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Your Village: What’s next for the Park Road Bridge?

It’s all so very silly, this response from our city leaders. Instead of investing in all the ugly, cumbersome, and ham-fisted deterrents, why not embrace the opportunity this has actually presented to our community?

Install some guard rails and turnstiles, sell tickets, and vend selfie sticks for the inevitable photo-op from the top. How about summer high diving into the river?

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here’s nothing quite like Iowa City in the summer.

The peace and quiet are unparalleled—the other day, I made it all the way to my office without actually seeing another person, which is my personal definition of bliss.

Festival season has begun, making it physically impossible to drive your car downtown for the foreseeable future, but on the other hand, funnel cakes are being sold on the streets most weekends.

The amount of THC in the city’s atmosphere has already risen by 13 percent and shows no signs of clearing. It’s shaping up to be a heck of a season.

If you’re anything like me, there is no possibility of you doing anything that might traditionally be considered “fun” this summer. My debilitating fear of premature aging makes it impossible for me to go outside without SPF 100+ and a black shroud.

However, I’m willing to bet that even those of you without massive neuroses spent most of your free time last summer playing Xbox in your underpants.

This year, let’s shake it up a little. Here are some fun ways to celebrate summer in IC: Even us 99-percenters can beat the heat, as well as the stifling humidity, with an inflatable baby pool.

Borrow one from your elderly next-door neighbors who still have all their kids’ toys from the ’80s, fill ‘er up with the hose and experience the soothing sensation of reclining in the shallow waters of the Caribbean. Really, it’s basically the same thing. Pro tip: When you’re done with your “swim,” dump a few bags of ice in there and it becomes an ideal beer cooler for tonight’s barbecue.

The Iowa City and Cedar Rapids farmers markets make it easy to work on that summer bod! (Or, more realistically, try to stave off scurvy.) Every Saturday morning, vendors from all across Iowa come with organic fruits and vegetables, local honey, handmade baked goods and more. The rewards for dragging yourself out of bed at a reasonable hour are many, and the shame of forgetting to bring reusable bags is great.

A summer project is the perfect way to have fun while at least pretending to improve yourself.

Learn a new language—something summery and exotic, like Swedish—or pick up the ukulele. Home improvement projects are also popular this time of year. Maybe KonMari your winter wardrobe.

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Interview of a Lifetime Grinnell College students are recording Iowa’s LGBTQ history, one story at a time. BY MIKE KUHLENBECK

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une 28 will mark the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall uprising in New York City, an event that catapulted the struggle for LGBTQ rights into the public consciousness. Of course, this struggle did not begin with Stonewall, or end with any law or Supreme Court decision—nor is LGBTQ history limited to high-profile protests in big cities.

A dedicated group of Grinnell College students and their professor are seeking to discover and preserve LGBTQ history in Iowa by recording testimonials and making these recordings publicly available for future generations.

In January, Professor Abram Lewis and the 10 students enrolled in his upper-level seminar “Queer Oral Histories” started LGBT Oral Histories of Central Iowa, a student-led initiative supervised by Lewis with the goal 10 June 5–18, 2019 LITTLEVILLAGEMAG.COM/LV265

of establishing a local record of LGBTQ life in Iowa.

Lewis, a relative newcomer to the Hawkeye State, is a postdoctoral fellow teaching oral history research and gender and sexuality studies. He is also a co-founder of the NYC Trans Oral History Project.

The team recognized that in many non-coastal regions like Iowa, there’s not the same kind of visibility or institutional focus around LGBTQ issues compared to states like New York and California.

“There is a pretty robust LGBT community life and historical memory in Iowa,” Lewis said. But, “That memory and knowledge is under-documented,” especially in small towns and rural areas.

With this in mind, Lewis and his students focused in on the rural area between Iowa City and Des Moines. There are no “rigid geographical boundaries” for the project, and researchers “welcome participation by LGBT Iowans at large,” according to their website, lgbtoralhistories.sites.grinnell.edu.

For most if not all the students involved, the project was their first foray into oral history research. The challenges seemed daunting at the beginning, but according to Lewis, they have accomplished impressive work through their efforts.

The students took the lead on all aspects of this project. They hung up posters, created flyers, made phone calls, drove across the state, arranged meetings, recorded interviews and posted content on the website and Facebook page.

Each student was initially tasked to interview at least eight people. Interview subjects are referred to as narrators, and the interviews, which usually last for two hours, are conducted with individual narrators or a group of narrators known as a “memory circle.”

To date, they have conducted more than 50 interviews with LGBT Iowans and those with close ties to that community. Through the unique lens of each narrator, listeners are offered insights, giving depth and humanity to the existing historical record.

Narrators who shared their stories include people of color, working-class people, trans people, activists involved in LGBTQ issues dating back to the 1970s, LGBTQ people in local politics and a few Grinnell students and faculty members.

One narrator is Kevin Kopelson, a retired University of Iowa English professor born in New York City and living in Grinnell. Author and recipient of numerous academic awards, Kopelson was active in the “gay reading groups” in the 1990s.

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Rick Miller of Des Moines, a lifelong Iowan involved in LGBTQ activism since the 1970s and ’80s, also shared his story. Miller “has a wealth of knowledge and memory of the history of LGBT activism and organizing in the Des Moines area,” according to interviewer Hannah Miller (no relation).

The 70-year-old Miller’s story would no doubt resonate with many Iowans. He was born in Sac City, a town of 3,500 in northwestern Iowa.

“When I was in high school, I realized I was attracted to boys, and this was not going to be good,” Miller told Hannah Miller. He only knew one gay person—a man in his 20s— when he was a teen. Neither, of course, could be open about their identities.

When he went to the University of Northern Iowa, he found a sizeable, if still closeted, gay community and began to explore his identity.

“I actually continued to date girls, when I was in college,” Miller said. “One of them was a hometown girl, and after going to a counselor for some time, I really came out. I was really forced to tell her that I was gay. When I called her to tell her I needed to tell her something important—notice I didn’t say ask her something important—I think she probably thought I was going to ask her to marry me.

Instead, I told her I was gay.”

“There were lots of tears. We both knew it was that this was going to change both our lives forever.”

Miller came out to his parents after that.

They were shocked and upset. Seeing their reaction, he promised them he’d stop being gay. His parents accepted this, and never mentioned it again.

Interviews conducted with their fellow Grinnell students reveal other aspects of LGBTQ life. Kyle Lindsey, who is originally from Maryland, relates his experience as a young black man finding a home in the queer community in Grinnell. Ben Nguyen talks about his identity in the context of being the son of immigrants and a first-generation college student. The interview with Grinnell senior Esther Hwang shows that some things haven’t changed much since the 1960s, when Rick Miller was young.

“She could be queer,” Hwang said of her best friend when she was growing up in Peoria, Illinois, “but she loves her parents too much. She’s too scared also.”

The narratives collected by the students span generations, and they range from deeply personal recollections to reflections on the role played by local communities in the national

fight for equal rights.

There were some surprising threads connecting the stories, students found. One particular incident came up in multiple interviews.

In 1977, popular entertainer turned homophobic crusader Anita Bryant traveled the U.S. on behalf of the Save Our Children campaign, which attempted to roll back the gains made by the LGBTQ community by supporting initiatives which would legalize discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation. Having mostly focused her campaign in southern and Midwestern states, it wasn’t long before Bryant brought her hateful rhetoric to Iowa. That same year, during an Oct. 14 press conference in Des Moines, a gay activist from Minnesota named Thom Higgins pushed a pie into Bryant’s face The event lit a spark under Iowa’s LGBTQ community, Hannah Miller, a third-year gender, women’s and sexuality studies major, said. “I had never heard of this before, and it was really interesting to hear about the impact of this event from people who were actually there, or who were involved in the organizing that came out of that.”

