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The final moments The closing of Pearson's Drug Store on Aug. 15 was an occasion for everything from sadness to anger; owner Pat O'Neill was cast as both a Jesus and a Judas; and the media descended like vultures. Is there a DJ in Little Village's Adam Witte was there to the house? witness the final moments as a not-so . DJ Vincent Lee pre �es 0 er innocent bystander. Ie's growing house-music s
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• ' ''' ....7_ ...'' · Iowa City as home n open letter to the people of Iowa City: In all my visits to Iowa City, I have felt at home. I have felt at home because of the open-minded, independent and free-think ing people who are atlIacted to this com munity. It is these people who have made, and continue to make, Iowa City, overall, a welcoming and enlightened place to be. So my recent decision to put the visits behind me and make the move to Iowa City came without hesitation. A transfer student, I came as many young people do-seeking Three Clown Faces by SandyDyu a quality liberal-arts education in a liberal town. Little Village welcomes your signed letters. Letters should not be longer than 400 For me, the literary lineage of the words and may be edited for length, libelous content and clarity. Lettel'S may be e· University of Iowa-and in turn, of the larg mailed to or mailed to PO Box 736, Iowa City, IA 52244. er community-is a particular draw. I've Please include a daytime phone number and city of residence. Letters and other sub missions become the property of and wilt not be returned without an long been atl!acted to the written word and Little Village its power-the power to educate, to liberate SASE. We l.ook forward to hearing from you.
• and to move people. It is not by accident that Iowa City, with strong literary roots, reporting standpoint, the Press-Citizen arti begin. We must support all that makes Iowa has grown to be so full of creative energy. cles have fallen short. Mention was made of City the unique community it is. This In my visits, I was delighted to discover the red tape of corporate phat'lllaceutical includes supporting our local and inde many of the Iowa City institutions that have and insurance companies being too much pendent businesses. We must support them been nurtured by that energy. Many of for an independent phat macy to survive not only with our dollars, but with our voic these institutions are local businesses that with. Unfortunately, the news coverage es. Ultimately, more important than the celebrate independence and diversity. All failed to explore this issue. products we buy are the ideals we support. of them are unique. Sadly, the effect of corporate conglomera Let's stand to keep Iowa City not just a Unfortunately, the recent closing of tion on independent business is rarely place we call home, but a place that feels Pearson's Drug Store reminds us that these explored in the mainstream press. Perhaps like home. institutions aren't guaranteed as that's because the media industry itself is Sincerely, permanent fixtures. about as conglomerated as it gets. A hand Andrew Brodie, Iowa City, [email protected] The day I moved into my aparlInent, my ful of entities now own the mainstream landlord told me of Pearson's and its soda press, with profit margins placed over a fountain. A day later, I read of the phat ma responsibility to report aggressively and Keep it local cy's sale to Hy-Vee. accurately. Attacking Big Business isn't I am always saddened by the loss of an healthy for advertising revenue, which fuels iked [the Aug. 1-15 issue], especially independent establishment such as the media machine. the "Pilgrims" piece, which showcases what a local newspaper can do best-cover Pearson's. This community was saddened However, it is not my intent to rail against as well, as it should have been. the Press-Cltizen or corporate media in important local issues. Which brings me to The days following Pearson's sale includ my complaint. I was saddened to see that this letter. Iowa City Press E.e. Fish was brought back from Icon. Your ed coverage from the I ask the people of Iowa City this: What Citizen and other news outlets of Pearson's kind of future do we want for our commu zine is called Little Village, to represent Iowa last days. Much was made of Hy-Vee's nity? And beyond that, for our world? City, but then you hire a political writer vision of turning the building into a Regal If we fail to express our distaste for cor who lives in Minneapolis, Minn.? There are hundreds of local political Liquor Store. There is still hope that Hy porate conglomeration, then Pearson's will Vee can be pressured into stepping out of not be the last independent institution we issues that need to be covered and dissect its corporate skin long enough to see say good-bye to. We must speak up and ed right here in I.e. The upcoming city beyond profit. stand up against the trend of placing profit council elections, the charter amendments, While much coverage has been given to above all else. Should we remain silent, the police garbage searches and "knock & the Pearson's sale, there has been no ques then we'll end up with the homogenized talks," sweatshops, Pearson's Drug becom tioning of the that lead to culture that today's advertising constantly ing a liquor store, The Coral Ridge Mall's such a sale. The editorial voice of thePress attempts to sell us. effect on small family businesses closing, Citizen the DEA raid on the Hemp Cat, the whole has been sadly silent. And from a Of course, acting locally is where we contUluedon page 5 Little Village * 3 • • -ce eC1Sl0n himself as pro-life in those circumstances where in it has been politically expedient to do so • indeed, the only reason the existing standards for unnec IS- stem-cell research were being revisited under a
• • Bush administration was Bush's promise to the , , e pro-life community that he would do so, implicit ly within the pro-life context he supposedly resident Bush's Aug. 9 announcement concern shared. In announcing this decision, the president . E.C. Fish ing government funding of stem-cell research has revealed the strength of his stated convictions ranked as one of the most highly touted of his to be profoundly lacking. In expecting to maintain rookie administration. The announcement was supposed- the support of both sides of the issue as he all ly arrived at after months of painstaking research and too obviously does-Bush has revealed a pro conference with scientists, bioethicists and spiritual and found and repugnant amorality. moral leaders, and supposedly with no consideration of In the interest of fairness, I have to admit that politics as usual. The announcement was also supposedly had the president made a decision consistent with -the opening salvo in a series of initiatives where Bush will his stated moral position, this colwnn would still • assume the bully pulpit and address the moral dilemmas have devoted itself to attacking his position. Not IS of our times. All of which makes the abject failure of the only do I not share the pro-life position in gener final announcement to live up to anything like an apoliti al, I find it so divorced from reality in this cal ethical standard all the more damning, as well as mak instance as to be in serious danger of self-parody. ing the prospect of Bush as a moral leader seem nothing Bush's decision, already seriously flawed in terms short of ridiculous. of the pro-life agenda, will not save one single Those who touted Bush's decision as "Solomonic" have solitary embryo from destruction These missed the very basic point that, metaphorically speaking, embryos-which are technically not really the decision really does cleave the baby in twain and embryos at all, but pre-embryonic cell clusters presents each contesting side with half a dead-infant known as blastocysts-are the byproducts of in corpse for its trouble. For the scientific community, being vitro fell.ilization and exist in the thousands in limited to 60 existing lines of previously exbacted stem surplus of those that are useful to childless cou cells (which may or may not even exist-estimates on the ples seeking to reproduce. The decision, then, acceptable lines of stem cells available in this country isn't whether or not to desttDy these cell clus vary from a dozen to 30, with 60 supposedly represent ters-which, by the way, are destroyed by the mil ing all lines, regardless of quality, available worldwide) lions within the human body when eggs fellilized means trying to conduct research on a group of cell vari by sexual congress fail to implant in the uterine ations that falls far short of the sort of biodiversity the wall, something that happens routinely in the research requires. For the pro-life community-for whom reproductive cycle-but whether or not to merely
• it is an article of faith that life begins at conception-the leave them to their natural destruction or destroy cell lines extracted in the past are every bit as much the them in a process that might save and enhance products of murder as those that might have been human lives. The possibility of their "decent blIT exb·acted in the future, and their use every bit as moral ial," as has been suggested by more than one pro ly repugnant. life spokesperson, is so solidly in Ooud Cuckoo It is difficult to imagine the sort of moral calculus that Land as to be unworthy of further comment, by produced a decision that both shortchanges the greater me or, apparently, by the president. good by hindering useful biomedical research while vio Nor will this decision put an end to exbaction lating thecentral thesis of those opposed to such research of stem cells from embryos in projects funded by due to pro-life concerns. It is dead-easy, however, to see the private sector or by foreign governments. the political calculus behind this supposedly apolitical Bush's decision does nothing to ban this decision. Bush and his aides have described· this decision research-it merely denies it tax dollars-and as "balanced," and indeed it is, balanced precariously on obviously, nothing an American president could the razor's edge between concern for the Catholic and do would prevent the research from ocClITring in religious-conservative vote in the next election cycle and other countries. All of which means that the the political fact that Bush has taken a decidedly unpop inevitable results of this research will be either ular stand on this issue-polls reveal a large majority in the proprietary property of the private sector, and favor of unhindered research, much as they've always thus far more expensive than the result of public revealed a decided pro-choice majority in the sector research would be (a result utterly consis abortion debate. tent with Bush's proven private-sector biases) or, Indeed, it is because of the tenninal nature of the pro worse, the licensed property of a foreign concern. life argument that the abortion debate has remained an By making certain that the cutting edge of intractable one. Pro-lifers believe in absolutes-life begins rese.arch OcCIITS elsewhere, Bush has pretty much at conception, period. By trying to gloss over a point that ensured a brain drain of the finest American has divided Americans politically for decades and manu genetic scientists away from American universi facture a consensus that cannot possibly exist-all the ties to foreign colleges and private laboratories, to while presenting said consensus as an achievement for the detriment of thegreater good and to the prof those whose convictions it violates-Bush is revealing it of the few. himself to be both a consummate political cynic and a In the end, it is irrelevant whether or not I complete moral coward. The president has presentej contin�d on next page 4 * Little Vii/age
