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Five CRANDIC taverns that feel like a home away from home

by Frankie Schneckloth, oct. 5 They’ve outlasted recessions, floods and indoor smoking bans. Every other customer through the doors is a regular. Longtime employees dispense beer, life advice and local legends in equal measure. Some are nestled into neighborhoods, aging alongside generations of residents who find it hard to imagine their hometown without “the bar.”

Noreen bush, ‘an incredible leader’ in the Cedar Rapids Community School District, dies at age 51

by Paul brennan, oct. 24 Noreen Bush, superintendent of the Cedar Rapids Community School District, died on Sunday. She was 51 years old. Bush was on medical leave and had submitted her resignation to the CRCSD Board of Directors last month, as her health declined due to the cancer she was first diagnosed with two and a half years ago.

Election 2022: Public measure 1 would eliminate ‘current and future common-sense gun laws’

by Paul brennan, oct. 13 Linn County Attorney Nick Maybanks was blunt in his assessment of Public Measure 1, which would amend the Iowa Constitution in a way that would stop most attempts to regulate guns in the state. “This amendment is a wolf in sheep’s clothing,” Maybanks said at a news conference at the Cedar Rapids Public Library.

Watch: Screenwriter and producer David Kajganich on adapting novels, cannibalism and Iowa City’s new film festival

video by Jason Smith and Emma mcClatchey, oct. 5 For the first time in four years, screenwriter and Iowa Writers’ Workshop alum David Kajganich is back in Iowa City for the inaugural ReFocus Festival, screening his genre-bending, spine-tingling new work. Bones and All is the third adapted screenplay Kajganich has crafted for director Luca Guadagnino.

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for our January Arts Issue 2021 AAN Awards Finalist for Best Special Section

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Johnny Brian, originally published in the January 2022 Arts Issue