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The uneasy alliance between casinos and online gambling is apparent in legislation battles nationwide. Dan Kehl, Iowa casino CEO, states in the New York Times in February,

2019: “We have hundreds of millions of dollars invested in our casinos. The question is, how far can we let the mobile go?”

Suddenly, Iowa casinos are embracing the online companies, allowing them to take over the gambling scene in Iowa. Why? What changed? Did they cut a deal guaranteeing the casinos a share of the online take? What are they not telling us?

Look at the tax structure in the bill—Iowa loses revenue to online gaming, the nonprofits are affected, the casinos lose revenue and patrons, while online fantasy sports are taxed at the same low rate as sports betting. There is no “off-shore” competition here as justification.

The money goes out of state and the addiction rates are high. The legislature stands by letting this happen, while arguing to exclude collegiate sports in the looting.

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We’ll end up subsidizing the casinos, just like Prairie Meadows horse track, to prop up the jobs and investments in a dead-end industry.

And we’ll watch Iowa dollars fly out of state with the fantasy sports companies.

And while they’re at it, legislators should tell us how they plan to treat online gambling addiction. Controlling accessibility will be difficult because the 24/7 casino is on the gambler’s cell phone in his pocket. Voluntary exclusion assumes a degree of control not often present. He can go “off-shore” and continue.

The 50-plus lobbyists for the gambling bill are calling the shots here. Legislative efforts to promote mental health programs become hypocrisy. —Antonia Russo

President Trump said wind turbines cause cancer, Gov. Reynolds said it’s ‘not my place’ to disagree with Trump “That’s not my place.” If it is not the “place” of our governor to defend our cultural, commercial, and environmental interests, whose place is it? If it’s not the “place” of this governor to stand up to bullies spreading idiotic lies, we need one who is less timid. “Our Liberties We Prize and Our Rights We Will Maintain.” That’s our state motto. It’s on the Iowa flag. Please, Governor Reynolds, do your job or get out of the way so someone else can.

—Dan D. Room to play: Critical Hit Games moves to larger space in heart of downtown I’m glad they have more space, but I miss the old spot, with its natural light (from windows) and easy parking for parents. And I liked it that the kids could run next door to Gumby’s. In addition, I’m not comfortable dropping off my young Magicloving kid on his own, in the heart of downtown.

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THE BROCCOLI BEAT

Four and 20 Biscuits Get baked! (In a legal state, of course.)

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pril 20th, also written and known as 4/20, is just around the corner.

Cannabis enthusiasts often celebrate this date by smoking or otherwise consuming more of the plant than they normally would. If you’re such a person and have scheduled a trip to a state where it’s legal, you may want to consider giving this cannabis biscuit recipe a try.

Before you start cooking, you’ll need to stop by a dispensary (don’t forget your ID!) and a grocery store. At the dispensary, don’t worry about trying to buy the fanciest-sounding or most expensive strain they sell. For cooking, any good quality cannabis will do. You’ll still want to choose among indica, sativa and hybrid varieties based on personal preference, but don’t be afraid to go with whatever’s most reasonably priced.

Regarding how much to buy, consider how many people will be eating the food you’re making. How much an individual cares to consume varies widely from person to person, but as a general rule, it’s wise not to eat more than you think you could smoke in a day. When eaten as opposed to smoked, cannabinoids take much longer to take effect.

The last thing you want to do is eat too much without realizing it and end up in a scene from *insert stoner comedy* that, to you, will feel like *insert horror movie.* Prior to visiting the grocery store, you’ll want to look up instructions on making cannabis butter. These are easy to find online (simply search “how to make cannabis butter”) and easy to follow, so I won’t go into the details here.

The variables you’ll want to adjust for are the amounts of butter and cannabis. This recipe calls for ½ cup medicated fat (it’s possible to use any of the listed fats, but butter is simplest), so that’s how much you’ll use unless you’re multiplying the recipe or planning to cook something else as well. That quantity of butter can easily absorb the cannabinoids from up to 1/4 ounce of cannabis. However, remember the earlier warning about overdoing it. Don’t hesitate to use 1/8 ounce or even less. The point is having a good time, not getting as high as humanly possible.

Finally, here’s the biscuit recipe—enjoy!

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Ingredients: • 2 cups all purpose flour • 1/2 cup (8 tbsp) very, very cold medicated fat (butter, lard, vegan margarine or vegetable shortening) • 1/2 cup ice water • 2 tsp baking soda • 1/2 tsp baking powder • 1 1/2 tsp salt • 1 tsp ground black pepper • 1/4 cup freshly chopped rosemary • 1/8 cup freshly chopped thyme • 1 pinch of sugar

Mixing by hand is also an option but is messy. If mixing by hand, chill your (very clean) hands with cold water and work quickly so the fat doesn’t melt.

Add the herbs and then water (reserving a tiny bit) to the dough and mix until it comes together. It will be sticky at first and have visible chunks of fat in it. If it’s too dry, add more water; if the dough won’t stop sticking to the side of the bowl, add more flour.

Instructions: Put a mixing bowl in the freezer and preheat your oven to 425 degrees. Prepare a baking sheet with parchment paper and/or non-stick spray.

Pinch the dough into 2-inch balls and put on the cookie sheet.

Combine all dry ingredients in the mixing bowl, mix well and place bowl back in freezer.

Optional but recommended: At the 8-10 minute mark, take the biscuits out of the oven and quickly brush with melted fat. Sprinkle generously with garlic salt and return to oven to finish.

Cut the chilled/nearly frozen fat into tiny cubes. Shredding with a large hole cheese grater also works well.

Remove mixing bowl from freezer. Add the chilled fat to the bowl in three batches. To incorporate the fat, use either a mixer, a pastry cutter, or two large forks. Smash the fat into the flour mixture until it resembles large, rough crumbs.

Bake for 12-15 minutes or until golden brown.

Tips: • Keep everything as cold as possible.

• Err on the side of under mixing.

• If substituting dried herbs, use less (1 tbsp of rosemary, 1 tsp of thyme) and crush or grind them first, otherwise they’ll be really tough.

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There are Jews in Iowa?

A history of Judaism in Iowa, from territorial times to today.

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he first Jewish mayor of an American city, by some accounts, was Iowa City’s Moses Bloom.

Bloom left his native Alsace, France in 1850 and arrived in Iowa City in 1857, where he soon took over ownership of a clothing store on South Clinton Street (in the space currently occupied by Ewers Men’s Store and Tailgate). He was elected to the city council a year later and voted mayor in 1873.

His political career continued with two terms in the Iowa House—where he helped secure state funding for the University of Iowa—and two more in the Iowa Senate, achieving another first: Bloom is Iowa’s first Jewish senator. In 1879, he turned down the Democratic nomination for lieutenant governor.

While Jewish residents, including Bloom, are ingrained in Iowa’s history, the state’s Jewish population has never been large.

Today, Jews represent just 0.2 percent of Iowa’s overall population. The community has also consolidated over the last century; where there once seemed to be at least a few Jewish merchants in just about every small Iowa town, few Jews today live outside of the state’s larger cities. Many are professionals living in Des Moines and Iowa City, but smaller Jewish communities are hanging on in a handful of other Iowa cities.

Iowa’s Jews are diverse. Most of today’s synagogues are Reform or Conservative, but a tenacious Orthodox community is still present. Immigration still plays a role, but a much smaller one than it did a century ago, and with much less focus on one region in crisis.

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Above: Keokuk’s B’nai Israel Synagogue, Iowa’s first synagogue, dedicated in 1877 and torn down in 1957. Courtesy of the Iowa Jewish Historical Society Below: Moses Bloom, America’s first Jewish mayor. Via Geneology Trails, Johnson County, Iowa

become the city of Des Moines in about a decade—and opened the town’s first store two years later. Krause was one of the incorporators of the city. He helped found its first public school and was influential in moving the state capital to Des Moines from Iowa City.

Jewish congregations were organized in Dubuque and Burlington in 1857, Davenport in 1861 and Des Moines in 1870. Council Bluffs, Ottumwa and Sioux City also had congregations by the mid-1880s. Many of these were small, but because certain Jewish prayers require 10 adult men (a minyan), organizing a congregation typically required that many families.

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IOWA’S FIRST JEWISH settlers

resided in Mississippi River towns, starting with the arrival of Alexander Levi in Dubuque in 1833. Levi was French, but within a decade, German and Polish Jews had arrived in Dubuque, McGregor and Fort Madison. Iowa’s early Jewish settlers frequently arrived as peddlers and, where trade allowed, set up as shopkeepers.

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• was large enough that it organized itself as the “Benevolent Children of Israel” (B’nai Israel). Initially, the congregation met in the home of a member, but it opened a cemetery in 1859 and built Iowa’s first synagogue in 1877.

William Krause and his wife arrived in Raccoon Forks in 1846—which had a population of about 14 at the time, but would

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WHILE BIG CITY congregations in the

east could hire European rabbis, small town congregations on the frontier had to content themselves with lay leadership and the occasional visiting rabbi.

Hebrew Union College, America’s first Jewish seminary, was founded in Cincinnati in 1875, and it ordained its first rabbis in 1883. It was and remains the center of the U.S. Reform movement (which arose in

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Rabbi Isaac Mayer Wise, one of the college’s founders, was instrumental in bringing together frontier Reform congregations with the publication of Minhag America, the first American Jewish prayer book. Other American seminaries did not begin ordaining rabbis until the late 1890s.

In 1894, the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York ordained its first rabbi; that seminary was initially considered to be Orthodox, although it eventually became the home of the Conservative movement, less radical than the Reform movement but still willing to bend tradition in the face of modern circumstances. The Orthodox Union, founded in 1898, served to unite congregations that adhered more strictly to tradition.

By 1900, Iowa had 19 organized congregations with 21 “ministers” (rabbis or cantors), and a combined membership of 1,240. Rabbi Simon Glazer estimated that Iowa’s total Jewish population around that time was over 12,000, with all but 1,000 living in towns with organized congregations. So, about one in 10 Jews in Iowa were members of congregations.

