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partisan slant over actual truth will bring us all down faster. —Gail H.

‘Peak pig’ in Iowa leads to a ‘staggering’ amount of shit in the state Imagine all the ski resorts and mountain climbing expeditions that will arise as the pig feces pile even higher! —Stephen H.F. Two things: 1) Manure can be fertilizer for organic crops. 2) Bacon. —Craig A. Problem is, because of the way the majority hogs are raised (in confinement), the manure could be filled with pathogens. Romaine lettuce had to be recalled several months ago because of E-coli

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Federal appeals court rules saying ‘fuck you’ to the police is free speech Duh. Literally every other person employed could have told you that. Social workers, nurses, service providers, teachers and the like. For people who carry guns and wear body armor daily, they sure are a sensitive bunch, eh? —Einna O. *clears throat: Fuck the Police. —James M. NWA 1, Tipper Gore 0. —Jon D.

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Pride & joy: Drag queens delighted at the Iowa City Pride Parade on June 15.

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INTERACTIONS Democrat Theresa Greenfield announces a run for Ernst’s U.S. Senate seat Have we not got anyone qualified at all to run for Senate? It’s the Senate. [with increasing desperation] The US Senate. Only 100 people to do some of the most important legislative work we have. It’d be amazing, just amazing, if we could put up someone who’s got any legislative experience at all.

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know, actual work of the Senate. Because honest to freaking god if Iowa Values is all we’re looking for here, I nominate my kid’s grade-school principal, who sounds a whole lot sharper than Theresa here and can wrangle hundreds of kids and their parents and a skeevy superintendent. Or maybe Ranch Girl. Or my passive-aggressive mail carrier.

Or the last Hy-Vee cashier I said “nope, no Fuel Saver” to. It’s not just me, right? Other people are also aware that “US senator” is an actual job you should have some experience for? —Amy

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Lev owa City Pride Week has Cantoral come and gone, and it is with great sorrow that I put my rainbow leotard back in the closet for another year. In IC, Pride Week is an opportunity for the LGBTQ community to come together and celebrate their achievements and culture, as well as reunite with the 12 other people on the queer side of Tinder, all of whom they’ve already dated. For straight people, it is an opportunity to show support for their queer friends and family, and also to get really, really drunk. And that’s OK! Sometimes, you need to cut loose and have a few rainbow Jell-O shots in the middle of the afternoon, and any gay bar worth its salt is happy to take your money.

However, there is a right and wrong way to do Pride. Below, I’ve given some helpful hints for future Prides (CRPrideFest is July 6!):

Do not act surprised/offended if a gay person flirts with you at a Pride event. Pride is not inherently about meeting potential partners, but for some people, it is, and it’s incredibly insulting when someone who says they support the LGBTQ community is offended at the assumption they might be gay. This is especially true if you show up to karaoke at Studio 13 or Belle’s Basix in a flannel shirt and belt out a flawless rendition of “Constant Craving.” What else are people supposed to think?

Refrain from doing anything generally considered offensive or objectionable. This includes using pejorative terms of any kind or perpetuating harmful stereotypes. For the most part, people get this instinctively, but apparently, it’s not universal. This weekend, I saw like five white girls wearing bindis. This isn’t Coachella. Also, don’t make out with your boyfriend/girlfriend at Pride events. It’s not offensive, exactly, so much as it is gross.

Mainstream media these days is overrun with heterosexual relationships. Stop shoving it down everyone’s throat, y’know?

Pride isn’t just about partying! Do something to show your appreciation for a member of the LGBTQ community during Pride Week.

Help a trans person move. Buy your bi friend a platonic vodka cranberry. Tell a lesbian you like her new haircut. Then, donate to a worthy charity, like PFLAG or The Trevor Project.

And next time? Bring some snacks. Everyone likes artichoke dip.

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Iowa, Au Naturel Researchers at Iowa State University have demonstrated the power of prairie on farms—and its potential to save our environment.

BY PAUL BRENNAN A field planted with prairie strips Lynn Betts

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solution to some of the biggest problems facing farmers, and some of the biggest environmental challenges in the state, has deep roots in Iowa’s past.

Roughly 85 percent of Iowa’s 36 million acres were covered with prairie plants when the U.S. frontier pushed into what would become the state of Iowa in the 19th century. Now, less than one-10th of one percent of that 30 million acres of prairie exists.

Instead, 30 million of the state’s acres are now devoted to agricultural production, with just two crops—corn and soybeans—covering more than 80 percent of those acres. Being so heavily invested in these crops has massive consequences for the land and water.

But researchers at Iowa State University have demonstrated that planting just 10 percent of a field of row crops, like corn or soybeans, with buffer strips of native prairie plants will reduce soil loss on that field by 95 percent. It also reduces runoff of phosphorus and nitrogen from fertilizer, a major source of water pollution, by almost as much.

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in Tama County.

And it cuts the need for pesticides.

“Mother Nature is a pretty wonderful business partner,” said Seth Watkins, the first farmer to plant prairie strips as part of ISU’s “Science-Based Trials of Rowcrops Integrated with Prairie Strips” program, or STRIPS, as it is known.

The standard approach to growing corn and soybean crops involves large-scale planting in rows, which makes fields particularly vulnerable to soil loss (in the past 50 years, Iowa has lost 50 percent of its topsoil, according to the USDA), and depletes the nutrients in the soil that remain. To make up for the lack of nutrients, corn and soybean fields are heavily treated with fertilizer containing nitrogen and phosphorus.

“A lot of our modern farming practices unfortunately keep hinging on trying to beat nature,” Watkins said.

Fertilizer runoff from the fields is one of the primary causes of nutrient pollution in the state’s waterways. Nutrient pollution causes,

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+ among other things, spikes in the amount of water-borne bacteria as well as algae blooms, both of which can kill fish and cause illness in humans. Since 2006, the Iowa Department of Natural Resources (DNR) has issued almost 200 warnings for the lake beaches in Iowa due to high levels of a toxin produced by algae.

The problem may be more widespread, because the DNR only monitors 39 lakes, and only does that monitoring between Memorial Day and Labor Day. Urban water supplies are also affected by the runoff, because cities that draw their water from the state’s rivers must remove high levels of nutrients from their water supply to make it safe to drink.

The problem extends beyond the state’s borders; Iowa rivers ultimately empty into the Mississippi River, which carries the pollution to the Gulf of Mexico. Once in the Gulf, it drives the creation of an annual algae bloom that depletes the oxygen in the water, killing marine life and causing a massive dead zone.

Researchers at Louisiana State University estimate this summer’s dead zone in the Gulf will be just slightly smaller than the record-setting one, which covered 8,776 square miles. (By way of comparison, the state of New Jersey is 8,723 square miles.)

The typical approach to farming also puts financial stress on farmers, as Watkins explained to Little Village.

“Probably since the ’50s, we really have built our farms to rely on those two finite resources—fuel and other chemicals like fertilizer and pesticide, and bigger and bigger equipment with new technology,” he said. “But the cost of those resources have increased almost 6 percent per year since the ’50s, and the price of the products we sell, even accounting for yield increase, has only increased 1.5 or 2 percent a year.”

“And that’s not even getting to the issue of diminished soil health or those other consequences like runoff, which have a big impact.”

The idea behind planting prairie strips is simple, according to ISU Associate Professor of Entomology Matthew O’Neil, pollinator research lead for STRIPS. “Why plant prairie species?” O’Neil said. “One, because they’re native, so they are things that have co-evolved for this region, for this landscape and for wildlife that’s here, and to some extent still is. They are also perennials—once they’re in the ground, they are present all year round.”

“They have deep roots that allow them to be very resilient in terms of drought stress. And they produce soil structure that absorbs moisture and nutrients, almost like a sponge. And the stiff, upright stems that are above ground act as a barrier to water moving down the hillside. Those features all make for a nice barrier, if you’re trying to prevent soil, and the nutrients in that soil, from moving downhill and into a watershed.”

STRIPS was launched in 2002, with funding from the Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture, also based at ISU. Five years later, the first experimental plots using prairie strips around row crops were planted in the Neal Smith National Wildlife Refuge in central Iowa.

After encouraging early results, STRIPS began looking for a farmer willing to take a chance on the approach.

A peer-reviewed study of the effects of planting 10 percent of a row-crop field with prairie strips at the wildlife refuge was published in 2017. In addition to the 95 percent decrease in soil loss, there was a 44 percent reduction in water runoff on the fields, as well as runoff reductions of 90 percent in phosphorus and 84 percent in nitrogen.

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What’s more, the study found using 10 percent of a field for prairie strips didn’t reduce the yield of corn and soybeans per acre.

Even with those results, when it came time to move from the experimental plot to introducing strips on a working farm, STRIPS had trouble finding a farmer open to planting prairie strips.