In addition to recording stories, the students in the program took a class field trip to see queer country music bands Lavender Country and Paisley Fields perform in Iowa City. Some of the members of the bands joined a memory circle a few days later, where they discussed the intersection of queerness and country music.

For these 10 students, all of whom are members of the LGBT community, it was not long before the project seemed less like academic coursework and more like a passion project for the ages.

Second-year student Evan Hurst, a gender, women’s and sexuality studies and Spanish major, was assigned to create an Iowa LGBTQ oral history timeline for the initiative’s website in addition to conducting interviews and outreach.

“Before this class, I really only knew surface-level information about queer history that mostly consisted of Stonewall and the AIDS crisis,” Hurst said in an email to Little Village.

While putting the timeline together, Hurst discovered most of the recorded history of LGBTQ issues in Iowa centers around Iowa Supreme Court rulings: the repeal of the anti-sodomy law in 1978; banning discrimination based on sexual or gender identity in 2007; and legalizing same-sex adoption in 2008 and same-sex marriage in 2009.

“The history I found was mostly

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institutional,” Hurst said, “but there was a lot of documented LGBT life via student initiatives at Iowa State University and the University of Iowa back in the 1970s.”

The Oral History Association notes, “Oral history is both the oldest type of historical inquiry, predating the written word, and one of the most modern, initiated with tape recorders in the 1940s and now using 21st-century digital technologies.”

Despite this, the significance and value of oral history has been downplayed by some academic entities because it allows people to keep their distinctive outlook and does not “develop or contribute to generalizable knowledge” by Institutional Review Board standards.

Hurst said oral history is important when studying the LGBTQ community, because “too often, researchers do not give the participants the space to tell their own story, and the stories of LGBT people in rural communities have already been consistently silenced, ignored or invalidated.”

“I hope that the interviews we’ve collected and the ones still to come fortify a community identity here in central Iowa,” Hurst said. “It’s hard to be visible as LGBT, especially in rural areas, but that doesn’t mean LGBT life doesn’t occur here.”

Hannah Miller said collecting stories for LGBT Oral Histories of Central Iowa has shifted her relationship to the state and small towns more broadly.

“As work progressed with the project, I also became increasingly aware of how I was being personally impacted by this work,” she said in an email to Little Village.

“I grew up in a different rural area in the Midwest, and for a long time I thought that my queer identity was at odds with the space of the rural Midwest. But after meeting so many folks who choose to live here and are thriving as LGBTQ+-identified people, I have a newfound affection for the rural place(s) I call home.”

On May 12, the team was joined by some of the narrators at a forum hosted at the Drake Community Library—an opportunity “to share some of our work and celebrate the friendships and connections we have made through our work on this project,” Miller said.

“This was a really rewarding experience—there was this unique sense of community built around love, care and a mutual investment in preserving LGBT history, and it was just a lovely space to be in,” she added.

The project is still in the early stages, with plenty more history to uncover and stories to be heard. The class will be offered at Grinnell again next spring, and some of the students from the previous semester will continue to make contributions on an extracurricular basis.

Miller plans to continue working on the project over the summer and fall and hopes to work “more intensively” on the project next spring.

“Something I’d really love to see in the future is for community members who are not students at Grinnell College to become involved as interviewers,” Miller said.

“I also hope that the archive can continue to collect stories from diverse LGBT identities, experiences and communities, as I know our current archive is nowhere near being a comprehensive representation of LGBT life in Iowa.”

If any LV readers would be interested in sharing their story, they can contact the research team by calling 641-269-4039 or sending an email to LGBTOralHistoriesIowa@gmail.com.

Mike Kuhlenbeck is a journalist and National Writers Union UAW Local 1981/AFL–CIO member based in Des Moines, Iowa.

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he intoxicating scent of jasmine was overwhelming as I biked down La Riviera Drive in Sacramento. It was a brutally hot summer day in 2017; the pavement radiated mirage waves. The familiar neighborhood is innocuous, with single-story ranch homes and dappled light shimmering through the canopy of trees. But on that day, I couldn’t shake the dread snaking up my spine.

On its surface, Sacramento looks like the template for any U.S. town. It’s universally familiar. It is relatively flat, situated at the confluence of two rivers with its downtown on a neat grid. Saoirse Ronan’s character in Lady Bird wasn’t wrong: Sacramento is the Midwest of California. It’s just so charming.

But a few days earlier, I’d stumbled across the then-unsolved cold case of the Golden State Killer in an online forum. I read that between 1976 and 1986, the Golden State Killer—also known as the East Area Rapist and the Original Night Stalker—was suspected of committing at least 13 homicides, 50 rapes and more than 120 residential burglaries throughout California. I was shocked to learn that before the perpetrator escalated to a serial killer, he had been a prolific rapist in Sacramento and surrounding cities.

I soon joined the ranks of the thousands of armchair detectives interested in the identification and capture of the Golden State Killer, and I pored through the numerous websites devoted to solving one of America’s most infamous cold cases. With morbid fascination, my heart stalled when I read that the sites of his 11th and 28th attacks (as the East Area Rapist) were only blocks away from my office.

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giving them our undivided attention? Are we amplifying the suffering of the victims through our fascination with what were likely the most horrible moments of their lives?

Yet it’s nearly impossible to ignore the meteoric rise of the true crime genre in entertainment over recent years, energized by the release of the Serial podcast in 2014. True crime dominates popular culture through movies, WHAT HAUNTS ME IS THAT WHEN WE books, podcasts, docuseries and LEARN THESE STORIES, WHETHER WE social media. It seems every time I MEAN TO OR NOT, WE SET THEM IN THE sign into Netflix, a new serial killer thriller awaits me.

WORLD OF OUR IMAGINATION. What haunts me is that when we learn these stories, whether we mean to or not, we set them in the world of our imagination. A place full of too-dark alleyways. An alternate uniit was. It was just like anywhere else, and that verse, where unimaginable things happen. But is what made it so terrifying. the reality is that these things happen here in I wouldn’t consider myself a ravenous trueour world, in ordinary houses under oak trees, crime fan. Growing up in idyllic rural Iowa where jasmine drenches the air and lawnmowwithout a television, I rarely even considered ers drone in the distance, on streets named the existence of criminals. Our family left Crestview Drive and Sandbar Circle. the car keys in the ignition and the doors unI spent the next several months after learnlocked. ing about it absorbed by the Golden State For me, most true crime feels like voyeurKiller case. There was one degree of separaism of the unfathomable suffering of others. tion between any native Sacramentan and one I struggle with the moral dilemma of it. Are of the East Area Rapist victims. Longtime we feeding the narcissism of psychopaths by story coalesced around me. The heady smell was disorienting. The hedges were menacing.

The dissonance between the crime scenes I’d read about and their plain existence made my head swim. Seeing this unremarkable block through new eyes, I was struck by how normal

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residents unanimously remember the undercurrent of fear in the city.

Michelle McNamara’s highly publicized book, I’ll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman’s Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer, was released in February 2018, after her tragic death. There were eerie moments as I listened to the audiobook while driving and passed the landmarks McNamara mentioned. She described the Sacramento of the mid-’70s as paranoid. Her words were a filter through which the otherwise mundane neighborhoods appeared as uneasy scenes, where homeowners installed floodlights and affixed tambourines to their doors.

Productivity at my office ground to a halt on April 25, 2018 when news broke that Golden State Killer suspect Joseph James DeAngelo had been arrested on DNA evidence. There was finally a face to the city’s collective nightmare. No one was expected to work; my colleagues and I huddled around our computers gasping as the details of the suspect’s life became public and the puzzle fell into place. We reeled when we read that DeAngelo had been a cop in the nearby charming, historic foothill town of Auburn during his reign of terror in Sacramento.