Most of these congregations were Orthodox, while four, in Des Moines, Davenport, Sioux City and Keokuk, were Reform. Glazer identified Jewish shopkeepers in 34 Iowa towns.

The divisions between the different movements in Judaism focus on liturgy and the role of Jewish law, not on doctrine. The Reform movement has generally made the most changes, while Orthodoxy has steadfastly resisted change. Many of Iowa’s smaller and nominally orthodox communities never formally affiliated with any of the national Jewish movements. In 1904, Rabbi Glazer said, most of Iowa’s wealthier, established

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Jews were associated with the Reform synagogues, while the Orthodox communities, dominated by new immigrants, were less prosperous.

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immigrants were from western and central Europe. Many of them had left Europe in 1848-51, when a wave of revolution and counterrevolution swept the continent. In contrast, Jewish immigration in the late 19th and early 20th centuries was dominated by refugees from eastern Europe. In 1881, there were pogroms in 166 Ukrainian towns.

Rioting continued for years, with ample evidence of Russian government approval.

An even larger wave of pogroms swept Russia in 1903-06. In total, between 1880 and 1920, over 2 million Jews fled Russia, mostly to the United States.

Most of the Jews migrating to the U.S. came through New York and settled nearby,

but the crowded East Coast slums led to philanthropic efforts to move Jews inland.

The Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society (HIAS) worked on a case-by-case basis to find jobs for immigrants, but this was not enough.

Starting in 1909, with support from philanthropist Jacob Schiff, a U.S. immigration assistance program called the Galveston Plan, or Galveston Movement, involved bringing entire shiploads of Jewish immigrants to the United States through the port of Galveston, Texas. Many of them settled in Texas, but there were also charter trains disbursing Jewish immigrants deep into the Midwest.

Many of the Russian Jews who arrived in western Iowa in the early 20th century came through Galveston.

Where the Jewish population of Des Moines was only 500 in 1905, by 1907, it was 3,000, with many immigrants sponsored by HIAS. By 1912, thanks to the Galveston Plan, Des Moines had 5,500 Jews. Similarly, while Sioux City had only 420 Jews in 1905, it had 1,025 in 1907 and 2,400 in 1912.

Left: Beth El Synagogue in Fort Dodge, built in 1948, now houses a Presbyterian youth annex. Right: Ottumwa’s B’nai Jacob was established in 1898. The synagogue’s final sermon was given by Iowa City’s Rabbi Esther Hugenholtz in May 2018. Courtesy of the Iowa Jewish Historical Society

Even in the early 20th century, some of Iowa’s Jewish communities were in decline.

In 1904, Rabbi Glazer reported that the Jewish community in Keokuk, the home of Iowa’s first synagogue, had receded enough

century.

The coal mining towns of Centerville and Oskaloosa had small Jewish communities, but these disappeared by mid-century as Iowa’s coal mining industry contracted. More

THE LOSS OF IOWA’S FIRST JEWISH COMMUNITIES ALONG THE MISSISSIPPI BEGAN WITH THE RISING IMPORTANCE OF RAILROADS AND THE DECLINING IMPORTANCE OF RIVERBOATS. AS BIG-BOX STORES REPLACED THE MOM-AND-POP SHOPS ON MAIN STREET, THE JEWISH SHOPKEEPERS WHO WERE ONCE THE BACKBONE OF SMALL JEWISH COMMUNITIES MOVED AWAY.

that it no longer had a rabbi and was having difficulty maintaining the congregation. The communities in Burlington, Muscatine and Clinton also began to decline early in the

recently, the decline in manufacturing has hurt synagogue membership in many Iowa towns. Jewish communities which once supported multiple congregations have survived

by merging their congregations, overcoming significant difficulties as they did so. This has happened in Sioux City, Cedar Rapids and Dubuque. In smaller Jewish communities, synagogues have closed as the last few Jews moved away. Most recently, this has happened in Ottumwa.

The contraction of the Jewish communities in Iowa’s small towns is the result of the economy rather than antisemitism or xenophobia. The loss of Iowa’s first Jewish communities along the Mississippi began with the rising importance of railroads and the declining importance of riverboats. As bigbox stores replaced the mom-and-pop shops on Main Street, the Jewish shopkeepers who were once the backbone of small Jewish communities moved away. And for those Jews who remained in small-town Iowa, their children tended to move to major cities for better educational and job opportunities, especially in post-World War II America.

Today, the Jewish community of Des Moines is the largest in the state, although

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JEWISH HOLIDAYS The Jewish calendar is lunisolar, meaning it integrates the Earth’s revolution around the sun as well as the Moon’s revolution around the Earth, with an intercalated 13th month inserted every few years.

This makes it beautiful, sensitive to the seasons and the heavenly bodies. But it’s also a little unwieldy to use, as the Jewish holidays “oscillate” on a yearly basis. The Day of Atonement, for example, could be in late September or early October.

The Jewish calendar is based on Biblical texts and their later Rabbinic interpretations, and it strives to incorporate agricultural cycles of the Biblical Land of Israel and key historical moments.

Passover (Pesach), for instance, remembers the lambing season and the barley harvest as well as the Exodus from Egyptian slavery. The Feast of Weeks (Shavu’ot) honors the early summer wheat harvest as well as the people’s acceptance of the Torah at Mount Sinai.

Likewise, the Feast of Booths (Sukkot) centers on the fall fruits harvest as well as the wilderness wanderings of our ancestors who dwelt in fragile booths.

Jewish holidays are richly textured and a lot of fun! We have special, seasonal foods, music, prayers and traditions to accompany each. Passover is known for unleavened products like matzah (flatbread), while during the mid-winter festival of Chanukkah, we love tucking in greasy, fried foods like latkes (potato pancakes) and sufganiyot (donuts). At Shavu’ot, you’ll find us eating blintzes, and apples dipped in honey to usher in a sweet year for Rosh HaShanah, the Jewish New Year.

In a sense, the Jewish holidays are the backbone to the Jewish cultural experience, whether this is religious or secular, Ashkenazi or Sephardi, newly created traditions or ancient collective memory. If you’re curious, stop by the synagogue to find out what we are celebrating. You are most welcome. L’chaim, to life!

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the Orthodox congregation there has sold its building and is currently holding services in a space provided by the Reform synagogue.

Des Moines has a Jewish Federation that runs a school as well as providing a variety of charitable services.

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antisemitism. In the 19th century, for example, University of Iowa students were required to attend Protestant services in the university’s chapel. This ended in the early 20th century, leading to a rise in Jewish enrollment at the UI and the founding of the university’s Hillel Club around 1925. What began as a trickle increased to a flood as eastern schools began imposing antisemitic quotas, limiting the number of Jewish students admitted. The result was a boom in out-of-state Jewish enrollment at the UI in the early 1930s. The immediate post-World War II era brought in an influx of Jewish faculty and students who were war veterans.

While the liberal arts, engineering and dental colleges at UI never imposed quotas, the medical and law schools were more selective.

The files of Moses Jung, who served as the adviser to Iowa’s Jewish students through the 1930s, include solid documentation of his fight against the quotas in the medical school.

There are reports from as late as the early 1960s of explicit bias in the law school’s faculty hiring. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 ended institutional antisemitism and had a profound impact on university hiring and admissions.

Eastern Iowa saw local Ku Klux Klan activity in the 1920s. More than 100 men were inducted into the Klan in Cedar Rapids in 1922, the same year Cedar Rapids’ Temple Judah congregation, still thriving today, was officially established. (A Jewish community had existed in Cedar Rapids since the 1890s, founding a cemetery association, hiring a kosher butcher—a shochet—and holding Orthodox services. Temple Judah’s first liberal, English-language services began in 1922, as well as fundraising and outreach efforts by the congregation’s Sisterhood.)

The late Iowa District Court Judge Ansel Chapman recounted a story of growing up in Iowa City in the 1920s. He said that coming home from Hebrew school, he had to pass by St. Patrick’s Catholic Church, and on days when confirmation classes there were ending, he was frequently taunted as a “Christ killer”

and sometimes physically assaulted. The problem was severe enough that his family withdrew him from Hebrew school.

The 1930s saw the creation of a local chapter of the German-American Bund, and some private clubs in Cedar Rapids enforced policies prohibiting Jewish members until the late ’60s.

For several years in the early 2000s, one lone woman regularly picketed Agudas Achim in Iowa City (established in 1920— and now located in Coralville—the congregation is one of the three largest in the state, and one of a handful in the nation to have dual Reform and Conservative affiliations). The woman carried signs that effectively branded all Jews as Nazis because of her views on the Israeli-Palestinian political situation.

There was never a threat of violence in this protest, but the broader threat of right-wing antisemitic violence is sufficiently strong that the Jewish community has regularly paid for extra police protection during the fall High Holy Day season.

Ignorance is, however, a far larger problem than outright antisemitism. Jews are constantly required to explain themselves. If one is a part of the majority, there is no need to justify taking a day off from work for Christmas or Easter. Those days are built into the civil calendar. Attempting to take time off from work or school for the High Holy Days of Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur often requires having to make extended explanations.

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community is very small, about a fifth of Iowa’s Muslim population. As such, many Iowans have never met a Jew. Some people suggest that everyone should attend a synagogue just for the sake of cultural enrichment; if all Iowans decided to do that just once in their lifetime, visitors would outnumber the combined congregations of the state.

We cannot predict how Iowa’s Jewish community will evolve in the next century, but we can be sure of one thing: it will change.

Douglas W. Jones came to Iowa City in 1980 as a new University of Iowa faculty member in computer science. He has served on the board of both Agudas Achim Synagogue and the UI Hillel center.

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hough kombucha has been around for more than 2,000 years, interest in the fermented tea drink has spiked considerably in the U.S. in the last decade or two. From hobbyists trying their hand at home brewing to major corporations capitalizing on the trend, kombucha is widely seen as a healthy alternative to beer and soda.

In general, the hype is warranted. But as Tim Roed and Rachel Schmidt, longtime friends and kombucha enthusiasts, quickly discovered when they decided to launch their own Iowa City-based kombucha business in 2015, not all kombucha is brewed alike. “[With the brands you’ll find] at the store, they stop the fermentation process, dilute it or strain out probiotics and add dry probiotics at the end, and use syrups and all this funky stuff to keep it below .5 percent [ABV] so it’s regulated by the FDA,” Schmidt explained.