Watkins, whose southwestern Iowa farm has been in his family since 1846 (the same year Iowa became a state), was willing to take a chance.

For the first four years after Watkins took over his family’s Page County heritage farm in 1994, he followed standard farming practices in an effort to maximize yield. But he quickly grew dissatisfied, feeling that what he was doing wasn’t in the best interest of his farm, his animals or his bottom-line.

“I finally decided to trust some of those feelings, and try something different,” Watkins said. “I guess my question came down to: Why am I working against Mother Nature, instead of with her?”

Watkins had been studying sustainable farming practices, and he started implementing them.

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a nutshell, what I did was greatly reduce my reliance on fossil fuels and equipment, which are the two largest costs of any farming operation.”

In 2011, Watkins became aware of ISU’s prairie strip research, and learned that STRIPS was looking for farmers to participate in the next stage of their research. The following year he met with STRIPS members and agreed to introduce prairie strips.

years from now, I’ll do something else.”

The three-year commitment was key.

“Prairie takes a while to establish,” Matthew O’Neil explained. “There’s a poem about this that goes something like: In the first year, the prairie sleeps/In the second year, the prairie creeps/In the third year, the prairie leaps.”

But there wasn’t much leaping on Watkins’ farm in the third year.

“I planted my first stand in 2013,” Watkins recalled. “I probably learned a little bit about the disconnect between academia “I GUESS MY QUESTION CAME DOWN TO: and the realities of what we’re doing on the farm.”

WHY AM I WORKING AGAINST MOTHER The first year was very wet, NATURE, INSTEAD OF WITH HER?” with major rain events. The strips were washed out before they could take root. Watkins replanted the next year.

“The first stand was probably “Someone’s got to try it first and at least my worst planting. It really took almost five take a chance for the idea to take off on the years to get established,” Watkins said. “But farm-level,” Watkins said. “And it wasn’t now I’m at the point where I can get a pretty like it was a big cost or anything. I just had to solid stand in two years.” take some land out of production. Land that I “The thing that is impressive is that even probably shouldn’t have farmed anyway.” in the first year, when you can’t see anything “I figured if it doesn’t work, then three and it looks horrible, the roots are already

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doing their thing,” Watkins said. “Like a giant filter that catches the nutrients and some of the things that we can’t see. We’re seeing great results as far as, like, the wetland below us or the water runoff we measured last year.

And it does a great job with sediment.”

Iowa’s native fauna are also showing results. Two years ago, a STRIPS survey found “118 percent more bird species and 133 percent more total birds than those with 100 percent row-crops.”

On his land, Watkins has seen an increase in grassland birds—such as dickcissels, vesper sparrows and red-winged blackbirds— and pollinators, including a variety of butterflies and bees.

“All the birds and butterflies need is some landing spots,” he said. “They’ve got to have places to rest.”

Within the strips, there’s also an increase in beneficial insects that prey on the insects that damage crops, reducing the need for pesticides and the costs associated with spraying fields.

Despite the demonstrated benefits of prairie strips, it’s still challenging to get farmers to try the new approach. Most farmers are reluctant to take parts of their fields out of production. Some also balk at the initial cost of planting the strips, which runs between $24 and $35 an acre.

Fewer than 50 farms in Iowa and the rest of the Midwest are currently collaborating with STRIPS. “The farmers we’re working with are a special group,” O’Neil said. “They’re early

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adopters and committed to sustainable practices.” But they are also, he pointed out, “a drop in the bucket in terms of the total number of farms we need to be engaged for this practice to have a real impact on the environment problem associated with row-crop agriculture.”

Although farmers have been slow in adopting prairie strips, the scientific community has embraced them. Prairie strips are even mentioned in the latest National Climate Assessment as a potentially important tool in improving water quality in the United States.

“Making sure the program is more widely adopted, in Iowa and throughout the Midwest, is going to take a lot more engagement,” O’Neil said. “And that takes money, resources and time. Right now, we’ve got some of that, but it will take more to get us [within distance] of this having the kind of public awareness and acceptance we need.”

Watkins is doing his part. He’s a leading voice among Iowa farmers, advocating sustainable practices, including prairie strips.

“Nature will do much of the work, if you just give her a little chance,” he said. “It’s like the old saying, ‘good things beget good things.’”

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Power & Choice Shalisa Gladney of RVAP talks consent (sexual and otherwise), relationships and identity.

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gave Shalisa Gladney a hug when she emerged from her office to greet me at the University of Iowa Women’s Resource and Action Center.

During our conversation, much of which focused on relationships and consent, Gladney admitted she is not a hugger—I had neglected to check before going in for an embrace. But she absolved me, saying she’d remembered I was a hugger; she wondered if next time I see her, I’ll remember that she isn’t.

Open and honest communication, we agreed, is a process of learning how to be in a relationship with someone. And what better way to address larger systemic issues than focusing on how to have healthy relationships?

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emphatically calls the “bomb-ass team” of full-time violence prevention specialists.

In her position, Gladney talks to college students about components of healthy relationships, consent and dismantling rape culture; she also occasionally intervenes in potentially dangerous situations.

Growing up, Gladney said, “I TRY TO PRACTICE USING CONSENT IN the education she received reMY EVERYDAY INTERACTIONS AS A WAY garding sex and relationships was focused on abstinence.

TO NORMALIZE CONSENT CULTURE. THE MORE YOU DO SOMETHING OR PRACTICE Now, as an educator, she hopes she can “encourage folks, IT, THE BETTER YOU GET AT IT, RIGHT?” young and old, to write their own healthy relationship rules.”

“I want to be a part of work that shapes how I want the world to look,” Gladney said. “I want to be Gladney is the campus violence prevention educator with the UI’s Rape Victim Advocacy involved with projects that create positive change. I want to be part of the solution.”

Program (RVAP). She, Martha Pierce Gladney works through a radical, feminist, and Cody Howell make up what Gladney

queer lens.

“The term ‘queer’ incorporates a lot—it’s a broader term than what some of us understand it as,” Gladney said. “I’m going to use it as a synonym for ‘radical.’”

She sees a “radical” approach as a way of thinking outside the box and being a part of creating change that starts with how we relate to one another.

Six values play into Gladney’s interactions with clients, she said: negotiation and fairness, respect, trust and support, open communication, shared responsibility and honesty.

Gladney loves talking to students about consent, and she helps them expand their definitions of consent beyond the erotic— friendly hugs, for example. Within the work space, you might pause before stepping into someone’s office to say, “I want to talk to you about this thing I’m experiencing. Do you have the capacity for that right now?”

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“Could you use a hug right now?” If someone is crying or in distress, consider posing, “Can I sit here with you? Can I hug you?”

“Consent is an agreement to participate in or begin an activity [or] interaction,” Gladney said. “I try to practice using consent in my everyday interactions as a way to normalize consent culture. The more you do something or practice it, the better you get at it, right?”

She sees consent as an active, ongoing process based on equal power and choice.

“Consent can definitely be sexy, such as asking a partner to take off your shirt, or asking if you can take off theirs,” she added.

Boundaries, another essential component of healthy relationships, look different for everyone. When talking with clients about setting boundaries, Gladney emphasizes the importance of talking in “plain terms” and avoiding intellectualizing. She said she tries to both model and give many different examples of open, honest communication.

“You would never take someone’s car without asking. Why would you ever take or do something from someone without making sure that is exactly what they want?” she said.

Her clients are the experts on their own relationships, Gladney acknowledges; her role is to help facilitate and navigate sometimes sensitive conversations.

“I try to keep in mind boundaries between individuals are dynamic and can change as circumstances change,” she said. “I think of a boundary as a limit, where one thing ends and another begins.”

Setting boundaries, identifying our needs and sharing how we really feel can be a process, one that might involve some missteps.

“I fuck up all the time, and I own it,” she said. “I work on this every day. We need to get rid of the word ‘competence.’ I love the idea of having some humility. We own our mistakes and get on with it, understanding we all mess up sometimes.”

But Gladney also emphasized the importance of accountability as a means of healing when one’s boundaries are violated, particularly when it comes to domestic violence.

“Often I think what we do instead of holding people accountable for the harm they do is we write them off and we’re just done with that,” she said. “It’s often not the people who are being harmed who are writing them off; it’s the individuals who saw the harm.

Without that accountability piece … they just move on to the next victim.”

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’m a big cheese fan. I order food based solely off whether or not it involves goat cheese or feta. When I’m grocery shopping, it’s the thing I’m willing to spend the most money on. And when I travel, part of my agenda involves finding a local cheese shop.

One such shop can be found off I-80, just over 100 miles outside of Iowa City, in an unassuming town of 1,300. Walnut, Illinois has been home to Avanti Foods since the 1950s.

