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Mount Mercy president cancels student-organized drag show, amidst promises for more ‘compassion’ towards LGBTQ community This reminds me of I’m Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness. The author, Austin Channing Brown, talks about how people use conversations and trainings as a way to say an organization supports diversity. However, the organization does not actually support diversity. It likes how it looks on paper with pictures of minority students or the number of diverse committees however they fail to truly understand and promote active diversity. We continue to ask minorities to wait. To wait for us to become more compassionate. To wait for us to get more comfortable with otherness. To give us more time and then we be more accepting

or understanding. No more waiting. We need more action. Action is true compassion.

—Charlie I think that if a university or institution wishes to plan or cancel events on their property, they have a right to. Anyone who says that “oh, you aren’t compassionate because you don’t support xyz and aren’t willing to conform to their wishes” is ridiculous. I have an issue with people choosing to go to a place that they know doesn’t agree with their beliefs and then want them to change to fit their preferences. It is not kind or compassionate to force some to do what you want or believe what you believe.

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conform to your will and provide you a “safe space.” —David “You should go to places you know are safe”???? So I guess Rosa Parks should have kept walking to the back of the bus?? —Jackie In other news, Catholic Church perplexed by lack of church membership among young people. —Matt D.

Gov. Kim Reynolds signs bill that cuts off Medicaid funds for gender confirmation procedures And it will be taken to court and ruled unconstitutional just like most of the other bills she’s signed—she just loves wasting tax dollars.

—Ronda K. I was so close to my own personal freedom. I wish she would LISTEN to doctors when they say that it IS medically necessary. —Kody R. I wonder why the educated young people are all moving out of Iowa? —Bill G.

Pauline Taylor will seek reelection to the Iowa City Council Those are good priorities, and I think Pauline Taylor’s experience as a University employee, with healthcare issues, and with labor negotiations point to a solid understanding of our community and the matters that will need to be addressed for affordable housing and a good public transit system to move forward. I am grateful to Ms. Taylor for her service so far and for her willingness to run again. —Nialle

Dark money group spent $1.25 million on TV ads supporting bill imposing new fee on solar panels Wow. When Jonas Salk refused to patent his vaccine for polio, he said “Everyone owns it.

Would you patent the Sun?” Apparently someone thinks they do own the Sun. —Benjamin B.

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Linn County Supervisor Stacey Walker discussed plans for making college affordable and other priorities in State of the County speech I’ll pay higher taxes if that helps. Property, sales and/or payroll. Just make it happen. —Ben S.

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nless you’ve been living under a rock, Lev Cantoral you’ve noticed that spring semester at the University of Iowa has finished, and yet another batch of liberal arts dilettantes have been unleashed upon the job market. It is with no small amount of relief that I announce that I am one of them. Yes, yes, it’s all very exciting.

Unfortunately, as a result of my efforts to matriculate, I have also died.

I guess it’s not really surprising. Finals week was a little rough; taking four tests and writing three final papers in five days truly taught me the meaning of the phrase “sleep deprivation,” and I think most of my fellow students would agree. No, you weren’t hallucinating a zombie apocalypse last week. Those pale, dead-eyed unfortunates shambling around town, struggling to lift Starbucks cups to their lips with their shaking hands, were not the soldiers of the undead, they were the future of tomorrow. I’m sorry you all had to see me like that. I promise I normally wash my sweatpants at least every third wear.

As soon as that was over, we at the UI posed a major inconvenience to the rest of you by inviting our parents into town to watch us walk across a stage for 15 seconds.

For a good five days, it was impossible to park, walk, eat or breathe downtown, and we’re sorry. Believe me, it wasn’t a cakewalk for us either. My entire extended family turned out, and I brought shame to them once again by tripping over the hem of my gown while trying to climb the stairs. It was just like my kindergarten piano recital— Where was I? Oh, yeah, so the embarrassment finished what the exams started, and I bought the farm, if you catch my drift.

Luckily, I appear to have gone to heaven. It looks just like Iowa City, except better—everything’s green, there’s no garbage on the ground, you can’t hear the wailing of sirens off in the distance. Best of all, it’s empty. If it weren’t for the occasional car driving past the windows of my house, I’d assume I’d entered into a Twilight Zone-esque alternate universe where only I exist. It’s a comfort to me that I haven’t, that you’re all still out there to receive my Ouija Board transmissions.

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The est i p p Ha n i e c Pla Iowa

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BY MEGGIE

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dventureland is hard to miss.

Driving down Highway 80 through Altoona, the 235-foot-tall Space Shot rises far above the trees, a beacon to Midwesterners looking for cheap thrills and funnel cakes. With over 100 rides, shows and attractions, Adventureland is the largest amusement park in Iowa.

It began as a pipe dream. Hoping to make Iowa summers more than just sweat and corn, 10 May 15–June 4, 2019 LITTLEVILLAGEMAG.COM/LV264

GATES

Adventureland founder Jack Krantz began cultivating a larger-than-life idea.

“In the early 1970s, Jack decided he needed something for his kids to do during their summer breaks,” said Molly Vincent, Krantz’s daughter and the park’s current director of advertising. “He felt the state of Iowa was lacking in fun family activities, so he opened Adventureland.”

On June 23, 1973, Adventureland Inn

opened its doors to the public, the ribbon cut by Congressman Neal Smith, Altoona Mayor Sam Wise and Krantz. Scheduled a year ahead of Adventureland Park, the inn, affiliated with Best Western, served as a stylish preview of things to come from Krantz’s new company, Adventure Lands of America, Inc. Its climate-controlled courtyard was described by the Altoona Herald as “lavishly landscaped” with a pool, whirlpool and

Courtesy of Eric Chicas

COMMUNITY

The Raging River ride in 1990.

veranda, while its rooms were “spacious and comfortable.” An Iowan Grand Budapest, the 150-unit, Victorian-style motel also included a convention center and nearby campsite.

The unveiling built excitement for everything Krantz had yet to reveal—including the park.

“Adventureland worked strategically with many TV and radio stations to grow their audience,” Vincent said. “Company outings also helped grow the business through word of mouth.”

The official opening of Adventureland was marked for the summer of 1974; on Sunday, June 29, its Main Street was opened to the public. The “street” featured a shopping center, souvenir gift shops and a family-friendly theater. Krantz’s idea was to offer education in an environment children felt excited to learn in.

An old newspaper clip from the Des Moines Register detailed the park as an “animated fairyland with castles and a dense jungle.” It was Krantz’s Midwestern take on one of the greatest theme parks in America.

“Disney had a big influence on the building of Adventureland, as can be seen in the Main Street area when you enter the park,” Vincent said. “The rows of retail stores, built to look like a quaint town square, is patterned after Disney World.”

Disney wasn’t the only influence on Adventureland. Riverview Park, an old Des Moines amusement park set to reopen in 2020 as an outdoor concert venue, lent land and rides to Krantz.

The end of one era marked the beginning of another. Adventureland premiered with acquired attractions from Riverview, including a weight-guessing booth, mirror maze (a portion of which is now set up at the exit of the Dragon roller coaster), Skee-Ball and other carnival games, as well as a carousel that has since been retired. A fan favorite of these Riverview acquisitions was the Himalaya, a fast-paced, circular coaster that still spins to this day.

However, the Himalaya wasn’t what brought in crowds.

“The Sky Ride was the most popular ride when the park first opened,” Vincent said, referring to the ski lift-type ride that gently guided guests over the park, purchased from the 1974 Spokane World’s Fair. “Soon after, the Super Screamer and Tornado took the crown as rides of choice.”

Archives of the Altoona Herald show early advertisements describing the Tornado as a ride to survive. Still standing today, the 90-foot-tall, 3,200-foot-long wooden roller coaster is essential to Adventureland, with plenty of first kisses shared at the cusp of its 76-foot drop.

The coaster’s name has a less than auspicious origin.

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COMMUNITY show, puppet theater, live music shows and circus,” Vincent said. “Some of our most popular shows in the past have been ice skating performances, as well as a Chinese acrobat troupe from Taipei.”

Not every season at Adventureland has been grander than the last. A fire consumed a portion of Main Street in the winter of 2010; no one was injured, but the old buildings, which lacked fire sprinklers, were quickly destroyed.

The area was closed off for the 2010 season, but reopened in 2011 with a revamped arcade and the park’s first indoor ride: the G-Force, a longtime Adventureland ride that was relocated to the arcade.

Like many Iowa businesses, Vincent said Adventureland has been greatly impacted by flooding, though the park has avoided flood damage itself.

“Years where the Midwest, and specifically Iowa, have had terrible flooding have been our off years,” Vincent said. “1993 brought a tremendous amount of floodwater to the Des Moines metro area, which impacted pretty much the entire population of Iowa.”

Water has been both friend and foe to Adventureland. In 2008, the park debuted Kokomo Kove, a play area that served as the flagship attraction of the new Adventure Bay waterpark area, by far Adventureland’s biggest expansion in its four decades. Elements were added to the Bay throughout 2010 and 2012, including speed slides, tube slides, kiddie pools, cabanas, a lazy river and Iowa’s largest wave pool.

Additions to the park in recent years make Adventureland difficult to experience fully in a single-day visit. But despite the regular addition of new rides (the most recent being the Phoenix, a spinning roller coaster set to open this June) and the retiring of old ones (everyone’s favorite spinning cylinder, the Silly Silo, was retired in 2013), Adventureland has retained many of its quirks, from its concession stand shaped like a giant pink pig to its beloved mascot,

Bernie the dog.

Keeping fun in the family is a priority for the owners of Adventureland, Vincent said.

