A game that’s serious about LGBTQ+ community, relationships: Mass Effect
I often tell people I was born with an Atari 2600 controller in my hand. One of my earliest...
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Category: Arts
High school writers connect across chasms with Page Poetry Contest
IOWA CITY — With the 2020 murder of George Floyd, and the trial of the officer who killed...
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Warhol numbs, Dylan Kelly makes us care: two Scholastic Art Award winners then, now
This is a case of a lesson learned, and then unlearned. Some years ago, as a high school art...
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A future to avoid on display with Maya Lin’s Ghost Forest
NEW YORK CITY — How do you persuade naysayers that climate change is real, that the earth is...
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Coralville artist returns to Eldon hometown for massive “American Gothic” mural
ELDON, IA — It doesn’t get much better than this for a budding artist — or for a...
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“Kindness Queers,” “queerantine kits” brighten LGBTQIA youths’ lives during pandemic
CHAMPAIGN, ILL. — When Anna Peters and her business partner at the Art Coop began to think...
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Poignant live performance from ’90s dream pop Fishmans re-emerges
In spite of such a difficult COVID-consumed year for all of us, the universe gave us unexpected...
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Author and comic artist Huda Fahmy confronts Islamophobia with humor, wit
Life in America can be challenging when you wear a hijab. Huda Fahmy shares her experiences as an...
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Council Bluffs artist reaches new heights
Artist Cait Irwin isn’t afraid to make statements with her art.
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Thrift Bandit is eastern Iowa’s socially responsible outlaw of recycled fashion
When they realized they were both wearing “polyester grandpa pants” and cardigan sweaters, Michael...
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