The gift shop—inside a Swiss Chalet since 1977—is hard to miss: Suspended outside the second-floor balcony is a ceramic cow Avanti had sent over from Switzerland. Inside, along with chocolates, meat trays and their famous frozen pizzas, there’s a selection of more than 100 varieties of domestic and imported cheeses.

There’s no need to make the hour-and40-minute trek to rural Illinois to shop these cheeses. On Saturday mornings, Avanti’s folks divide and conquer the region, driving to farmers markets in Peoria, Naperville, Davenport and Iowa City.

For over a decade, Avanti Foods has had a presence in Chauncey Swan Ramp for the Iowa City Farmers Market, ready to go by 7 a.m. on Saturdays with a cooler full of over 30 assorted cheeses. That’s where I first found them, walking through the market at the tail end of the summer of 2017. I purchased just one cheese that day, but have continued to return for more, bringing along friends to share my lucky find.

Avanti, named for the Italian word

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meaning “forward,” is owned by the Zueger and Linley families, whose cheese tradition extends all the way back to an 1800s Swiss cheese factory, inspiring the store’s current exterior. Anton Zueger, the original first half of Avanti Foods, purchased Walnut Cheese Factory in 1955. Before that, he spent three years learning how to make cheese in Switzerland as an apprentice and then officially—and fittingly—began his cheesemaking career in Wisconsin. In 1962, as Avanti Foods began to make and sell pizzas, Zueger was joined by Robert Linley, who’d received a cheesemakers license in Wisconsin a decade earlier. Their children now run the operation.

The Avanti booth at the Iowa City Farmers Market is always well-stocked with staples— mozzarella, Havarti (try the dill, green olive or jalapeño varieties) and various cheddars and Monterey Jack cheeses. Most cheeses can be purchased for $6, though a wedge of blue cheese runs for $8. Curds, purchased in one-pound quantities, run for $7. Their most

popular item—a one-pound tub of garlic cheddar cheese spread made in Walnut every Friday morning—can also be purchased for $7. (The plain cheddar cheese spread is a frequent snack option in my brother and sister-in-law’s fridge).

Dave Dietz, who makes the drive out to Iowa City early every Saturday morning, May through October, is incredibly helpful.

He’ll explain which cheeses are traditionally Avanti and which ones have been carefully chosen to maintain the general selection’s high quality. He may also give advice on how thick to slice the morel and leek Monterey jack cheese, to ensure it melts perfectly on burgers, or offer wine pairings (the Ardon Creek Vineyard and Winery table is just a few stalls over).

And, as if it wasn’t difficult enough to decide which cheese to purchase, there’s always multiple cheese tastings available, ensuring you’ll fall in love with something new every weekend trip to the Avanti stall.

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X Gon’ Give it to Ya From continued touring to publishing a post-punk oral history, X is still having more fun in the New World.

BY KEMBREW MCLEOD

X

, an original 1977-era punk band, has remained one of my all-time favorites for decades, but I never got to see them until a recent show at the Pageant Theater in St. Louis. It was fitting to watch X in Missouri, the setting for Road House—the craptastic Patrick Swayze vehicle that featured X co-founder (and actor) John Doe as a bad-guy bartender.

Vocalist Exene Cervenka also made Missouri her home for a few years during the aughts, before a medical scare brought her back to the support network of friends she developed over the years in Los Angeles.

L.A. is the city that defines X, whose songs and albums are loaded noir tales about the dark side of Tinseltown, particularly on the group’s 1980 debut, Los Angeles. That album has recently been reissued by Fat Possum, along with three other classic albums—Wild Gift (1981), Under the Big Black Sun (1982) and More Fun in the New World (1983)—a one-two-three-four punch that is a nearly unparalleled run in punk history. The rock-solid songs and back-to-basics production by Doors keyboardist Ray Manzarek created a strong body of work that still endures.

John Doe and Exene Cervenka in St. Louis, 2019. Kembrew McLeod

the experimentation and also a great performance, because he knew that if we had that, then it would transcend the time that it was recorded. I think the Doors records kind of did the same.”

Cervenka, born in ALONG WITH ZOOM’S ECONOMICAL 1953, moved from ROCKABILLY GUITAR RIFFS AND THE Florida to California PROPULSIVE RHYTHMS OF D.J. BONEBRAKE, in 1976, right before the punk explosion reCERVENKA AND DOE’S OFF-KILTER shaped the L.A. musical HARMONIES DEFINE X’S AESTHETIC. landscape—a scene that Penelope Spheeris captured in her 1980 documentary The Decline of Western Civilization, “The thing that makes them consistent is which featured X, the Bags, Germs and other that Ray wanted to have great performancimportant bands from the L.A. area. es,” Doe told me. “He didn’t try to be tricky, Cervenka became romantically involved didn’t try to use the latest sounds. He wanted with Doe—born in the Midwest in 1953 but us to get a good replication of the songs with primarily raised in Baltimore—after meeting 18 June 19–July 2, 2019 LITTLEVILLAGEMAG.COM/LV266

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in a writing workshop at Beyond Baroque, a bookshop that was one of the centers of the city’s poetry scene. “We met in the very first session we both came to,” Doe said, “and I talked to her that night and we hung out.

There was no gazing from afar. She was the one person that I knew I had something in

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common with, and she was the most interesting person in the place.”

A high school dropout who’d written poetry since she was a child, the self-trained Cervenka got a job at Beyond Baroque not long after arriving in L.A. “Then I started going to the workshop and that’s where I met John,” she said. “It was kind of a bunch of fortuitous things that happened.”

They married in 1980 and divorced in 1985, but the two have remained musical partners—working together in X and the countrified Knitters, a band that also includes Blasters guitarist Dave Alvin, who headlined the Iowa Arts Festival this summer. (Alvin briefly joined X after founding guitarist Billy Zoom left in the mid-1980s, around the time when the band recorded a classic version of Alvin’s “4th of July”; Zoom returned to the fold by the 1990s).

This period is documented in Doe’s recently published book, co-written with Tom DeSavia, More Fun in the New World, a panoramic survey of L.A.’s post-punk music scene that weaves together essays by Doe, Zoom, Alvin, Black Flag’s Henry Rollins, Jane Weidlin and Charlotte Caffey of the Go-Go’s, Circle Jerks’ Keith Morris, Lone Justice’s Maria McKee, Louis Pérez of Los Lobos, artist Shepard Fairey, filmmaker Allison Anders, actor Tim Robbins, skater Tony Hawk and others. It’s akin to an oral history, but instead of serving up bite-sized anecdotes, More Fun’s contributors have plenty of room to relate their own nuanced perspectives—all of which are interwoven within a fairly dark narrative arc.

Along with Zoom’s economical rockabilly guitar riffs and the propulsive rhythms of D.J. Bonebrake, Cervenka and Doe’s off-kilter harmonies define X’s aesthetic—a dissonant sound resulting from the car-crash combination of musical expertise and naivety. Zoom, a multi-instrumentalist prodigy who had already been playing with Doe, at first balked about bringing a “girlfriend” into the band.

It also took some time for Doe to convince Cervenka to join, because she had no previous musical experience or ambitions.

“Billy should’ve been skeptical about me joining the band,” she said. “I’d never been in a band before and he’d been playing since the ’50s with people like Etta James, Booker T. and the MG’s, Gene Vincent, among others.

He plays seven instruments, and has since he was a small child. He’s a genius musically.

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But in the DIY world of punk, a lack of traditional musical skills can lead to the happy musical accidents that made X’s music so special.

“I was the least likely person to team up with Billy Zoom, and the fact that he was open-minded enough to do that is a testament to his perceptiveness, intuitiveness and also his ability to go against the grain of what he would normally do,” she said. “There are many times I thought, ‘This is ridiculous. I can’t be in this band; I’m not good enough to be in this band.’ But then something would happen and we’d have a lot of people come see us. It was fun and we just kind of fell in together finally.”

While living together, the couple inspired each other lyrically and musically, such as the time when Cervenka scrawled the line “Johnny hit and run Paulene” on a piece of paper and taped it to a door in their apartment. Doe said he walked by it for several weeks until he had the idea to develop it as a song.

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“She wrote that line, ‘Johnny hit and run Paulene,’ and I wrote the rest. For ‘Your Phone’s Off the Hook,’ Exene wrote most of that and I wrote a piece of the second verse, or something like that. I wrote most of ‘Los Angeles,’ but she wrote all of ‘The World’s a Mess.’ But within those, we’d edit each other’s writing, and then I would have to add or subtract things in order to make them work within the song so that the meter would stay within the melody or the timing of the song.”

During their St. Louis show, X showcased songs from those first four albums. Fat Possum, their new home, is a Mississippibased label that released early records by the Black Keys and helped revive the careers of bluesmen Junior Kimbrough and R.L. Burnside.