“Being a family-run park makes it is easier to adapt and make changes in every aspect of our park, from choosing new rides to employment decisions,” Vincent said. “We test every single food item we sell and every ride we install. It truly is a hands-on business.”

Adventureland has spawned plenty of pleasant memories for its patrons and, in at least one case, an obsession.

Shirley Beeghly, a single woman in her 70s from Marshalltown and a longtime Adventurelander, fell in love with the Space Shot about a decade after its debut.

In the ensuing years, she would make daily visits to the park and ride the drop tower attraction dozens of times in a row—usually around 70 times a day, once 182. Beeghly would sit silently, purple restraints over her shoulders and lap, legs dangling, waiting to be launched into the air where she could catch a view of the surrounding cornfields, the ribbon of I-80 and the horizon.

“I like to stay on it and I like to take it as many times as I can,” Beeghly told KCCI in 2014. “I feel as young as springtime.”

For thousands of Iowans drawn to the park over the decades, enticed by high-flyin’ rides or the prospect of a corn dog and a show, Adventureland feels like summertime.

No matter how far Meggie Gates moves away from Iowa, a part of her still lives at Adventureland.

Courtesy of Molly Vincent

“The park opened for a partial season in 1974, but damage from a tornado shortly after caused the park to only be open for a short time that season,” Vincent said. “The Tornado roller coaster was named after that first storm.”

Adventureland has always been about more than thrill rides for kids 42-inches or taller. Though big-name rides like the Outlaw and the Monster tend to drive ticket sales, the family-oriented park has aimed to cultivate opportunities for every age since its onset, Vincent said. Adventureland boasts such kid-friendly attractions as the Lady Bugs, Puff Dragons, Red Baron, Frog Hopper and Shakin’ Bacon rides, in addition to more theatrical offerings.

“Adventureland has had many shows throughout the years,” he explained.

“Dolphin and sea lion shows were popular in the 1970s, but soon gave way to more ‘cast-driven’ shows, such as high-diving acts, ice skating, acrobatic acts, magic and singing/dancing type shows.”

Long-running circus production shows have also proven successful for the park, as well as aerial artists, quickchange illusionists and motorcycle stunts.

“Trends in shows have evolved quite a bit over the seasons but currently we are seeing great reviews for our magic

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The Tornado

Take a Ride You’ll find your typical carnival rides at Adventureland—Lady Luck, Teacups, Tilt-a-Whirl and a Ferris wheel, to name a few—but its more distinctive attractions, current and former, speak to the character of Iowa’s largest amusement park.

Courtesy of Molly Vincent

an immersive, Pirates of the Caribbean-esque roller coaster that jerks riders through tunnels and past animatronic figures inspired

by Iowa’s coal mining history and

1978 - The Tornado Named for the twister that threatened the park ahead of its opening, this long-standing coaster debuted on the Fourth of July

Video still from KCCI

the fictional legend of “Bad Bob.”

1999 - Space Shot

and was quickly recognized as

Adventureland’s skyline forever

one of the top 10 wooden roller

changed with the erection of the

coasters in the world, according to

Space Shot, which shoots its rid-

Adventureland.

ers straight up at around 60 mph, before gently lowering them back down to earth. A fitting ride for the cusp of Y2K. Space Shot superfan Shirley Beeghly is pictured.

2010 - Kokomo Kove The jewel of the new 180-acre

Adventureland Park map (this one from 1997) is essential for any

Courtesy of Claire McGranahan

park-goer.

for it, the ride was replaced by the Storm Chaser in 2013.

Adventure Bay, this “virtual splash fac-

Des Moines Register, May 22, 1988

The hand-drawn

tory” was the first major water feature of the new waterpark area to debut.

2014 - Storm Chaser Possibly the most thrilling swing ride in the Midwest, the Storm Chaser stands taller than the Space Shot at 260 feet and spins its pairs of riders at speeds around 35 mph.

1988 - The Rainbow Adventureland’s most ephemeral

2016 - The Monster

1974 - River Rapids log ride

attraction, the Rainbow was only

Adventureland’s largest invest-

Another of Adventureland’s orig-

around for the 1988 season before

ment—$9 million—and the first of

inal attractions, this beloved log

it was replaced by the Falling Star.

its kind in the U.S., this neon green Gerstlauer steel roller coaster goes

flume dampened guests for nearly 42 years before it was replaced by

1990 - Dragon

up to 65 mph at its fastest point,

the Monster in 2016.

The first roller coaster in Iowa with

and includes a corkscrew, five in-

inversions—two, to be exact—the

versions and hundreds of synchronized LED lights.

1974 - Silly Silo “I watched a dude puke on the Silly

1976 - Super Screamer

Dragon was also Adventureland’s

Silo and it came back and hit him

This white-boned, classic roller

first steel roller coaster.

in the face,” Little Village reader

coaster rattled until 1999—perhaps

Payton R. shared. “Great lesson in

overstaying its welcome, according

1993 - The Outlaw

Coming soon to an Adventureland

centrifugal force for a young kid.”

to Adam P. on Twitter. “The last

The Outlaw may be a creaking, rat-

near you: The Phoenix is promised

That infamous cylindrical ride—

few years of the Super Screamer’s

tling wooden coaster, but it takes

to reach speeds up to 40 mph

which spun rapidly then dropped

life were SCARY,” he wrote. “I can

its many winding curves confident-

and heights over 50 feet, as well

its floor, leaving riders (and what-

remember riding in it when I was

ly and damn fast.

as complete a full 360-degree ro-

ever they might expel) stuck to the

5 and ducking down beneath the

walls—was one of Adventureland’s

leg compartment because I was so

1996 - The Underground

from the ashes” of former rides the

first. After the Silly Silo’s manufac-

scared, and seeing the grass below

Arguably the strangest ride in

Super Screamer (removed in 1999)

turers stopped producing parts

from the holes in the metal.”

the park, the Underground is

and the Inverter (removed in 2017).

2019 - The Phoenix

tation. The new coaster will “rise

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In truth, Mexico Lindo is only a “new kid” to Iowa City—they’ve had a well-loved location in West Branch (315 E Main St) for several years. But their expansion into the Sycamore/Iowa City Marketplace neighborhood changes the game for those of us who love good eats.

The new location boasts an expansive menu. Well-categorized by type of entree, as well as by meat/vegetarian preference, and further listing lunch and drink specials, it’s a smorgasbord of options. One almost wants to order a drink just to buy some time to examine it. And if a drink is to be ordered, their generous margarita is a good place to start.

Mexico Lindo offers a great many takes on classic Mexican fare—tacos, quesadillas, enchiladas, nachos, burritos, fajitas, changas.

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customer to select two items alongside a standard tortilla, rice and beans base.

Mexico Lindo also offers a few dishes I hadn’t seen before—the various Alambres and Molcajetes came as a pleasant surprise.

I opted for the Molcajetes Montezuma, an impressive steak/shrimp/chicken/chorizo mix in a stew-like broth, mixed with peppers, nopal and other veggies, with melted chihuahua cheese and grilled onions, and served in a traditional pumice Molcajetes bowl, alongside a rice and beans salad plate, and tortillas. It was truly a feast for a king and queen—it left me both needing a to-go container and wanting to keep eating. This has become one of my personal area favorites, and it’s definitely a delicious dish for two!

My companion selected a less ostentatious option, the Vegetarian Enchiladas. She was very impressed by the cheese enchiladas, smothered in grilled mixed vegetables, accompanied by rice, beans and a salad mix.

I am a carnivore through and through, but I must admit, for my taste, that the flavor

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We shared an order of flan for dessert. It was delicious: light and well-rounded, not too sweet and with just a touch of chocolate syrup and caramel.

The menu is so vast one could eat at Mexico Lindo every day for a month and still not try everything they offer, which makes it a great destination for adventurous foodies. While much of the fare is on some level “standard” for a Mexican-American restaurant in the Midwest, the quality is top-notch.

The menu also contains some lovely surprises, twists on old classics, and neat, adaptive combinations.

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Not Tonight, Dear

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lenn wants sex every day; Joe wants sex once a week. Heidi wants sex twice a week, while Robert wants it twice a month.

Angela wants sex once a year, Paige wants to have sex—never?

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desire include age, history of trauma, issues with body image, child birth, menopause or medical conditions, just to name a few. Some of us are spontaneously interested in sex and pretty much want it anytime and anywhere, and don’t need much warming up before we’re ready to go. Some of us don’t think about sex frequently, and we can take it or

leave it. Still others require special circumstances before we can have sex—a particular mood and setting, plenty of foreplay, medication to kick in, etc.

Perhaps you’re lucky enough to match with a person or persons with the same sexual appetite as you, but odds are your moods and cravings won’t always line up. Desire discrepancy is one of the top reasons people seek out sex therapy.

Unlike other disagreements, a compromise is not necessarily the solution: Asking someone to submit to more sex than they mentally or physically desire, or to repress their sex drive, hardly solves the problem. There’s no wrong way to crave sex, but knowing how to communicate and emotionally deal with saying, or your partner saying, “I’m not in the mood tonight, honey,” is where it often gets tricky.

Identifying how much sex you are both comfortable with is important—keeping in mind that, generally, the frequency of sex from the beginning of the relationship onward tends to decrease. It’s just not likely you’re going to want to jump each other at every opportunity a few months or years in; it’s not sustainable. However, you might substitute steaminess with intimacy, spending more time cuddling, massaging and bonding than going all the way.

Once the frequency of sex changes, how is that impacting you? As a low-desire partner, you might worry, “What is wrong with me?”

If you’re the higher-desire partner, you might think, “Is she not into me anymore? Did I say something to turn her off? Is it because I asked her to put a finger in my butt last time, or because I’m not attractive to her anymore?”