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--__, Pearson's closed, Uptown Bill's Small Mall standing are the main mission of a business; _____' _1_'" _ _1 __ opened its door. Uptown Bill's is a series of and second, there is the risk of getting hit by Letters continued from page 3 mini-shops owned and operated by persons a wheelchair. Not all are skilled <:irivers, as enchilada we call the university of Iowa, with disabilities. The mall includes a coffee the bruises along the corridors attest. etc. etc. etc. For this you simply MUST have shop, a tea shop, a used bookstore, a furni Most visitors will be pleasantly surprised someone who writes about these issues ture and collectible shop, a computer graph by the albactiveness of Uptown Bill's Small LMNG AND BREATHING in Iowa City, ics and student services center, a photo Mall. The miracle of the mall is that so not some guy from Minneapolis. This per imaging gallery, an art gallery and an inti much has been done with so little (money, son must see the candidates face to face, mate entertainment venue. All the little not time and energy). Hidden behind the hear the discussions at the city council shops are sandwiched into a 3,OOO-square colorful interior is work contributed by chambers, see first-hand what it means to foot space. The mall's credo reads, ''A habi area masons, plumbers and electricians lose a place like Pearson's Drug because tat for humanity" (thank you, Jimmy Carter). who made it possible for the mall to gain you had lunch there once a week. Could there still be "love" in the time of an occupancy permit and meet accessibili Please, put someone local who under globalization and mega-malls? Is a small ty standards. Many other area businesses stands Iowa City in place of E.C. Fish. mall really possible or just an oxymoron? made donations to help themall get rolling. Your magazine will be a lot better for it. After all, the restrooms at Coral Ridge are Uptown Bill's has no corporate stock You owe it to your readers. probably as big as the shops at Uptown holders eagerly awaiting announcement of -Todd Schryver, Iowa City Bill's. And who is Bill? Why such a name their annual dividend. There are, however, less name for a mall? And run by persons over a hundred local community folks who then there with disabilities? Are not the disabled per are serving on one or another of the policy sons to be served, rather than to be or advisory boards for the eight member serving others? are welcome. were non,ee-c:l8uJmost businesses. More • Well, here is a chance to find out. In a world of bigger is better, cim small nd Then There Were None mystery Iowa's smallest mall is just what it claims be beautiful? See for yourself. Uptown story fans will recognize as the this to be. Miniature in space, the Small Mall Bill's Small Mall is located at 401 S. title of one of Agatha tie's best works. Chris strives be big of heart. It looks like a Gilbert, next to one of the few remaining Rather than a series of deadly happenings, to business but operates with a very different "familial" landmarks, the Sanctuary Bar the same title could describe the attrition of bottom-line. Its "profits" are people, diverse and Restaurant. familial institutions in Iowa City. Not long people, who take the time and interest to -Tom Walz, Iowa City after arriving in Iowa City in the early
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The closing of Pearson's Drug Store on Aug. 15 ing fun anymore. "Sony, but there is no more food." It sounded like she'd said that a w an for everything from sadness to lot in the past hour. I said I was sony I ; Pat O'Neill was cast as both a missed it, and could I sit for a moment and just look around. She nodded and began Jesus and a Judas; and the media descended stacking cups and lids into the box with the like vultures. Little Village's Adam Witte rest of the overstock. Along the north wall, six women in match there to wi the final moments as a not-so- ing polo shirts inventoried the greeting innocent bystander. cards. Six Happy Ninth Birthday. • ClickClickOack. Four Get Well Soon From got there too late. My plan had been an Pearson's was closing after 70 years of Grandma ClickOack. The staccato typing egg-salad sandwich, a bowl of tomato business, I vowed to be there on the last was constant, counting, counting. Behind the soup and a vanilla coke. My Pearson's day; but when I strolled in at 4pm that pharmacy counter, about a half-dozen folks· menu has been the same since I first went rainy Wednesday, the fountain had already in white smocks milled about, trying to fig to the Bloomington Street Laundry nearly been closed for more than an hour. ure out where this or that might go: Does 10 years ago and needed a bite to tide me I sat at the counter and, almost immedi this drug get locked up tonight? Is this going through the spin cycle. I loved Pearson's ately, Lydia O'Neill, wife of owner Pat to Hy-Vee? I imagine that after 50 years in
more for its anachronism than nostalgia O'Neill, swept through the back doors car the same building (the original store, built in - appeal-a Pleasantville bubble landed on rying an enOlIl1OUS box. 1931, was tom down to make way for the the comer of Market and Linn. Friendly "FounUlin's closed," she told me. She parking lot), you're going to have some odds don't really belong anywhere. people, hand-made food, free refills-it was smiled, but it was weary, like this was tak and ends that just weird. When a friend told me that ing a really long time ancl no one was hav- Up until the final moments, peopie trickled
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phalluacist's smock as he tried talking over the money, taking the change, thanks for another cameraman, which would not fit her shoulder to two men in suits at a com shopping-in order to make himself a part the cultural obit at all. Flashes pop like puter, tallying up what was left of the of history. crazy. inventory. Pat O'Neill was exlIemely gra Then at 5pm sharp, O'Neill's wife begins They focus on O'Neill's hands, turning the cious, but it seemed all he wanted to do' to herd us all toward the door. What is lock on the door, and the moment breaks to come down, in journalistic human wasclear everybody out and have the day about my heart. Here is a man who worked for over with. interest terms, is the money shot. Big equip PEarson's going on 15 years, bought the At the front of the store, a man with a ment bags are snatched up and carried into business from his boss, tried to make it white mustache stood by the register, a the parking lot where tripods with cameras work ... Even this humble moment, locking magazine in his hand. Every time a cus focused on the door of the building have the door on his past, is not his. He turns the tomer came up to pay, he waved them past, already been set up. The cameramen jock key in the door, lips pressed tight, and the looking at the clock. As the minutes ticked ey for position, forming a semi-circle click of shutters is all I can hear. and down to the final moment, he waited until around Pat O'Neill as he steps outside . O'Neill hands the rnic back to the TV everyone was checked out and then takes out his keys. A TV news van pulls up reporter and waves a last time before disap stepped forward to have his pi�e taken and a really familiar-looking guy hops out pearing quickly around theback of the build as Pearson's final customer. He didn't mind and works his way into the mix. It seems ing. The cameramen break down their lens doing a couple of poses for the cameras hard for the crews to get a shot of O'Neill es and walk to their vehicles. The familiar handing over the magazine, handing over without accidentally taking a picture of looking TV newsman is on his cell trying to