“It really bummed us out, like, what have we been drinking all these years?”

With their own operation, Wild Culture Kombucha, Schmidt and Roed decided to get their brewery license and commit to a full-strength, unfiltered brewing process. This straightforward approach means their kombucha naturally averages around 1 percent ABV. All Wild Culture Kombucha contains a blend of four organic teas—green, black, oolong and pu-erh—fermented with a SCOBY (symbiotic culture of bacteria and yeast).

Some flavors also include fruit or vegetable juice, sourced from local farms whenever possible and juiced in-house, with no artificial flavoring. The effervescence in the kombucha is a natural byproduct of the fermentation and, unlike virtually all beers, no extra carbonation is added; it is also naturally caffeinated.

Schmidt and Roed claim there are more than 25 strains of live probiotics in every batch.

“I think the quality, and what we’re putting into it, makes it more than just a health beverage,” Schmidt said. “It’s something you can really enjoy, and know that you’re getting a lot out of it. We have people who aren’t health nuts but are beer geeks and they’re like, ‘This is really good.’ It’s got a funky fermentation— it’s just fun. Our flavors are super unique.”

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Roed said the seasonal apple cinnamon maple kombucha and year-round honey lavender chamomile are some of their most popular flavors—“They’re really approachable, easy-drinking kombuchas,” he said—but he and Schmidt tend to favor whatever experimental successes he’s made lately.

“I think the craft beer culture of always doing new flavors is really good, where you give your big fans something new to try every time they come in,” said Roed, Wild Culture’s brewer.

“Tim has a really nice palate,” added Schmidt, who handles sales and distribution.

“Cranberry jalapeño? I probably wouldn’t have ever done that. But it was awesome.”

Wild Culture Kombucha was originally sold at the Iowa City Farmers Market and ontap at some local bars and restaurants. But in October 2018, Roed and Schmidt made their dream of opening a brick-and-mortar taproom a reality. Their space on North Linn Street, next door to Hamburg Inn No. 2, captures the laidback, coffee-house-meets-brewery vibe of beloved kombucha taprooms in bigger cities.

“We get people that are from L.A. or Brooklyn who come in here and say, ‘This is so cool,’” Schmidt said. “I think we hit kind of a niche that hasn’t been hit in Iowa City.”

Besides a few wines sourced from out of state, Wild Culture Kombucha’s menu is full of local offerings, including Iowa beers on tap, Wake Up Iowa City coffee, Millstream

sodas, Laura’s Toasted Soybeans (served as an alternative to beer nuts), Heartland Burritos and La Reyna chips and salsa.

If visitors want a slightly stronger kombucha drink, they may order a kombucha shandy, combining local beer with complementary Wild Culture brews. These rotate all the time, and include the Jurassic Juice (Pseudo Sue IPA from Toppling Goliath mixed with pineapple kiwi coconut kombucha), Golden Tonic (Peace Tree Brewing Co.’s Blonde Fatale with traditional kombucha) and Violet Cow (Big Grove’s Zadar! nitro stout with beet orange lime).

There are no legitimate studies backing up the range health benefits attributed to kombucha—from treating AIDS to filling your gut with probiotics—but Roed and Schmidt say they feel the difference kombucha has made in their diet.

“It gives me kind of an energy boost and makes me more clear-headed,” Schmidt said.

“It just resets everything in my system, it feels like. It’s the first thing I drink in the morning.”

“I crave it, the acidity and the refreshing quality of it,” Roed said.

Whether kombucha is consumed casually or religiously, it’s become more than just a substitute for beer or cocktails. With limitless flavor combinations, a satisfyingly crisp mouthfeel and a growing legion of connoisseurs, kombucha has a craft culture all its own.

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Unsexy Sexcapades There’s a lesson in every embarassing bedroom mishap.

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he mood is just right. They look into each other’s eyes and finally, desperately kiss. The intensity rises as they tear off each other’s clothes. They move towards climax and—oh, God, no, maybe he didn’t hear it. Maybe we can just pretend it didn’t happen … But it was undeniable. Her vagina had farted. The sound echoes to her very soul.

TV, movies, books, magazines, pornography and friends’ highly edited stories lead many of us to develop rosey expectations when it comes to sex. But an erotic experience without at least one less-than-sexy moment is rare, whether it be a first-time hookup or an encounter with a long-term partner.

Even though many of these embarrassing or awkward happenings are super common, we may be more likely to confess them to third-party confidants than talk them over with our partner(s). But airing our embarrassments not only eases the tension and potential for shame, it helps normalize the experience.

One of the most common questions I hear in my practice is, “Is that normal?” More often than not, the answer is yes.

I asked some fellow Iowans to divulge their most mortifying sexcapades, and boy, did they deliver. I’ve included some of these stories below, along with some tips and context.

Unexpected Sounds The more powerful the orgasm, the more likely I [am to] fart. I’m not even kidding. I fart about 30% of the time that I orgasm and if it’s a really great full body all out orgasm (usually this is not while someone’s face is down there because I can’t let myself) I’m going to fart and it’s not going to be a little, sweet, demure fart. I’m going to all out power fart in gratitude. Please tell me I’m not the only one!

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sex, for the air to be released, making a farting noise also known as a queef.

Hell, if it’s a sign of a good orgasm, it may even be reassuring to your partner!

Gagtastic My metalhead musician, sometimes really crass college boyfriend and I were messing around one evening after dinner, and I was giving him a blow job. He was getting really into it and started pushing my head onto his dick farther than I would have gone down on him on my own. It was his bad and karmic justice when he activated my gag reflex and got served with a big load of just eaten Kraft Mac ’n’ Cheese all over his belly and crotch.

Literal gag to very funny sight gag, and I told him he’d need more than a sock to clean that up with. I actually wasn’t embarrassed, because it was so goofy you couldn’t do anything except laugh. And he was so crass and not into propriety that he also found it hilarious and was not one bit bothered by getting covered in puked-up mac ’n’ cheese. I appreciated him for not having sexual hang-ups, and he always made me feel unselfconscious when we had sex. It is actually a memory I

am fond of. Ah, college student food...

Gagging is likely going to happen to some extent when you’re giving a blow job, and if you go too far, you may even puke. This can send you into a shame spiral, or, like this woman, you can laugh it off and let it be a vehicle for more intimacy. Of course, you should never let a partner push you further, literally, than you feel comfortable going.

Screeching Halt After getting out of a long-term relationship I had my eye on a sexy man who kept appearing places I was at. We flirted and I really wanted some hot moving-on sex. He was into it. He even ripped my panties off (my faves— but he was instantly forgiven because it was hot!) and just as we were starting to have sex... He. Fell. Asleep. I had been in an emotionally abusive relationship where my boyfriend ignored me, so I wondered why anyone would want me and THE FIRST PERSON I TRY TO SLEEP WITH PASSED OUT WHILE HAVING SEX WITH ME. So, yeah. P.S. he was drunk.

Unfortunately, sometimes not everyone involved in the erotic experience is totally present, especially if drinking is involved.

It’s hard not to take it personal, and if you’re post-break-up you might be even more vulnerable.

Check your motivations for having sex.

Are you having fun? Are you doing it to feel better about yourself? Are you proving to yourself you are still desirable, wanted, loved? Attempting to use sex as a way to build your self-esteem can easily backfire. So, with self-compassion and curiosity, be honest with yourself, and make sure you’re prepared to shake it off if the encounter should turn out to be so-so or even a bit embarrassing.

Hold the Door My boyfriend’s oldest walked in on us when I was giving his dad a Father’s Day blowjob. He was cumming right as the door swung open and his 7-year-old walked in... we’re hoping he forgot!

We are busy people and many of us have kids that need our time and attention. Maintaining a healthy sex life with children in the house can be difficult, so while precautions should be taken to maintain your privacy, it’s not the end of the world if your kid should find their parent(s) in a compromising position. What can turn an awkward situation into a traumatic one is if we project anger, shame and confusion on the child.

Try to use the encounter as an opportunity to have a sex-positive conversation. Sex is nothing to be ashamed of. Let them lead with any questions they have; you don’t need to give them more information than what they want to know.

A Scratchy Surprise My cat licked my friend’s balls once.

There’s more than one kind of surprise visitor. Animals are curious and want to be near us, too. I heard several stories involving intrusive pets, including a dog who laid his head on a woman’s chest while she was

getting head.

We might be in the throes of passion and suddenly feel like someone is watching us or trying to snuggle up to their favorite spot at the end of the bed. This is yet another opportunity to laugh and build intimacy. (And maybe find another spot for your pet to chill.)

Sex Sprains So, my college b/f and I were having a lovely morning until his bits slipped and crushed my taint. I thought I was broken, so did he. The worst part was I was running a 5K that day.

I’ve never been in so much pain. But I had to run it because my dad was cheering me on. I couldn’t exactly tell my dad my sex that morning had injured me.

We might get really excited to try a new position, with painful consequences. Check in with each other verbally every step of the way, and pump the breaks if anyone’s bits are hurting. Don’t be too eager—you can always try again later!

Burning Sensation When I was 22 and working at my first job out of college, my out of town boyfriend came to visit me. One of our favorite inside jokes was, he had great hands. We enjoyed a wonderful evening making chili.

After dinner I enjoyed a skilled gentle massage from his “great hands.” I received more than I planned on when the jalapeño residue from his hands created an intense burning sensation on my clit that lasted for several hours. Word to the wise: wear gloves when cooking chili and you want things to get a little hot with your partner.

Gloves—not a bad idea. You might also try washing your hands with grease-cutting dish soap, hot water, milk or vegetable oil to neutralize pepper residue before touching down there.

Bad Choice of Words One night I ran into a young lady who I dug.

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Entrances & Exits Neko Case on “bad luck,” blue-collar ethic and musical superpowers.