All this while, you’re not talking to one another. Maybe you are afraid of hurting each other’s feelings or ashamed of how your body looks after having a baby. Maybe you’re just plain exhausted and have other priorities, or don’t feel emotionally connected, so why the hell would you want to be close to each other?

Whatever the reason, being willing to understand and admit what is going on is important to being able to communicate it with someone else.

Communication requires emotional skills.

Many of us are not comfortable communicating because we are afraid of being criticized or don’t feel safe saying what we really want.

We might know technically what to say to a partner but, as Marty Klein states in his book

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But, as the performer Lizzo so brilliantly No matter how clearly and responsibly said in a recent editorial, “Self care is really you intend to express yourself, it’s hard rooted in self preservation, just like self love to communicate well when you fear is rooted in honesty. We have to start being conflict or abandonment, have trouble more honest with what we need, and what we trusting, or can’t accept that neither deserve and start serving that to ourselves.” you nor your partner is perfect. That’s What do you need to get honest with yourwhen communication is no longer about self? What are you expecting your partner techniques and listening, it’s about the to give you that you are missing? How can emotions that prevent us from using you give the love, acceptance or pleasure to those techniques and prevent us from yourself you are seeking outside of yourself, listening. To improve communication to yourself? at that point, we have to deal first with “Self acceptance is a key resource in unthose emotions. hooking from sex that’s oriented towards ‘normality’ and performance,” Klein writes.

Whether you are a low-, high- or no-desire “It allows you to put your own experience partner, or somewhere in between, how are in the center of your sexual decision making the differences in sexual desire within your rather than feeling trapped by conventional relationship emotionally impacting it? societal ideas that may not suit you. It’s self acceptance that enables you to tell a partner you’d rather do X (your “IT’S SELF ACCEPTANCE THAT ENABLES YOU thing) than Y (everyone TO TELL A PARTNER YOU’D RATHER DO X else’s supposed thing) (YOUR THING) THAN Y (EVERYONE ELSE’S which is crucial to enjoyable sex.”

SUPPOSED THING) WHICH IS CRUCIAL TO So, if you find yourENJOYABLE SEX.” self at a point in your relationship where you’re struggling with a discrepancy in sexual desire, take a moment to reflect on what’s going on inside of you. Do There are a lot of things that can get in you have the honesty, acceptance, humility the way of being able to connect sexually. and/or sense of humor to take a deep look Was there something about the sex that you down your side of the street and see what weren’t into and were afraid to communiyou’re bringing to the relationship—before cate? Could there be a medical issue impactyou ask your partner(s) to give it to you? ing your interest in sex? Are you still pissed And if you’re finding yourself hung up on at your husband for not doing the dishes or what you, a partner or general society thinks helping with the kids, and the last thing you you should want versus what you do, shake want to do is give him a blow job? it off as best you can. Sexual appetite, like A low-desire partner might be blamed for sexual preference, can’t be forced. Everyone withholding sex while a high-desire partner from the sexually inexhaustable to the those might feel frustrated or invisible. If you don’t on the asexual spectrum face judgement, but know how to manage your emotions and none are wrong or unnatural. Channel your communicate them to each other, not only your sex life but your relationship might be at inner Lizzo and do you. risk. Nope, those “100 craaaazy sexual positions to spice up your sex life” will not help Natalie Benway LISW is a psychotherapist manage the uncomfortable emotions you’re in private practice in Coralville. She has having. a certification in sexuality studies from the Self-acceptance and honesty can help us University of Iowa and is currently pursumove in the direction of dealing with whateving additional licensure with the American er emotions are coming up. If we aren’t able Association of Sexuality Educators, to accept whatever reactions or feelings are Counselors and Therapists.

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Sweetheart Deal Children of renowned artists, Damon & Naomi have forged an impressive legacy of their own.

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amon & Naomi’s career arc has all the makings of an indie rock jukebox musical. Think Jersey Boys meets Samuel Beckett, starring bassist Naomi Yang and drummer Damon Krukowski as post-punk New Yorkers who fall in love and become the rhythm section of a beloved band.

Success for these children of immigrants turns bittersweet after corporate record companies intervene, friendships crumble and the band’s frontman quits on the eve of a big Japanese tour. Blindsided and wounded, the young couple drops out of the music biz until a sympathetic record producer urges them to give it another go—the start of a second act that blossoms into a lifetime of making music and art together.

“My father survived the Holocaust—not in the camps, but on the run,” said Krukowski, explaining how his paternal family made it from Poland to New York during World War II, penniless. “My mother is a jazz singer,” he continued. “She is a native New Yorker, and I grew up surrounded by her music and her musician friends.”

Krukowski is mostly self-taught, though as a kid he had a few guitar and drum lessons that, he said, never took, along with piano lessons taught by Mirjana Lewis—a concert pianist who was married to John Lewis, the founder of the Modern Jazz Quartet.

Krukowski first met Yang at the progressive Montessori-inspired Dalton School, which they attended throughout the 1970s.

“We are high school sweethearts,” Yang said, “which is a scary amount of years if you do the math!”

Her father was John Yang, a photographer and architect whose prints are in the permanent collections of the Met, MoMA and other museums. Born in China, he became a naturalized American citizen after his family moved to New York in 1939.

Yang always knew she wanted to create visual art, and had no aspirations to play music.

So when Krukowski formed a band with their high school friend Dean Wareham (they all

ended up attending Harvard University in the early 1980s), Yang created flyers and other visuals for Speedy and the Castanets.

“Every self-respecting post-punk band needed a logo,” she said, “so I designed one and a backdrop for when they played.”

Krukowski didn’t have a drum set in the very beginning, so he borrowed one from another Harvard freshman named Conan O’Brien, the future talk show host. A little later, another high school friend named Marc Glimcher—the heir to the Pace Gallery— announced that he wanted to play bass and offered to pay for their instruments.

“That was that,” Krukowski said. “We just started playing Clash and Sex Pistols songs.

We were terrible, though.”

After graduation, Wareham returned to New York while the other two remained in Cambridge to attend graduate school at Harvard, but they stayed in touch.

“When Damon and Dean were looking for a bass player and to start a new band, I suddenly decided I wanted to try it,” Yang said.

“It didn’t seem high-risk, as we didn’t have any grand career plans. It just seemed like it would be fun.”

Yang played a little piano and flute as a kid, which she gave up pretty quickly, but she always liked to sing and had an excellent memory for melody.

“I just kind of applied that to playing bass, which makes for a rather unorthodox

bass style. Our Japanese friends call it ‘singing bass.’ I usually do play in my singing range—I rarely use the lowest strings.”

As an artistically inclined, miserable grad student, Yang naturally listened to a lot of Joy Division and New Order; she was obsessed with Peter Hook’s basslines and also loved Dream Syndicate bassist Kendra Smith’s playing.

Galaxie 500 was inspired by everything they were listening to, Krukowski said, “the Velvets, the Modern Lovers, the 13th Floor Elevators, Big Star—the usual suspects for an American indie band of our generation.”

They bought used records at In Your Ear from the influential Forced Exposure writer Byron Coley, who schooled them in the history of rock, as did other slightly older fanzine writers of the day. And yet Galaxie 500 avoided merely echoing their influences, or sounding like anyone else.

Coley, who regularly attended their shows, recalled, “The chemistry they had and the low bore flash of their sound was very out-ofalignment with what was going on in Boston right then.”

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Sympathy for the Devil Hail Satan? captures the humor, bravery and contradictions of modern Satanism. BY EMMA MCCLATCHEY

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minute into my phone interview with Penny Lane, on a train to her next premiere, the director sighed with relief.

“OK, good, all the people standing near me who I thought were going to be offended by me talking about Satanism have left,” she said. “Now I feel a lot less awkward having this conversation.”

There was a time when Lane herself would have raised an eyebrow on overhearing a stranger discuss the virtues of Satanism.

Today, her perspective on the religion—yes, the Satanic Temple (TST) is a card-carrying, tax-exempt religion—is much different, after spending the better part of the past two years interviewing Satanists and gathering footage of TST rallies for her latest documentary, Hail Satan? The funny and provocative film premieres at FilmScene on May 17.

Lane grew up during the “Satanic Panic” of the ’80s and ’90s, when Americans were gripped by widespread fear that secret devil worshipers were infiltrating their communities. Death metal and Dungeons and Dragons were gateways to Satanism, according to news reports dug up by Lane. As silly as it seems, the Panic resulted in real arrests and incarcerations of individuals falsely accused of being Satanists, and for crimes having nothing to do with Satanism, creating a 20th century incarnation of the Salem witch trials.

Actual Satanism is much different than most Americans imagine, Lane said. Her film focuses on TST, formed in 2013 by a small group of atheists as a reckoning for the Satanic Panic (not coincidentally, TST is based out of Salem, Massachusetts) and a reaction to the rising influence of evangelical Christianity in the U.S. government.

“If you asked me four years ago what kind of person was­a Satanist, I would have thought they were annoying teenagers that were just rebelling against their parents,” Lane admitted. “I didn’t know there was any depth to the Satanic philosophy at all. So discovering these people I was meeting through TST were really smart and really thoughtful

and were really knowledge-hungry, thinking people … really blew my mind.”

The temple has grown to more than 50,000 members who unite around seven tenets, including, “One should strive to act with compassion and empathy toward all creatures in accordance with reason,” “One’s body is inviolable, subject to one’s own will alone” and, “Beliefs should conform to one’s best scientific understanding of the world. One should take care never to distort scientific facts to fit one’s beliefs.”