“With the reissues, we did them with Fat Possum because we share values with them,” Doe said. “There’s part of me that’s a blues nerd, and they do a lot of blues, and there’s part of me that appreciates the roots-type music that Fat Possum does.”

Cervenka notes that those albums have

never gone out of print and have remained steady sellers over the years, though X still doesn’t have a gold record—“which is called creative bookkeeping,” she quipped. “Slash, Warners, yeah, whatever. I just hope we can keep doing it for a little while longer because I’ll be really sad when it stops.”

The band has a few songs in the can, and they plan to return to the studio for an eventual new release, but for now they remain focused on playing live shows. Cervenka admitted that it’s not as if X is a Partridge Family-type group who gets along harmoniously at all times, but the important thing is what happens to them musically after hitting the stage.

“It kicks ass to still be around,” she said.

“I’m really proud of us.”

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Open the Gate Zen Cohen’s new installation at PS1 delves into queer and nonbinary culture. BY HOLLY THAYER

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’ve had a recurring dream since I was a teenager about an ocean contained in a room. In the dream, I always try to peel back the layers of my experience with the water; to experience it in a more authentic way. I had this dream again for the first time in a long time, and it must be because I’ve been thinking about Zen Cohen’s art.

Cohen, who recently moved to Iowa City from San Francisco, creates in the realms of video, performance art, photography and sound. All have been at play in the ongoing creation of her video and sound installation The Gatekeepers, on display in Iowa City through July 7 at Public Space One. The Gatekeepers is an enormously atmospheric experience portrayed on two video screens, reinforced by shifting music and sounds. Throughout the installation, a series of personas comes to life through costumes that incorporate ceramics, bright fabrics, feathers and detailed body paint. These personas engage the audience from a backdrop of sights and sounds ranging from ocean waves to forest to otherworldly spaces. Layers of visual texture and slow, intentional movements add to the meditative and ritualistic vibe of the show.

Cohen started The Gatekeepers roughly four years ago and arrived at the current iteration in collaboration with performers Walker Fisher, Violeta Luna, Chiron Armand and Yunuen Rhi. Together, they created the installation to explore “infinite possibilities” when it comes to experiencing the world, Cohen said. She sought to explore queerness and “transcend binaries,” such as male versus female.

“There are so many ways queer folks identify or express themselves,” she said. “Queer culture is so vast.”

Cohen said the project also celebrates the earth and the value of sacred spaces guarded by indigenous communities, like Standing Rock Sioux Tribe. She said worries about the encroachment of the Dakota Access Pipeline on the tribe’s space weighed heavily on her mind during The Gatekeepers’ creation. She sought to transmute these worries through creativity.

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“I think this project really was born out of deep concern for the state of humanity,” she said.

Cohen was also inspired by the history and culture of gender fluid shamans. In 2008, a conversation with Malidoma Somé, a West African Elder, author and teacher from Burkina Faso, introduced her to the concept of queer shamans in tribal communities who are revered for their gender fluidity and ability to exist in multiple worlds at once, guarding the gates between them. Juxtaposed against American norms that have polluted the queer community with hate and violence, she was attracted to this association of queerness with power and respect.

“I was really moved by that,” she said.

Cohen brought these ideas home and

1-4 p.m., Free Workshop: Embodying Totemic Personas, Public Space One, Iowa City, Saturday, June 22, 12 p.m., Free Above: Violeta Luna as Madonna Our lady of the Syncretic Heart with Conchasanta. Right: Yunuen Rhi as Coyolxāuhqui. Photos by Zen Cohen

explored them with fellow artists and friends, many of whom identify as queer and have expertise in healing practices. She said some were quick to point out that queer shamans’ power is often coupled with ostracization that pushes them to live “on the outskirts of the village,” a complication that added a layer of complexity to her exploration.

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“They are kind of feared and revered at the same time,” she said.

Aspects of Cohen’s own history in theater and performing arts played a role in The Gatekeepers as well. As a young child in Southern California, Cohen was active in ballet and a youth theater company, following in the footsteps of her grandmother, a performer, as well as her sculptor father and all-around artistic mother.

As a young adult, she explored a potential acting career in New York City, but said she was quickly appalled by the “unreasonable expectations” she faced as a woman in terms of body and physical presentation. By shifting into a role behind the camera, she was able to take control of her own identity and create her own reality.

Cohen eventually ventured back west to attend the California College of the Arts, where she began exploring video in earnest. From there, she received her Master of Fine Arts at the University of California, Davis.

Recently, she and her partner, Drew Cameron, bought a home in Iowa City, near Cameron’s family and roughly equidistant from Cohen’s parents on opposite coasts. She said she looks forward to starting a year-long teaching position in August at Coe College in Cedar Rapids.

Cohen said she loves the “amazing culture and community” around the University of Iowa. “I’ve really enjoyed meeting people here and getting to take advantage of all the culture assets that the university brings in,” she said.

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CULTURE Cohen hopes to find more artistic collaborators in the local area during a workshop from noon to 4 p.m. on June 22 at Public Space One. She invites participants to pose for photos depicting their own personas with props and costumes of their choosing. The artist said she also welcomes feedback on The Gatekeepers through her website.

My own thoughts about my experience of The Gatekeepers are fraught by the necessity of words. I know I’m not the first writer to cross over into visual arts and feel this strain.

Nor am I the first to be so meta as to bring it up in my writing. Were I to cast words aside and convey a psychic pulse about the show, it would be full of saltwater, delicate flowers, rusty tree bark and wet, gritty sand.

WERE I TO CAST WORDS ASIDE AND CONVEY A PSYCHIC PULSE ABOUT THE SHOW, IT WOULD BE FULL OF SALTWATER, DELICATE FLOWERS, RUSTY TREE BARK AND WET, GRITTY SAND.

As I watched, the personas each seemed to carry an implied story through motion and symbolic objects, like a jeweled skull that, to me, signaled an end that loops back to a primordial beginning. I was awed by the personas, but I was also oddly detached, perhaps, as a writer, craving a more explicit narrative to give me entry to their experiences.

My takeaway was the urge to experience earth’s infinite possibilities. To garden without gloves, stop taking cicada sounds for granted, or somehow feel a rabbit’s heartbeat in my palms. To let my dreaming mind take over as Cohen’s ocean images fill the screen, unconfined by room or words.

I don’t identify as gender fluid or transgender, so I can only imagine this urge to escape in the context of over-simplified, trauma-inducing gender norms. For those hurt by these norms, or anyone limited by injustice, I hope Cohen’s art inspires a way out—or at least one more step towards a life unconfined.

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Listen, folks, I’d somehow avoided every single campaign event in the area until the Iowa Democratic Party Hall of Fame a couple Sundays ago. A few takeaways: 1) Energy for candidates and key progressive issues was so inspiring. 2) There was a loaded buffet and people were drinkin’ by 1 p.m. (Lookin’ at you, Inslee!) 3) I met national legends of journalism, and they talked to me. 4) Andrew Yang gave me the sexy eye! 5) All that said, if you’re like me, you know there’s more you can do––more to democracy, even––than perusing buffets and flirting with millionaires. Over the next few months, we have to prove we’re worth being first in the nation.

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Rock Out for Rights, The Mill, Iowa City, Thursday, June 20, 6 p.m. $10 Who

wouldn’t love a night of fried bricks of cheese, groovy tunes and making sure local low-wage workers regardless of immigration status and race have social and economic justice? Rock Out for Rights will bring two local groups to The Mill’s stage: HomeBrewed, a rock and blues band, and the Negotiators, a rock genre cover band. Entry will cost $10 and all proceeds will go to the Center for Worker Justice.