Today, the world is waiting with bated breath as DeAngelo’s criminal proceedings drag on. I still find myself surprised by new details about his crime which shape my perspective of this city.

True crime entertainment feeds an insatiable morbid curiosity for viewers. Even approached respectfully, stories about violent crime by default include lurid and sensational details.

It seems to lure the audience into the uncanny valley—the emotional revulsion most often used to describe the eerie feeling humans get when looking at pseudo-realistic nonhuman entities such as robots—as we try to reconcile the monstrous acts committed by often “normal”-appearing humans, with innocent victims, in unremarkable places.

Living in Sacramento, a perfectly charming city, has felt like arriving at the other side of the valley, where the macabre is just another feature of the landscape.

Eva Roethler is currently an editor at Comstock’s magazine in Northern California.

Previously, she has written for national fresh produce publications and the feminist satire site Reductress. She writes about art, business, disability, food and other musings. She grew up in Iowa City. Follow her on Twitter: @EvaRoethler

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a anatomía de las bicicletas tiene su propia lengua. El inglés no me es del todo extraño, pero el vocabulario de mecánica ciclística sí. No me veo utilizando palabras como “derailleur,” “crank arm,” “spoke” o “cassette” fuera de the Bike Library. Asumí que mi decisión de tomar un taller para arreglar una bicicleta implicaría ensuciarme de grasa las manos y aprender mecanismos.

Se torna, a veces, en labor de memorización de vocabulario.

Movilizarse en bicicleta es una forma singular de relacionarse con la ciudad. En Washington DC, la ciudad donde vivía hasta hace cinco meses, suponía cuidarse de los conductores que abrían la puerta repentinamente, también mirar con aire de superioridad a los usuarios del deficiente sistema de transporte público. En Iowa City estoy en proceso de entenderlo. Por ahora, sé que montar en bicicleta acorta distancias de por sí muy cortas. También implica

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abstenerse de usarla durante un invierno ártico donde la nieve no se aburre de caer sobre otras capas de nieve.

Empecé el taller a principios de febrero.

Para llegar a the Bike Library tuve que caminar sobre cuatro pulgadas de nieve, la escarcha fresca aún. La bicicleta que elegí para arreglar es una “road bike” de un naranja opaco y cautivador. Mientras más trabajo en ella, más misterios y obstáculos me revela.

No sé si yo le agrade o si llegue a culminar mi labor. Asocié arreglarla con la esperanza de la primavera. Todavía, mientras giro una “star key” para ajustar el derailleur, pienso que cuando sea funcional y la conduzca por primera vez a mi casa, el sol brillará con tibieza y los árboles empezarán mágicamente a reverdecer.

Mientras hago ajustes a mi bicicleta, Audrey Wiedemeier, la directora de the Bike Library, trabaja en una propia, pero chequea ocasionalmente mi lento progreso. Yo siempre tengo preguntas, y ella responde con un paciente didactismo. No da la respuesta sino que me invita a observar las opciones; después de ajustar la pieza la desajusta para que yo repita el procedimiento. Con menos frecuencia me pone a prueba: “Para ajustar el derailleur ¿queremos que el tornillo vaya para afuera o para adentro?” Las preguntas

de opción múltiple con dos alternativas son mis favoritas: el chance de acertar es de un cincuenta por ciento. Sin tiempo para lanzar una moneda al aire, elijo “para afuera.”

Veo mi error en su sonrisa y me corrijo de inmediato. Ella regresa a trabajar en su bicicleta tras indicarme el siguiente paso.

Sobre los muros de the Bike Library descansa una cantidad incalculable de herramientas. Los “allen keys” (con más de ocho variedades) son de uso frecuente, pero para ajustar los spokes se necesita una “spoke wrench,” mientras que la única función del “freewheel” y el “chain whip” es sacar el cassette. Desde mi ignorancia, concluyo que no hacen más que agotar las variaciones formales de un asterisco o un hexágono ¿Por qué no una llave maestra que las reemplace todas? ¿de dónde viene este afán de originalidad? ¿no pueden ser todas amigas? Considero necesario formar una especie de Naciones Unidas en cuanto a estándares de herramientas, que acuerden un lenguaje común.

Luego de algunas semanas, siento más propia a mi bicicleta naranja. La intuyo más paciente con mis ignorancias y también humilde respecto a sus propias imperfecciones. Nunca es fácil empezar en una nueva ciudad. El camino venidero supone

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cambiar el “rear derailleur” y el “saddle” y alinear el “back break,” entre otros ajustes.

No he buscado cómo traducir esas palabras al castellano; creo que esa no es la lengua que habla mi bicicleta y no quisiera importunarla con nuevos términos.

Bicycle Anatomy

BY GABRIEL VILLARROEL TRANSLATED BY KATHLEEN ARCHER

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icycle anatomy is a whole other language. English is not completely foreign to me, but the vocabulary of bike mechanics is. I can’t see myself using words like “derailleur,” “crank arm,” “spoke” or “cassette” outside of the Bike Library. I assumed that taking a workshop on how to fix a bike meant getting my hands greasy and learning about the mechanisms, but sometimes it turns out to be an exercise in memorizing vocabulary.

Getting around on a bike is a unique way of interacting with a city. In Washington D.C., where I lived until just five months ago, it meant watching out for suddenly opened car doors or looking haughtily at the patrons of the deficient public transit system.

I’m starting to learn what it means in Iowa City. For now, I know riding a bike shortens distances that are already pretty short. It also means not riding at all during the arctic winter when the snow never seems to tire of piling up layer after layer.

I started the workshop in the beginning of February. To get to the Bike Library, I had to walk through four inches of snow, fresh powder everywhere. The bike I chose to fix is a road bike in a captivating shade of opaque orange. The more I work on it, the more mysteries and obstacles it reveals to me.

I don’t know if I find it gratifying exactly, or if I’ll even manage to finish my project. I associated fixing it with the hope of spring.

As I turn a star key to adjust the derailleur, I still think that once my bike is in working order and I ride it home for the first time, the sun will shine warmly and the trees will magically turn green again.

While I fix up my bike, Audrey Wiedemeier, the director of the Bike Library works on one of her own, but she occasionally checks my slow progress. I

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n Iowa, there is a small, but growing, community of artists who have no “day job.” That inescapable hallmark of 21st-century economics, the side hustle, has reached a point in its evolution that a variety of hustles—simultaneous, in sequence or often both—can be stitched together into a seemingly untenable but surprisingly strong quilt of a career. It’s into this mad amalgam of a gig economy that theater artist Katy Hahn found herself thrust several years ago.

“A question that people ask me a lot is, how do I do it? I say, don’t try to take the same path!” Hahn said. “When I was in college, I did not anticipate my path … I think a lot of us assumed that we’d go to L.A. or New York or maybe to Chicago, and work as a starving artist for a while. I couldn’t have planned this … You can’t try to copy somebody else’s journey. It has to be your own.”

Hahn’s journey has brought her most recently to a role she didn’t anticipate, either: Prince Hal in Riverside Theatre’s free summer production of Shakespeare’s Henry IV, Part I. The play marks Riverside’s second year of free theater on their Lower City Park Festival Stage, part of a nationwide tradition of free summer Shakespeare that improves accessibility right at a time when theater as a whole is finally starting to shed the incongruous elitist image it’s been burdened with for the past century or so.

Henry IV, Part I is only the second of Shakespeare’s histories that Riverside has produced. The first, Richard III, was a decade ago. Adam Knight, who directs the play, said in an email that it was his very first programming choice as artistic director at the theater.