Satanists demonstrate outside of the Arkansas Capitol building on Aug. 16, 2018.

co-founder and spokesman Lucien Greaves (a pseudonym) told a furrow-browed Megyn Kelly on Fox News in 2015.

“They are a nontheistic religion based on honoring—I guess I would use the word ‘honoring’—this kind of mythical figure while expressly acknowledging that it is fiction,” Lane said.

TST members combine stereotypical Satanic theatrics such as horns, capes, Christian blasphemy and Gothic and “WHEN THEY SHOW UP TO DO A TYPE OF punk imagery with political ACTIVIST WORK IN THE PUBLIC SQUARE, protest, often designed to reveal THEY FRIGHTEN PEOPLE. IT’S LIKE A the hypocrisy of Christians— STRESS-TEST TO SEE HOW WELL WE ARE from Florida Gov. Rick Scott to Westboro Baptist Church leader UPHOLDING THE FIRST AMENDMENT.” Fred Phelps—who advocate for a brand of “religious liberty” that extends only to their personal beliefs.

Lane began following TST in 2016, during the temple’s campaign to Temple members don’t worship Satan erect a statue of Baphomet, a goat-headed or even believe in him, Lane assures, but occult figure that TST gave an “Iggy Pop rather admire the role he played in the Bible torso” (knowing they wouldn’t get away with (“tempting” Eve with knowledge and freeBaphomet’s traditional bare breasts), outside dom in the Garden of Eden, encouraging the Oklahoma State Capitol next to a monuAbraham not to murder his son on God’s orment of the Ten Commandments. ders, etc.) and identify with the outcast char“The Baphomet monument is far more acter of Satan in John Milton’s Paradise Lost.

“We view Satan as a symbolic embodiment than simply some middle finger to the evangelical right,” Greaves says in Hail Satan? of the ultimate rebel against tyranny,” TST

“Really, we were giving the Oklahoma government a civics lesson.”

TST has pushed back against policies they see as blurring the line between church and state, from Christian symbols on public property to prayer in public schools, often by seeking to ingrain their own symbols and prayers into these institutions.

“You’re supposed to uphold the First Amendment for people that you don’t like as well as those you do like,” Lane said. “When they show up to do a type of activist work in the public square, they frighten people. It’s like a stress-test to see how well we are upholding the First Amendment.”

Despite provoking the wrath of Christians across the nation, TST’s efforts have proven successful. When faced with spotlighting Satanism or removing all religious references, policymakers typically choose the latter.

“They are exceptionally willing to take on this kind of adversarial, outsider role: the questioner, the skeptic, the heretic,” Lane said of TST. Modern Satanism is rather tongue-incheek, epitomized by the fact TST members in Lane’s film tend to laugh whenever they utter the catchphrase “Hail Satan,” even as a preamble to a serious discussion.

The question mark in her documentary’s title serves a similar purpose as the laughs, Lane said: softening the phrase, and reflecting the combination of cheekiness and sincerity that is TST. Lane and her crew not only depict the epic moment in which the Baphomet statue is forged in bronze, and Greaves’ most poignant interviews, but also the packages of Halloween store demon capes piled on the floor, and the process of sweeping up after a rally involving roiling speeches, ritualistic nudity and the impaling of pig heads. If the vampire mockumentary What We Do in the Shadows was real, it’d look a little Hail Satan?

“Are they kidding or are they serious? The answer is that they’re both,” Lane said. “If you don’t get that, it’s really hard to get the whole movement. If you don’t accept that people can be both having fun, making jokes, laughing at themselves, pulling pranks, but also have a whole deep meaning behind it, none of it makes any sense at all.”

Some Satanic work is devoid of irony, including adopting highways to remove litter, collecting feminine hygiene products for the homeless and holding blood drives. There are 17 official TST branches across the U.S. and Canada; none are in Iowa, but an unaffiliated,

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Lane, whose past works include Our Nixon and Nuts!, both of which rely heavily on archival film, said she was a little daunted by the idea of covering a contemporary topic, gathering footage in real time. Her nerves reached a fever pitch before a TST rally in Little Rock, Arkansas, which served as the last scene in Hail Satan?

“I can remember standing in the room with Lucien as he was putting on his bulletproof vest, after weeks of pretty credible death threats online from the KKK and other people. It got pretty scary,” Lane said. “If you really do believe these are evil people doing evil things, what’s to stop you from killing them and justifying it?”

“They’re standing up and literally putting their lives on the line to fight for religious freedom and pluralism, which are values that protect all of us, and all they get back from it is mockery and death threats. That’s their award. It made me furious, really angry.”

Lane said Hail Satan? has gotten a stronger response from audiences than she expected—hate from avid Christians who have prejudged the film, sure, but also a lot of enthusiasm from viewers in the Bible belt, places where threats to women’s reproductive rights, LGBTQ rights and religious equality feel most real.

“My producer and I,” Lane recalled, “we had our first test screening of an early rough cut and [afterwards] we looked at one another and we were like, ‘We just made an uplifting, patriotic movie—about Satanism?’”

Despite acquiring a TST membership card, Lane doesn’t consider herself a Satanist. But she does feel good about the prospect of her own film being used as archival footage for a future project reflecting on the rise of the Satanic Temple, with all its costumes and contradictions.

“I could go along and just be a quiet secular individual like a lot of people do,” says one of Lane’s interview subjects, a bow-tied TST member. “I don’t want to say the phrase ‘this has given my life purpose,’ but I would say this makes life fun.”

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Volte-Face II: Liquor Beats Winter, Liberty Leg, Paul Cary, Instant Death, The Spider Magnets, Gabe’s, Iowa City, Friday, May 24, 7 p.m., $10-20 suggested donation Iowa is one of 12 remaining

mostly Midwestern states with laws prohibiting syringe exchange, and the Iowa Harm Reduction Coalition has done more work than any other organization to persuade lawmakers and law enforcement that the time has come for a more realistic approach to drug abuse than, say, denial. Volte-Face II, the 2019 benefit rock show whose proceeds go entirely to IHRC, features I.C.’s Liberty Leg, Paul Cary, Instant Death and the Spider Magnets, plus Liquor Beats Winter, the Twin Cities’ “blues based, trumpet-laced rock and roll band” that unexpectedly blew my clogs off when I saw them at Grey Area 2018.

Come chat up Little Village’s sponsor table while you’re there. ––Jordan Sellergren Tribute Fest, Big Grove Brewery and Taproom, Iowa City, Saturday, May 25, 4 p.m., $5 Nothing goes down as smooth

on Saturday as a good beer—except, maybe, nostalgia. Both will be in supply at the Iowa City Big Grove on May 25 for the second Tribute Fest. Five local acts will transform into cover bands for the evening, playing songs by their favorite performers who also happen to be some of the most popular rockers of the 20th century. The line-up includes Plastic Relations performing a David Bowie tribute, Winterland embodying Bob Dylan, Frankie Zoloft and the Electrolytes as Creedence Clearwater Revival, Stacy Webster evoking Willie Nelson and Little Village’s own Brian Johannesen offering his

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Iowa Renaissance Festival & Gathering o’ Celts, Amana Park, Middle Amana, Saturday, May 25–Sunday, June 2, 10 a.m., Free-$74 Hear ye, hear ye! The 28th

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The festival runs for three days on Memorial Day weekend (all current or retired military get in free on Memorial Day itself, Monday, May 27) and then Saturday and Sunday the following weekend. Kids 5 and under are admitted free; one-day prices are $6 for kids ages 6-13 and $12 for everyone older. There are also weekend- and festival-long passes, as well as special packages all the way up to the $74 family four pack, which gets two adults and two kids in for one day of the festival, with two of those turkey legs and two commemorative mugs included. Hark back to ye olde never-quite-existed-like-this days of yore with music and storytelling, fairies and benevolent royalty (which one’s the myth?), swordplay and merrymaking. You’ll be thee-ing and thou-ing in no time.

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Waking Robots Tribute to Jane’s Addiction w/ Baby Alchemy, Rock Island Brewing Company, Rock Island, Friday, May 17, 8 p.m., $6 This is Waking Robots’

last show for an indefinite period. It’s also their last time playing a Jane’s Addiction tribute ever. To celebrate, they’re playing an extra-long set into Saturday morning. This is the must-see of must-sees for any true blue fan of contemporary QC music. —MH Dehd w/ Garrin Jost (of Mountain Swallower), Rozz-Tox, Rock Island, Thursday, May 23, 8 p.m., $10-13

Chicago’s Dehd combines infectious ’60s doo-wop melodies with experimental, fuzzed out guitars and stand-up drumming to create a self-proclaimed “trashpop” sound that is completely their own. Filled with lyrics like, “Lucky to have people in my life with the power to break my heart” and “Time is on my side; I will be alright,” their new release, Water, is self-aware and forward thinking in a time of transformation. Garrin Jost, of QC alt-rock group Mountain Swallower, will open with a special set. —Paige Underwood

MAY 15– JUNE 4, 2019

Roaring Rhetoric, Rozz-Tox, Rock Island, Friday, May 24, 7:30 p.m., $5-10 Roaring

wordsmiths Dallas Whitefield and Chris Britton use their talents to explore the frontier of poetry and spoken word. As teachers and counselors to Midwestern youths, these artists use language as a tool to channel creative expression and strengthen relationships. Crunk Chocolate is your special guest emcee! Open mic readers get in for just $5. —MH The Faint w/ Choir Boy, Closeness, Codfish Hollow, Maquoketa, Sunday, May 26, 8 p.m., $30 adv // $35 dos This

lineup is a post-punk lovers paradise, and it’ll all take place in the best barn in Iowa. The Faint, now in their second decade of releasing and performing their brand of electro-infused post-punk, are touring in support of their new album, Egowork. This lineup gets even better with the dark and lush new wave sounds of Choir Boy and Closeness’ haunting synth-driven songs. This night will be equal parts dark and dance-party. —PU

Kyle Emerson w/ the Pressure Kids, Triple Crown Whiskey Bar & Raccoon Motel, Davenport, Tuesday, May 28, 7 p.m., $10 On Dorothy Alice, Denver-based

singer-songwriter Kyle Emerson dissects and reflects on the many different types of relationships in his life, whether it be with loved ones, past partners or bandmates. His dreamy, melancholic folk-rock songs offer a comforting voice that can set your troubles at ease and swift, elegant, fingerstyle guitar work.