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• 7.... i i. . I. &. lill .1., ii.' I.a ._ ..b!!2iiii I Interestingly, Davies' work is the only one in the exhibition requiring technical advisers (lynn and Everett Russell) and that has been sponsored anonymously. Davies' couple is both wryly humorous and evocative of the economic plight of many in rural communi ties even if they are day-traders. Cross Third Avenue, and if there is no train Rob Cline And tell Marvin Cone the news: Cedar blocking your path, walk toward Greene Rapids American Gothic couples range Square Park where you will soon encounter from crass billboards to beautiful art "He Wooden Smile, and Neither Wood She" (No. 21) by Jeff Gnagy. The two figures have - he first thing potential visitors to OveraLls ALL Over, the out been painted so they look as though they door exhibition of 30 couples based on Grant Wood's famous were carved out of a lustrous wood. Gnagy is American Gothic painting, should know is this: The walking one of only two artists who found a way to map provided by exhibition sponsors (the Cedar Rapids Area incorporate the house the couple stands in Convention and Visitors Bureau and Renaissance Group, Inc.) front of in Wood's painting. In this case, a seems best suited for those in training for a triathlon. Even if you replica of the house replaces the top of the don't try to walk from the Great America Building in downtown pitchfork the male figure grips. While the Cedar Rapids to the Eastern Iowa Airport, from the airport to the fa ux-carving effect is impressive, it is this National Czech and Slovak Museum, and from the museum to clever inclusion of the house that is particu Chicago (stops 27-30 on your handy map), visiting the first 26 larly noteworthy. couples, located in and around downtown Cedar Rapids, requires a Just up the sidewalk is "Anatomical Gothic" good pair of cross trainers, a sizable water bottle and a compass. (No. 22). Sponsored by Physicians' Clinic of The couples that make up OveraLls ALL Over began as blank male Iowa, P.e. and created by Ashleigh Barkdoll and female figures with heads designed to look like the man and and Tom Newport, the piece features the two woman of American Gothic. OveraLls ALL Over is Cedar Rapids' take figures in their traditional wardrobe. on a series of exhibitions presented in other cities, including However, her left side and his rightside have Chicago, New York and Kansas City, and that have heretofore been been stripped and rendered as anatomical limited to farm animals, most notably cows. The decision to focus models. Though the idea is fairly si mple and on the instantly recognizable couple from perhaps the most tied directly into the sponsor's business, the famous painting by an American an American who just happened work is done well and is quite striking. .. ''• ...... to paint the canvas in Cedar Rapids was a good one, and attract Outside the Paramount Theatre, you'll find 0Vera� (' ed plenty of interest from local businesses. According to the exhi Sharon Burns-Knutson's "Marvin & Grant: AU Over couple bition's official Web site (www.overallsallover.com). each couple landscape & Sky" (No. 18), the third featuring renditions of Wood's imagery and Wbat: Artist has been "sponsored by a civic-minded corporation and embel "embeUishments" lished by area artists." The couples run the gamut from unabashed second to incorporate Cone's. Knutson's work of Americanfiothic billboards for various organizations and businesses to thoughtful, boasts a vibrant color palette and strays from couples beautifully executed works of art. In the latter category stand landscape art to a portrait of some fowl on eight truly beautiful works worth spending some time considering. the male figure's back. The overall effect is Wbere: Mostly Cedar Here's a suggested route: rui ned, however, by the set of Toyota keys Start your tour with Peter Thompson's "Cone and Wood" (No. 3 the male figure grasps, a crass commercial -. . . on the official map), which is located on the walking path that nod to the work's sponsor, Toyota Financial runs along the railroad tracks between First and Second avenues. Services. Thompson has painted his clothesless figures in the styles of Walk to First Street, take a left and find Wood's contemporary, and friend, Marvin Cone (the male) and "Prairie Gothic Blues" (No. 24) in the shrub Wood himself (the female), rendering rural scenes featuring farm bery outside of Smulokoffs. Carol Macomber land, barns and the like. In place of his pitchfork, the male figure has rendered the figures in a deep midnight holds a paint brush. "Cone and Wood" is one of three couples bor blue and dressed them in shifts of the same rowing imagery from Wood and/or Cone, and perhaps the best. color. Images of prairie grass adorn the shifts Thompson's paintings are well-done, and good renderings of Cone and mark the faces of the figures as well. He and Wood's rural scenes. holds a large plant. The overall effect is.reli Follow the footpath until you come to Second Avenue. Once you gious in tone, a solemnity not in keeping cross the street and turn right, you'll find "Field of Dreams" out with the exhibition's quasi-slogan, "Just try side the Witwer Senior Center on the corner of Second Avenue and to keep a straight face!" Third Street (No. 12 on the map). Dana Noble's effort is quite sim Keep walking down First Street past Steve ilar to Thompson's, though Noble fashioned a skirt for the fe male Erickson's "Wood You Be Mime?" (No. 25), figure. Again, the male figure holds a paint brush and both sport which gets an honorable. mention for its a farm scene straight out of a Grant Wood painting. Noble's effort clever execution (the American Gothic couple is not quite as strong as Thompson's in terms of detail and sharp as mimes), to the Great America Building, ness of image. where you will find "Wood in Wood" by Karla Double back to the tracks and follow the path toward Third McGrail (No. 27). McGrail has created the Avenue until you find Catherine Jones Davies' "Overalls lost When most impressive piece in the exhibition, cov Tech Stocks Tanked" (No. 13). This couple is decked out in scrap ering her statues mostly in wood of different
• metal, barbed wire and steel barrels. He holds a paint can labeled textures, sizes and types. The woman's face, "Stock Tips," and both figures are painted to look dirty and dis for example, is covered in small coin-shaped tressed under their old caps bearing farming-related logos. pieces of wood, while the man's glasses have
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been built out of twigs. Into the woman's project had far less to do with art than with broach, McGrail has carved Wood's visage, economic impact, but its sponsorship by a and she has cut "Dr. McKeeby," the name of bank suggests itself instead as an earnest the dentist who posed for the painting, into statement of support. As such, it is some the man's neck. The gothic window from the what less interesting . house in the original painting can be found Though the sponsors have dubbed the in the woman's skirt, while a windmill can statues that make up the exhibition "paro plainly be seen along the male's pant leg. dies," it is surprising how few businesses or McGrail's contribution is stunning, both aes individuals have chosen to parody the paro- • thetically and in terms of the amount of dies. Indeed, only one "unofficial" work effort clearly involved in its design and dares poke fun at the proceedings a pair of execution. mannequins outside The Left Bank bar, 1200 A few of the couples are near misses, Third St. SE, titled "Wood in the Hood." The falling just short of compelling artistry. Ta ke, mannequins changed outfits several times, for example, "Raising Local Interest Overall" ending up in beach-wear: he holding a (No. 15), sponsored by, and located outside beach ball and she sporting a black-and of, Guaranty Bank and Trust at the corner of white, tiger-striped swimsuit with matching Third Avenue and Third Street. Tom Newport elbow-length gloves, and Elizabeth Rhoads Read have covered the OveraLlsALL Over itself is scheduled to come couple in faux money, with Wood's head down Sept. 17, with the couples being sold replacing the usual figures in the center of off to raise funds for arts scholarshi ps or the bills. The artists also cut the mannequins improvements to Greene Square Park. horizontally in half and added clear plastic Iowa City may want to jump on the band receptacles full of coi ns (many of them wagon and come up with an exhibition of its Canadian, perhaps to discourage thieves). own to fill the void. The focus could be Opus The addition adds quite a bit of height to the Penguin, perhaps the most fa mous biped the couple, and they tower over the viewer. ever drawn in Iowa City, or two-for-one The piece might be seen as an ironic com drink specials, the only couple that Iowa ment on the entire exhibition, pointing out Citians are likely to feel nostalgic about in perhap! that the motivation behind the the coming months. * Little Vi llage * 13 • ? • , - • o • DJ Vincent Lee Woolums presides over Ie's growing house-music subculture
• Steve Horowitz owa City has a strong and thriving house unknown soul divas." That's still a fa irly solid description music scene that attracts house fans and prac of how house music sounds, although now an everything titioners from throughout the state and even including-the-kitchen-sink barrage of musical styles has the country yet for many locals, it goes undetect been thrown into the mix as house continues to gain ed. The house-music phenomenon bubbles just popularity. underneath the surface of the mainstream. Iowa The tempo of house moves at a very fast pace, gener City-born-and-bred Vincent Lee Woolums, a mover ally 120-130-beats per minute, and some house varia and shaker on the home scene, knows about house tions, like jungle, move and why it matters. He's spun turntables at area at tem pos twice as fast. gigs for many years and hosts the "Noise Radio" IJWhile people Current best-selling house-music program on KRUI, 89.7-FM, every who have house artists include Friday night. Vince and the show have been on the Daft Punk and Basement
station in various incarnations for more than eight never been to Jaxx. Madonna and C + C years. House music itself has been around more a show may Music Factory have had than twice as long. best-selling records that "House music grew out of the post-disco dance think of it as borrow heavily from the club culture of the early '80s, particularly those in some sort of house style. • gay communities," Woolums explained over mixed Iowa City has its • dri nks at the Deadwood. "The name comes from a rave orgy, share of house-music now-defunct club in Chicago called the Warehouse." that's not the venues. Gabe's has A soft-spoken 20-something guy wi�h short black hosted regular DJ show hair and a fri endly, regular fa ce, Woolums became case." cases under the animated as he recited the gospel of house. Rotation DJs rubric for "Frankie Knuckles led the Chicago scene, playing the last four years. "I before mostly black, gay audiences," Woolums con remember when it first started," Woolums said. "The 620 tinued. "He frequently mixed beat-heavy instru Club was tailing off towards closing and it was very mental music with samples of vocals by anonymous, apparent there was going to be emptiness in the market.