“I was drawn to this play for it’s combination of action and comedy (c’mon: Falsaff) and also because as a country we’re going through incredible upheaval,” Knight said.

“Both sides of our political system are dug in, and there’s a desire among many not only for political change but also generational change. How do we break the cycle? It’s also a story I’ve always been personally drawn to.

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thinking, ‘there’s a way out.’ That what I appear to be does not need to define who I actually am. That’s Hal. She is born to something greater, but she’s biding her time. Her mask is both a truth and something that can be cast off. I love that.”

As an actor, Hahn had never considered looking at roles in Shakespeare’s histories, she said. “I’m much more experienced with the comedies, the tragedies, the romances.

When Adam said he wanted to read me for Hal, I was like, ‘OK? Why?’ … Obviously, Hal was written to be a prince, and if we were setting it in the time period in which Shakespeare originally intended it to take place, it would’ve presented more challenges.

But we’re going to be setting it World War I-ish, and we’re gonna create this world in

which a woman can be a prince, a woman can be a king.”

Knight said he never saw it any other way.

“The play is so overladen with machismo between the King and Hotspur,” he wrote, “it begs a different kind of energy to release England from the political infighting that has led to chaos. Hal represents a new start.”

And it’s in fascinating conversation with the other show on Riverside’s summer schedule, Jaclyn Backhaus’ Men on Boats—also a history of sorts (with great liberties taken), exploring the story of the men who set out in 1869 to chart the Colorado River, all (as intended by the playwright) cast as women.

“This cross-gender casting allows us to

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look at history from a new lens,” Knight said.

“History belongs to all of us whether we like it or not, and representation matters. Theater wants to be a living thing for the now, whether it’s telling the story of male explorers in the 1800s or of a king and a prince in the 1400s.”

That incredibly present, incredibly human truth of history comes through clearly in Hal. “At its core,” Hahn said of her role, “this is a play about a person who is torn between the life that they enjoy and the life that they feel pressured to lead. It’s that struggle that a lot of us—maybe all of us—[feel] between our duty and what gives us pleasure.

Working artists like Hahn put a Herculean effort into surfing the wave of that tension.

By creating a life for herself that allows her to center her art, she can often collapse duty and pleasure into each other. But it’s a continual process of acknowledging, calculating and asserting worth and value. When Hahn made the decision to get her MFA in acting, she said, she knew that came with an obligation.

“There’s so many wonderful opportunities around here; all the time I want to audition for free stuff. But I owe it to my debt, and I owe it to my family—I’m married, I have a kid, I have a mortgage—to reserve my time for the projects that pay. And so it has become a business; it has become a duty.”

“I’m fortunate that I really enjoy my work,” she continued. “But it doesn’t make it any less work. I think that a lot of professionals in the arts fall into that murky area where sometimes it’s hard to put a price on it. It’s hard to quantify it; it’s hard to say, ‘This is what my time is worth.’ And it changes from project to project. [But] whether I’m acting, I’m dialect coaching, I’m directing—I try to stick to projects that pay.”

That’s made possible, Hahn said, by learning to “diversify” and “say yes to things.”

Having both shared a stage with her and reviewed her multiple times, it’s clear that those two edicts undergird her performance style as well. Hahn is an engaged and engaging actor, generous with both scene partners and audiences; that and her gamboling physicality are the living embodiment of saying “yes” onstage. And she has amassed an unusually eclectic array of roles in eastern Iowa.

Prince Hal makes for an exciting addition to the roster.

Genevieve Trainor’s dream Shakespeare role is Oberon, if anyone’s reading this.

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Like some of the best elements of pop culture, cat videos have graduated from low entertainment to high art—well, at least the subject of art festivals. Take FilmScene’s Caturday: four days worth of cat-focused film, including the Cat Video Fest (June 13, 15 and 16); a screening of the nine original short films featured at the 2019 NY Cat Film Festival (June 15); the documentary The Cat Rescuers, following four cat rescue volunteers prowling the streets of Brooklyn (June 15); and, as the Late Shift at the Grindhouse entry, the 1981 Lucio Fulci horror film The Black Cat, based on the Edgar Allan Poe short story of the same name.

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After instructing me on the next step, she goes back to working on her bike.

The walls of the Bike Library are home to an incalculable number of tools.

The allen keys (over eight types) are used frequently, but to adjust the spokes, you need a spoke wrench, while the only function of the freewheel and the chain whip is to remove the cassette. I ignorantly conclude that they do nothing besides exhaust all the possible shape variations of an asterisk or hexagon. Why not have a master key to replace them all?

Where does this zeal for originality come from? Why can’t all the tools get along?

I consider it necessary to form a kind of United Nations for tool standards, so they can agree on a common language among themselves.

After a few weeks, my orange bike feels more mine. I sense that it is more patient with my ignorance yet also humble about its own imperfections. It is never easy to start over in a new city. The path forward means changing the rear derailleur and the saddle, aligning the back break, and other adjustments. I haven’t tried to translate these words to Spanish; I don’t think my bike speaks that language and I wouldn’t want to bother it with any new terminology.

Gabriel Villarroel is a writer and journalist from Bogotá. He holds a Ph.D. in Hispanic Literature from Georgetown University and is currently an MFA candidate in the Spanish Creative Writing program at the University of Iowa.

Kathleen Archer is pursuing an MFA in literary translation at the University of Iowa. She translates from French and Spanish.

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Anika w/ Aqualife, Lerzan, Rozz-Tox, Rock Island, Tuesday, June 11, 8 p.m., $12-15 Anika’s past life as a political journal-

ist informs her career as a world-renowned poet-DJ-vocalist. She pairs her dub punk minimalist style with lyrics about war and justice and a voice that sounds like Kim Gordon finally learned how to sing from her diaphragm. Venue owner Ben Fawks is especially excited about this show. “She’s one of my favorite artists … I’ve wanted to book her since [Rozz-Tox] opened.” —MH

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The Big Bird Bath Benefit Show w/ Harakiri, the Fantastic Plastics, Condor & Jaybird, the Golden Fleece, Faintlife, Sunshrine, the Gorgonites, Rozz-Tox, Rock Island, Friday, June 14, 6 p.m., $8 or more Goldbird Recordings presents a

flood benefit show with an incredibly stacked line-up for a good cause. Experience a fest full of psychedelic, prog and experimental rock acts while supporting downtown Davenport businesses affected by the recent flood, which left many with devastating damage and many employees without jobs. —PU

The Comedy of Blind Stein, Speakeasy, Rock Island, Saturday, June 15, 8 p.m., $10-12 The ironic, incendiary, infamous

Blind Stein is back at the venue he dominated a few years ago when he won their summer comedy contest. With frank and unflinching style, no topic is taboo. In other words, Stein doesn’t give a shit about how sensitive your sighted ass might be. He can’t see you squirm, anyway. —MH

Fog Lake w/ Smidley, Brandon Lafary, Donnie Bob, Rozz-Tox, Rock Island, Sunday, June 16, 8 p.m., $10-13 Fog

Lake’s melancholic, lo-fi bedroom pop is the perfect music for watching the rain fall outside your window on a grey, gloomy morning. Also touring on this bill is Smidley (Conor Murphy of Foxing), who released his debut solo album in 2017, which is full of emotionally expressive dream-pop tracks that will make you want to dance. This night of mood-shifting music is likely to induce waves of nostalgia, so come get in your feelings with us.