—PU

EDITORS’ PICKS Open Mic Night, Penguin’s Comedy Club, Cedar Rapids, 8 p.m., Free (Weekly) Open Stage, Studio 13, Iowa City, 10 p.m., Free (Weekly) THIS WEEK: GRINDHOUSE ANNIVERSARY—‘POLICE STORY’

Late Shift at the Grindhouse, Film Scene, Iowa City, 10 p.m., $4 (Weekly)

Thu., May 16 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) Iowa City Meditation Class: How To Transform Your Life, Quaker Friends Meeting House, Iowa City, 6:30 p.m., $5-10 (Weekly) Novel Conversations, Coralville Public Library, 7 p.m., Free (3rd Thursday) CEDAR RAPIDS CRAFT BEER WEEK

Craft Beer Week Trivia, Need Pizza, Cedar Rapids, 7 p.m., Free Thursday Night Live Open Mic, Uptown Bill’s, Iowa City, 7 p.m., Free (Weekly) IARGUS RUSSIAN GUITAR FESTIVAL

Vikings in Odessa, Agudas Achim Congregation, Coralville, 7 p.m.

Daddy-O, Parlor City Pub and Eatery, Cedar Rapids, 7 p.m., Free (Weekly) Improv Incubator, Penguin’s Comedy Club, Cedar Rapids, 7:30 p.m., $5

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>> Cont. from pg. 18 was the first of several albums by the duo that have explored a wide range of sonic palettes, from haunting folk to lush psychedelia .

This spring, they released In the 21st Century, a compilation of tracks from four albums that Damon & Naomi issued between 2005 and 2015 on their label 20-20-20. In 1989, the two also founded the small press Exact Change, which reprints books of experimental literature with an emphasis on Surrealism, Dada and other avant-garde movements. They are busy bohemian bees.

“We always have a lot of other jobs, too,” Yang said. “I do freelance graphic design work, in recent years I have been directing music videos “WE DIDN’T DO MUCH PLAYING AT FIRST,” and Damon does his freeYANG SAID. “WE WERE TOO MUCH IN lance music writing and has also taught over the years.”

SHOCK AND TOO ANGRY ABOUT IT ALL. In 2017, the New Press BUT THEN WE JUST COULDN’T HELP IT—IT published Krukowski’s WAS SOMETHING THAT WE ENJOYED.” acclaimed book The New Analog, about his experiences recording and listening to music as the technology shifted from analog to digital.

This led to a podcast, Ways of Hearing, which simultaneously anchors the rhythm and spins evolved into Krukowski’s companion book countermelodies that weave through the guiof the same title, published by MIT Press in tar and vocal lines. Yang’s playing absolutely April. levitates songs like “When Will You Come “I have been enjoying wherever this Home,” from the group’s second album, On leads,” Krukowski said, “which is not so Fire. different from my approach to playing music, “She always sounded great, and the blend actually.” with Damon was seamless,” Coley recalled.

Yang designed The New Analog’s book “Their bottom was firm, as a coach might cover in much the same way she developed say.”

Galaxie 500’s graphic identity. “From the earGalaxie 500’s ascent continued after signliest days,” she said, “I was always interested ing with Rough Trade, an influential indie in all the associated visual art opportunities label, but soon after the release of This Is that come with being in a band: show flyers, Our Music, the band dissolved. Following tickets, posters, T-shirts, album covers, promo a successful American tour opening for the photos, video.”

Cocteau Twins in 1991, Wareham abruptly Coley has been excited to hear where quit on the eve of a Japanese tour—then went they’re headed next, musically. As Damon on to form Luna, which had some alt-rock & Naomi continue to perform around the success in the 1990s. world, he views them as ambassadors for Meanwhile, the rhythm section essentially “the post-Puritan New England scene.” quit music.

While talking to folk musician Kan Mikami “We didn’t do much playing at first,” Yang at an English music festival, for instance, the said. “We were too much in shock and too Japanese artist asked Coley where he was angry about it all. But then we just couldn’t from. help it—it was something that we enjoyed.”

“Massachusetts,” he said.

Krukowski added, “Then Kramer con“Ah,” Makami replied. “Damon & vinced us to record again, which we did for Naomi.” his label Shimmy Disc.”

The result was More Sad Hits, released in 1992 under the moniker Damon & Naomi. It Kembrew McLeod can’t stop, won’t stop.

New York recording studios played an integral role in the band’s development, a sort of fourth member who helped shape their sound.

“It turned into an apprenticeship for us, really,” Krukowski said. “We sat with him in the booth the whole time he was mixing those albums.”

Galaxie 500’s debut album, Today, is the recorded document of a fully formed band.

On “Flowers,” the opening track, psychedelic guitar tones hover over skittering drum patterns that orbit around the bassline—one that

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Live Jazz, Clinton Street Social Club, Iowa City, 8 p.m., Free (1st & 3rd Thursdays) MICHIGAN INDIE SINGER/SONGWRITER

Carmel Liburdi w/ Scamper., Nalani Proctor, Clara Reynen, Gabe’s, Iowa City, 8 p.m.,$5-7 Karaoke Thursday, Studio 13, Iowa City, 8 p.m., Free (Weekly) IOWA CITY’S BEST NOISE ACTS

Hobby Horse, Blue Movies, Dropbear, Maul of America, The Mill, Iowa City, 9 p.m., $7 CHICAGO ROCK/SOUL

Greg Woods w/ special guests, Iowa City Yacht Club, 9:30 p.m., $7

Fri., May 17 Downtown Summer Shop Crawl, Downtown Iowa City, 5 p.m., $15 THIS WEEK: THE BAMBOOZLERS

Rock the Block, NewBo City Market, Cedar Rapids, 6 p.m., Free (Weekly) Cookie Decorating with The Pink Umbrella Bakery, NewBo City Market, Cedar Rapids, 6 p.m., $20 Chorale Midwest Presents: Vocal Jazz Spring Sing ‘n’ Swing, Cedar Rapids Public Library, 7 p.m., $5-20 IARGUS RUSSIAN GUITAR FESTIVAL

18th-Century Swedish Drinking Songs by Carl Bellman, Congregational Church, Iowa City, 7 p.m., TBD FAC Dance Party, The Union, Iowa City, 7 p.m.

(Weekly) CEDAR RAPIDS ROCKABILLY

The Magnetos w/ Matt Woods Band, Wildwood Smokehouse & Saloon, Iowa City, 7 p.m., $10 SINGER/SONGWRITER

Rebecca Loebe Band, CSPS Legion Arts, Cedar Rapids, 8 p.m., $17-21 SUPPORT CAMP KESEM

MagiCK at The Mill: Benefit Concert and Variety Show, The Mill, Iowa City, 8 p.m., $10 suggested donation

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

Richie Holliday w/ John McCombs, Penguin’s Comedy Club, Cedar Rapids, 8 p.m., $10-12 Ross Clowser Quartet, Sanctuary Pub, Iowa City, 8

Rapids, 10 a.m. (Weekly) Sasha Belle Presents: Friday Night Drag & Dance Party, Studio 13, Iowa City, 10:30 p.m., $5

MEET AUTHORS FROM A VARIETY OF GENRES AT

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THIS INAUGURAL FEST

Indie Star Book Festival, NewBo City Market, Cedar

p.m., Free CEDAR RAPIDS CRAFT BEER WEEK

Sat, May 18

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

Well Strung, Thew Brewing Company, Cedar Rapids, 8 p.m., Free

Guest Vendor Market, NewBo City Market, Cedar

Iowa City Sunday Farmers Market, Chauncey

a.m., Free (Weekly)

Swan Ramp, Iowa City, 7:30 a.m. (Weekly) I.C. Press Co-op Open Shop, Public Space One,

IOWA CITY ROCK

Rubbur w/ Body Shot, the Holy Pockets, Gabe’s,

Cars and Coffee, NewBo City Market, Cedar Rapids,

Iowa City, 8:30 p.m., $5

8 a.m., Free

IARGUS RUSSIAN GUITAR FESTIVAL

Marion Farmers Market, Taube Park, Marion, 8 a.m.

Bags Tournament, Clock House Brewing, Cedar

IARGUS 2019 Epic Jam, One Twenty Six, Iowa City,

(Weekly)

Rapids, 12 p.m., $20/team

First Harvest with Master Gardeners, NewBo City

JOIN THE AFTERPARTY AT TAILGATORS

Market, Cedar Rapids, 9 a.m., $10

Ped Maulers v. Dubuque Bomb Squad Roller

Iowa City, 12 p.m., Free (Weekly) CEDAR RAPIDS CRAFT BEER WEEK

9 p.m., TBD DUBUQUE AMERICANA

Derby, Coralville Marriott Hotel & Conference Center,

Ben Dunegan, Jayce Nguyen, Trumpet Blossom Cafe, Iowa City, 9 p.m., $7

“ENJOY FINE ART WHILE WEARING FLIP-FLOPS”

6 p.m., Free-$13

27th Annual Marion Arts Festival, Marion Square POP-INFUSED HARD ROCK

Park, 9 a.m.