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• So seven of us started taking turns being DJs on Sunday nights and by two-and:a-half months we were so successful that we began performi ng on Fridays and Saturdays. Soon performers from all over Iowa became drawn • to the scene and would come to play." DJs from all over the United States have since performed at Gabe's. Woolums considers Detroit's Terrence Parker his favorite of CR 55ROAD5 those who have traveled to play locally. • TATTOO Parker will return to Gabe's Sept. 22. wltllPlerei lJQdy ng Ir.Yt/lmhtl'" While DJs share the limelight with live TU e4-Fri '2-7 - Sat '2-8 music at Gabe's, The Alley Cat serves up the house almost exclusively. The Alley Cat has S08 2nc1Ave a more wild reputation than Gabe's too,' with 338-8500 Tedd, open displays of sexuality and drug-use • rumored or reported. Such claims probably ©�)�(Oe\OO overstate the reality especially when you consider the relative staid ness of the local -TOPS "If you can bar scene as a whole. Moreover, the fact that Imagine It. the place has such a reputation probably We can reveals more about house's reputation than make It." • The Alley Cat's.
and surprising. They're proud of their stash Sept• 3 • es and guard their findsjealousl y. (Woolums also works at Record Collector, a store that . ... <.g . carries much vinyl for DJs.) "One of my Friday friends found a multi-record of the whole Sept 7 ue an Bible at Goodwill," Woolums said. "If there's • of Sauce a verse you want to use in your set, he's got it. That's really what it's all about. DJs take bits and pieces of songs and make them into Sunday something totally new." Sept 12 British theorist Dick Hebdige calls this .process bricolage and says it is the common feature of all subcultures before they Friday become incorporated into the predominant Sept 14 culture. Indeed, house music has become used in television commercials and other mass-media productions to add a cutti ng edge to whatever is presented. Woolums Sunday Sept 23 Maggie Drennon Band indicates that house music is becoming Saturday Sept 29 more popular in Iowa City and expects its audience locally will continue to expand. *
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Ti me Where Art Thou soundtrack demon pedal steel. It's John Medeski (keys), (The Revelator) is heartily [recom strates that the trad-country move the North Mississippi Allstars (guitar, mended to Brother fans and others ment may have finally broken 0 bass and drums) and relative new who love raw, Southern traditional through to the mainstream. From comer Robert Randolph (pedal American music. • . Ralph Stanley's grave rendition of "0 steel). The Word retools traditional Welch also contributes to the Death" to Emmylou Harris, Alison . songs, from gospel ("Call Him By His soundtrack of Songcatcher, a movie . Krauss and Gillian Welch's hypnotiz Name" featuring an unearthly that concerns a woman music schol ing "Didn't Leave Nobody but the pedal-steel "vocal") to hill-country ar's travels in Appalachia and features Baby, " the disc combines the best of blues ("Keep Your Lamp Trimmed and contemporary versions of traditional old and new to baptize the masses in Burninf), as well as working up folk songs by an impressive roster of the firewater of real country. So some fiery gospel-blues of their own female vocalists. Welch's rendition of what's next? Three new releases fea- ("Waiting On My Wings"). the murder ballad "Wind and Rain" is turing country music by women sug As you'd expect, Medeski pushes only one of the many highlights, and gest that it's "ladies first" in the tak the Hammond B-3 envelope and the the disc does an impressive job of ing of this newly claimed territory. Allstars smolder throughout but i cluding a host of old (Hazel WhIle. not all the singers on these � R ndolph's playing is so jaw-drop DIckens), not-so-old (Emmylou Harris, � discs necessarily pass the trad-coun p10gly good that it defies hyperbole. Dolly Parton) and more recent (Iris try cred test, they make up for it Arising from a long line of steel gui De�ent, Ju ie Miller) female country with talent and feel. � tarists in the House of God churches artists plaYing old-time music. There The suburban-born-and-raised nd the bluesy gospel played there- are some nice surprises (who could � Krauss' latest album, New Favon'te, 10, Randolph simply radiates have imagined Deana Carter's sensi features her bluegrass band Union throughout the entire album his tive reading of "The Cuckoo Bird" or Station mostly pickin' and grinnin' playing bathing every track in halo Maria McKee's resolute rendition of ; their way through a baker's dozen of of golden-white light. the all-too infrequently recorded acoustic tunes. Besides being a Joe Derderian Wayfarin' Stranger" ?). world-class fiddler, Krauss also has a Patty Loveless also contributes a ®Chocolate Genius beautiful, sweet, high voice that heartfelt version of "Sounds of Godmusic conveys a wide-eyed vulnerability. Loneli ness" to the Songcatcher V2 She's the girl who has been hurt by soundtrack, but the real surprise is On his sophomore release, Marc love and life but still believes in her wonderful back-to-the-roots CD Anthony Thompson (aka Chocolate both. (Guitarist Ron Block also sings Mountain Soul (which also contain Genius) brings together late-night lead on about a fourth of the tunes.) � "Sounds of Loneliness"). Like the gospel, Shaft-style soul and smooth Every song features top-notch legendary Loretta Lynn, this one funk, while struggling to reconcile instrumentation, but as Krauss does time AOR country star is actually a his sexual orientations with his reli n't write her own songs, the appeal Kentucky coal miner's daughter. gious upbringing. Thompson's frus of each cut depends on the quality of Loveless belts her songs out with a trations have led him to both physi the cut being covered. One of the tear in her voice, whether she's cal and spiritual exhaustion a feel best tunes is Gillian Welch's quiet, singing about love gone badly ("If ing that emanates from the very core sad "New Favorite," from which the heartaches were treasure I'd be the of Godmusic. album gets its title. richest fool alive") or the dangers of Whether worshipping the temple of • Welch's new CD, Time (The the mine ("And it's there I read on a a lover's body in "Infidel Blues" Revelator), harkens back to a distant gravestone/you'll never leave Harlan (:'Forgive me/for yes/I have era when all instruments were crude a�ive:'). But · don't let these sample s1O�ed/But to drink her bathwater/I'd - and acoustic. Instruments here are do It all over again") or finding pur • cItations deceive you into thinking played rudimentarily and sometimes the album's a downer. Loveless pose in the bli nd obedience of des out of pitch to suggest a lack of understands that life can be hard and perate love in Serve You" (''I'm musical sophistication, with vocals "To cruel, which gives her all the more closer/day by day/I will do/whatever sung intentionally flat. Joined by her re son to cel brate the joys of daily you say"), Thompson shows how the . � �
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Slewfool Records Showca Gabe's • Sunday, Sept. 9 Back in 1982, a Springfield, Mo., band called titled release, and they're traveling the The Morells came through town and created a country as part of the Slewfoot Records ruckus with it$ root$y American bar-band Showcase Slewfoot's a small label based in music. Often compared with groups like NRBQ, Crane, Mo. They'll be joined by Springfield's The Morells are best known for their independ other premier band, The Domino Kings, who ent release Shake and Push, which became a also show a penchant for guitar-based rock must-have party album. Us.ed copies of the 'n' roll. The Domino Kings have had their release, because of it$ limited printing, went retro honky tonk hailed by Billboard and TheMorells for twice the list price at specialty record Entertainment Weekly. Prine, Rosie Flores and Dwight Yoakum and stores. The Morells broke up in 1983, the core Another treat will be the appearance of has produced several CDs by Texas-based members transforming into The Skeletons, a Duane Jarvis, a former member of Lucinda artists. Kansas City singer-songwriter Kristie group that backed a diverse array of perform Williams' back-up band who co-wrote the Stremel and another Springfield group, Honky ers including Carlene Carter, Caroline Mas, song "Still I Long for Yo,ur Kiss" from her Tonk Chateau, will also perform. 330 E. Dave Alvin, Steve Forbert and Syd Straw. Grammy-winning Car Wheels on a Gravel Road. Washington St., Iowa City, 354-4788. Well, The Morells are back with a new self- Jarvis has also worked with Gene Clark, John Steve Horowitz
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• Sept. 14-15 , Women's • Music Festival Iowa City City Park • • Sept. 15 "Vagina" is the word of the month as the Obie Award-winning show, The Va gina Monologues, comes to Hancher, a "V-Week" of events kicks off and the Iowa Women's Festival comes to ' town. Playwright Eve Ensler based The Vagina Monologues on interviews with a diverse group of about 200 women from around the world. The resulting script explores a range of subjects including puberty, sex, giving birth, sexual ori entation and rape. A portion of the receipts from the Hancher presentation of The Va gina Monologues will support the V-Day Foundation, a non-profit global movement founded by Ensler to stop violence against women and girls. The ""�
money raised for V-Day will be directly donated l!... to designated Iowa City grassroots groups that "t: work to end rape and violence. "V-Week" activi t ' . a ties include everything from a Women's Art Walk &1. to a Sexual Assault Awareness Rally and March 5. � Q (see calendar for details.) Fi nally, the Eighth .. . Annual Women's Music Festival features Zrazy � 1
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UI Hospitals and Clinics Project Art of UlHC, Iowa City, 353-6417 UI Printmaking, thesis Prints; 1992-1995, through Sept. 10, Hospital Dentistry Gallery,
fifth floor Pomerantz Family Pavilion • Michael , Harker, photography, through Sept. 3, Boyd Tower West Lobby • Masks of China, an histori cal and contemporary view of Chinese mask tra ditions, through Sept. 30, Main Lobby and Gallery B of the Medical Museum (take Elevator F to the eighth floor) • Jeni Reeves, paintings and children's book illustrations, through Oct. 1, PVAC; artist talk, Sept. 19, 12pm, PVAC Gallery 8 JCP • Joel Peck, intaglio prints, Sept. 5-Nov. 1, Boyd Tower West Lobby • Dennis Swanson, photocollage, Sept. 4-0ct. 31, Boyd Tower East Lobby.
UI Museum of Art 150 North Riverside Dr., IowaCity, 335-1727 Permanent collection exhibitions, ongoing • Te mporary permanent collection exhibits: Drunk: A Video In stallation by Gillian Wearing, featuring "I Love You," a 60-minute single channel video, shown Thursdays, 4pm, and Sundays, lpm, through Nov. 4; Jules Kirschenbaum: The Last Paintings, through Oct. 28; Invention in Lithography, through Nov. 11. • Tour of European and American paintings led by Pamela Trimpe, curator of painting and sculpture, Sept. 13, 4pm. • Related program ming: Kathleen Edwards, curator of prints, drawings, photographs and new media, speaks on "Gillian Wearing and the Art of Exposure," Sept. 6, 7:30pm. Women Art Walk Part of V-Week activities, downtown Iowa City, Sept. 12, 5-8pm
Clapp Recital Hall University of Iowa cam pus, Iowa City, 335-1160 Close Enough, jazz group featuring . Frank Conroy, Dan Nuno, David ( Skorton and Geb Thomas, to benefit UI Arts Share program, Iowa Poet Laureate Marvin Bell will also read from his latest book, Nightwarks: Poems 1962-2000, Sept. 1, 8pm • Organist Delbert Disselhorst, faculty recital, Sept. 7, 8pm • Flutist Tadeu Coelho with pianist Shari Rhoads, faculty recital, Sept. 8, 3pm • Prairie Voices: "Songs of the American West," Anne Foradori, soprano and Valerie Cisler, piano, Sept. 9, 2pm.
CSPS 1103 Thirdst. SE, Cedar Rapids, 364-4384 Dave Carter and Tracy Grammer, postmodern, mythic American music from the Oregon folk duo, Sept 12, 8pm * Melodion Band, polkas, Beach Boy covers and traditional Czech music, from Prague, Sept. 14, 8pm * Common Bond, with Zrazy, in conjunction with the Iowa Women's Music Festival, Sept 15, 8pm.
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Gabe's 330 E. Washington St., Iowa City, 354-4788 House of BLues presents ELektra recording artists from Chicago, Lucky Boys Confusion, pLus other acts TBA, Sept. 1 • Hayward Defense Fund Benefit Concert Jam, featuring B.F. Burt, The Party Guise, Majimba, Morgan City GeneraL, Sept. 5 • Burmese, Sept. 6 • Psycho-somatic, JayRon, Sept. 7 • Duane Jarvis, The MorreLs, The I I Domino Kings, Kristie StremeL, Honky Tonk Bnrironmlnt 1 Chateau, Sept. 9, 8pm • Mates of State, Sept. I I 11 • The ImpossibLes, River City High, Sept. 12 Wraps served with chOice of tortilla: Garden Herb, Flour, Spinach. Red Pepper, Wheat, To mato Basil. • Def Jux, Aesop Rock, Mr. Lif, Rhyme Sayers, I I CannibaL Ox, Sept. 15. Bot (w, The Green Room I 1. Cheeseburger - 1/4 lb. Beef Patty, Lettuce, To mato, Onions, 1000 Island Dressing, $4.95 I 509 S. Gilbert St., Iowa City, 354-4350 Swiss and Cheddar Cheese. Blues Jam Mondays, Latin Night Tuesdays I 2. Bratwurst- Sauerkraut, Hot Mustard, Grilled Onions, Cheddar Cheese. $4.95 I Jambalaya - Kelly Pardekooper & The DeviL's House Band finaL 3. Smoked Sausage, Grilled Chicken, Rice. $5.50 Garden Burger - The Original Garden Burger, Lettuce,To mato, Onions, Sour show, Stickman, Sept. 1 • The Tro LLies, Sept. 5 • I 4. Cream, $5.95 I Corey Basset (comedy), with House and Te chno Salsa, Pepper Jack Cheese. DJs, Sept. 6 .StiLL Gravy, with NickeL-Bag-O I 5. Beans and Rice - Black Beans, Rice, Salsa, Sour Cream. $4.95 I Buffalo Grilled Chicken - lb. Chicken Breast, Buffalo Wing Sauce, Funk, Sept. 7 • Aswah Greggori & the Enforcers, 6. 1/4 $5.95 with Ben Ripani, Sept. 8 • Edith Frost, with Grilled Onions and Celery, Lettuce, Tomato, Choice of Blue Cheese or Ranch Dressing.