—PU

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Dupaco CycleFest 2019, New Bo City Market,

Rapids, 7:30 p.m., $16-19

Cedar Rapids, 11 a.m., $10 THIS WEEK: HISTORY BIKE TOUR

‘JUMANJI: WELCOME TO THE JUNGLE’

Peddle for PEACA, New Bo City Market, Cedar

Summer of the Arts Free Movie Series,

Rapids, 11 a.m., $10

Pentacrest, Iowa City, Sunset, Free (Weekly)

I.C. Press Co-op Open Shop, Public Space

MINNESOTA METAL

One, Iowa City, 12 p.m., Free (Weekly)

Hive with Stay Asleep, Aseethe, Trumpet Blossom Cafe, Iowa City, 8:30 p.m., $7

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ROOTS ROCK

Cornfed Folk Festival, Big Grove Brewery &

Thomas and the Shakes w/ Slippin’ South,

Taproom, Iowa City, 1 p.m., $25-30

Iowa City Yacht Club, 9 p.m., $7

Sandfest 2, Sandlot Sports CR, Cedar Rapids, 1

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Interstellar Cave Dweller, Famous Mockingbird, Marion, 9 p.m., $5-7

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‘Beers of Joy,’ FilmScene, Iowa City, 3 p.m.,

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MarchFourth, Gabe’s, Iowa City. 9 p.m., $12

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Taste of the Corridor and Silent Auction, Hawkeye Downs Expo Center, Cedar Rapids, 6

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PRIDE WEEK

Pride at Filmscene: ‘Stonewall Uprising,’ LOCAL MUSICIANS AND ART EXHIBITIONS

FilmScene, Iowa City, 6 p.m., Free

[r]amp Festival, Tower Place & Parking, Iowa City, 1 p.m., Free

Open Mic, The Mill, Iowa City, 7 p.m., Free (Weekly)

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2nd Annual Harvest Music Festival, Harvest

Binnie Kirshenbaum, Prairie Lights Books &

Preserve Foundation, Iowa City, 2 p.m., Free

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

Sunday Funday, Iowa City Public Library, Iowa

Queer Art Healing Group: Pride Crafts

City, 2 p.m., Free (Weekly)

Fashion Edition, Women’s Resource and Action Center, Iowa City, 7 p.m., Free

National Theatre Live: ‘All About Eve,’, FilmScene, Iowa City, 2 p.m., $15-20

Seventies Bush w/ JC and the Nuns, Wayne Gibbous, Gabe’s, Iowa City, 8 p.m., Free

ARKANSAS ROCK

Witchsister, the Slow Retreat, 404, JERK,

Comedy Open Mic with Spencer & Dan,

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

Yacht Club, Iowa City, 9 p.m., Free (Weekly)

Pub Quiz, The Mill, Iowa City, 9 p.m., $1

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JUNE 5-18, 2019

PRIDE WEEK

Big Gay Bar Crawl, Begins at Iowa City Yacht Club, 5 p.m.

Practice in the Prairie, Indian Creek Nature Center, 6 p.m., Free (Weekly) KENTUCKY METAL

Flaw w/ September Morning, Stars in Toledo, Little White Lie, Beyond the Heavens, Wildwood Smokehouse & Saloon, Iowa City, 7 p.m., $15-20 Blues Jam, Parlor City Pub and Eatery, Cedar Rapids, 7 p.m., Free (Weekly) MATT & KRISTEN BROOKS Big Freedia / via the artist

Now Here This June: Fresh Music Tuesdays, Opus Concert Café, Cedar Rapids, 7 p.m., $12 Yahoo Drummers, Downtown Iowa City, 7:30 p.m., Free (Weekly)

PRIDE Fest, East Village, June 7-9, All Day Every year, Des Moines’ Capital City

Pride organization covers the East Village in rainbow flags and throws a massive weekend party celebrating LGBTQ culture. Festivities include a giant silent disco, a DSM Drag Kings showcase and the capstone Pride Fest Parade on Sunday at noon. Live music throughout the weekend will be provided by Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (June 8 at 8 p.m.), Parson James (June 8 at 9:30 p.m.) and the Queen of Bounce herself, Big Freedia (June 7 at 9 p.m.). This year’s festival will also host a reception celebrating the 10th anniversary of the legalization of gay marriage in Iowa by publicly renewing the vows of many of those married 10 years ago under the new law.

Pod Tours America, Hoyt Sherman Place Auditorium, June 9, 8 p.m., $39.5079.50 I can’t say I’m always left with a sense

of hopefulness every time I tune into a new episode of the Pod Save America podcast.

The hosts’ spin on the week’s political happenings are often filled with exaggerations and worst-case scenarios, painting a bleak future for the United States. Then again, they do highlight the importance of using humor to unwrap all of the seemingly apocalyptic events occurring on a weekly basis throughout the world. The tour performances essentially follow the same format, but they pack the bill with comedians and commentators to

mask the heavy stuff with a healthy (and often necessary) dose of entertainment value.

Opening Reception: TRAP—New Work

by Van Holmgren, The Lift, June 7, 6 p.m., Free It is time once again for Van

Holmgren’s annual exhibit of new artwork at The Lift. “TRAP” is a collection of work simply exploring how far people will go in their various endeavors. The exhibit will feature the usual colorful representations of simple urban and domestic imagery imbued with greater meaning through their repetition among multiple pieces. The opening reception is June 7 at 6 p.m.; the show will run through July 3 and will be featured as an Art Week event leading up to the Des Moines Arts Festival.

Weekly Old-Timey Jam Sessions, Trumpet Blossom Cafe, Iowa City, 7:30 p.m., Free (Weekly) Dance Party with DJ Batwoman, Iowa City Yacht Club, 9 p.m., Free (Weekly) LAS VEGAS MODERN ROCK

Bravo Delta, Gabe’s, Iowa City, 9 p.m., Free Comedy & Karaoke, Studio 13, Iowa City, 9 p.m., Free (Weekly) Karaoke Tuesdays, The Mill, Iowa City, 10:30 p.m., Free (Weekly)

Wed., June 12 Iowa City Open Coffee, Merge, Iowa City,

Iowa Craft Brew Festival, Downtown Des Moines, June 15, 1 p.m., $5-30 In

just five years, the number of breweries in the United States has tripled, totaling nearly 8,000 across the nation. Iowa currently only contributes about 100 breweries to that total, which would make me feel like we’re lagging behind if it weren’t for events like the Iowa Craft Beer Festival proving otherwise. This year’s festival will feature more than 350 different beers from over 75 craft breweries around the state, highlighting Iowa’s unique take on the rapidly changing beer trends across the nation.

––Trey Reis

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Open Stage, Studio 13, Iowa

Band, The Mill, Iowa City, 6 p.m.,

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

$5 (2nd & 4th Wednesdays) THIS WEEK: ‘THE SHINING’ SOUTHERN RAP

Late Shift at the Grindhouse,

Boondox the Scarecrow w/

Film Scene, Iowa City, 10 p.m., $4

Skattabrain, King Tat, Gabe’s,

(Weekly)

Iowa City, 6 p.m., $15 PRIDE WEEK

Thu., June 13

Drop the Mic for Pride: Love Yourself, Iowa City Yacht Club,

CATURDAY—$15 FOR WEEKEND

7 p.m.