Future Gadget Lab w/ special guests, Iowa City Yacht Club, 9:30 p.m., $7

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MAY 15– JUNE 4, 2019

CEDAR RAPIDS CRAFT BEER WEEK

Analog Vault DJs: ’80s Rock, Clock House Brewing, Cedar Rapids, 6 p.m., Free A MEETING OF BLUES AND FOLK GREATNESS

David Bromberg Quintet & Loudon Wainwright III, Englert Theatre, Iowa City, 7:30 p.m., $36.50-56.50 ALSO MAY 19 AT 2:30 P.M.

Orchestra Iowa Presents: The Magical Music of Harry Potter, Paramount Theatre, Silly Silo scene , Beyond the Valley of the Dolls

Cedar Rapids, 7:30 p.m., $18-55 IARGUS RUSSIAN GUITAR FESTIVAL

Fjord! Folk! Fiddle!: Celebrate Scandinavia with Martin Bagge!, CSPS Legion Arts, Cedar Rapids, 8 p.m., $17-21 Floyd: A Tribute to Pink Floyd, Wildwood Smokehouse & Saloon, Iowa City, 8 p.m., $10 TRIBUTE TO NAT KING COLE’S 100TH BIRTHDAY

Eddie Piccard Jazz Quartet, Famous Mockingbird, Marion, 8 p.m., $20-25

‘Beyond the Valley of the Dolls’ Screening, Vaudeville Mews, May 23, 7 p.m., $5 In celebration of a Des Moines

summer sure to be filled with a healthy dose of rock and roll, the Des Moines Film Society and Lantern Cinema are curating a monthly film series devoted to the genre. It began last month with Labyrinth and continues in May with the 1970 classic, Beyond the Valley of the Dolls. The film was created as a kind of satirical retelling of 1967’s Valley of the Dolls, following three women as they descend beyond the glitz and glam of Hollywood into the darker side of the city’s music industry.

The Spirit of the Beehive w/ Strange Ranger, Goatfoam, Vaudeville Mews, May 24, 6 p.m., $12-15 It’s been about a

decade since the ’60s garage rock revival took hold, so it’s appropriate that many of the bands riding that wave have matured into the softer tendencies of early ’70s guitar rock.

Philly’s Spirit of the Beehive serves as a solid example of this. Their new album, Hypnic Jerks, funnels the beach-bum guitars of bands like Real Estate through a kaleidoscope of effect pedals and off-kilter harmonies, falling somewhere between Pink Floyd and punk rock. It’s their third full-length as a band, and they’re taking it on tour this summer with a stop at the Vaudeville Mews.

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Black Taffy, The Fremont, May 31, 9 p.m., Free Black Taffy is the solo electron-

ic project of former This Will Destroy You member Donovan Jones, and in many ways, it couldn’t be more stylistically different. While TWDY experiment in the darker corners of post-rock, Black Taffy is much more firmly rooted in hip-hop production. The new album, Elder Mantis, folds string and woodwind samples into a loose array of kick drums and snare shots. It’s out now on L.A.’s Leaving Records, which features many of the hip-hop entries too abstract for parent label Stones Throw.

Queer Abstraction Celebration, Des Moines Art Center, June 1, 7 p.m., Free (RSVP recommended) Beginning in June,

the Des Moines Art Center will be exhibiting a show of artwork from LGBTQ artists called “Queer Abstraction.” It starts off with an opening reception at 7 p.m. on June 1 that features dancing and a pop-up exhibit, and encourages creative attire. The show will feature work from over 15 artists highlighting elements of abstraction present in LGBTQ communities around the world. It will be the first time the art center has exhibited a show of exclusively LGBTQ artwork in its 70 years of operation. The exhibit will run through the beginning of September.

—Trey Reis

Chicago, McGrath Amphitheatre, Cedar Rapids, 8 p.m., $45-145 RECORD RELEASE SHOW

Crystal City w/ Cedar County Cobras, The Mill, Iowa City, 8 p.m., $8 The Soft and Low, Sanctuary Pub, Iowa City, 8 p.m., Free BURLESQUE

Bawdy Bawdy Ha Ha Presents: ‘Teaserama,’ Gabe’s, Iowa City. 8:30 p.m., $10-25 Elation Dance Party, Studio 13, Iowa City, 9 p.m., $5 (Weekly) WONDERFULLY WEIRD NOISE

Hobby Horse w/ Mustard In Law, Anomander, Trumpet Blossom Cafe, Iowa City, 9 p.m., $7 ILLINOIS AMERICANA

Dan Hubbard (Full Band) Iowa City Album Release Show, Big Grove Brewery & Taproom, Iowa City, 9 p.m., Free OMAHA ROCK

Isaiah Dominguez and Las Olas w/ Ivory James, Jacob Hudson, Iowa City Yacht Club, 9 p.m., $7

Sun., May 19 Guest Vendor Market, NewBo City Market, Cedar Rapids, 10 a.m. (Weekly) Hiawatha Farmers Market, Guthridge Park, Hiawatha, 10 a.m. (Weekly) Sunday Funday, Iowa City Public Library, Iowa City, 2 p.m., Free (Weekly) Chamber Singers of Iowa City Presents: Vivaldi—Gloria (RV 588) & CPE Bach— Magnificat, Voxman Music Building, Iowa City, 3 p.m., $16 IARGUS RUSSIAN GUITAR FESTIVAL

Celebrate Scandinavia: IARGUS 2019 Grand Gala, Congregational Church, Iowa City, 7 p.m., TBD FOLK PHENOM

John Gorka, CSPS Legion Arts, Cedar Rapids, 7 p.m., $23-28 CO-PRESENTED BY FMWT AND WITCHING HOUR

Xiu Xiu w/ Peanut Ricky, The Mill, Iowa City, 8 p.m., $12-15 Pub Quiz, The Mill, Iowa City, 9 p.m., $1 (Weekly)

Mon., May 20 Coralville Farmers Market, Coralville Community Aquatic Center Parking Lot, 5 p.m. (Weekly) PRIDE AT FILMSCENE

‘Saturday Church,’ FilmScene, Iowa City, 6 p.m., $8-10.50 Open Mic, The Mill, Iowa City, 7 p.m., Free (Weekly) READING: ‘THE FLIGHT PORTFOLIO’

Julie Orringer in conversation with Sam Chang, Prairie Lights Books & Cafe, Iowa City, 7 p.m., Free Comedy Open Mic with Spencer & Dan, Yacht Club, Iowa City, 9 p.m., Free (Weekly)

Tue., May 21 Food Truck Tuesdays, NewBo City Market, Cedar Rapids, 11 a.m. (Weekly) Cultivate Hope Market, Cultivate Hope Urban Farm, Cedar Rapids, 4:30 p.m. (Weekly)

EDITORS’ PICKS Practice in the Prairie, Indian Creek

Karaoke Tuesdays, The Mill, Iowa

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

City, 10:30 p.m., Free (Weekly)

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Wed., May 22

Dinner in a Flash! Instant Pot 101, New Pioneer Co-op, Coralville, 6 p.m., $20

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One Million Cups, Merge, Iowa City, 9 Blues Jam, Parlor City Pub and Eatery,

a.m., Free (Weekly)

Cedar Rapids, 7 p.m., Free (Weekly) BECOME A BETTER ALLY

Yahoo Drummers, Downtown Iowa

Humanize My Hoodie Workshop,

City, 7:30 p.m., Free (Weekly)

26 E Market St, Iowa City, 5:30 p.m., $80

Weekly Old-Timey Jam Sessions, Trumpet Blossom Cafe, Iowa City, 7:30

Burlington Street Bluegrass Band,

p.m., Free (Weekly)

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

Dance Party with DJ Batwoman, Iowa City Yacht Club, 9 p.m., Free

Struggle Jennings w/ Brianna

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Harness, Wildwood Smokehouse & Saloon, Iowa City, 7 p.m., $15-20

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Comedy & Karaoke, Studio 13, Iowa City, 9 p.m., Free (Weekly)

SoulTru w/ Taiyamo Denku, The COLORADO FUNK

Dog City Disco w/ Reggae Rapids, Gabe’s, Iowa City, 9 p.m., $5-8

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Joseph Charles Cacciatore & the

Andy Frasco, Famous Mockingbird,

Mourners, Peanut Ricky, Douglas

Marion, 9 p.m., $20-25

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

OREGON NEO-SOUL

Dirty Revival, Gabe’s, Iowa City, 9 Against All Odds Tour ft. Longshot

p.m., $10

and AP Counterfeit w/ Fooch and S.O.N, Gabe’s, Iowa City, 8 p.m., TBD

Wenslow w/ Good Devils, BainMarie, Gabe’s, Iowa City, 9 p.m., Free

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Late Shift at the Grindhouse, Film

Fri., May 24

Scene, Iowa City, 10 p.m., $4 (Weekly) THIS WEEK: BRASS TRANSIT

Thu., May 23

AUTHORITY

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

WINE, HORS D’OEUVRES, SILENT & LIVE AUCTIONS

READING: ‘KEEP GOING’

UAY’s 14th Annual Festival of

Austin Kleon, Prairie Lights Books &

Flowers, Graduate Hotel, Iowa City,

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

5:30 p.m., $40 THE ‘NOBODY CARES, WORK HARDER’ TOUR

Scott Johnson Band, Iowa City Yacht

Dizzy Wright w/ Demrick and

Club, 9 p.m., Free

Reezy, Blue Moose Tap House, Iowa City, 7 p.m, $15-150

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the exhibit will be held Tuesday, May 28 at 6 p.m.). The exhibit, now in its eighth incarnation, challenges local artists to create collaboratively in teams or groups, and accepts the first 50 art piecesx to arrive on the designated drop-off date. The film is by Pace Gallery founder and film director (The Mambo Kings) and producer (Gorillas in the Mist) Arne Glimcher.