BY DANIEL BOSCALJON

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or the first time in over a decade, Neko Case will perform at the Englert on April 29, in support of her new album Hell-On, with Shannon Shaw (of Shannon and the Clams) opening at 8 p.m. Tickets are $42.50.

Case has been performing music since she began drumming for a variety of local punk bands in 1994 Vancouver. She left Canada for Seattle in 1998, leaving behind some vocals for a side project called the New Pornographers. She began her career in 1997 as Neko Case & Her Boyfriends—a blend of noir country covers and originals. 2002 saw Blacklisted, followed by two live albums and then the first album of her mature career: 2006’s Fox Confessor Brings the Flood, which appeared on numerous “best of” lists at the end of that year and arguably remains one of the best albums of the decade.

Hell-On, Case’s seventh solo album, provides an insightful, beautiful understanding of how to remain humane despite the almost continual wave of tragedies relentlessly paraded on news tickers—school shootings, misogyny, floods, hurricanes, overdose deaths.

Misfortune affected Case personally during the making of the album; ironically, she sang the vocal track for the jubilant “Bad Luck” in Sweden the day after her house in Vermont burned, destroying everything. In a recent conversation, Case contextualized the event in terms of a more global perspective, including both natural disasters and national politics.

“There’s so much tragedy and loss going on. [The album] was being made during a horrible time, and it’s still a horrible time,” Case said. “Compared to most people, I haven’t lost anything. I lost my house, but nobody died. It was a bunch of stuff, in the end.”

One thing that distinguishes Case from other artists—and humans—is her openness to complexity. She sifts through the debris of tragedy without ignoring it, finding gems that would otherwise be tossed away.

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piece of artwork—it was melted into a weird shape, something people made but scorched and melted and bizarre … I took a lot of photos and it ended up being a lot of the artwork [for the album] … I thought it’d be a nice quiet solidarity with those who lost everything and worse.”

Case has a distinctive voice—not just in the timbre and tonalities of her sung words, which are instantly recognizable, but also in the way her voice is anchored in a self-awareness that contextualizes her subjective feelings within larger frameworks.

She’s quite personable on the phone, lacking both the false humility that would trivialize and cheapen her genius and any sense of a bloated ego.

Her voice, in other words, emerges out from a singular perspective on what it means to be human—one that allows her to speak for others while speaking for herself, one that allows her to become a thoughtful spokesperson for what it means to reside on this planet, now.

If there is a political edge to Case’s work, it is one that strikes at the core of injustice rather than a protest against its symptoms.

She describes Hell-On as “a reaction to straight colonial white male aggression.” And she decries “a whole Reagan-era business school thing that makes life a weird game [of taking things].” Her rejection of the dominant assumption of how to be human can be seen

Neko Case w/ Shannon Shaw, Englert Theatre, Iowa City, Monday, April 29, 8 p.m., $42.50

throughout her career—even in the title Fox Confessor Brings the Flood, which invokes nature, animals, guilt, tragedy and causality in a beautifully beguiling metaphor.

Her response to colonialist appropriation is explicit but also a devout practice.

“There’s nothing about taking things or getting things or stealing from others that gives me any joy,” Case said. And she rejects the rock mythology that restricts the amount of success available. This ethic is clearly seen in her frequent collaborations, which highlight the voices of those she works with. In part, this is based on her personal experiences as a touring musician; Case celebrates “a blue-collar level to music that nobody talks about that’s really fun.”

But, broadly speaking, it’s seen in the way Case lives out a kind of expansive, generous humanism that makes her artwork something that feels vast. The core of her art is expansive and inclusive, while remaining anchored within her own subjective experiences.

Beyond her musical prowess, you can feel the power of Case’s inclusive humanism at the level of her song construction. Her songs are gems that initiate a point of view in a

compacted form that leave an impression and induce listeners to a sense of awe about the world. Case compares her work to movie trailers—“the highlights and the excitement”—and also to fairy tales, another short and magical genre.

Stories are important for Case as a model for audience reception. In our brief exchange, Case twice pointed to her songcraft as requiring “entrances and exits” that let people “get it, make it theirs, and leave.”

This background assumption impressed me as inherently and proactively resistant to the ideals of domination at the heart of capitalist America—a generous, generative and beautiful alternative to the everyday world.

Case’s ability to view life in this way, and part of what drives both her collaborative career and her active, inspired Twitter feed, is steeped in her humility.

“Musicians know, if they’re in it for music and art—not for being famous—that serving the song is the best thing you can do,” she said. “You have to be flexible. In order to be flexible, you have to learn stuff, which means you have to cede your control to other people.”

Her song structures invite this way of thinking differently, with metaphors that are not only melodically beautiful and resonant but that also invite (or perhaps even require) listeners to take a slightly different point of view—for example, describing how poets love “womankind / As lions love Christians.”

It is succinct, apt, embodied, evocative, clever, generative—and largely borne out in the wake of the #MeToo movement.

Beyond her unmistakable talent, Case’s passion for music emerges from her understanding of how music connects humans with their innate potential, their greatest capabilities.

“You know how you can watch a cheetah on a nature show and it runs 60 miles per hour, and it is incredible? The thing humans can do is sing. Even if a person cannot hold a note or a tune, in a group with others it is an incredible sound. If you’re in the room, you can feel the vibration ... That’s our oldest, most beautiful superpower.”

Daniel Boscaljon is a public intellectual and experimental humanist whose new project, “The Thoughtful Life,” is now available. You can listen to his 10-part meditative workshop, ‘Making Space for Yourself,’ and catch up on the first “Going Home” installment of Coffee with Dan at danielboscaljon.com.

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I’ve seen all three of the spectacular movies in the line-up—How to Survive a Plague (April 22), Life, Above All (April 23) and Philadelphia (April 24)—but am particularly spurred to revisit Life, Above All, which I studied for an HIV/AIDS literature class in the UI English Department in 2014. The film tells the story of a 12-year-old girl ostracized by her South African village after it is revealed her mother has AIDS. The result is quiet and inspiring, but boasts a biting condemnation of stigma, superstition and gossip.

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CULTURE >> Cont. from pg. 19 We were out, I don’t remember where, maybe at a bar or just on the street. I was about 23 at the time. She and I went to my friend’s apartment who was out of town.

He had a nice apartment downtown and didn’t care if I used it, so I had a key. She and I sat down on the couch and started making out. We were both a bit drunk or tipsy but not shit-faced. After a while shirts were off and we were lying down next to each other. I was fingering her for a while and then it occurred to me that she seemed to be asleep. I didn’t feel comfortable touching her if she wasn’t awake/ conscious so I thought I better make sure she’s awake. So I said, for some reason, “What’s my name?” just to see if she’s awake. She bolted right up and said, “What!???” I immediately felt really embarrassed. Why did say that? Why didn’t I just say “Hey, are you awake?” She must have thought I wanted to do some dirty talking or something. I explained that I thought she was asleep and I just wanted to make sure that she was awake.

She seemed to accept my explanation but still seemed weirded out by my question.

I don’t know where “what’s my name” came from. I know my instinct was right to make sure she was awake and I’m sure she agreed, but my choice of words seemed to put her off. It was no harm done and awkward and at any rate we never hooked up again.

Checking in with your partner and paying attention to both verbal and non-verbal cues for ongoing consent is vital. Some of us are not totally sure how best to do this, but establishing unequivocal consent is never the wrong choice. It can even be sexy—who doesn’t want their partner(s) to make sure they’re comfortable, happy and getting the most out of the encounter they can? When in doubt, stop what you’re doing and stick to the basics: “Do you want to __?”, “Are you into this?”, “Should we stop?” and, when the situation calls for it, “Are you awake?”

Natalie Benway LISW is a psychotherapist in private practice in Coralville. She has a certification in sexuality studies from the University of Iowa and is currently pursuing additional licensure with the American Association of Sexuality Educators, Counselors and Therapists.

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TOP PICKS: QUAD CITIES Love Awards 2019: (Her)Story, TaxSlayer Center, Moline, Friday, April 19, 6 p.m., $15 Founded in the Quad Cities,

the Love Awards is a purple carpet celebration of women and their accomplishments.

The ceremony is part of a project that began with the launch of Love, GIRLS magazine, now a national publication with offices in Memphis, Tennessee and Washington D.C., empowering women and girls to believe in themselves and each other.

—Melanie Hanson

APR. 17–30, 2019

Adult Flashlight Easter Egg Hunt, Pub 1848, Moline, Sunday, April 21, 8:30 p.m., $5 minimum donation Whoever

finds the golden egg wins a keg party! This event is too ridiculous to miss. Picture it: a bunch of buzzed adults wearing bunny ears are stumbling around in the dark on the 1848 plaza. All proceeds go to Peaceful Palate, a nonprofit community outreach program that seeks to feed those in need. Best bunny costume also wins a prize, so go nuts. —MH

Underground Karaoke Wednesday, Iowa City Yacht Club, 9 p.m., Free (Weekly) Open Stage, Studio 13, Iowa City, 10 p.m., Free (Weekly) THIS WEEK: ‘EASTER CASKET’

Late Shift at the Grindhouse, Film Scene, Iowa City, 10 p.m., $4 (Weekly)

Thu., Apr. 18 WITH JIM HAYES, FINANCIAL ADVISOR

Managing Student Loan Debt Workshop, MERGE, Iowa City, 11:30

‘Hi Bread’ A Comedy About Toast and Marijuana Consumption, w/ Tulip, RozzTox, Rock Island, Saturday, April 20, 9 p.m., Free For the fourth year of his annual

4/20 show at Rozz-Tox, local comedian Wayne Lyter presents Hi Bread. When asked to describe the upcoming show in three words, Lyter used “absurdity, family, toast.”