PASS

The Picture Show: READING: ‘GUNS DOWN’

Cat Video Fest,

Igor Volsky, Prairie Lights, Iowa

FilmScene,

City, 7 p.m., Free

Iowa City, 10 a.m.,

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Open Mic Night, Penguin’s

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Comedy Club, Cedar Rapids, 8

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Iowa City Meditation Class:

Public Space One, Iowa City, 4

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p.m., Free (Weekly)

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

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Author Reading, M and M Books, Cedar Rapids, 5 p.m., Free

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The Larry Keel Experience, CSPS Legion Arts, Cedar Rapids, 7 p.m., $18-22 Ira Rapson, Nielo Gaglione and Ryan Smith, Goosetown Cafe, Iowa City, 7 p.m., Free Thursday Night Live Open Mic,

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Malcolm Holcombe w/ Ryan Joseph Anderson, The Mill, Iowa City, 7 p.m., $12-15 Eco Film Festival: ‘Plastic Planet,’ Iowa City Public Library, 7 p.m., Free Daddy-O, Parlor City Pub and Eatery, Cedar Rapids, 7 p.m., Free (Weekly) Karaoke Thursday, Studio 13, Iowa City, 8 p.m., Free (Weekly) REBELLION BURLESQUE PRIDE SHOW

Rainbow Rhapsody, Iowa City Yacht Club, 8 p.m., $5-10 PRIDE WEEK Zak Nuemann / Little Village

I.C. Kings present PRIDE 2019, Studio 13, 9:30 p.m., $5

Fri., June 14 Juneteenth Education Day, African American Museum of Iowa, Cedar Rapids, 6 p.m., Free

Hex Girls w/ Copper Smoke Trials, Other Brothers, Wood Chickens, Spicoli’s Reverb, Saturday, June 8, 8 p.m., $5

Earlier this year, LV music reviewer Michael Roeder wrote in his review of Hex Girls debut release, More of That, “Life is sometimes a bummer and sometimes gets on your nerves, and the best way to deal is with sneers and guitars.” You can never have enough sneers and guitars, so thankfully, the band is bringing more of that to Spicoli’s, with an array of Iowa talent and some cowpunk from Wisconsin (Wood Chickens) for good measure.

Juneteenth Celebration, Sullivan Memorial Park, Waterloo, FridaySaturday, June 14-15, Free The NAACP

of Blackhawk County is hosting their annual Juneteenth celebration in Waterloo.

Things kick off on the evening of June 14 with the Peace Walk, which begins at 6 p.m. at Cunningham School and continues to Sullivan Memorial Park. Events begin at noon on the 15th. The celebration will include vendors, food and music, as well as sports and games, dance and drill team performances, a hip-hop literacy event and TJ the Clown.

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2019 R&B Live Showcase: Kevin Burt w/ Keeshea Pratt, Deja Blue, Five Sullivan Brothers Convention Center, Waterloo, Saturday, June 15, 5 p.m., $2025 Cedar Valley blues rockers Deja Blue join

2018 International Blues Challenge winners Kevin Burt (Iowa) and Keeshea Pratt (Texas) for the KBBG-FM 88.1 2019 R&B Live Showcase. Burt, an Eastern Iowa mainstay, took home the title for solo performance at the International Blues Challenge last year; Pratt took best band with her Keeshea Pratt Band.

THIS WEEK: BFUNK DADDIES W/ THE UNKNOWN

Rock the Block, NewBo City Market, Cedar Rapids, 6 p.m., Free (Weekly) PRIDE WEEK

Iowa City Pride Picnic, Upper City Park, Iowa City, 5 p.m., Free Friday Night Out, Ceramics Center, Cedar Rapids, 6:30 p.m., $40 (2nd Friday) THIS WEEK: EVERYDAY PEOPLE W/ JAMES

Cheap Trick, Gallagher Bluedorn Performing Arts Center, Cedar Falls, Sunday, June 16, 7 p.m., $$39.75-89.75

Fairly priced and fairly straightforward, Cheap Trick may not live up to their name but they certainly are still alive. Over the Illinois rockers’ 45-plus years in the game, they’ve played over 5,000 shows and released 20 studio albums—most recently, last year’s The Summer Looks Good On You. The enduring band was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2016. In addition to the standard range of ticket prices, a VIP Tour Package is available for $199 and a Meet & Greet Package for $299.

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Summer of the Arts Friday Night Concert Series, Ped Mall, Iowa City, 6:30 p.m., Free 2019 Juneteenth Trailblazers Awards Banquet, Radisson Hotel & Conference Center, Coralville, 6:30 p.m., $30 CRISTINA HENRIQUEZ

Out Loud! The Metro Library Network Author Series, The Hotel at Kirkwood Center, Cedar Rapids, 7 p.m., Free

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Mike Gardner w/ David Spalliaras, Penguin’s Comedy

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Riverside Theatre Presents: ‘Henry IV Part 1,’ Lower City

MASSACHUSETTS ONE-MAN BAND

Park, Iowa City, 7:30 p.m., Free

The Suitcase Junket, Famous Mockingbird, Marion, 8 p.m., $20-23

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Parade, Downtown Iowa City,

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Iowa City, 7:30 a.m. (Weekly) MUSIC FROM DJ COMMANDO

Cedar Rapids Downtown

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Farmers Market, Downtown

New Bo City Market, Cedar Rapids,

Cedar Rapids, 7:30 a.m.

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Cats Rule: NY Cat Film Fest, Guest Vendor Market, NewBo

FilmScene, Iowa City, 11:30 a.m.,

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The Picture Show: Cat Video Fest, FilmScene, Iowa City, 10

Author Signing: Maria

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Kuznetsova, M and M Books, Cedar Rapids, 1 p.m., Free

Family Storytime, Iowa City Public Library, 10:30 a.m., Free

CATURDAY—$15 FOR WEEKEND PASS

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Hiawatha Farmers Market, Guthridge Park,

Feral Light, Brian Barr, Everlasting Light,

Dead Larry w/ El Dub, Mansfield Avenue,

Hiawatha, 10 a.m. (Weekly)

Gabe’s, Iowa City, 5 p.m.

Gabe’s, Iowa City, 9 p.m., $15

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Heart Hunters w/ Mace Hathaway, Trumpet

Concerts at the Creek, Indian Creek Nature Center,

Blossom Cafe, Iowa City, 9 p.m., $7

CLOSING PERFORMANCE!

‘‘Ripcord,’ Theatre Cedar Rapids, 2:30 p.m., $15-25 ZYDECO ACCORDION

Dwayne Dopsie, CSPS Legion Arts, Cedar Rapids, 7

Cedar Rapids, 7 p.m., $18-22

p.m., $20-25 Steve Grismore Trio, Sanctuary Pub, Iowa City, 8

Elation Dance Party, Studio 13, Iowa City, 9 p.m.,

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Presentation: ‘The Black Cat,’, FilmScene, Iowa

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Cave Paintings w/ Lily DeTaeye, the Stress

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Gordon Lightfoot, Paramount Theatre, Cedar Rapids, 7 p.m., $45-65

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Sun., June 16

Pub Quiz, The Mill, Iowa City, 9 p.m., $1 (Weekly)

Summer of the Arts Free Movie Series, Pentacrest, Iowa City, Sunset, Free (Weekly)

Guest Vendor Market, NewBo City Market, Cedar Rapids, 10 a.m. (Weekly)

Mon., June 17

Cat Video Fest, FilmScene, Iowa City, 8:30 p.m.,

CATURDAY—$15 FOR WEEKEND PASS

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Blues Jam, Parlor City Pub and Eatery, Cedar Rapids, 7 p.m., Free (Weekly)

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Dance Party with DJ Batwoman, Iowa City Yacht

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IOWA CITY OLD TRAIN DEPOT

DEAR KIKI

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ear Kiki, I’m a 65-year-old, semi-retired, BDSM-loving, cross-dressing, kinky, fetishy baby-boomer in decent condition. I’m not afraid to be beaten until I cry. I’m highly breast-envious.

I’m just looking for someone to love and play with, but the women I’ve fallen for have never been into this stuff. I’ve been to a few shibari workshops; I met and had two moments with Midori; but right here in River City I’m not finding women of my age or any age particularly interested in kink. I believe in live and local, and I’d be delighted to find a thriving community of kink in Iowa City.

I’d like to find someone and fall in love and play all the bondage and kink games we can think of. I’d like to find this before I die. Help me, Kiki!