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Transform Your Life, Quaker Friends Meeting

Pretty Beggar w/ Origami Ghosts, Gabe’s,

House, Iowa City, 6:30 p.m., $5-10 (Weekly)

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Midwest Waves w/ Solid Freex, Cafe Noise

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Ed Folsom, Jim Perlman, Dan Campion,

Unit, Trumpet Blossom Cafe, Iowa City, 8 p.m., $7

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Prairie Lights, Iowa City, 7 p.m., Free

ALSO JUNE 22 AND 23

The Picture Show: ‘Shazam!,’ FilmScene, Iowa City, 10 a.m., Free-$5

ADE w/ Novet, Blue Moose Tap House, Iowa City,

Cedar Rapids BBQ Roundup, McGrath Amphitheatre, Cedar Rapids, 11 a.m., Free-$3

Novel Conversations, Coralville Public Library, 7

8 p.m., $10

p.m., Free (3rd Thursday) Paa Kow and the Afro Fusion Orchestra,

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

Thursday Night Live Open Mic, Uptown Bill’s,

Famous Mockingbird, Marion, 8 p.m., $20-25

Iowa City, 7 p.m., Free (Weekly) Meet Me at the Market, NewBo City Market, Cedar Rapids, 5 p.m., Free (Weekly) FEATURING HOMEBREWED, THE NEGOTIATORS

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Shamarr Allen & the Underdawgs w/ James

Making Movies, CSPS Legion Arts, Cedar Rapids,

Tutson & the Rollback, Big Grove Brewery &

7 p.m., $16-19

Taproom, Iowa City, 8 p.m., $10

CEDAR RAPIDS FREEDOM FESTIVAL

Live Jazz, Clinton Street Social Club, Iowa City, 8

Five Seasons Ski Team, Ellis Park, Cedar Rapids,

p.m., Free (1st & 3rd Thursdays)

Rock Out for Rights, The Mill, Iowa City, 6 p.m, $10 CEDAR RAPIDS FREEDOM FESTIVAL

7 p.m., Free Karaoke Thursday, Studio 13, Iowa City, 8 p.m.,

Tribute to Heroes Dinner, Hotel at Kirkwood, Cedar Rapids, 6 p.m., $45

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Six Odd Rats, Famous Mockingbird, Marion, 9

Dreamwell Theatre Presents: QueertopIA,

p.m., $8

ST. LOUIS METAL

The Mill, Iowa City, 7:30 p.m., $10 suggested

Hallow Point w/ Doppelganger, Guilty Of

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Treason, NonGrata, Beyond the Heavens, Gabe’s, Iowa City, 5:30 p.m., $10-12 THIS WEEK: DAWSON HOLLOW

(Weekly) ALSO PERFORMING JUNE 22

Chris Cope w/ Elliott Threatt, Penguin’s

Sasha Belle Presents: Friday Night Drag &

Comedy Club, Cedar Rapids, 8 p.m., $10-12

Dance Party, Studio 13, Iowa City, 10:30 p.m.,

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

$5 (Weekly) IOWA CITY JAM BAND

The Beaker Brothers, Wildwood Smokehouse & CENTER FOR AFROFUTURIST STUDIES

SoulShake, Gabe’s, Iowa City, 10 p.m., Free

Saloon, Iowa City, 8 p.m., $10-20

Sat, June 22

CONTINUING THROUGH JULY 14

Iowa City Sunday Farmers Market, Chauncey

‘Puffs,’ Giving Tree Theater, Marion, 8 p.m.,

Swan Ramp, Iowa City, 7:30 a.m. (Weekly)

Artist Talk: American Artist, Public Space One, Iowa City, 6 p.m., Free TALENT SHOW AND RAP SHOW

$17.12 Marion Farmers Market, Taube Park, Marion, 8

Counterfeit Free Records Presents: Who Got Skillz, Blue Moose Tap House, Iowa City, 6 p.m.,

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Claire Adams, Sanctuary, Iowa City, 8 p.m., Free

THIS WEEK: THE FEZ

Cody James with special guests, Iowa City

BIG GROVE BREWERY & TAPROOM

Summer of the Arts Friday Night Concert

Yacht Club, 8 p.m., $7-10

Brake the Cycle of Homelessness Shelter

a.m. (Weekly) STOPS INCLUDE MOSLEY’S NORTH LIBERTY AND

Series, Ped Mall, Iowa City, 6:30 p.m., Free

House Benefit Ride, Terry Trueblood Recreation IOWA CITY ELASTIC ROCK

FAC Dance Party, The Union, Iowa City, 7 p.m.

Rubbur, w/ Why Kid Why, the Twisted Roots,

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

Area, Iowa City, 9 a.m., $15-50

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Finding Freedom: A K9 Treat Hunt, K9 Acres Off-Leash Park, Marion, 9:30 a.m., $3-5

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Playtime Poppy Summer Theatre Adventure presents ‘Tales Beneath the Baobab Tree,’ National Czech and Slovak Museum and Library, Cedar Rapids, 9:30 & 11 a.m., Free SPECIAL GIFT FOR FREEDOM FESTIVAL BUTTON WEARERS

Rollin’ Rally, Kirkwood Continuing Education and Training Center, Cedar Rapids, 10 a.m., Free

BIG GROVE BREWERY Shamarr Allen & The Underdawgs with James Tutson & The Rollback June 20, 8 p.m.

Guest Vendor Market, NewBo City Market, Cedar Rapids, 10 a.m. (Weekly) Family Storytime, Iowa City Public Library, 10:30 a.m., Free (Weekly) 9th Annual Cleaning Up Cancer Carnival,

DOWNTOWN IOWA CITY 2019 Downtown Block Party June 22, 5 p.m.

Salem United Methodist Church, Cedar Rapids, 11 a.m., Free CEDAR RAPIDS FREEDOM FESTIVAL

Artisan’s Sanctuary Presents: Patriotic Picnic in the Park, Marion Square Park, Marion, 11 a.m., Free I.C. Press Co-op Open Shop, Public Space One,

NEW PIONEER CO-OP The Gut-Brain Connection with Dr Terry Wahls (Coralville Library) June 29, 10 a.m.

Iowa City, 12 p.m., Free (Weekly) 9th Annual Juneteenth Commemoration, Mercer Park, Iowa City, 12 p.m., Free CLOSING PERFORMANCE

City Circle and Nolte Academy Present: ‘Disney’s NEWSIES,’ Coralville Center for the Performing Arts, 2 p.m., $14-29

BRIX CHEESE SHOP & WINE BAR Rose v. Wade: a Wine Party to Benefit the Emma Goldman Clinic June 30, 1 p.m.

DOWNTOWN BLOCK PARTY

Englert Theatre Presents: Tristen w/ Mystery Lights, Diplomats of Solid Sound, Elly H, Downtown Iowa City, 5 p.m., Free SAND VOLLEYBALL, SILENT DISCO, ROLLER SKATING AND MORE!

Downtown Block Party, Downtown Iowa City, 5

TRUMPET BLOSSOM CAFE Dead Coast Presents: Joseph Huber July 11, 8 p.m.

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Vinyl Village, East Village, June 19, 6 p.m., Free Vinyl Village is a new bar crawl

in the East Village celebrating the history and increasing popularity of the vinyl record.

It begins at Peace Tree Brewing with some crates of records to browse through from one of Des Moines’ newest record stores, Rogue Planet Music. From there, the crawl continues out into the East Village in search of more alcohol and dusty old records from ZZZ at the Continental and Vinyl Cup at Ernie’s Boondock. Marv’s Music will be open late with some live music and then the whole thing heads over to Black Sheep for the after-party with DJ Ghost Party spinning Motown records all night.

Art Week, Des Moines, June 21-28 I’ve always felt like the Des Moines Arts Festival was less of a celebration of the arts and more of a marketplace for national artists to peddle their work to the expendable incomes of our city. Luckily, the folks behind Art Week have packed the week leading up to the festival with events celebrating Des Moines’ own artistic offerings. Events include the slow-motion parade, pop-up exhibits all around the city and the Interrobang Film Festival, among nearly 100 other events all around the city.

It’s one of the best weeks of the year and features a lot of great work from the local artists and weirdos alike.

Puccini’s ‘La Bohème,’ Des Moines Metro Opera, opens Friday, June 28, 7:30 p.m., $37-89 Since its founding in 1973,

the Des Moines Metro Opera has brought remarkable opera to the otherwise quaint Midwestern sensibilities of central Iowa. It’s no surprise to see them take on the Puccini classic, La Bohème. Perhaps one of the most beloved operas of all time, the opera weaves a tale of squalor, art and love through some of the most beautiful selections of music ever written. It’s the opening show for the DMMO’s excellent summer season, running in rep with Candide, Wozzeck and the already sold-out Bon Appétit! La Bohème has just six performances: June 28 and July 5, 11 and 13 at 7:30 p.m. and June 30 and July 21 at 2 p.m.

Too Broke for the Arts Fest 2019, Vaudeville Mews, June 29, 2 p.m., Free$10 The concept behind Too Broke for the

Arts Festival is in its title. For those who can’t afford the upper-middle-class artistic offerings from the polished professionals over at the Des Moines Arts Festival, there’s always this blue-collar equivalent over at the Vaudeville Mews. Too Broke features affordable artwork from nearly 20 local artists tabled up around the Mews. Then at 5 p.m., for $10, they open it up for their usual dose of heavy metal, featuring ThorHammer, Manic Outburst and Condition Critical.