Cornstock Music Festival 2019, Spicoli’s Reverb, Waterloo, FridaySunday, May 24-26, time and cost vary per day Spicoli’s has gathered a huge list

of acts to celebrate music and springtime with the 2019 Cornstock Music Festival.

I’ll probably exceed word count just by naming all the bands, but I’ll get the other details out of the way first: Tickets for Friday and Saturday are $20 each, with music kicking off at 6 p.m. Sunday starts a bit earlier, at 5 p.m., with tickets $12 in advance, $15 at the door. Texas Hippie Coalition are the Friday night headliners, wielding their Lonestar state red dirt metal.

Opening are deSelect, Guilty Of Treason, Astral Space, Anger Incarnate and Path Of Least Resistance. Saturday sees Rockford, Illinois punks the Pimps at the top of the bill, with 8 Foundead, Hazer, Illegal Smile, the Rumours, 404 and the Real Zebos ahead of them. Closing things out on Sunday will be Iowa’s own Telekinetic Yeti, with support from the Zealots, STEREOWIDE, One of Us, Zachary Daniels Band, knubby, Eli Dykstra Rocks, Fretnaught, Soultru and Cheesus. Spicoli’s will have stages set up both inside and out, and they promise a host of other activities going on each night as well.

EDITORS’ PICKS BENEFIT FOR THE IOWA HARM REDUCTION COALITION

Volte-Face II: Liquor Beats Winter, Liberty Leg, Paul Cary, Instant Death, The Spider Magnets, Gabe’s, Iowa City, 7 p.m., $10-20 suggested donation ALSO MAY 25

James Johann w/ Jameson Cox, Penguin’s Comedy Club, Cedar Rapids, 8 p.m., $10-12 AFRO-CARIBBEAN STYLES

Jumbies w/ Charles Walker Band, The Mill, Iowa City, 8 p.m., $10 Brett Newski with Walter Salas-Humara, Famous Mockingbird, Marion, 8 p.m., $10-12 Steve Grismore Trio, Sanctuary Pub, Iowa City, 8 p.m., Free ALSO MAY 25

SPT Theatre Presents: ‘What’s In a Name?: Lazy Susan,’ CSPS Legion Arts, Cedar Rapids, 8 p.m., $20-25 Michael Moncada & Whiskey High, Wildwood Smokehouse & Saloon, Iowa City, 8 p.m., $10 SinnerFrenz w/ Sutphin, RawSpace, Trumpet Blossom Cafe, Iowa City, 9 p.m., $7 Sex Garbage w/ Interstellar Cave Dweller, Near Misses, Raul Sebastion Calderon, Iowa City Yacht Club, 9 p.m., $7

Via the artist

Still from ‘Picasso and Braque Go to the Movies’

Sat., May 25 OPENING DAY! THROUGH JUNE 2

Iowa Renaissance Festival & Gathering o’ Celts, Amana Park, Middle Amana, 10 a.m., $6-74

IPR Studio One Live: Nalani Proctor, KUNI Studio, Cedar Falls, Thursday, May 30, 7:15 p.m., Free This Keokuk,

Film Screening: ‘Picasso and Braque Go to the Movies,’ Hearst Center for the Arts, Cedar Falls, Thursday, May 30, 10 a.m. and 7 p.m., Free This 2010

documentary exploring the intersection of fine art and cinema is being screened in conjunction with the Hearst’s new exhibit, First Fifty 2019 (an opening reception for

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Iowa-based songwriter has an aching voice that is equal parts comforting and devastating. Her largely acoustic, late folk, bedroom rock stylings are unassuming on the surface, yet invite you to give everything—to meet the music where it sits, to be equal participants in your entertainment.

The opportunity to catch her live recording for Studio One shouldn’t be missed, but readers in other parts of Iowa (or fans wishing to follow) can see her on May 15 at the Des Moines Yacht Club or May 16 in Iowa City, at Gabe’s.

TributeFest ft. Winterland as Bob Dylan, Plastic Relations as David Bowie, Brian Johannesen as Waylon Jennings, Frankie Zoloft & the Electrolytes as Creedence Clearwater Revival, Stacy Webster as Willie Nelson, Big Grove Brewery & Taproom, Iowa City, 4 p.m., $5 IN METAL WE TRUST

Dark Agenda w/ Doppelganger, Astral Space, Guilty of Treason, Serpents, Gabe’s, Iowa City, 7 p.m., $10 3 Jazz Cats, Sanctuary Pub, Iowa City, 8 p.m., Free MUSIC IN THE MUD

The Beaker Brothers, Famous Mockingbird, Marion, 8 p.m., $20-23

Orchard Fire: Fleetwood Mac Tribute, Wildwood Smokehouse & Saloon, Iowa City, 8 p.m., $10 Vanek/Miller w/ Father Christmas, Andrew Weathers, Golconda, Trumpet Blossom Cafe, Iowa City, 8 p.m., $7

Sun., May 26 CLOSING PERFORMANCE!

‘The Legend of Georgia McBride,’ Giving Tree Theater, Marion, 2 p.m., $26 CLOSING PERFORMANCE!

‘Church Basement Ladies,’ Old Creamery Theatre, Amana, 2 p.m, $12-32.50 CLOSING PERFORMANCE!

‘The Hunchback of Notre Dame,’ Theatre Cedar Rapids, 2:30 p.m., $25-48 ROOFTOP SERIES

‘Big Trouble in Little China,’ FilmScene, Iowa City, 6 p.m., $15 JAZZ-INDIE FOLK HYBRID

Luke Gullickson & Andrew Weathers, CSPS Legion Arts, Cedar Rapids, 7 p.m., $16-19 ARIZONA ALT ROCK

The Maine w/ Grayscale, Blue Moose Tap House, Iowa City, 7 p.m., $20-25 COLORADO JAMGRASS

House with a Yard, Gabe’s, Iowa City, 8 p.m., Free

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Decomposer w/ Maniacal Force, Primal Breath,

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Gabe’s, Iowa City, 9 p.m., Free

Tue., May 28 PANEL DISCUSSION FOLLOWS

‘The Kids We Lose’ Documentary Screening, Cedar Rapids Public Library, 5:30 p.m., Free EVOLUTION’S FAILURE TOUR

War Curse w/ Tyrant, wsg, Gabe’s, Iowa City, 7 p.m., $8 Awakebutstillinbed w/ Pity Party, Kane & the IC Cats, Trumpet Blossom Cafe, Iowa City, 9 p.m., $8

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Wed., May 29

Hollywood Horses w/ Special

IOWA ARTS FEST

OPENING NIGHT! RUNS THROUGH

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

Solera Quartet (9 p.m.) w/

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Winterland, Downtown Iowa City, 7

‘Ripcord,’ Theatre Cedar Rapids, 7:30

One Million Cups, Merge, Iowa City, 9

p.m., Free

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YOUR VILLAGE

Is there a plan to address the safety issues with the arches on the Park Road Bridge beyond the current fencing set-up? —Joe, Iowa City, via the Your Village feature on LV’s homepage.

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he safety issues started almost as soon as the bridge opened at the end of August 2018. People were spotted walking over one of the arches that weekend. The next weekend it was a skateboarder: A video of Peyton Meiers skating down an arch attracted a lot of attention on social media after Meiers posted it on Facebook.

It also got the attention of Iowa City officials.

The Iowa City Police Department posted “No trespassing on the arches” signs. The city put up chain link fencing to inhibit access to the arches. Neither were attractive additions to the most visible part of the Iowa City Gateway Project. But Melissa Clow, special project administrator for the Iowa City Public Works Department, told Little Village the city is working on a more permanent solution.

“Our preferred timeline is to have it addressed this summer, so everything will be in place by the fall, when the students come back and the football season starts,” Clow said.

The current plan calls for concrete walls that will extend beyond the end of the arches, and concrete planters.

“We have also the new traffic signal at Park and Dubuque Streets that has traffic cameras. They have a view of the arches and can be accessed by the police,” Clow said.

“We also have another camera going in on

the street light on the west side of the bridge.

We’ll be adding signage that lets people know there’s surveillance of the arches.”

But the plan to discourage unwanted arch pedestrians hasn’t been formalized yet, including the cost.

“We’re still working through pricing with the contractor, and hopefully we’ll be able to include it in the Gateway Project,” Clow said.

The Iowa City Gateway Project, which broke ground in 2016, was designed to help address flooding problems on Dubuque Street, Park Road and the Park Road crossing of the Iowa River in northwest Iowa City. It’s the largest flood mitigation project the city has undertaken.

Floodwaters swamped Dubuque Street for 54 days in 1993 and made it unusable for a month in 2008, as well as for three weeks in both 2013 and 2014. Flooding caused by heavy rains has also inundated the area in the past, which should be reduced or prevented by the project’s improved drainage and storm water sewers.

The new bridge was included as part of $59 million project. Aside from the changes to make the arches less accessible, construction on the project was finished last year.

Clow said that if the city cannot reach an agreement with the contractor to include the changes as part of the Gateway Project, the work will be put out for bid as a separate construction project.