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Dear Forlorn, One of the most challenging elements of finding and maintaining love is discovering, honoring and indulging our partners’ kinks.

Sometimes, some folks are lucky enough to find both love and perfect sexual synchronicity, but often, what’s required is a combination of exploration and compromise.

Without those, you’re doomed before you start, because many of us continue discovering new and different kinks well into the sexually active parts of our lives. If we aren’t partnered with a person or people who are dedicated to exploration and compromise, we

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may never get to indulge—or the relationship may fall apart.

You say that you’ve been falling for women who aren’t “into this stuff.” Clearly, you’ve already decided you weren’t right for each other, but I’m not sure it’s for the same reason I’d say so. Everyone needs to know their clear limits and boundaries, of course, but if love and respect are the foundation of a relationship, that should also come with a desire to help your partner find sexual fulfilment, even if your kinks don’t align. That’s necessarily reciprocal, of course—I would hope that you are open to being flexible in regard to your partners’ idiosyncrasies as well.

All that said, it’s always easier if you’re starting from some common baseline of acceptance, isn’t it? While I don’t think you should give up on finding love outside the BDSM community, the desire to find a place where you fit and can speak a common language is strong, even aside from finding more permanent romantic relationships. I haven’t been able to track down anything for you in Iowa City (maybe our readers can help you out?!), but there are a couple of options nearby worth exploring. I don’t know how active they are, but subscribing and reaching out are good first steps.

In the Quad Cities, just 45 minutes east, there’s a group called Riverbound (thewellofurd.com/riverbound_wp). They look to have a listserve you can join, and regular meetups. If you prefer to go west, young man, just two hours’ drive will take you to Des Moines and a group called CIPEX (Central Iowa Power Exchange, cipex.org). They also have an email list as well as a contact form.

Just to the north, there at least used to be an organization called CROP (Cedar Rapids Organization of Perverts), but I can’t find any active links for them. You might have some luck on FetLife. You could always start your own group, too!

I hope you find what you’re seeking, Forlorn. xoxo, Kiki

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ASTROLOGY

BY ROB BREZSNEY

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Some birds can fly for days without coming down to earth. Alpine swifts are the current record-holders, staying aloft for 200 consecutive days as they chase and feed on insects over West Africa. I propose we make the swift your soul ally for the next three weeks. May it help inspire you to take maximum advantage of the opportunities life will be offering you. You will have extraordinary power to soar over the maddening crowd, gaze at the big picture of your life and enjoy exceptional amounts of freedom.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): “I think gentleness is one of the most disarmingly and captivatingly attractive qualities there are,” writes poet Nayyirah Waheed. That will be emphatically true about you in the coming weeks, Cancerian. Your poised, deeply felt gentleness will accord you as much power as other people might draw from ferocity and grandeur. Your gentleness will enable you to crumble obstacles and slip past barriers. It will energize you to capitalize on and dissipate chaos. It will win you leverage that you’ll be able to use for months.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Is the Loch Ness monster real? Is there a giant sea serpent that inhabits the waters of Loch Ness in Scotland? Tantalizing hints arise now and then, but no definitive evidence has ever emerged. In 1975, enterprising investigators got the idea to build a realistic-looking papier-mâché companion for Nessie and place it in Loch Ness. They hoped that this “honey trap” would draw the reclusive monster into more public view. Alas, the scheme went awry. (Lady Nessie got damaged when she ran into a jetty.) But it did have some merit. Is there an equivalent approach you might employ to generate more evidence and insight about one of your big mysteries, Leo? What strategies might you experiment with?

The time is right to hatch a plan.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Earlier in your life, you sometimes wrestled with dilemmas that didn’t deserve so much of your time and energy. They weren’t sufficiently essential to invoke the best use of your intelligence. But over the years, you have ripened in your ability to attract more useful and interesting problems. Almost imperceptibly, you have been growing smarter about recognizing which riddles are worth exploring and which are better left alone. Here’s the really good news: The questions and challenges you face now are among the finest you’ve ever had. You are being afforded prime opportunities to grow in wisdom and effectiveness.

physics. His professor at the University of Munich dissuaded him, telling Planck, “In this field, almost everything is already discovered, and all that remains is to fill a few unimportant holes.” Planck ignored the bad advice and ultimately went on to win a Nobel Prize in Physics for his role in formulating quantum theory. Most of us have had a similar experience: people who’ve tried to convince us to reject our highest calling and strongest dreams. In my view, the coming weeks will be a potent time for you to recover and heal from those deterrents and discouragements in your own past.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Not all, but many horoscope columns address your ego rather than your soul. They provide useful information for your surface self, but little help for your deep self. If you’ve read my oracles for a while, you know that I aspire to be in the latter category. In that light, you won’t be surprised when I say that the most important thing you can do in the coming weeks is to seek closer communion with your soul; to explore your core truths; to focus on delight, fulfillment, and spiritual meaning far more than on status, power and wealth. As you attend to your playful work, meditate on this counsel from Capricorn author John O’Donohue: “The geography of your destiny is always clearer to the eye of your soul than to the intentions and needs of your surface mind.”

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Aquarian biochemist Gertrude Belle Elion shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1988. She was instrumental in devising new drugs to treat AIDS and herpes, as well as a medication to facilitate organ transplants. And yet she accomplished all this without ever earning a Ph.D. or M.D., a highly unusual feat. I suspect you may pull off a similar, if slightly less spectacular, feat in the coming weeks: getting a reward or blessing despite a lack of formal credentials or official credibility.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Today, Mumbai is a megacity with 12.5 million people on 233 square miles. But as late as the 18th century, it consisted of seven sparsely populated islands.

Over many decades, reclamation projects turned them into a single land mass. I foresee you undertaking a metaphorically comparable project during the coming months. You could knit fragments together into a whole. You have the power to transform separate and dispersed influences into a single, coordinated influence. You could inspire unconnected things to unite in common cause.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): How many languages are you fluent in? One? Two? More? I’m sure you already know that gaining the ability to speak more than one tongue makes you smarter and more empathetic. It expands your capacity to express yourself vividly and gives you access to many interesting people who think differently from you. I mention this, Libra, because you’re in a phase of your cycle when learning a new language might be easier than usual, as is improving your mastery of a second or third language. If none of that’s feasible for you, I urge you to at least formulate an intention to speak your main language with greater candor and precision—and find other ways to expand your ability to express yourself.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): “I don’t think we were ever meant to hear the same song sung exactly the same way more than once in a lifetime,” said poet Linh Dinh. That’s an extreme statement that I can’t agree with. But I understand what he’s driving at. Repeating yourself can be debilitating, even deadening. That includes trying to draw inspiration from the same old sources that have worked for you in the past. In accordance with current astrological omens, I suggest you try to minimize exact repetition in the next two weeks: both in what you express and what you absorb. For further motivation, here’s William S. Burroughs: “Truth may appear only once; it may not be repeatable.”

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Here’s Uruguayan writer Eduardo Galeano from The Book of Embraces: “In the River Plate basin we call the heart a ‘bobo,’ a fool. And not because it falls in love. We call it a fool because it works so hard.” I bring this to your attention, Scorpio, because I hope that in the coming weeks, your heart will indeed be a hardworking, wisely foolish bobo. The astrological omens suggest that you will learn what you need to learn and attract the experiences you need to attract if you do just that. Life is giving you a mandate to express daring and diligent actions on behalf of love.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Peter Benchley wrote the bestselling book Jaws, which was later turned into a popular movie.

It’s the story of a great white shark that stalks and kills people in a small beach town. Later in his life, the Taurus author was sorry for its influence, which helped legitimize human predation on sharks and led to steep drops in shark populations.