Wayne has specifically requested that no billionaires attend this free show. Tulip from Minneapolis will perform their crushing, synth-infused grindcore to close out the night. —Paige Underwood

a.m., Free I.C. Press Co-op open shop, Public Space One, Iowa City, 4 p.m., Free (Weekly) Earth Day Music and Art

Bad Bad Hats w/ the Textures, Triple Crown Whiskey Bar & Raccoon Motel, Davenport, Wednesday, April 24, 7p.m., $10 Bad Bad Hats serve up undeniably

catchy and well crafted indie-pop songs, perfectly fit for a carefree midweek dance party. Whether you’re with a group of your friends or hitting this show on your own, it’s a guaranteed good time. RIYL: Diet Cig, The Beths, Ratboys —PU

Celebration, Mount Mercy University, Cedar Rapids, 5 p.m., Free NewBo Happier Hour, NewBo City Market, 5:30 p.m., Free (Weekly) Iowa City Meditation Class: How To Transform Your Life, Quaker Friends Meeting House, Iowa City, 6:30 p.m., $5-10 (Weekly) Line Dancing and Lessons, Wildwood Smokehouse & Saloon, Iowa City, 6:30 p.m., Free (Weekly) Novel Conversations, Coralville Community Library, 7 p.m., Free (3rd Thursday) ATHLETE TURNED VIRAL HIP-HOP SENSATION

Mike Stud: The Final Mike Stud

Rude Punch 420 Party w/ Drama Major, Reggae Rapids, River Music Experience, Davenport, Saturday, April 20, 8 p.m., $10 An annual tradition in

my household is to see Rude Punch play on April 20 for what they refer to as their “Earth Day” celebration. With a reggae-rock foundation, Rude Punch picked up where our ’90s guilty pleasure bands left off.

Drama Major (Moline) opens the show followed by Reggae Rapids (Cedar Rapids).

—MH

Tour, Blue Moose Tap House, Iowa City,

Monolord w/ Telekinetic Yeti, the Well, Rock Island Brewing Company, Rock Island, Tuesday, April 30, 8p.m., $12 All Senses Festival and Wake Brewing

present this stacked line-up of doomdrenched heavy hitters, with Gothenburg doom masters Monolord headlining. Joining Monolord is the treasured Iowa stoner rockers Telekinetic Yeti and dark psych-metal group the Well. Expect thunderous riffs and guttural, haunting vocals.

—PU

7 p.m., $25 CHICAGO COMEDIAN

Sebastian Maniscalco Stay Hungry Tour, Paramount Theatre, Cedar Rapids, 7 p.m., $42.75-62.75

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EDITORS’ PICKS Thursday Night Live Open Mic, Uptown Bill’s, Iowa City, 7 p.m., Free (Weekly)

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APR. 17–30, 2019

READING: ‘AUTUMN LIGHT: SEASON OF FIRE AND FAREWELLS’

Pico Iyer, Prairie Lights Books & Cafe, Iowa City, 7 p.m., Free Daddy-O, Parlor City Pub and Eatery, Cedar Rapids, 7 p.m., Free (Weekly) PERFORMANCES BY THE I.C. KINGS, MOXIE HART, MEGAN GOGERTY

The Canaries Raise Hell and Dollars: Fundraiser for Planned Parenthood, The Mill, Iowa City, 7:30

Suzanne Corum-Rich

p.m., $20-25 EAST TEXAS COUNTRY ROCK

Koe Wetzel, First Avenue Club, Iowa City, 8 p.m., $15 DIRTY DETAILS TOUR

Jake the Snake, Penguin’s Comedy Club, Cedar Rapids, 8 p.m., $23-40 Live Jazz, Clinton Street Social Club, Iowa City, 8 p.m., Free (1st & 3rd Thursdays) Karaoke Thursday, Studio 13, Iowa City, 8 p.m., Free (Weekly)

Fri., Apr. 19 ICDOCS Juror Program: James N. Kienitz Wilkins, FilmScene, Iowa City, 3 p.m., Free ALL PROCEEDS BENEFIT IOWA CITY PRIDE

Mr. Iowa City Pageant + Iowa City Diva Pageant, The Mill, Iowa City, 6 p.m., $10-15 FAC Dance Party, The Union, Iowa City, 7 p.m. (Weekly) CANADIAN HEAVY METAL + ROCK & ROLL COMEDY

Anvil w/ Don Jamieson, Archer Nation, Dark Agenda, Wicked Wizards, Wildwood Smokehouse & Saloon, Iowa City, 7 p.m., $15-20

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Druids Album Release w/ Holy White Hounds, Green Death, Orphans Of Doom, Wooly’s, Des Moines, April 20, 7 p.m., $12-15 Druids are one of

Power Trip w/ Red Death, Traffic Death, Vaudeville Mews, Des Moines, April 25, 6 p.m., $20 Power Trip is

LVVMAKING & Contakta Present the Sonic Circus: Dual Album Release Party, Kum & Go Theater, Des Moines, April 20, 9 p.m., $10-15 LVMAKING

Tina Sings Ella: A Celebration For The First Lady Of Song, Noce, Des Moines April 26, 7 & 9 p.m., $20-50 In

Iowa’s hardest working metal acts. Over the past three years, the band has hit the grindstone, crushing out three albums, touring the country relentlessly, and seemingly playing every venue the city of Des Moines has to offer. The band will celebrate the release of their fifth album, Monument, April 20 at Wooly’s. The show features a stacked bill of opening acts including locals Holy White Hounds and Green Death and Kansas City’s Orphans of Doom.

has worked to establish their reputation as Des Moines’s new multimedia, audio-visual, live music experience. From their packed psychedelic throwdown at the Lift last September to the full glitz-and-glam of their David Bowie set at the Des Moines Social Club’s New Year’s Eve Bash, LVMAKING shows are always a spectacle. This show’s theme is the Sunken Circus, and it’s sure to contain all the theatrics of an actual circus, only filtered through a kaleidoscope of lights and projectors and a wall of electronics.

playing a string of shows throughout the Midwest this April. The band is out in support of their sophomore album, Nightmare Logic, which has the old hype machine calling it one of the best thrash metal records of the past decade. That’s in addition to what everyone was already saying about them being of the genre’s best live acts. So, a stop by the Vaudeville Mews is a welcome booking amid three months of shows that will eventually take the band through Europe this summer.

celebration of what would have been Ella Fitzgerald’s 102nd birthday, local songstress Tina Haase-Findlay will be performing a double-header of our First Lady of Song’s legendary catalogue. It’s a perfect pairing considering Haase-Findlay’s passion for the golden age of music and Fitzgerald’s class and charisma. The late night shows at Noce are always a good vibe, and Haase-Findlay really brings it when she does these homage performances, so this one comes highly recommended.

—Trey Reis

HANCHER’S CULINARY ARTS EXPERIENCE

Trumpet Blossom Cafe Wednesday, April 24, 5:00 pm—8:00 pm Stanley Café in Hancher Auditorium Hancher Culinary Arts Experience presents a special evening with a local favorite, Trumpet Blossom Cafe, opened by Katy Meyer in 2012. Trumpet Blossom provides the community with truly sustainable organic comfort food that highlights the seasons and contains no animal products.

Join us at 5 pm for a social hour with appetizers showcasing spring favorites including deviled new potatoes and ginger carrot bisque. The spring theme continues as the plated dinner delights your palate with a roasted vegetable salad with green goddess dressing; locally-made artisan breads with sprout pesto and edamame hummus; and a main dish featuring local tofu with a lemon herb caper sauce, fresh greens, seasonal veggies, and quinoa. Saving the best for last, dessert is a fun spin on a nostalgic classic, Trumpet Blossom’s own Black Iowa Dirt Cake made with vegan chocolate sandwich cookies and edible flowers.

CULINARY ARTS EXPERIENCE

TICKETS Order online hancher.uiowa.edu Call (319) 335-1160 or 800-HANCHER Accessibility Services (319) 335-1158

Tickets must be purchased in advance through the Hancher Box Office. Ticket price includes dinner, non-alcoholic beverages, tax, and gratuity. Capacity is limited.

TICKETS: $40 PER PERSON

Great Artists. Great Audiences. Hancher Performances.

Discover more at hancher.uiowa.edu.

Individuals with disabilities are encouraged to attend all University of Iowa sponsored events. If you are a person with a disability who requires a reasonable accommodation in order to participate in this program, please contact Hancher in advance at (319) 335-1158.

EDITORS’ PICKS CHICAGO COMEDIANS

Commit to the Bit Comedy! 18+ show, Iowa City Yacht Club, 7:30 p.m.,

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$5 CEDAR RAPIDS COMEDIAN

Doug Thompson, Penguin’s Comedy Club, Cedar Rapids, 8 p.m., $13-15 FOLK/AMERICANA

Joe & Vicki Price, Sanctuary Pub, Iowa City, 8 p.m., Free

Via the artists’ Facebook

LOCAL ARTIST SHOWCASE

Dr.Dawson presents Hip Hop Healing, Iowa City Yacht Club, 9 p.m., $5 FEATURING MIDWEST WAVES, TULIP, FATHER CHRISTMAS, NICK MENDOZA

Pride Rock Iowa City Benefit, Trumpet Blossom Cafe, Iowa City, 9 p.m., Free-$10 FUNK & GROOVE

Euforquestra w/ Reggae Rapids, Gabe’s, Iowa City, 9 p.m., $15 SoulShake, Gabe’s, Iowa City, 10 p.m., Free (Weekly) Sasha Belle Presents: Friday Night Drag & Dance Party, Studio 13, Iowa City, 10:30 p.m., $5 (Weekly)

Sat, Apr. 20 INTRODUCING BIG GROVE’S NEWEST BEERS

Release Party: Morgan Horse + Color TV, Big Grove Brewery & Taproom, Iowa City & Solon, 9 a.m., Free Eco-Art Junk Sculpture Workshop, Artisan’s Sanctuary, Marion, 10 a.m.,

Aldo Leopold Lecture: An Evening with Terry Tempest Williams, Lang Hall Auditorium at UNI, Cedar Falls, Friday, April 19, 7:30 p.m., Free

Currently the Annie Clark Tanner Fellow in the Environmental Humanities Graduate program at the University of Utah, Terry Tempest Williams is an author, conservationist and activist who has, among her many awards, the International Peace Award from the Community of Christ and the Sierra Club’s John Muir Award. Her most recent book is 2015’s The Hour of Land: A Personal Topography of America’s National Parks. Williams’ work touches on such varied topics as women’s health, democracy and the intrinsic link between environmental and social justice. She will meet with University of Northern Iowa students in the afternoon before her lecture. Williams’ visit is the last Aldo Leopold Lecture of the 2018-19 school year; the series, named for ecologist, nature writer and Iowa native Leopold, focuses on speakers who are passionate about conservation and the environment.

