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05/26/2025

Wherever you're swimming this Memorial Day, it's definitely not at City Park Pool.

Fashion photos by Karla Monroe, featuring Natalie Lawrence and Lexi Wells at the Robert A. Lee Community Recreation Center pool in Iowa City. The last time Iowa Citians didn’t have […]

05/23/2025

Once called "a very good man" by Trump—who stopped short of endorsing him in 2024—David Pautsch promises to crush "decadence," "warped sexual agendas" and loud noises that interrupt his campaign rallies.

Did he mention Trump once called him "a very good man"?

Promising “at least three major town halls and dozens of public stops,” Republican David Paustch announced on Friday he’s launching a tour of all 20 counties in Iowa’s 1st Congressional […]

05/22/2025

So far, no one has taken credit for the amendment removing "for minors" from a ban on Medicare coverage for trans surgeries. ACA Marketplace insurers also wouldn't have to cover gender-affirming care under the bill.

Meanwhile, Iowa will lose an estimated $518 million in Medicaid funds.

The U.S. House of Representatives passed its version of the tax and spending bill supported by President Trump early on Thursday morning. A last-minute change to the bill, apparently to […]

05/22/2025

At Kitty Corner Social Club, it's less about the house roast than the house cats: Biggums, Edie, Goose, Howard Hamlin, Hattie the As**at and other great hangs.

The first cat café in the world opened in Taipei, Taiwan in 1998. Called Cat Flower Garden, it was born out of its founders’ love for local strays and from […]

05/21/2025

“I want a Democratic Party that people like me want to be a part of,” Sen. Ernst challenger Nathan Sage told the crowd at Big Grove Brewery. “… Let’s open the door to the people who are on the fringe, and don’t really know what the Democratic Party stands for.”

“At the end of the day, we’re all pi**ed off and we’re tired of what’s going on and we need a change,” Nathan Sage told the packed room at Big […]

05/21/2025

Shostakovich wrote his Fifth Symphony in 1937 while under threat from Josef Stalin. The composer combined fascist-friendly rhythms and forms with subversive notes and harmonies — a complexity Orchestra Iowa captured with aplomb, according to Kent Williams.

Orchestra Iowa (previously the Cedar Rapids Symphony Orchestra) presented their next-to-last concert of the season on Sunday, May 18 at the Coralville Center For the Performing Arts. I don’t think it […]

05/20/2025

"I was introduced to a spring princess, an old man, a mother, a man with a set of demonic eyes and a flying dragon," Matt Nelson writes of his recent visit to the Sasago Oiwake Puppet Theater's rehearsal space in Yamanashi, Japan, Iowa's sister state.

The endangered, 300-year-old art of bunraku will be showcased at Iowa Asian Alliance's CelebrAsian fest, the Des Moines Playhouse and more this week.

Steam wafts from the big bowl of noodles before me while Yoko Tanaka, the executive director of the Japan America Society of Iowa, shares her plan to bring the Japanese […]

05/20/2025

“Tuition should not always be the go-to solution when budgets are tight,” University of Iowa Student Body President Thomas Knudsen told the Regents. “When higher education is a public good, it deserves consistent support from the state.”

Frustration. Defeat. Uncertainty about whether they will be able to complete their goals. These are some of the feelings University of Iowa Student Body President Thomas Knudsen said fellow UI […]

05/19/2025

“We want to present riskier choices ... things that aren’t happening in Des Moines," said About Time Theatre Company member Michael LaDell Harris. "Maybe it doesn’t appeal to everybody, but that’s OK.”

Their first production premieres this month.

If you have an adventurous palate when it comes to theatrical experiences, it’s about time this seven-player troupe came into your life. About Time Theatre Company is made up of […]

05/16/2025

“Iowa school districts should take note of this decision and revert any changes they have made to comply with these unconstitutional mandates from the state," said Thomas Story of ACLU of Iowa, asserting "the worst aspects of SF 496" had been blocked.

A federal judge issued a preliminary injunction late on Thursday, blocking parts of the anti-LGBTQ education bill signed into law by Gov. Kim Reynolds in May 2023. SF 496 attracted […]

05/16/2025

To put it simply, the man lives to post. He has a real flair for grammatically loose constructions that seem to make up their own rules in real time. The results are often bizarre and instantly memorable.

You could make a decent argument that the most experimental poetry coming out of Iowa for the past 15 years had nothing to do with the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, and […]

05/16/2025

The injunction bars Sec. Noem, Homeland Security and ICE from initiating or ordering the arrest, detention or transfer of the four plaintiffs without first providing adequate notice.

Stating that she has “little confidence” the U.S. Department of Homeland Security will comply with its own regulations, a federal judge on Thursday issued a preliminary injunction protecting four University […]

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