To atone, Benchley became an aggressive advocate for shark conservation. If there’s any behavior in your own past that you regret, Taurus, the coming weeks will be a good time to follow Benchley’s lead: correct for your mistakes; make up for your ignorance; do good deeds to balance a time when you acted unconsciously.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): When he was 20 years old, a German student named Max Planck decided he wanted to study

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LOCAL ALBUMS

Eric Paul “Killer” EP

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he first thing I notice about Eric Paul’s Killer EP is guitar tone. In particular, the opening track, “Paradise of Sin,” has a wide stereo guitar sound, subtly overdriven. It’s the kind of electrified guitar sound that gives you that warm feeling when you hear it at concert volume, combined with the punchy drums that bob and weave around the guitar parts.

It’s customary in a music review to comment on the lyrics, but the raw sound of his playing and singing distract from considering Killer as a vehicle for words. I’m sure Paul put work into them, but dynamics, harmonic sophistication and tone are the important things here. His songs are built around his guitar, which stays pretty close to a few carefully chosen tones without ever getting monotonous.

Paul’s singing has considerable range. He deftly shifts between his chest and head voice, using a nasal edge and a

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vibrato to vary texture. There’s a bit of Les Claypool in his voice, and some of Conor Oberst’s distressed, unmade-bed sound.

But Paul isn’t arch and jokey, like Claypool, or as earnest as Oberst. Although on many of the tracks his vocal gymnastics feel overwrought, he has no trouble achieving lift-off on the song “Killer,” where his vibrato takes on a wired, wild quality that fits the propulsive and hectic beat.

The attention to sonic detail in these songs approaches that of Steely Dan. But where Steely Dan’s high-gloss finish is both ear candy and a cynical comment on the emptiness of commercial pop music, Paul is sincerely pur-

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hio native MC Animosity has been making music in Iowa City since 1998. He currently serves as lead vocalist for the Uniphonics, who have opened for the Roots, Wu-Tang and many

IT’S THE KIND OF ELECTRIFIED GUITAR SOUND THAT GIVES YOU THAT WARM FEELING WHEN YOU HEAR IT AT CONCERT VOLUME COMBINED WITH THE PUNCHY DRUMS THAT BOB AND WEAVE AROUND THE GUITAR PARTS.

suing perfect sound for its own sake. Could sound itself be the meaning of Killer? I don’t know if that’s what Eric Paul intended, but it’s what he’s achieved, and on those terms it’s very good.

—Kent Williams

more amazing hip-hop, jazz and rock-influenced artists. His latest project, ’79 Til Now, Vol. 1, with production from DJ Johnny Sixx, discusses his personal growth, family inspirations and future goals.

The album opener, “20 Blunt

Salute,” starts with a calming jazz melody accompanied by background adlibs explaining Animosity’s trials with—but appreciation for—chronic breaks.

Battling with wanting to feel that company once again, Animosity admits how clear-headed he becomes—maybe even better off— while sober.

“20 Blunt Salute” ends with a sample of Snoop Dogg’s “Doggy Dogg world,” re-establishing Animosity’s appreciation for the beginning of the gangsta rap era.

Later, the album also samples 50 Cent’s 2003 hit “In da Club” on “Raven Allura,” a song about his “pretty princess niece.”

At track two, we are introduced to “Amber Marie”—an educated, attractive, God-fearing sista who pushes him to be a better person.

We learn memories they had growing up and many of her other character traits that make you want to be just like her.

There’s a clear vibe of growth and confidence with this project.

The highlight has to be “One Day,” a song about looking forward to being reunited with loved ones. MC Animosity embodies hip hop’s goals of motivational growth, love and community development. He expresses you can find new parts of yourself when being lost. Life is a game, but love is the treasure.

—Dr. Dawson

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Voices After Evelyn Rick Harsch MAINTENANCE ENDS PRESS

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n 1953, La Crosse, Wisconsin underwent a traumatic cultural upheaval as the disappearance of local teenager, Evelyn Hartley, led to grief, suspicion and social unrest, en masse. Former La Crosse resident and Iowa Writers’ Workshop graduate Rick Harsh has turned that chaotic moment in small-town history into the speculative mystery novel Voices After Evelyn. Harsh gives voice to those locals who encountered Hartley in the years, weeks and days before her disappearance, across a series of fictionalized interviews—and, in doing so, reveals the seemingly pleasant town’s rotten, Lynchian underbelly one insightful and often upsetting conversation at a time.

There is a pulpy, noir-ish quality to Voices After Evelyn, due in no small part to the inclusion of characters with names like Mitzie Skumsrud and Judge Hamilton Swiggum. In fact, at times the prose is so thick with snappy,

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almost combative, banter that Harsh seems to verge on parodying the dialogue of some of the mystery genre’s most famous authors, especially Mickey Spillane.

Unlike a Mike Hammer novel, however, Voices After Evelyn isn’t confined to gritty reality. Harsch is more than willing to venture into the rarer air of magical realism in order to keep exploring Evelyn. The inclusion of a Greek chorus and the Vampire of Dusseldorf himself, Peter Kurten, do the respective heavy lifting of omnisciently tracking Evelyn toward her fate and commenting on the dispassionate nature of true evil, even during acts of savage violence.

In a bold, genre-defying move, Harsch collaborated with visual artist Julia Russell-Steuart to incorporate brief excerpts of Voices After Evelyn into a gorgeous and equally mysterious paper construct called a flexagon. The six-paneled 53 Lines bends, folds and reforms to reveal layers of previously hidden images and quotations from Voices After Evelyn. Russell-Steuart’s piece serves as a perfect tactile companion to the novel, adding depth to an already gripping story and finding real beauty in the face of something so awful and ugly as the disappearance of Evelyn Hartley.

––Jon Burke

Loudermilk or, The Real Poet or, The Origin of the World Lucy Ives SOFT SKULL PRESS

Reading: Lucy Ives, ‘Loudermilk,’ Prairie Lights, Iowa City, Monday, June 17, 7 p.m., Free

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he latest novel from author and Iowa Writers’ Workshop graduate Lucy Ives, Loudermilk or, The Real Poet or, The Origin of The World, is a richly textured satirical tapestry that entertains with highbrow gusto.

The title character, Troy Augustus Loudermilk, and his confidant, Harry Rego, make the journey to Iowa in a 1999 Land Cruiser after conning their way into a preeminent creative writing graduate program in 2003.

Troy is a philistine slacker with chiseled features who has “no fear of being labeled lazy.” His friend Harry Rego is “at the center of things, but invisible due to his friend’s outsized shine.”

Despite not being writers of any stripe, with Troy’s “looks” and “ideas” and Harry’s “brains” and

“spirit or whatever,” they plan to leech off their funding and fake it till they make it.

What follows is a comedy of errors featuring jaded pseudo-intellectual posers, beer-guzzling bros engaging in “the homosocial rituals of landlocked patriarchs,” chain-smoking high school mallrat girls in “black jeans and Doc Martens” and other amusing specimens.

Ives’ prose often provokes choke-inducing laughter and tearyeyed cackling, as she lyrically skewers academic pretensions, meritocracy, college life, societal privilege, pop culture and other beloved mores.

In the novel’s afterward, Ives describes the character Loudermilk as a libertine, “a sort of a philosophical construct” that is not real. However, “the entities that give rise to him (institutions, the law) have a vital and domineering reality.”

While there is the disclaimer that “This is a work of fiction,” the best satire heightens or exaggerates its subjects while preserving the truth. Loudermilk achieves this, making a challenging statement without becoming a tedious sermon.

As hilarious as John Kennedy Toole’s A Confederacy of Dunces and the works of Terry Southern, this novel is in a class of its own and deserves recognition as such.

—Mike Kuhlenbeck

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