Donations accepted Family Storytime, Iowa City Public Library, 10:30 a.m., Free (Weekly) I.C. Press Co-op Open Shop, Public Space One, Iowa City, 12 p.m., Free (Weekly)

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Earth Day Celebration, Hearst Center for the Arts, Cedar Falls, Tuesday, April 23, 4 p.m., Free Big fan of this planet

we call home? Your family can join in this straightforward appreciation of it, helping the Hearst plant a tree and then engaging in some family fun. While there, you can take in the current exhibition, To the New World: Antonín Dvořák in Iowa.

Scene D Presents: ‘The Christians,’ Rock & Bach Studios, Waterloo, ThursdaySunday, April 25-28, 7 p.m., $15 Scene D

Theatre Project, a relatively new company based in Cedar Falls, has a goal of using theater artists of diverse backgrounds to bring “art with an edge” to the Cedar Valley.

Lucas Hnath’s 2015 play The Christians is their third show (fourth if you include their review of cross- and non-traditionally cast songs and monologues last month).

The company is presenting this exploration of faith, belief and the challenges of communicating them in a music lessons studio located in a former Baptist church in Waterloo. The show runs 90 minutes with no intermission.

OK Go, Gallagher-Bluedorn Performing Arts Center, Cedar Falls, Friday, April 26, 7 p.m., $26.55-70.75 This Los

Angeles-based quartet, formed in 1998, have been proving to the world for years now that music is a multi-sensory experience. Known at least as much for their video as their audio, Damian Kulash, Tim Nordwind, Dan Konopka and Andy Ross test the rules of engagement at every turn, proving over and over again that the when, where, why and how of making music hold equal weight with the what and who.

Their current tour sees them performing live against a backdrop of 20 of their most iconic videos. They’ll also engage the audience with a Q&A session and an interactive participation piece. Because of course they will.

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EDITORS’ PICKS Bill’s Birthday Bash, Uptown

ICDOCS Juror Program:

Bill’s Coffee Shop, Iowa City,

Dessane Lopez Cassell,

12 p.m., Donations accepted

FilmScene, Iowa City, 3 p.m., Free

ICDOCS Special Presentation: Laura Iancu,

Speed Gang with DJ Stan

FilmScene, Iowa City, 1 p.m.,

Halen, Whensday, Yung

Free

Flxx, Will Murk, Jordan Burgett, Iowa City Yacht

OPENING PERFORMANCE!

Club, 6 p.m., $10

RUNS THROUGH MAY 11

H MONT R ONE !

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‘Judy Moody & Stink:

EXTRATERRESTRIAL

The Mad, Mad, Mad,

OUTLAWS

Mad Treasure Hunt,’ Old

Spectral Snake w/ Peter

Creamery Theatre, Amana, 1

M of We Are The Willows,

p.m., $10.50

Trumpet Blossom Cafe, Iowa City, 7 p.m., $7

FILMSCENE AND THE ENGLERT EXPLORE THE

CLOSING PERFORMANCE

FUTURE OF THE ARTS

‘Apple Season,’ Riverside

Strengthen • Grow •

Theatre, Iowa City, 7:30 p.m.,

Evolve Launch Event,

$10-30

Englert Theatre, Iowa City, 2 p.m., Free

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RECREATION OF THE

Mike Maas & Carlis,

FULL CLARK UNIVERSITY

Sanctuary Pub, Iowa City, 8

GRATEFUL DEAD

p.m., Free

PERFORMANCE

Winterland Plays 4/20/69,

MINNEAPOLIS SINGER/

Wildwood Smokehouse &

SONGWRITER

Saloon, Iowa City, 8 p.m.,

David Huckfelt w/ Michael

$15-20

Rossetto, CSPS Legion Arts,

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Cedar Rapids, 8 p.m., $17-22 CEDAR RAPIDS COMEDIAN

Doug Thompson, Penguin’s

CLOSING PERFORMANCE!

Comedy Club, Cedar Rapids, 8

‘25th Annual Putnam

p.m., $13-15

County Spelling Bee,’

THE SMITH’S

Giving Tree Theater, Marion, 8 LOCAL LEGEND

p.m., $26

David Zollo & the Body Electric w/ Bo Ramsey,

Elation Dance Party, Studio

Heartache Connoisseur,

13, Iowa City, 9 p.m., $5

The Mill, Iowa City, 8 p.m.,

(Weekly)

$12-15 CANADIAN BASS X-RATED COMEDIANS TO

Downlink w/ Al Ross, Blue

CELEBRATE THE CLUB’S 25TH

Moose Tap House, Iowa City, 9

ANNIVERSARY

p.m., $15-18

Martin Moreno with Hooter Moreno, First Avenue Club,

Graduation Invites, Life-size cutouts, banners, thank you cards

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Iowa City, 8 p.m., $10-60

HAPPY HOUR

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ART May 3 5:00–7:00 p.m.

FilmScene 118 E. College St. Iowa City

first Friday

FREE ADMISSION stanleymuseum.uiowa.edu Individuals with disabilities are encouraged to attend all University of Iowa-sponsored events. If you are a person with a disability who requires a reasonable accommodation in order to participate in this program, please contact the SMA in advance at 319-335-1727.

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EDITORS’ PICKS MySpace Emo Prom,

Pub Quiz, The Mill, Iowa City,

Open Mic, The Mill, Iowa

READING: ‘BEFORE SHE WAS

Gabe’s, Iowa City, 9:30 p.m.,

9 p.m., $1 (Weekly)

City, 8 p.m., Free (Weekly)

FOUND’

Mon., Apr. 22

3 Jazz Cats, Sanctuary Pub,

Lights Books & Cafe, Iowa City,

Iowa City, 8 p.m., Free

7 p.m., Free

HIV/AIDS IN IOWA CITY:

Comedy Open Mic with

Weekly Old-Timey Jam

THIRTY YEARS AND BEYOND

Spencer & Dan, Yacht

Sessions, Trumpet Blossom

Bijou After Hours: Scooby

Pride at FilmScene: ‘How

Club, Iowa City, 9 p.m., Free

Cafe, Iowa City, 7:30 p.m.,

Doo Double Feature,

to Survive a Plague,’

(Weekly)

Free (Weekly)

FilmScene, Iowa City, 11 p.m.,

FilmScene, Iowa City, 6 p.m.,

Free-$6.50

Free-$6.50

Say Anything Karaoke,

Dance Party with DJ

Gabe’s, Iowa City, 10 p.m.,

Batwoman, Iowa City Yacht

Free (Weekly)

Club, 9 p.m., Free (Weekly)

Tue., Apr. 23

Comedy & Karaoke, Studio

Heather Gudenkauf, Prairie

$10 Dr. Unk w/ 6 Odd Rats, Iowa City Yacht Club, 10 p.m., $7

Sun., Apr. 21

READING & RELEASE: ‘TALLGRASS CONVERSATIONS: IN SEARCH

Sunday Funday, Iowa City

OF THE PRAIRIE SPIRIT’

Public Library, Iowa City, 2

Thomas Dean and Cindy

p.m., Free (Weekly)

Crosby, Prairie Lights Books

HIV/AIDS IN IOWA CITY:

& Cafe, Iowa City, 7 p.m., Free

THIRTY YEARS AND BEYOND

Karaoke Tuesdays, The

Bijou Film Forum: ‘Life,

Mill, Iowa City, 10 p.m., Free (Weekly)

PRECEDED BY A PHYSICS

(Weekly)

ROAST W/ UI PHYSICS

DREAMY DANCE POP

Above All,’ FilmScene, Iowa

STUDENTS

Hippo Campus w/ Samia,

City, 6 p.m., Free-$6.50

Science on Screen:

Blue Moose Tap House, Iowa

‘Gravity,’

City, 7 p.m., $26-28

Blues Jam, Parlor City Pub

FilmScene, Iowa City, 3 p.m.,

and Eatery, Cedar Rapids, 7

$8-9

p.m., Free (Weekly)

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PRESENTED BY ICAD AND THE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE

Iowa City Open Coffee,

Excellence in Education

Merge, Iowa City, 8 a.m., Free

Awards, Englert Theatre, Iowa

(Weekly)

City, 6:30 p.m., Free

Gentle Yoga, Public Space

READING: ‘OCCUPIED

One, Iowa City, 5 p.m., $5-10

TERRITORY: POLICING BLACK

(Weekly)

CHICAGO FROM RED SUMMER TO BLACK POWER’

Break Dance Group, Public

Simon Balto, Prairie Lights

Space One, Iowa City, 6 p.m.,

Books & Cafe, Iowa City, 7

Free (Weekly)

p.m., Free

HIV/AIDS IN IOWA CITY:

Open Mic Night, Penguin’s

THIRTY YEARS AND BEYOND

Comedy Club, Cedar Rapids, 8

‘Philadelphia,’ FilmScene,

p.m., Free (Weekly)

Iowa City, 6 p.m., Free-$6.50 ORLANDO, FLORIDA

Burlington Street

COMEDIAN

Bluegrass Band, The Mill,

Mark Viola w/ Ethan

Iowa City, 6 p.m., $5 (2nd &

Everhart, Carson Tuttle,

4th Wednesdays)

Aline Sandouk, Iowa City Yacht Club, 8:30 p.m., Free

Faulconer Gallery

DREAD

& DELIGHT

FAIRY TALES IN AN ANXIOUS WORLD FEBRUARY 1 – APRIL 27, 2019

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EDITORS’ PICKS Open Stage, Studio 13, Iowa City, 10 p.m.,

Anthony Worden and the Illiterati w/

Free (Weekly)

Those Far Out Arrows, Hex Girls, Gabe’s, Iowa City, 9 p.m., $5

THIS WEEK: ‘SUMMER OF ’84’

Late Shift at the Grindhouse, Film Scene, Iowa City, 10 p.m., $4 (Weekly)

Thu., Apr. 25

Fri., Apr. 26 NewBo Open Coffee, Roasters Coffeehouse in NewBo City Market, Cedar Rapids, 8 a.m., Free (2nd & 4th Fridays)

I.C. Press Co-op open shop, Public Space One, Iowa City, 4 p.m., Free (Weekly)

DIALOGUE WITH JON YAGLA, SHANTI SELLZ AND CHRIS GREBNER

UI Public Policy Center Presents:

Science on Screen: ‘The Biggest Little

Visualizing Equitable and Sustainable

Farm,’ FilmScene, Iowa City, 6 p.m., $12

Communities in Iowa, Graduate Iowa City, 5 p.m., Free

OLD CREAMERY THEATRE CABARET & FUNDRAISER

NewBo Happier Hour, NewBo City Market,

A Shaken Not Stirred Affair, Price Creek

5:30 p.m., Free (Weekly)

Event Center, Amana, 6 p.m., $40

How to Shop Zero Waste: Tour and

‘A NEIGHBOR JUST LIKE YOU’: THE MUSIC &

Taste, New Pioneer Co-op, Cedar Rapids, 6

MESSAGE OF FRED ROGERS

p.m., $5

Beyond the Neighborhood: The Music of Fred Rogers featuring the Keri

Iowa City Meditation Class: How To

Johnsrud & Kevin Bales Quartet, St.