I - I Cathryn MuseLik Band, Sept. 9 • Robert BradLey's 7. Ph Illy Steak Green Peppers, Onions, Mushrooms, A 1 Steak Sauce, Cheddar Cheese. $5.95
Grilled Chicken and Swiss - Breast, Lettuce, To mato, Blackwater Surprise, Sept. 11 • TroubLe HubbLe, 8. 1/4 lb. Chicken Onions, $5.50 with Cats and Jammers, Sept. 12 • ALto Heceta, I Mayonnaise, Swiss Cheese. I
BBQ Bacon Burger - lb. Beef Patty, BBQ Sauce, Bacon, Lettuce,To mato, with Cadillac BLindside and Speed of Sauce, X 9. 1/4 $5.95 Sept. 13 • RivaL, with Harmony Riley, Sept. 14 • Grilled Onions, Cheddar Cheese. I 2 • Jolinny Socko, with Vortis, Sept 15. 10. BBQ Chicken - 1/4 lb. Chicken Breast, BOO sauce, Bacon, Grilled Onion, Lettuce, $5.95 Cheddar Cheese. First Avenue Club I Falafel - Lettuce, Tomatoes, Cucumber Yogurt Sauce. 1550 S. First Ave., Iowa City, 337-5527 11. $4.95 Chicken Philly - lb. Chicken Breast, Green Peppers, Onions, Mushrooms, Chris CagLe, Black Diamond, Sept. 28, 8 pm. 12. 1/4 $5.95 Ranch Dressing, Cheddar Cheese. I
Fox Run Country Club Tu na Melt - White Albacore Tuna, Celery, Grilled Onions, Lettuce, To mato and 13. $5.50 West Branch, 643-2100 Pepper Jack Cheese. X Patrick HazeLL, Sept. 7, 8pm. 14. Bacon Ranch Burger - 1/4 lb. Beef Patty, Ranch Dressing, Bacon, Lettuce. To mato, $5.95 The Marketplace Grilled Onions, Havarti Cheese. 511 P St., South Amana, 622-3750, all 15. Salsa Burger - 1/4 lb. Beef Patty, Salsa, Sour Cream, Jalapeno Peppers, Lettuce, $5.95 7:30-11:30 pm To mato, Onion and Pepper Jack Cheese. Steamed Veggle Mix - Broccoli, Carrots, Cauliflower, Mushrooms, Ranch Dressing Dave Moore, Sept. 1 • Mad River Duo, Sept. 7 • 16. $4.95 and Double Cheddar Cheese. Dave Olson, Sept. 8. I 17. Blackened Cajun Chicken - 1/4 lb. Chicken Breast, wi Beans and Rice, cajun Spices, $5.95 Martini's I and Pepper Jack Cheese. 127 E. College St., Iowa City, 351-5536 - Bacon, Lettuce, Cheese. 18. B.L.T. To mato, Mayo, and Cheddar $3.95 Ashanti CD-reLease party, Sept. 7, 9:30pm. Cold (also .Ined hot) The Mill I Tuna Salad - White Albacore Tuna, Celery, Lettuce and To mato. 120 E. Burlington St., Iowa City, 351-9529 1. $4.95 Ham and Cheese - Ham, Swiss and Cheddar, Lettuce, Tomato, Onion, Mayo Tornadoes, Chicago-styLe bLues, Sept. 1 • Stuart I 2. $4 95 and Mustard. Davis, acoustic "foLk punk," Sept. 2 • Ethan Turkey and Cheese - Turkey, Swiss and Cheddar, Lettuce, To mato, Onion, DanieL Davidson, ALaskan singer-songwriter, 3. $4.95 I Mayo and Mustard. Sept. 6 • The BLue Band, Sept. 7 • Big Wooden Veggle - Cucumber, Zucchini, Green Peppers, Mushrooms, Lettuce, To mato, Onion, Sept 12 • 4. $3.95 Radio, Sept. 8 • SoLo Songwriters, I Lemon Vinaigrette and Havarti Cheese. The TroLLies, aLt-country rock, Sept. 13 • Kelly Clubhouse - Ham, Turkey, Bacon, Lettuce, To mato, Mayo and Cheddar Cheese. Parde kooper and the DeviL's House Band, Sept. I 5. $5.95 14 • Larry Myer, Sept. 15. (all daJ) Mondo's I 1. 2 Eggs, Sausage, Hashbrowns, Green Peppers, Onions, Mushrooms, Cheddar Cheese. $4.95 X 212 S. Clinton, Iowa City, 358-0776 2. 2 Eggs, Bacon, Hashbrowns, Onions, Mushrooms, Cheddar Cheese. $4.50 Roger CLyne & The Peacemakers, Aug. 29 • I 3. 2 Eggs, Jalapeno Peppers, Onions, Mushrooms, Salsa, Sour Cream, Pepper Jack Cheese. $4.50 I ManpLanet, Sept. 1. 4. Hashbrowns, Wild Rice, Green Peppers, Onions, Mushrooms, Swiss and Cheddar Cheese. $4.50 Northside Books I 5. 2 Eggs, Steak, Hashbrowns, Mushrooms, Onions and Cheddar Cheese. $5.95 I 203 N. Linn St., Iowa City, 466-9330, 6. 3 Eggs, Swiss and Cheddar Cheese. $3.95 Sunday Live!, all 2-3pm I 7. 2 Eggs, Ham, Onions, Swiss and Cheddar Cheese. $4.95 I Deb Singer, classicaL guitar, Sept. 2 • David Smoothl.. 16 oz. Benrap. $3.50 Coke, Diet Coke, Sprite, Orange Soda, oz. HuckfeLt, originaL foLk, bLues, Sept. 9 • Bill Strawberry, Bananas, Vanilla 16 $1 .50 I 1. Mr. Pibb, Lemonade, Root Beer I Peterson, jazz piano, Sept. 16. Yogurt and Apple Juice Orange Juice, Apple Juice, oz. Mango, Bananas, Vanilla Yogurt 16 $1 .95 Paramount Theatre I 2. Cranberry Juice I Cedar Rapids, 363-1888 and Apple Juice Peaches, Bananas, Vanilla Yogurt Coffee Swing Out! The Big Band Show, with Hunter 3. $.95 Soup and I Hot Tea I Fuerste and His American Vintage Orchestra, and Apple Juice $.95 Cup of Soup Iced Tea $2.25 $.95 Bowl of Soup Sept. 8 m . Domestic Beer oz Milk $3.00 15, p 16 $1 .50 $1 .50 Sj de Salad I Import Beer oz $1.95 I Ped Mall 16 $2.50 Chocolate Milk $1 .95 Downtown Iowa City Maji mba, FuLL Moon HowL, Sept. 2, 6-9pm. Sal's Music Emporium 624 S. Dubuque St., Iowa City, 338-7462 Jennifer rJanieLson CD-reLease party, Sept. 1, ----- Say. ----
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Bela Fleck and the Fleckt s Become a Part-time IMU Main Lounge • Sept. 11 Bela Fleck was inspired to pick up the has played with his share of supergroups, Sales Professional! banjo after hearing Flatt & Scruggs' including New Grass Revival, Strength in • "Ballad of Jed Clampett" and Weissberg & Numbers and his own Flecktones. There's 8am-1pm M-F Mandell's "Dueling Banjos" at the age of just something about a guy synthesizing or 15. He went on to redefine the banjo as the music of Earl Scruggs, Charlie Parker, 3:30pm- 9:30pm a musical instrument and blur the dis the Allman Bros., Aretha Franklin and the • tinctions between such seemingly dis Byrds on a banjo. You have to hear it to M-Thurs parate genres as jazz, rock and bluegrass. believe it. 8pm. UI campus. & 3:30pm-7:30pm Fri Fleck, named after composer Bela Bartok, 6pm • Mayflies CD-release party, Sept 8, 6pm • Kelly Pardekooper and the Slewfest Records artists Duane Jarvis and Devil's House Band, Kristie Stremel, Sept. 9, 5pm. Sept. 1, llam, Magic Bus, Kinnick Sanctuary Stadium. 405 S. Gilbert St., Iowa City, 351-5692 Bela Fleck and the• Flecktones Dave Moore, Sept. 7-8 • David Zollo, Sept. 14 • Sept. 11, IMU Main Lounge. Steve Grismore Trio, Sept. 15. House Concert Red Avocado Featuring Amy Martin, Sept. 13, 7:30pm, Iowa 521 East Washington St., Iowa City, 351- City, 358-1349. 6088, all 6:30-9:30pm T Market Music Reality Trio, jazz, Wednesdays • Acoustic Jazz, Chauncey Swan Park, Thursdays • Annie Savage, harpist, Fridays • Iowa City Mad River Duo, clarinet and guitar, Saturdays. Musicians entertain Farmers UI Hospitals and Clinics Market-goers, 5-7pm, Wednesday Project Art of UIHC, Iowa City, 353-6417 evenings through August Fall Music Festival, Sept. 10-14, 12-1pm, John Sept. 5: Joe Price. Colloton Courtyard (in case of inclement weath Saturday "Just Jazz" Series er performances will move to Colloton Atrium): Plaza Fountain Stage in front of the Patrick Hazel, Sept. 10; Mike Williams, Sept. 11; Sheraton City Plaza Hotel, Iowa City, McPortland, Sept. 13; Kathy Ogden, Sept. 14 • 6:30-9:30pm Evan Mazunikn, piano improvi sations, Sept. 20, Sept. 1: Blue Tunas. 