Not Be Afraid.
Come check out this misty acid country album by Web of Sunsets. (Photo by Graham Tolbert, via citypages.com)
Check out this week’s track, “Bright Leaves” off of Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin’s new album, Fly By Wire.