—Trey Reis

EDITORS’ PICKS OMAHA FUNK/SOUL

p.m., Free

Kris Lager Band, Amazing Space Amphitheater, Indian Creek Nature Center, Cedar Rapids, 7

CLOSING PERFORMANCE

p.m., $23-25

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

DOWNTOWN BLOCK PARTY

FilmScene Presents: ‘Grease,’ Linn Street, Iowa

READING: ‘UNSCHEDULED FLIGHTS’ / ‘THE

City, 8 p.m., Free

GEOGRAPHY OF HOME’

Jeanette Miller and Matthew Graham, Prairie The Tornadoes, Sanctuary, Iowa City, 8 p.m., Free

Lights, Iowa City, 4 p.m., Free

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Measures, Spider Magnets, Peanut Rickey &

Diplomats of Solid Sound w/ Ben Driscoll

the Fiends, Wax Cannon, the Tape Beatles,

and the Posthumous Cowboys, Old

Trumpet Blossom Cafe, Iowa City, 8 p.m., Free-$5

Neighborhood Pub, Cedar Rapids, 4 p.m., Free

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Iowa City, 4 p.m., Free

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

CEDAR RAPIDS FREEDOM FESTIVAL

Elation Dance Party, Studio 13, Iowa City, 9

Cedar Rapids Municipal Band, Ellis Park, Cedar

p.m., $5 (Weekly)

Rapids, 7:30 p.m., Free

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‘The Terminator,’ FilmScene, Iowa City, 8 p.m.,

Mouth of Radness, Marls in Charge, Gabe’s,

$15

Iowa City, 9:30 p.m., $8 PHILADELPHIA BROFI

Sun., June 23 FREEDOM FESTIVAL BUTTON WEARERS: $1 ADULT

Bluebird w/ Ethel Shank, rubbur, The Mill, Iowa City, 8 p.m., $7 Pub Quiz, The Mill, Iowa City, 9 p.m., $1 (Weekly)

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Coralville Farmers Market, Coralville Community

Rapids, 10 a.m. (Weekly)

Aquatic Center Parking Lot, 5 p.m. (Weekly)

Hiawatha Farmers Market, Guthridge Park,

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

Hiawatha, 10 a.m. (Weekly)

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Michael Lewis-Beck, Prairie Lights, Iowa City, 7

Park Amphitheatre, Marion, 10:30 a.m., $40

p.m., Free

Blues & Bloodys with Kevin “BF� Burt, Big

Comedy Open Mic with Spencer & Dan, Yacht

Grove Brewery & Taproom, Iowa City, 12 p.m., Free

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

Sunday Funday, Iowa City Public Library, Iowa City, 2 p.m., Free (Weekly)

Tue., June 25

CLOSING PERFORMANCE

Food Truck Tuesdays, NewBo City Market, Cedar

Riverside Theatre Presents ‘Henry IV Part

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COMMUNITY >> Cont. from pg. 15 These thoughts reminded me of a conversation I had last fall with Kathryn Duarte, assistant director for sexual assault services at RVAP, about the importance of demanding a “responsibility component” from perpetrators to validate survivors’ experiences.

Both Duarte and Gladney extolled the virtues of listening to an individual’s unique perspective, which is often informed by their background.

“Everyone brings a different experience and understanding of what it takes to make a relationship work,” Gladney said. “I’m a black woman from a community where the way we talk about relationships is different than some of the ways my white friends talk about relationships.”

“When thinking about what it means to draw my own boundaries, I think about how my identities impact that. What are my barriers to setting and communicating those boundaries?”

Gladney said she strives not to make any assumptions, in and outside the office, to ask the people in her life what they need and to be clear about her needs to them. She acknowledges when she comes into a space, she can’t separate herself from her gender, sexual orientation, race or any other part of her.

“I’m going to bring all of me,” she said.

“I might be able to read what someone else’s identities are, but I’m going to ask them what a healthy relationship is to them and why— and see how it differs from the way I see it.”

Gladney said there are a number of local organizations providing vital services to marginalized communities, including WRAC, RVAP, Sankofa Outreach Connection and the Emma Goldman Clinic. She said she is currently developing a project by and for the black community on campus to talk about healthy relationships and sexual health, and she sees a need for more spaces for black queer folks in the local community.

“While I have the energy and capacity, I want to be a part of the solution in creating a better world,” she said. “It’s exhausting but rewarding work!”

Thankfully for us in Johnson County, Shalisa Gladney is just getting started.

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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PRINTING RESISTANCE AND PERSISTENCE GRAPHICS free screenprinting workshop

Thurs Jun 20, 5-8p

Via Nicole Eredics

AMERICAN ARTIST ARTIST TALK considering Black radicalism and networked virtual life

Fri Jun 21, 6-7p GUMMER OF LOVE music and installation

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Sat Jun 29, 7p RACHEL SINGEL ARTIST TALK printmaking & papermaking from invasive plant fibers

Sun Jun 30, 1:30p at PUBLIC SPACE ONE free & open to the public 120 N. Dubuque St.

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Inclusion Works Summit, Hawkeye Community College, Waterloo, Friday, June 21, 9 a.m., $199 Nonprofit Inclusion

Connection advocates for persons with disabilities and works to ensure an inclusive community for them. As part of that, the Inclusion Works Summit features presentations and speakers on such topics as Inclusion at Work, Diversity and Inclusion: Making the Case for a Culturally Competent Campus and A Place to Play: Inclusive Playground Project. The keynote, The Keys to Full Inclusion, will be delivered by Nicole Eredics, educator, inclusion advocate and author of Inclusion in Action: Practical Strategies to Modify Your Curriculum.

Recertification and graduate course credits are available.

Shakespeare in the Gardens: Waterloo Community Players Presents ‘As You Like It,’ Cedar Valley Arboretum & Botanic Gardens, Waterloo, opens Wednesday, June 19, Free With admission Enjoy the pastoral adventures of

Rosalind, Celia and their respective beaux in an apropos outdoor setting as Waterloo Community Players perform Shakespeare’s As You Like It in the botanic gardens.

Admission to the gardens is $5 for adults (ages 18+) and $2 for children ages 5-17, free for members and children 4 and under.

Summer is the perfect time for outdoor theater, and Shakespeare’s comedy romp set in the forest of Arden is an ideal show for an outdoor space. As You Like It runs just five performances: Wednesday-Saturday, June 1922 at 6:30 p.m. and Sunday, June 23 at 2 p.m.

41st Annual College Hill Arts Festival, College Hill Business District, Cedar Falls, Friday and Saturday, June 21-22, 12 p.m., Free Celebrate 40 years of this

juried arts festival, founded in 1979. There will be music, food and kids activities along with the 75 artists.

44th Annual Sturgis Falls Festival, Various Venues, Cedar Falls, FridaySunday, June 28-30 This long-running

Cedar Falls tradition is themed “Happy Trails” for 2019. There are events, concerts and other festivities all over the city: The carnival is at Gateway Park, 5-11 p.m. on Thursday, 1-11:30 p.m. on Friday, 11 a.m.11:30 p.m. on Saturday and 1-10 p.m. on Sunday. Ride tickets are $1 (each ride costs three to four tickets) or purchase a $20 wristband on Thursday, Friday or Sunday for unlimited rides during certain hours. The parade starts at Clay Street and 8th Street on Saturday at 9 a.m. Music can be found at both the Gateway Park stage and the Overman Park stage.

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JUNE 21 8 PM

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Dead Coast Presents: Claire Adams

The Tornadoes

Cultivate Hope Market, Cultivate Hope Urban Farm, Cedar Rapids, 4:30 p.m. (Weekly)

Wed., June 26

Practice in the Prairie, Indian Creek Nature

Iowa City Open Coffee, Merge, Iowa City, 8

Center, 6 p.m., Free (Weekly)

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CEDAR RAPIDS FREEDOM FESTIVAL

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Balloon Glow, Sinclair Levy, Cedar Rapids, 6

TEAMS

p.m., Free-$5

One Million Cups, Merge, Iowa City, 9 a.m., Free (Weekly)

CEDAR RAPIDS FREEDOM FESTIVAL

Five Seasons Ski Team, Ellis Park, Cedar Rapids,

CEDAR RAPIDS FREEDOM FESTIVAL

7 p.m., Free

Special Needs Rock ‘n’ Bowl, Westdale Bowl, Cedar Rapids, 11 a.m., Button Required

Blues Jam, Parlor City Pub and Eatery, Cedar

JUNE 28 8 PM

Rapids, 7 p.m., Free (Weekly) Choro Moingona

;Iowa City Wednesday Farmers Market, Chauncey Swan Ramp, Iowa City, 5 p.m. (Weekly)

READING FROM: ‘LOOK, BLACK BOY’

Caleb “The Negro Artist” Rainey, Prairie

Burlington Street Bluegrass Band, The Mill,

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

Iowa City, 6 p.m., $5 (2nd & 4th Wednesdays)

CEDAR RAPIDS FREEDOM FESTIVAL

CEDAR RAPIDS FREEDOM FESTIVAL

Voices of Hope Patriotic Concert, New

Flag Retirement Ceremony, New Covenant

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Covenant Bible Church, Cedar Rapids, 7 p.m., Free

Bible Church, Cedar Rapids, 6 p.m., Free

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Yahoo Drummers, Downtown Iowa City, 7:30

IWP BETWEEN THE LINES PROGRAM

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José Olivarez and Poupeh Missaghi, Prairie

JUNE 29 8 PM

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MONDAYS ARE HAPPY HOUR EVERY HOUR!