12:15-1:00pm, Colloton Atrium. Iowa Women's Music Festival The Union Bar Sept. 15, 12-5pm, Iowa City Upper City Park 121 E. College St., Iowa City, 339-7713 Carol Montag, 12pm; Mad River Band, 1pm; The The Disco Biscuits, Sept. 19. Trollies, 4pm; Common Bond, 2pm; Zrazy, 3pm ; Uptown Bill's Small Mall crafts, food, etc. 40 1 South Gilbert St., Iowa City Hancher Auditorium Rafael Manriquez and Quique Cruz, celebrating UI campus, Iowa City, Latin American Independence (Chile, Mexico, 335-1160 I.. Brazil), Sept. 14. Th e Vagina Monologues, Obie 1925 Boyrum Award-wi nning play by Eve Ensler based on interviews with 200 women, Iowa 52240 Sept. 14, 8pm, and Sept. 15, 2pm & 8pm LittleVillage * 25 • (see related V-Week events under events section). Iowa City Community Theater Exhibition Hall, Johnson County Fairgrounds, Iowa City, 338-0443 Schoolhouse Rock Live!, musical based on the old educational TV spots, Sept. 14-29. Old Creamery Theatre 39 38thAv e., Amana, 800-352-6262 Performance times: Wednesday, Friday & Saturday 8pm: Thursday & Sunday 3pm Over the River and Through the Wo ods, new com edy by Joe DiPietro about a young executive and his two sets of grandparents who try to keep him from moving away, through Sept. 2 � Home on the Iowa, Amana history revue by Thomas Peter Johnson, Sept. 5-16. • Riverside Theatre 213 N. Gilbert St., Iowa City, 338-7672 • Performances Thursdays at 7pm, Fridays (except Sept. 28, no performance) and Saturdays at Bpm and Sundays at 2pm I Love Yo u, Yo u're Perfect, Now Ch ange, off Broadway smash musical revue, Sept. 7-30; Ta lkback post-performance discussion with the com pany, Sept. 14. Entries wanted for a night of womyn's art, per formance and music to be held at Lou Henri Oct. 13, all womyn are welcome to enter a piece and any man who wants to perform a . womyn's work is also welcome, talk to . Laura at Ruby's Pearl, 248-0032, for entries or info, deadline Sept. 12. Art wanted for PATV's Third Annual Silent Art Auction to be held Oct. 28 at First United Methodist Church, Iowa City; paintings, prints, photographs, pottery, jewelry, artist's books and other unique pieces welcome; interested artists should contact PATV, 338-7035, to donate work; PATV will air a program with all artworks, titles and artists' names in the weeks leading up to the auction; first deadline for getting art on tel evision is Sept. 20 (the earlier works get to PATV, the more times they will be seen). Art wanted for "Art in the Lobby" Riverside Theatre exhibitions, call 338-7672 . • Riverside Theatre accepting material for its festival of one-act plays, Walking the Wire, scheduled for Oct. 12-14, must relate to theme, "Morning and Evening," and not be more 10 minutes long, deadline Sept. 21, call 338-7672 for more info. Original artwork wanted for inclusion in IC Public Library's ART-TO-GO, a collection of framed posters and juried, original artwork 'available for loan to library cardholders, open to artists living, working or exhibiting in the Iowa City or Johnson County area who have partici pated in at least one juried show, submit a slide of one framed original artwork accompanied by entry form available at the li brary, deadline Sept. 30. Prairie Lights 15 S. Dubuque St., Iowa City, 337-2681, aU 8pm NancY Andreasen, psychiatrist and author of the heralded Broken Brain reads from her new book, Brave New Brain: Conquering Mental Illness in the Era of the Genome, Sept. 5 • David SearcY reads from his first nove� Ordinary Horror, Sept. 6 • Poet, fiction writer and essayist Ray Young Bear of the Meskwaki communityin Ta ma reads from The Rock 26 Hittle Village . .. - • - • • - - • < '::: : ': ' :::: , " -,,";; ;; - : : ". ; . . 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W • * � ... • Q • • N Q� • ...., • Island Hiking Club, his new book of poems pub Spirit Hill Women's Retreat near West Branch, the non-profit organization, Sept. 16, 2-4pm, lished by the University of Iowa Press, Sept. 7 • for information call 643-2613, sponsored by the Robert A. Lee Community Recreation Center, Aimee Bender, author of the short-story collection Iowa Women's Music Festival . Drag Show, Sept. 220 South Gilbert St., Iowa City. The Girl in the Flammable Skirt, reads from her 9, time TBA, The Green Room, 509 S. Gilbert •.. City of Iowa City 10 St., sponsored by the Iowa Women's Music debut novel, An Invisible Sign of My Own, Sept. Civic Center, 410 Festival • Prairie Voices: "Songs of the .. . . E. • J. Robert Lennon reads from his newest novel, Washington St., Iowa City plains, American West," Anne Foradori, soprano and ···'·. . i<., On the Night Plain, about life on the high , (unless noted otherwise), Sept. 11 • Scholar and country-music fan Barbara Valerie Cisler, piano, Sept. 9, 2pm, Clapp Recital ',X, , " .", •.. 356-5236 Ching reads from her new book, Wro ngs Wh at I Do Hall • Ruby's Reading Th e Va gina Monologues .•• .•••• » .. Sept. 5: Special Council Work Session, Best: Hard Co untlY Music and Co ntemporalY Book Discussion, Sept. 10, 7 p.m., Dulcinea, 2 . ,., . joint meeting with JC Board of Culture, Sept. 12 • Whitney Terrell, a graduate of S. Dubuque St., sponsored by Ruby's Pearl • Supervisors, IC School Board and cities of the UI Writers' Workshop, reads from his Kansas Free Pap Tests, Sept. 11, 12-8 pm Planned Coralville and North Liberty, 4pm, Coralville City novel, Th e Huntsman, Sept. 14. Parenthood, 850 Orchard St. • Sexual Assault Council Chambers • Sept. 10 special council Awareness Rally and March, Sept. 12, 12:30pm, Ruby's Pearl work session, 6:30pm, Harvat Hall • Sept. 11: UI Pentacrest, sponsored by Rape Victim 13 S. Linn St., Iowa City, 248-0032 Special Council Formal, 7pm, Harvat Hall. Advocacy Program • Women Art Walk, down Ruby's Pearl Erotica Reading, womyn only this town Iowa City, Sept. 12, 5-8pm • SongWriting Ruby's Pearl time; bring your own masterpiece, work-in Group begins at WRAC, share songs, ideas, 13 S. Linn St., Iowa City, progress or someone else's to read; $5-$10 feedback and support, Sept. 13, 6:30- . 