Transform Your Life, Quaker Friends

Andrew Presbyterian Church, Iowa City, 6:30

Meeting House, Iowa City, 6:30 p.m., $5-10

p.m., Free

(Weekly) FUNDRAISER FOR KCCK JAZZ EDUCATION

Line Dancing and Lessons, Wildwood

PROGRAMS

Smokehouse & Saloon, Iowa City, 6:30

Taste of Jazz 2019: Playing It Forward,

p.m., Free (Weekly)

Hotel at Kirkwood Center, Cedar Rapids, 6:30 p.m., $65

‘A NEIGHBOR JUST LIKE YOU’: THE MUSIC & MESSAGE OF FRED ROGERS

FAC Dance Party, The Union, Iowa City, 7

Screening: ‘Won’t You Be My

p.m. (Weekly)

Neighbor?’, St. Andrew Presbyterian Church, Iowa City, 6:30 p.m., Free

PART OF ENGLERT WAVELENGTH: DEEPER LEARNING THROUGH THE ARTS

PROCEEDS BENEFIT TREES FOREVER

So Many Journeys, Englert Theatre, Iowa

TREE-via Night for Earth Week, Lion

City, 7 p.m., $10-18

Bridge Brewing Company, Cedar Rapids, 7 p.m., $20/table of four

POETRY

Neil Hilborn, Blue Moose Tap House, Iowa Thursday Night Live Open Mic, Uptown

City, 7:30 p.m., $18-20

Bill’s, Iowa City, 7 p.m., Free (Weekly) OPENING NIGHT! RUNS THROUGH MAY 4;

Daddy-O, Parlor City Pub and Eatery,

APRIL 27 IS PAY-WHAT-YOU-CAN NIGHT

Cedar Rapids, 7 p.m., Free (Weekly)

Dreamwell Theatre Presents: ‘Tragedy, A Tragedy,’ Public Space One, Iowa City,

MINNEAPOLIS INDIE ROCK

7:30 p.m., $10-13

Bad Bad Hats w/ Elly Hoffmaier, The Mill, Iowa City, 8 p.m., $10-12

RAPPER & MULTI-INSTRUMENTALIST

Afroman w/ Rexy Reckie, Brothers Karaoke Thursday, Studio 13, Iowa City, 8

of Blues, B., DaRoundHero, Lil Weep

p.m., Free (Weekly)

& The Cry Baby’, DRED, Ckinz & Lex, Gabe’s, Iowa City, 7:30 p.m., $20-25

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EDITORS’ PICKS I.C. Press Co-op Open Shop, Public

PG-13 SHOW

THRIO, Sanctuary Pub, Iowa

Burlesque in the Black Box

City, 8 p.m., Free

feat: The Va Va Voom!,

EXPERIMENTAL MULTI-

Theatre Cedar Rapids, 7:30

INSTRUMENTALISTS

‘A NEIGHBOR JUST LIKE YOU’: THE

p.m., $35

Ohmme w/ Karen Meat,

MUSIC & MESSAGE OF FRED ROGERS

PRESENTED BY GREEN IOWA

Trumpet Blossom Cafe, Iowa

Jazz Master Class with the Keri

AMERICORPS AND IOWA CITY PARKS

City, 9 p.m., $10

Johnsrud & Kevin Bales Quartet,

AND RECREATION

St. Andrew Presbyterian Church, Iowa

Earth Fest, Terry Trueblood Recreation

City, 10 a.m., Free

Area, Iowa City, 3 p.m., Free

Family Storytime, Iowa City Public

‘A NEIGHBOR JUST LIKE YOU’: THE

Library, 10:30 a.m., Free (Weekly)

MUSIC & MESSAGE OF FRED ROGERS

IMPRESSIONIST

Craig Gass, Penguin’s Comedy Club, Cedar Rapids, 8

Underground Pianos w/

p.m., $22-25

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BY PAUL BRENNAN

I really want to know why no one ever canoes on the Iowa River. Is it because it’s too dirty? —Corey, Coralville, via Facebook

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f you’ve never seen people canoeing on the Iowa River, it’s possible you’ve been looking in the wrong places, because a lot of people canoe it every year. One reason they can be hard to spot is that the river only has one designated water trail in Johnson County.

The trail starts at Sturgis Ferry Park in Iowa City (1700 S Riverside Dr), which has a boat ramp that allows easy access to the river. From there, it’s a 9.25-mile float down to the next landing at Hills Access, a 40-acre park, which, despite its name, is also in Iowa City (4210 520th St SE), not Hills.

Adventurous and determined canoers can follow the water trail all the way to where the Iowa meets the Mississippi River at Ferry Landing in Louisa County. It’s a journey of approximately 73 miles, with six river access points between Sturgis Ferry Park and Ferry Landing.

Sturgis Ferry Park to Hills Access is also the route of the Great Iowa River Race, which will take place on June 8. The race has two divisions: one for the people who are just interested in fun on the river and one for competitive types who want a serious race. (Registration for the event closes on June 4.)

Of course, when it comes to the Iowa River, canoeing and dirty water isn’t an either/or, it’s a both/and. In the most recent Iowa Department of Natural Resources (DNR) assessment of “impaired waters,” the Iowa River is listed as “impaired or threatened,” due to bacterial contamination (rated as “slight”), fish kills due to natural causes (also “slight”) and potential biological impairments due to unknown causes (rated “moderate”). The river water samples were

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collected between the Burlington Street Dam in Iowa City and the Coralville Reservoir Dam. It isn’t surprising the river has problems.

According to the DNR, more than half of the rivers, streams and lakes in Iowa are polluted. The biggest contributor to the state’s water quality problems is agriculture.

The entire landmass of Iowa is only 36 million acres, and 25 million of them are planted with just two crops: corn and soybeans. Both crops require fertilizer, largely composed of nitrogen and phosphorus, and fertilizer run-off from the fields is a major source of water pollution. And the state’s industrial-scale hog farms have waste lagoons that regularly overflow or leak into waterways.

Addressing agricultural pollution will require effective state action, something unlikely to happen while Republicans control the legislature and the governor’s office.

Iowa Republicans prefer a voluntary approach to regulating pollution.

But people interested in preserving and improving the Iowa River can participate in the annual Iowa River Clean-up on Sept. 14.

Volunteers, both on foot and floating, have collected trash along the river between Sturgis Ferry Park and Hills Access. The event’s been held six times since it started in 2011, and it has collected over 50 tons of garbage, including more than 900 discarded tires.

Have a question about what’s going on in your community?

Ask Little Village. Submit your question through the Your Village feature on our homepage, or email us at editor@littlevillagemag.com.

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TAURUS (April 20-May 20): The Beat Generation of American poets arose in the late 1940s as a rebellion against materialistic mainstream culture and academic poetry. It embraced sexual liberation, Eastern spirituality, ecological awareness, political activism and psychedelic drugs. One of its members, Jack Kerouac, tweaked and ennobled the word “beat” to serve as the code name for their movement. In its old colloquial usage, “beat” meant tired or exhausted. But Kerouac re-consecrated it to mean “upbeat,” borrowing from the Italian word beato, translated as “beatific.” I bring this to your attention, Taurus, because you’re on the verge of a similar transition: from the old meaning of “beat” to the new.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): “Scattered through the ordinary world, there are books and artifacts and perhaps people who are like doorways into impossible realms, of impossible and contradictory truth.” Argentinian author Jorge Luis Borges said that, and now I’m passing it on to you—just in time for your entrance into a phase when such doorways will be far more available than usual. I hope you will use Borges’ counsel as a reminder to be alert for everyday situations and normal people that could lead you to intriguing experiences and extraordinary revelations and life-changing blessings.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): The Free Will Astrology Committee To Boldly Promote Cancerians’ Success is glad to see that you’re not politely waiting for opportunities to come to you.

Rather, you’re tracking them down and proactively wrangling them into a form that’s workable for your needs. You seem to have realized that what you had assumed was your fair share isn’t actually fair; that you want and deserve more. Although you’re not being mean and manipulative, neither are you being overly nice and amenable; you’re pushing harder to do things your way. I approve! And I endorse your efforts to take it even further.

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SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): “I have the usual capacity for wanting what may not even exist,” wrote poet Galway Kinnell.