Lights, Iowa City, 7 p.m., Free Weekly Old-Timey Jam Sessions, Trumpet Blossom Cafe, Iowa City, 7:30 p.m., Free (Weekly)

CEDAR RAPIDS FREEDOM FESTIVAL

Voices of Hope Patriotic Concert, New Dance Party with DJ Batwoman, Iowa City

Covenant Bible Church, Cedar Rapids, 7 p.m., Free

Yacht Club, 9 p.m., Free (Weekly) CEDAR RAPIDS FREEDOM FESTIVAL

Comedy & Karaoke, Studio 13, Iowa City, 9

Cedar Rapids Municipal Band, McGrath

p.m., Free (Weekly)

Amphitheatre, Cedar Rapids, 7:30 p.m., Free

Karaoke Tuesdays, The Mill, Iowa City, 10:30

Open Mic Night, Penguin’s Comedy Club, Cedar

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Late Shift at the Grindhouse, Film Scene, Iowa City, 10 p.m., $5.50 (Weekly)

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The Picture Show: ‘Wonder Park,’ FilmScene, Iowa City, 10 a.m., Free-$5 CEDAR RAPIDS FREEDOM FESTIVAL

Jump for Freedom Dock Dogs Competition, National Czech and Slovak Museum and Library, Cedar Rapids, 10 a.m., Free-$30 I.C. Press Co-op open shop, Public Space One, Iowa City, 4 p.m., Free (Weekly) Meet Me at the Market, NewBo City Market, Cedar Rapids, 5 p.m., Free (Weekly) L.A. ALT ROCK

Weathers w/ Five AM, Hep Cat, Gabe’s, Iowa City, 6 p.m., $12-15 Iowa City Meditation Class: How To Transform Your Life, Quaker Friends Meeting House, Iowa City, 6:30 p.m., $5-10 (Weekly) CEDAR RAPIDS FREEDOM FESTIVAL

Five Seasons Ski Team, Ellis Park, Cedar Rapids, 7 p.m., Free Thursday Night Live Open Mic, Uptown Bill’s, Iowa City, 7 p.m., Free (Weekly) READING: ‘SONGS FROM A MOUNTAIN’ / ‘ACTION IN THE ORCHARDS’

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Daddy-O, Parlor City Pub and Eatery, Cedar

Jeff Dye w/ Brandon Patrick, Penguin’s

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

Comedy Club, Cedar Rapids, 8 p.m., $17-20

THE RENEGADE TOUR

FORT WORTH INDIE ROCK

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

The Unlikely Candidates, CSPS Legion Arts,

$12-15

Cedar Rapids, 8 p.m., $16-19

Karaoke Thursday, Studio 13, Iowa City, 8 p.m.,

Girls Night Out the Show, First Avenue Club,

Free (Weekly)

Iowa City, 8 p.m., $14.95-74.95

Fri., June 28

Cancer Constellation Celebration Featuring Darryl Zero, Hadiza., Seventies Bush, Cult of Volac, Trumpet Blossom Cafe, Iowa City, 8 p.m.,

CEDAR RAPIDS FREEDOM FESTIVAL

$7

Jump for Freedom Dock Dogs Competition, National Czech and Slovak Museum and Library,

SoulShake, Gabe’s, Iowa City, 10 p.m., Free

Cedar Rapids, 10 a.m., Free-$30

(Weekly)

CEDAR RAPIDS FREEDOM FESTIVAL

Sasha Belle Presents: Friday Night Drag &

Freedom Festival Concert at NewBo: Tony

Dance Party, Studio 13, Iowa City, 10:30 p.m.,

Winkler, NewBo Market, Cedar Rapids, 6 p.m.,

$5 (Weekly)

Free THIS WEEK: SOUL SHERPA W/ PLASTIC

Sat., June 29

RELATIONS

Summer of the Arts Friday Night Concert

Iowa City Sunday Farmers Market, Chauncey

Series, Ped Mall, Iowa City, 6:30 p.m., Free

Swan Ramp, Iowa City, 7:30 a.m. (Weekly)

OPENING NIGHT! RUNS THROUGH JUNE 30

Marion Farmers Market, Taube Park, Marion, 8

Young Footliters Presets: ‘Honk! Jr.,’ Coralville

a.m. (Weekly)

Center for the Performing Arts, 7 p.m., $13-19 CEDAR RAPIDS FREEDOM FESTIVAL

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CANCER (June 21-July 22): Some traditional astrologers believe solar eclipses are sour omens. They theorize that when the Moon perfectly covers the Sun, as it will on July 2, a metaphorical shadow will pass across some part of our lives, perhaps triggering crises. I don’t agree with that gloomy assessment. I consider a solar eclipse to be a harbinger of grace and slack and freedom. In my view, the time before and after this cosmic event might resemble what the workplace is like when the boss is out of town. Or it may be a sign that your inner critic is going to shut up and leave you alone for a while. Or you could suddenly find that you can access the willpower and ingenuity you need so as to change something about your life that you’ve been wanting to change. So I advise you to start planning now to take advantage of the upcoming blessings of the eclipse.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): What are you doing with the fertility and creativity that have been sweeping through your life during the first six months of 2019? Are you witheringly idealistic, caught up in perfectionistic detail as you cautiously follow outmoded rules about how to make best use of that fertility and creativity?

Or are you being expansively pragmatic, wielding your lively imagination to harness that fertility and creativity to generate transformations that will improve your life forever?

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Mythologist Joseph Campbell said that heroes are those who give their lives to something bigger than themselves. That’s never an easy assignment for anyone, but right now it’s less difficult for you than ever before. As you prepare for the joyous ordeal, I urge you to shed the expectation that it will require you to make a burdensome sacrifice. Instead, picture the process as involving the loss of a small pleasure that paves the way for a greater pleasure. Imagine you will finally be able to give a giant gift you’ve been bursting to express.

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SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): In the year 37 A.D., Saul of Tarsus was traveling by foot from Jerusalem to Damascus, Syria. He was on a mission to find and arrest devotees of Jesus, then bring them back to Jerusalem to be punished. Saul’s plans got waylaid, however—or so the story goes. A “light from heaven” knocked him down, turned him blind and spoke to him in the voice of Jesus. Three days later, Saul’s blindness was healed and he pledged himself to forevermore be one of those devotees of Jesus he had previously persecuted. I don’t expect a transformation quite so spectacular for you in the coming weeks, Scorpio.

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SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): You could be a disorienting or even disruptive influence to some people. You may also have healing and inspirational effects. And yes, both of those statements are true. You should probably warn your allies that you might be almost unbearably interesting. Let them know you could change their minds and disprove their theories. But also

tell them that if they remain open to your rowdy grace and boisterous poise, you might provide them with curative stimulation they didn’t even know they needed.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Some children are repelled by the taste of broccoli. Food researchers at the McDonald’s restaurant chain decided to address the problem. In an effort to render this ultra-healthy vegetable more palatable, they concocted a version that tasted like bubble gum. Kids didn’t like it, though. It confused them. But you have to give credit to the food researchers for thinking inventively. I encourage you to get equally creative, even a bit wacky or odd, in your efforts to solve a knotty dilemma. Allow your brainstorms to be playful and experimental.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Spank yourself for me, please. Ten sound swats ought to do it. According to my astrological assessments, that will be sufficient to rein yourself in from the possibility of committing excesses and extravagance. By enacting this humorous yet serious ritual, you will set in motion corrective forces that tweak your unconscious mind in just the right way so as to prevent you from getting too much of a good thing; you will avoid asking for too much or venturing too far. Instead, you will be content with and grateful for the exact bounty you have gathered in recent weeks.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Your inspiration for the coming weeks is a poem by Piscean poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.