248-0032 donation appreciated for this fund-raiser, 8:30pm, WRAC, call 335-1486 to register . Stitch ' n' Bitdi, bring your sewing, although womyn of all economic capabilities Dinner and Dialogue: Th e Vagina Monologues, knitting or and bitch or gab, are welcome; wine and treats provided; Sept. 7, whatever Sept. 13, 5 -7pm, UI Hillcrest Residence Hall, every Wed y, 6-7pm. 7:30-10pm • Ruby's Pearl Book Discussion nesda sponsored by Women's Resource and Action Group, Eve Ensler's Vagina Monologues will be Iowa Football Center and UI Office of Residential Life • Self the first book discussed in this series of month VS Kent State University, home, Sept 1 • VS Exam Workshop, Thursdays, Sept. 13 & 20, 6- ly meetings, Sept. 10, 7pm, at Dulcinea (corner Kent State University, home, Sept. 8 • VS Iowa 8pm, Emma Goldman Clinic for Women, 227 N. of Iowa & Dubuque). State University, there, Sept. 15. Dubuque Street. Iowa City Fall Fun U.S. Cellular Center Festival Energy Expo, workshops, demonstrations of 370 First Avenue Cedar Rapids, alternative energies for homes and cars, spon HE, Multiple activities, entertain 363-1888 sored by the Iowa Renewable Energy ment, -Aug. 31-Sept. 2, 358-2455 Chonda Pierce, Christian comic, Sept. 6, 7 pm Association, Sept. 8-9, Prairiewoods, 120 E. V-Week events (in . conjunction � Iowa Motor Truck Conventiori, open to reg Boyson Rd., Hiawatha, 395-6700. lstered attendees, Sept. 11-12. with The Va gina Monologues at Hancher Auditorium) Robert A. Lee Community Recreation Center Ice-Cream Social, to introduce community to Women's Drumming Circle and Bonfire, Sept. 7, NEW & US EO ·· Lucky Confusion 6 Burmese Oef Jux DJs , 28 • Uttle Village I awk See Lord H l Cye oner joust Sir TO le - • '0 - -.. . - -._.b __- �- . , . '. Tots Free , - • • Advance • • discount " - ' - , �- . . '-. 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The demands of youngsters, In de !Ul 30 *Little Village Write Dr. Star at [email protected] , HaroLd Stilson, 101, became the oLdest goLfer ever to make a hoLe-in-one when he aced the 16th hoLe at the DeerfieLd Country CLub in ELLISON DeerfieLd Beach, Fla. • MOVING Lucretia Hodges, a 50-year-oLd great-grandmoth er, gave birth to a son in Fairfax, Va. She had twi ns when she was 14 and a third chiLd a year Later, but toLd the Washington Post, "I wanted to 31 9-389-3542 · www.ellisonmoving.com experience birth as an aduLt this time." Revenge of the Vegetable Kingdom • Thousands of foot-Long and Larger Leaves from corn staLks feLL Like rain across the eastern edge of Wichita, Kan., Aug. 4 and 5, baffling authori Strange but Tru e! ties and weather experts. "It was a pretty Large area where peopLe reported it," Weather Data Inc. meteoroLogist Chad Pettera said, noting there had been no unusuaL weather that might explain the faLLing corn husks. NationaL Weather Service meteoroLogicaL technician HoLLy Kreutzer added, "There weren't strong winds. I don't see how they couLd have gotten bLown up in the air." Curses, Foiled Again Eugene Kamas, 69, was picking sweet corn near his home in Garden City, Minn., Aug. 4 when he PoLice in Ruscombmanor To wns-i�, Pa•• said tripped and broke a staLk of corn. He tripped a Christian A. McDade, 25, is the 2- "0 OOed second time, and the staLk pierced the carotid the same convenience store six , " -es i <;ve artery in his neck. BLue Earth County sheriff's months. He was finaLLy arrestee a'-e oei g p 0- deputies arrived within minutes, but Kamas was tographed by a surveillance u-era wea " g a dead at the scene. clear pLastic bag over his f;ace, ·'c simpL'fied Featuri ng the critically identification. "It was a b'g re:e' en they told Growing Up acclaimed Greg Brown me they got my guy," sa':: larry C. Mattox, 68, release, Over and Under, the clerk who was victi mizea a ! six times. To stop children ages 3 to 15 from drinking soft PauL FuLham, 23, was se-':e ced to a year in jail drinks, pubLic schools in Belgium's Limburg as well as works by the after dispLaying a "sheer. c of criminaL profes province announced they wouLd begin serving following artists: sionalism," according to cefe se attorney Finian low-alcohoL beer in schooL cafeterias. Brannigan, who notec 's c ient Lifted his stoc - ing mask to greet peo:J.e hOle on the way to rob .. Do As I Say, Not As I Do • Bo Ramsey a store next to hlS ood home in Drogheda, C"" 0 • Ireland. "He was go;-� : rough Christmas in an Linda M. Harris, 53, the coordinator of the drunk David Zollo aLcoholic haze a-a ert to the onLy shop in town en-driving prevention program in Dona Ana • Brother Tr ucker where he was SL;ri! -0 be recognized, as he had County. N.M., was charged with driving whiLe • Joe Price Lived nearo;y a. ·"s l'fe: Brannigan said. "He intoxicated. She was arrested in the parking Lot said he 0 to ;leope ne knew and was falling at a DWI awareness, picnic. • Eric Straumanis about a 0 er the place and then couLdn't get John Eric Conger, 58, the fo rmer di rector of • Kelly Pardekooper out of �he eoor of the shop." 8: drunken-driving prevention programs for the Devil's House CoLorado, was fo und guilty of driving while his When Jet Skis Aren't Enough ability was impaired by aLcohoL. When Conger Band was the state transportation department's direc o • BeJae Fleming M nta a's Fish, Wildlife and Parks Commission tor of safety, he administered the Law approved emergency restrictions on "water skip Enforcement Assistance Fund, which provides • Vicki Price ping.- The increasingLy popuLar summer sport state grant money to communities to beef up • To m Jessen i olves gunning a snowmobile down a. bank or drunken-driving prevention. According to the boat ramp into the water at fuLL speed and Denver Post, the poLice officer who arrested �pLaning across the water. The 500-pound Conger in Grand Junction was working under IAGIe mac ;nes, which aren't designed for water and that program. do 't c. oat will si nk if they run out of gas, stall 'tent 1(erchJ4, or s :00 uc . The commission's action was 't.Ai.4- 4(o'Q.tRh.. anJ. prompteo J t e July 8 death of Gary Hoyt, who Bitter Irony drowned "1' a ontana reservoir after his snow- A man wandering in the street in JacksonviLLe, and sank. He wasn't mobile lost "o-e Fla., was struck and killed by a fire engine that Eric Straumanis, wearing a life ja et couLdn't swim. had been dispatched to heLp him. Fire Lt. GLenda Brother Tr ucker, Jennifer Hopkins said the fire engine and a rescue vehicle Better Late Than Never were responding to a 911 caLL for medicaL Danielson 8: David Zollo assistance. 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