How about you, Scorpio? Do you, too, have an uncanny ability to long for hypothetical, invisible, mythical and illusory things? If so, I will ask you to downplay that amazing power of yours for a while. It’s crucial for your future development that you focus on yearning for actual experiences, real people and substantive possibilities. Please understand: I’m not suggesting you’re bad or wrong for having those seemingly impossible desires. I’m simply saying that for now you will thrive on being attracted to things that are genuinely available.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): “Sometimes I have kept my feelings to myself, because I could find no language to describe them in,” wrote Sagittarian novelist Jane Austen. I’m guessing you’ve had that experience—maybe more than usual, of late. But I suspect you’ll soon be finding ways to express those embryonic feelings. Congrats in advance! You’ll discover secrets you’ve been concealing from yourself. You’ll receive missing information whose absence has made it hard to understand the whole story. Your unconscious mind will reveal the rest of what it has thus far merely been hinting at.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): All over the world, rivers and lakes are drying up. Sources of water are shrinking. Droughts are becoming more common and prolonged. Why? Mostly because of climate change. The good news is that lots of people are responding to the crisis with alacrity. Among them is an engineer in India named Ramveer Tanwar. Since 2014, he has organized efforts leading to the rejuvenation of 12 dead lakes and ponds. I propose we make him your role model for the coming weeks. I hope he will inspire you to engage in idealistic pursuits that benefit other people. And I hope you’ll be motivated to foster fluidity and flow and wetness everywhere you go. The astrological time is ripe for such activities.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): A blogger named Caramelizee offered her definition of elegance: “being proud of both your feminine and masculine qualities; seeing life as a non-ending university and learning everything you can; caring for yourself with tender precision; respecting and taking advantage of silences; tuning in to your emotions without being oversensitive; owning your personal space and being generous enough to allow other people to own their personal space.” This definition of elegance will be especially apropos and useful for you Aquarians in the coming weeks.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Virgo adventurer Jason Lewis traveled around the world using transportation powered solely by his own body. He walked, bicycled, skated, rowed, pedaled and swam more than 46,000 miles. I propose that we make him your role model for the next four weeks. You’re primed to accomplish gradual breakthroughs through the use of simple, persistent, incremental actions. Harnessing the power of your physical vitality will be an important factor in your success.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): You Pisceans have been summoning heroic levels of creative intensity. You’ve been working extra hard and extra smart. But it seems that you haven’t been fully recognized or appreciated for your efforts. I’m sorry about that. Please don’t let it discourage you from continuing to express great integrity and authenticity. Keep pushing for your noble cause and offering your best gifts. I’m proud of you! And although you may not yet have reaped all the benefits you will ultimately sow, three months from now I bet you’ll be pleased you pushed so hard to be such a righteous servant of the greater good.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Curcumin is a chemical found in the plant turmeric. When ingested by humans, it may diminish inflammation, lower the risk of diabetes, support cardiovascular health and treat digestive disorders. But there’s a problem: The body is inefficient in absorbing and using curcumin—unless it’s ingested along with piperine, a chemical in black pepper.

Then it’s far more available. What would be the metaphorical equivalent to curcumin in your life? An influence that could be good for you, but that would be even better if you synergized it with a certain additional influence? And what would be the metaphorical equivalent of that additional influence? Now is a good time to investigate these questions.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): French writer Simone de Beauvoir sent a letter to her lover, Aries author Nelson Algren. She wrote, “I like so much the way you are so greedy about life and yet so quiet, your eager greediness and your patience, and your way of not asking much of life and yet taking much because you are so human and alive that you find much in everything.” I’d love to see you embody that state in the coming weeks, Aries.

In my astrological opinion, you have a mandate to be both utterly relaxed and totally thrilled; both satisfied with what life brings you and skillfully avid to extract the most out of it; both at peace with what you already have and primed to grab for much more.

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rystal City’s first two albums—Change (2014) and Bartenderly (2017)— drew from Paul Westerberg’s playbook. They shared his penchant for ramshackle punk and glistening, soaring pop—the electric and acoustic, the sad and hopeful.

The reasonable expectation would be that the band’s new album would continue this direction. But somewhere after leaving the bar following the last album, Dave Helmer found new inspiration.

For Crystal City’s latest album, Three-Dimensionality, Helmer and Sam Drella have taken steps to bring their music to a new place that’s more complex, musically and lyrically.

The title track opener showcases the amazing guitar production evident throughout: big, big chiming guitars with oodles of chorus effect, layered over strumming acoustics. Helmer and Drella are

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singing in unison. The song is a glance back at an earlier time that was all carefree possibility: “We left that summer thinking that we’d grown up.” But the sobering cost of that becomes apparent with the verse, “We’re working really hard and we’re always so alone.”

The high points involve the new sonic directions the band is trying out. “Fairfield” is a 1950s country swing-styled song led by piano, complete with a wonderful whistling solo and pedal steel—a really nice departure in the middle of a record where the band is stretching its legs. “Searching For You” is a breezy, gorgeous track that approaches a Steely Dan sound.

The album wraps up, unexpectedly, with a jazzy piano song. The clean guitar and fretless bass slinks around some light vamping. Dan Padley (of Laranja and Elizabeth Moen’s band) plays effortlessly through some modal changes, locking him in my mind as one of the area’s great guitarists.

The songs on ThreeDimensionality are less about literal storytelling than providing impressions of feelings and ideas.

This may be what Crystal City means by the title: time to move from being obvious and two-dimensional to working towards a three-dimensionality. This album shows that kind of depth.

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ou know your hip-hop music has gone fullon meta when you use dialog from Six Characters in Search of an Author by Italian playwright Luigi Pirandello.

It fits that Bob Benson teaches electronic music at Coe College.

Hip hop by academics has a checkered record; Cornel West’s hip-hop album is pretty bad, and DJ Spooky’s music sounds sometimes as if it’s his artist’s statement instead of actual art.

What makes “Identity Crisis” more than an academic exercise is Benson’s skill as a composer and producer. The production on “Bite Your Lip” and “Til You Got It” verges on EDM-tinged pop, but it has enough harmonic variety to not feel as synthetic and fake as EDM can. “Silhouette” has some obvious Prince influence, but the boom-bap beat gives it a different flavor than Prince’s more jagged groove.

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pretentious lyrics, particularly on “Abandon Ship”: “Sniffing lines of cocaine sun / Taking hits of wind we can’t outrun.” Benson’s vocals on this song sound a bit like Trent Reznor in a mood to croon, which, along with the lyrics, put the song on the knife’s edge between being effective and being unintentionally funny.

But the production behind his voice is full of great details: the vague, echoey synth burbles and what our friend Tack Fu calls a “marching beat.”

It makes more sense to consider Identity Class as closer to something like Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Hamilton than a conventional hip-hop record. This is most evident on “Red Handed,” which has some of Miranda’s hyper-literate, hyper-enunciated flow.

The quotes from Pirandello tie it together thematically, and the narrator’s cultured British accent reminds you this isn’t a Nicki Minaj record. Six Characters... is metafictional and trippy, and the excerpts put an interesting conceptual frame around Benson’s philosophical musings on identity and relationships This is an ambitious work that mostly succeeds musically, and where Benson gets lyrically overprofound, the quality of his production and arrangements allow you to just go with it.

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rairie is among the most altered and threatened ecosystems in the world,” Thomas Dean of Iowa City wrote in a new book he co-authored with Cindy Crosby of Glen Ellyn, Illinois. “Care of the world is always essential, and care arises from conversation.”

Tallgrass Conversations: In Search of the Prairie Spirit is a compilation of Crosby and Dean’s recent writings and photographs.

Organized in a series of 26 conversations, the book touches on many of the current issues pertaining to preservation and restoration of tallgrass prairie in the Midwest.

Prairie used to cover more than 85 percent of Iowa land, according to the Neal Smith National Wildlife

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Refuge. Today, less than one-10th of a percent of original tallgrass prairie remains in the state.

“Remnant prairie functions in a way we can’t replicate through planting prairie,” Crosby wrote.

“We can educate ourselves about what we are losing. We can care for what remains.”

If one participates in the experience of tallgrass prairie as Dean and Crosby encourage us to do, it is decidedly cultural. They provide a window into current tallgrass ecosystems and their modern discovery and management. The authors want more writers and artists, poets and photographers to document what’s left of tallgrass prairie and enter into a conversation about what it means and what can be learned. They want to be partners in that conversation, and the book serves as an example of how to begin.

“We hope you’ll enjoy seeing the various ways we invite you to think about some of these words and images that showcase the prairie spirit,” Crosby wrote.

To learn more about Crosby’s work, visit her website, tuesdaysinthetallgrass.wordpress.com, where she explores exterior and interior landscapes through the tallgrass prairie. Dean is senior presidential writer/editor at the University of Iowa, where he also teaches interdisciplinary courses.

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homas Mundt’s (Intentionally Blank) opens with a line from a Betty Wright song: “Jumpin’ slick was my ruin.” Wright’s narrator, a free-spirited woman who loses a kind suitor to a more loving and attentive rival, would be right at home in the world of (Intentionally Blank). Mundt’s collection of 22 short stories centers on characters whose attempts to forge or maintain an identity are challenged or thwarted by living in a highly commercialized, cutthroat, 2019 America.

But don’t let Mundt’s deluded denizens and late-capitalism backdrop fool you into thinking (Intentionally Blank) is anything less than hilarious.

(Intentionally Blank) opens with “My Hawaiian Shirts,” the tale of a man whose entire identity revolves around his collection of Hawaiian shirts. Throughout the story, the narrator’s focus is upon his ever-expanding shirt collection while briefly

mentioning, in passing, the tragic death of a friend and his own father’s untimely confinement to a nursing home.

In “Backhoe,” a spectacular piece of short fiction about race and class in late capitalism, Mundt explores the relationship between an apprentice on a downtown Chicago construction crew and the work release prisoner he’s been charged to monitor (nicknamed Backhoe for his overzealous demand that he be allowed to use the backhoe).

Fantasy blurs with reality by the conclusion as the narrator and Backhoe find themselves aboard a boat on the Chicago River.

Mundt’s style and prose are inviting and accessible. He boldly dives deep into the psyche of his characters in much the same way George Saunders does. A small tic or an aside about habit or ritual speak volumes about characters whose entire lives exist within six short pages.

The common thread throughout (Intentionally Blank) is labeling. We all label ourselves and others with memetic nicknames, limiting job titles, impossible-to-achieve expectations and unforgivable, inescapable judgment. Repeatedly, Mundt points to the myriad ways we could all be so much freer to be happy if only we could see past the labels we’ve been given and the labels we’ve given others.

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