It begins like this: “The holiest of all holidays are those / Kept by ourselves in silence and apart; / The secret anniversaries of the heart, / When the full river of feeling overflows.” In accordance with astrological omens, Pisces, I invite you to create your own secret holiday of the heart, which you will celebrate at this time of year for the rest of your long life. Be imaginative and full of deep feelings as you dream up the marvelous reasons why you will observe this sacred anniversary. Design special rituals you will perform to rouse your gratitude for the miracle of your destiny.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): Orfield Laboratories is an architectural company that designs rooms for ultimate comfort. They sculpt the acoustic environment so that sounds are soft, clear and pleasant to the human ear. They ensure that the temperature is just right and the air quality is always fresh. At night, the artificial light is gentle on the eyes, and by day the sunlight is rejuvenating. In the coming weeks, I’d love for you to be in places like this on a regular basis. According to my analysis of the astrological rhythms, it’s recharging time for you. You need and deserve an abundance of cozy relaxation.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): I hope that during the next four weeks, you will make plans to expedite and deepen your education. You’ll be able to make dramatic progress in figuring out what will be most important for you to learn in the next three years. We all have pockets of ignorance about how we understand reality, and now is an excellent time for you to identify what your pockets are and to begin illuminating them. Every one of us lacks some key training or knowledge that could help us fulfill our noblest dreams, and now is a favorable time for you to address that issue.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): In the next four weeks, you’re not likely to win the biggest prize or tame the fiercest monster or wield the greatest power. However, you could very well earn a second- or third-best honor. I won’t be surprised if you claim a decent prize or outsmart a somewhat menacing dragon or gain an interesting new kind of clout. Oddly enough, this less-thansupreme accomplishment may be exactly right for you. The lower levels of pressure and responsibility will keep you sane and healthy. The stress of your moderate success will be very manageable. So give thanks for this just-right blessing!

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Dan Tedesco American Darkness DANTEDESCO.COM Dan Tedesco w/ Ben Schmidt, The Mill, Iowa City, Saturday, June 29, 8 p.m., $10-15

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an Tedesco credits rock artists Eddie Van Halen, Paul Simon and the Beach Boys as major introductory influences, but he leans toward folk undertones on his latest release, American Darkness.

Tedesco uses this collection to, as the title suggests, comment on how sadness and disappointment are seeping through the nation, in local examples that any listener could have witnessed themselves. In “Backstage,” he sings “Some old guy’s trying to grab some young girl’s ass / Aren’t you glad you paid that scalper for this backstage pass?” This lyric puts the responsibility in a more privileged bystander’s hands, as though Tedesco is demanding accountability for inaction.

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35-minute duration makes it digestible and concise. By the time a listener gets into the groove of the album, it’s nearly over, making it even easier to put on repeat and follow the thread of ringing guitar chords planted in the background from beginning to end.

The tracklist order was the greatest barrier for this album and kept it from reaching its fullest potential. The album’s title track, “American Darkness,” allows little tonal range and pushes Tedesco’s voice to the background with multiple guitars and a more forceful drum beat. As the album progresses, the more compelling it becomes, showcasing this artist’s specific blend of rock vocals and folk guitar-picking.

“Wolves are Running Wild, Tonight,” “Lost in the Shuffle” or “Banks of the Mississippi” would make a fantastic exposition for American Darkness as lead tracks—they make the listener focus on what Tedesco can do with his voice and guitar, free of interference.

Though there are a few tracks that miss the mark, the treasures provide context for them within the landscape of American Darkness; it is, no doubt, a cohesive work.

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The Diplomats of Solid Sound A Higher Place DIPLOMATSOFSOLIDSOUND.COM Diplomats of Solid Sound w/ Ben Driscoll and the Posthumous Cowboys, Old Neighborhood Pub, Cedar Rapids, Sunday, June 23, 4 p.m., Free

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he Diplomats of Solid Sound are back with a new slab of soul! The line-up has changed a little since 2010’s fantastic What Goes Around Comes Around, but the core of the band is still Doug Roberson on guitar; Nate “Count” Basinger, who flew up from Austin to provide his signature Hammond B3 and piano; and Eddie McKinley on sax. Joining them are Forrest Heusinkveld (the Uniphonics) and Ben Soltau (Meteor Cat and 10 of Soul). It’s wonderful to have a reunion of the full trio on vocals with original member Abbie Sawyer returning to join fellow sirens of soul Sarah Cram and Katharine Ruestow in the Diplomettes.

A Higher Place will feel instantly familiar to fans of the band. The

Diplomats have always pillaged the dusty sides of 45s from labels like Stax and Volt, Motown and Philles for their groovy booty, and this record is no different. The signature sound starts with Roberson’s big, clean guitar sound: a constantly shifting, hook-filled ground of rhythm and lead. He uses a tasty hammer-on and sliding riff for “Gotta Find That Man.” Basinger’s organ and piano parts bring us to the church of Booker T. His interplay with the rest of the band shows what’s binding the rhythm together. His expanding bag of tones adds depth and color to the proceedings.

The obvious head and heart of the band is the triple threat of Cram, Ruestow and Sawyer. Each take turns on lead and provide harmonies. The talent and skill of the singers make their performance seem effortless and comfortable, and reminds us why the combination of these singers with what was originally an instrumental band is so exciting.

The Diplomats of Solid Sound recall the heyday of ’60s soul and R&B. This sound has enjoyed a resurgence in the last decade, partially because of a desire to capture music actually performed by musicians and sung by talented vocalists. It doesn’t hurt that it is fun to dance to and has a hook that sticks with you. The Diplomats of Solid Sound are back and ready to fill the dance floors again.

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Betty Brandt Passick Gangster in our Midst (INDEPENDENTLY PUBLISHED) Betty Brandt Passick ‘Gangster in our Midst’ Lecture and Book Signing, Johnson County Historical Society Museum, Coralville, Sunday, June 23, 1 p.m., Free

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angster in our Midst is a multiple-perspective historical fiction by Betty Brandt Passick, about Louie Da Cava, a man with alleged ties to Al Capone, who married a woman from Oxbow, Iowa. The first chapter introduces us to Louie in his brother-in-law’s home in Oxbow as he hesitantly welcomes the paperboy: Louie “Three Fingers” is fearful of opening doors ever since a car exploded outside his Chicago duplex in ’28. The story follows Louie’s and the town’s progress over the next few decades.

Walter, father of two young sons and husband to Emma (who suffers from consumption), walks the straight and narrow

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and is none too fond of the idea of having a suspected gangster in his quiet town. Emma spends a period of time recuperating in Coralville’s Oakdale Sanitorium, leaving him to raise his sons with some help from the Catholic church and farm friends.

The third main voice (there is a noticeable lack of women’s POV) is Marshal Sweeney Delaney, the town’s police officer and meter reader. Though he’s a man of the law, he has a certain fondness for Louie “Three Fingers,” even inviting him on hunting trips and accompanying him on a visit to Chicago.

Passick has clearly done a lot of historical research for this book; she quotes newspaper reports and obituaries to add detail.

The story at times suffers from an unfortunate excess of detail, which can detract from the main story—a sermon that segues into a lecture on the perils of not rotating crops feels out of place, for instance.

Gangster in our Midst recalls an Iowa of a bygone time: when families went to the Bon Ton candy shop for a treat; when everyone had a church home (but the Protestants and Catholics agreed to walk on opposite sides of the street); and when you had to warm up your Model T by leaving a roasting pan of corn cobs on fire under the transmission before you could get it to start.

—Sharon Falduto

Caleb “The Negro Artist” Rainey Look, Black Boy (INDEPENDENTLY PUBLISHED) Reading: Caleb Rainey, ‘Look, Black Boy,’ Prairie Lights, Iowa City, Tuesday, June 25, 7 p.m., Free Caleb Rainey Spoken Word Performance, Next Page Books, Cedar Rapids, Monday, July 8, 7 p.m., Free

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ith his first self-published chapbook, Look, Black Boy, Caleb “The Negro Artist” Rainey confronts and challenges his readers while communicating with them on a variety of levels.

The central theme of this short collection is how it feels to be a young black man in 2019 in the Midwest. The observations and experiences that Rainey shares in his poetry are not easy ones, but they should be read.

In “Experiential Learning: A Letter to Mr. Johnson,” Rainey— who hails from Columbia, Missouri and studied creative writing at the University of

Iowa—confronts an education system that routinely sidelines black students. Rainey writes that the teacher demands the black student “keep my color inside / the lines, sit down and do / what I’m supposed to.” In the visual poem “Shots Fired,” Rainey uses background and strikethroughs to send a message about police and race.

“The New 3/5ths” explores black identity expression in a culture that would repress much of it.

In addition to the confrontations with a society that attempts to devalue the black boy at every turn, Rainey celebrates life as well. In “Blk Boi Joy” Rainey celebrates “Black Boi Joy, that running / wild with a free smile, that playing / the dozens with my cousins.” He also turns contemplative in “Black Baggage” when he writes “My Blackness is now / a stone I carry in my pocket / the jagged burden that stabs / into my thigh.”

If one is opening this volume expecting canonical poetry, one will be surprised by the structures Rainey employs. Most of Rainey’s poetry here reflects the fact that he is a spoken-word artist. Tone and structure are built via specific diction and page layouts. Rainey, in two lines from the title poem, sums up his overall theme, confronts society and exhorts his readers: “They wish to sink you, yet / you must keep swimming. / Fair is for the privileged / but winning is for the dedicated.”

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