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CONTENTS | ISSUE 86
4 UR Here
16 Prairie Pop
5 Active Life
18 Arts Feature
6 Green Feature
22 Talking Movies
14 Internet in Print
23 The Haps
Putting up holiday lights yourself? Priceless. Zumba fever hits IC
Think globally, write locally
A bill worth a billion nickels
Sendak's unnecessary remake
An IC-originated meme goes nationwide
TALES OF THE
The wild gift of talking to Exene Cervenka
TAILGATE
8 Pigskin Prayers
The miracles, faith, love and art of football
10 Kinnick Economy
November highlights à la Kent Williams
Not even Little Village can ignore the allure of this year’s Hawkeyes.
The trials of parking, tailgating, and backpack coolers
12 Scoring a Safety A game plan for avoiding the game crowd
24 Local Albums
Long-awaited releases from musicians who could be your neighbor
26 Calendar
You'll be in town some of the month, right?
27 A-List
The madness of Reefer Madness
29 News Quirks
Real news, LOL
30 The Straight Dope
"I'm Hen-er-y the Eighth I am!"
31 Astrology
(Sculpts mashed potato mountain) This means something.
Volume 9 | Issue 86| November 2009
PUBLISHER | Andrew Sherburne Publisher@LittleVillageMag.com MANAGING EDITOR | Melody Dworak Editor@LittleVillageMag.com FEATURES EDITOR | Paul Sorenson Features@LittleVillageMag.com ARTS EDITOR | Kent Williams Arts@LittleVillageMag.com LAYOUT & DESIGN | Andrew Sherburne EDITORIAL INTERN | Kelly Ostrem ADVERTISING | Kelsey Fritz Ads@LittleVillageMag.com WEB EDITOR | Matt Steele Matt@LittleVillageMag.com CONTRIBUTORS | Cecil Adams, Matt Butler, Sharon Benzoni, Nick Bergus, Yale Cohn, Thomas Dean, Clarence Johnson, Kembrew McLeod, Kelly Ostrem, Soheil Rezayazdi, Scott Samuelson, John Schlofelt, Andrew Sherburne, Paul Sorenson, Dr. Star, Roland Sweet, Andrew Swift, Kent Williams PHOTOS | Soheil Rezayazdi CONTACT | P.O. Box 736 Iowa City | Iowa | 52244 www.LittleVillageMag.com Advertising and Calendar deadline is the 19th of every month. For a list of ad rates, email ads@littlevillagemag.com.
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