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GEMINI (May 21-June 20): The Louvre in Paris is the world’s biggest art museum. Over 35,000 works are on display, packed into 15 acres. If you wanted to see every piece, devoting just a minute to each, you would have to spend eight hours a day there for many weeks. I bring this to your attention, Gemini, because I suspect that now would be a good time for you to treat yourself to a marathon gaze-fest of art in the Louvre—or any other museum. For that matter, it’s a favorable phase to gorge yourself on any beauty anywhere that will make your soul freer and smarter and happier. You will thrive to the degree that you absorb a profusion of grace, elegance and loveliness.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Author Hélène Cixous articulated a poetically rigorous approach to love. I’ll tell you about it, since, in my astrological opinion, you’re entering a phase when you’ll be wise to upgrade and refine your definitions of love, even as you upgrade and refine your practice of love. Here’s Cixous: “I want to love a person freely, including all her secrets. I want to love in this person someone she doesn’t know. I want to love outside the law: without judgment. Without imposed preference.

Does that mean outside morality? No. Only this: without fault.

Without false, without true. I want to meet her between the words, beneath language.”

CANCER (June 21-July 22): In my astrological opinion, you now have a mandate to exercise your rights to free speech with acute vigor. It’s time to articulate all the important insights you’ve been waiting for the right moment to call to everyone’s attention.

It’s time to unearth the buried truths and veiled agendas and ripening mysteries. It’s time to be the catalyst that helps your allies to realize what’s real and important, what’s fake and irrelevant. I’m not saying you should be rude, but I do encourage you to be as candid as is necessary to nudge people in the direction of authenticity.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Capricorn author Henry Miller wrote that his master plan was “to remain what I am and to become more and more only what I am—that is, to become more miraculous.” This is an excellent strategy for your use.

The coming weeks will be a favorable time to renounce any tendency you might have to compare yourself to anyone else.

You’ll attract blessings as you wean yourself from imagining that you should live up to the expectations of others or follow a path that resembles theirs. So here’s my challenge: I dare you to become more and more only what you are—that is, to become more miraculous.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): During summers in the far northern land of Alaska, many days have 20 hours of sunlight. Farmers take advantage of the extra photosynthesis by growing vegetables and fruits that are bigger and sweeter than crops grown further south. During the Alaska State Fair every August, you can find prodigies like 130-pound cabbages and 65-pound cantaloupes. I suspect you’ll express a comparable fertility and productiveness during the coming weeks, Leo. You’re primed to grow and create with extra verve. So let me ask you a key question: to which part of your life do you want to dedicate that bonus power?

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VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): It’s time for you to reach higher and dig deeper. So don’t be a mere tinkerer nursing a lukewarm interest in mediocre stories and trivial games. Be a strategic adventurer in the service of exalted stories and meaningful games. In fact, I feel strongly that if you’re not prepared to go all the way, you shouldn’t go at all. Either give everything you’ve got or else keep it contained for now. Can you handle one further piece of strenuous advice, my dear? I think you will thrive as long as you don’t settle for business as usual or pleasure as usual. To claim the maximum vitality that’s available, you’ll need to make exceptions to at least some of your rules.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): “All human nature vigorously resists grace because grace changes us and the change is painful,” wrote author Flannery O’Connor. I think that’s an observation worth considering. But I’ve also seen numerous exceptions to her rule. I know people who have eagerly welcomed grace into their lives even though they know that its arrival will change them forever. And amazingly, many of those people have experienced the resulting change as tonic and interesting, not primarily painful. In fact, I’ve come to believe that the act of eagerly welcoming change-inducing grace makes it more likely that the changes will be tonic and interesting. Everything I’ve just said will especially apply to you in the coming weeks.

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SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): There’s a certain problem that has, in my opinion, occupied too much of your attention. It’s really rather trivial in the big picture of your life, and doesn’t deserve to suck up so much of your attention. I suspect you will soon see things my way, and take measures to move on from this energy sink. Then you’ll be free to focus on a more interesting and potentially productive dilemma—a twisty riddle that truly warrants your loving attention. As you work to solve it, you will reap rewards that will be useful and enduring.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): London’s British Museum holds a compendium of artifacts from the civilizations of many different eras and locations. Author Jonathan Stroud writes that it’s “home to a million antiquities, several dozen of which were legitimately come by.” Why does he say that? Because so many of the museum’s antiquities were pilfered from other cultures.

In accordance with current astrological omens, I invite you to fantasize about a scenario in which the British Museum’s administrators return these treasures to their original owners.

When you’re done with that imaginative exercise, move on to the next one, which is to envision scenarios in which you recover the personal treasures and goodies and powers that you have been separated from over the years.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): “I hate it when people tell me that I should ‘get out of my comfort zone,’” writes Piscean blogger Rosespell. “I don’t even have a comfort zone. My discomfort zone is pretty much everywhere.” I have good news for Rosespell and all of you Pisceans who might be inclined to utter similar testimony. The coming weeks will feature conditions that make it far more likely than usual that you will locate or create a *real* comfort zone you can rely on. For best results, cultivate a vivid expectation that such a sweet development is indeed possible.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): According to humorist Dave Barry, “The method of learning Japanese recommended by experts is to be born as a Japanese baby and raised by a Japanese family, in Japan.” As you enter an intensely educational phase of your astrological cycle, I suggest you adopt a similar strategy toward learning new skills and mastering unfamiliar knowledge and absorbing fresh information. Immerse yourself in environments that will efficiently and effectively fill you with the teachings you need. A more casual, slapdash approach just won’t enable you to take thorough advantage of your current opportunities to expand your repertoire.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): I think it’s time for a sacred celebration: a blow-out extravaganza filled with reverence and revelry, singing and dancing, sensual delights and spiritual blessings.

What is the occasion? After all these eons, your lost love has finally returned. And who exactly is your lost love? You! You are your own lost love! Having weaved and wobbled through countless adventures full of rich lessons, the missing part of you has finally wandered back. So give yourself a flurry of hugs and kisses. Start planning the jubilant hoopla. And exchange ardent vows, swearing that you’ll never be parted again.

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Blake Shaw it happened. blakeshawbass.com

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here is a long-standing tradition in jazz of performing pop standards. Songwriters like Ira Gershwin, Cole Porter, Irving Berlin and many others contributed to the fabric of American popular music, and those songs became kind of a lingua franca for jazz musicians.

Iowa City jazz bassist and vocalist Blake Shaw—whose latest album, it happened., is a collection of standards—explained the tradition in an email: “When we meet up with friends to converse, we usually have an idea of what we’re going to talk about. [Pop standards are] how having a conversation in jazz music goes. We know the basics of the tune, but we’re open to the possibilities of the conversation (chords, melody, etc.) going in a different direction than we may have ... thought.”

To that end, it happened. is an interesting look at the conversation starters Shaw has in his back pocket. It’s a nice selection

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of popular songs as well as some deeper tracks. Obvious standouts are Porter’s “Love For Sale” and the Ray Charles song “Hallelujah, I Love Her So.” I had never heard the vocal versions of a couple of tracks on here—in particular, two songs I know best as Miles Davis instrumentals: “On Green Dolphin Street” and “All Blues.”

A calculated act of brilliance was Shaw’s decision to make that latter track the opener of the album in the form of an inspired mashup with “House of the Rising Sun,” grabbing the listener with a reinvention of the very well-known jazz song.

Albums of jazz standards can skew schmaltzy. What keeps it happened. out of that danger is the fantastic touches Shaw brings to his arrangements and the crack players in his Blake Shaw Quintet band. Porter’s “You’d Be So Nice to Come Home To” starts out slow, with drawn-out acapella, and builds by adding instruments one at a time until the band is in full force. It picks up the pace before disintegrating into cacophony, punctuated by Shaw exclaiming “Ha! What a dummy!”

With it happened., Shaw shows the full spectrum of his abilities as a musician: arranger, bass player, singer. Most importantly, he shows the ability to translate those into a work which showcases his unique vision and talents.

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ut May 17, Throes, the new album from Iowa City’s metal mavens Aseethe (their second since signing to Thrill Jockey), is overflowing with emotion.

Promotional materials note that guitarist/vocalist Brian Barr (the main composer and arranger on the album) and bassist/vocalist Nicholas Koester (serving as primary lyricist) both point to current political and environmental issues as inspiration, with anger and exhaustion the main throughlines.

ASEETHE PULLS NO PUNCHES, DEMANDING FULL INVESTMENT AND OFFERING NO QUARTER. And this album is exhausting.

The opening title track is a nineand-a-half-minute relentless epic.

Aseethe pulls no punches, demanding full investment and offering no quarter. It could be an album all its

own. It’s beautiful.

Track two, “To Victory,” offers a slight respite at the outset, but inexorably draws you into the doomiest track on the recording. While the anger present on some of the other tracks lends almost a punk feel to the guitar and vocals at times, “To Victory” is the album’s centerpiece and tonal heart.

Aseethe pull of a neat trick on tracks three and four, each almost short enough for commercial radio, but both stretching their time with that beautiful doom dilation. You get so lost in the arrangements on “Suffocating Burden” that the instrumental never seems to stop, with 19 seconds of near silence at the end, that almost carries more rhetorical weight than the rest of the album combined.

Eric Dierks is on fire on “No Realm,” a rage-filled thrasher on which his drums are almost schizophrenic, alternating between inimical restraint and full-throttle in a back-and-forth frenzy that makes the nearly five minute song feel almost twice as long.

Throes is a master class in using space. As a reaction to a world in which many people don’t always have a voice, Aseethe uses what power they have, both culturally and sonically, to gather up space and hold it open. Their anger is a gift, and it feels like a weapon we can wield. This [album] kills fascists.

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raig Hart is becoming something of a force on the local literary scene. A resident of Iowa City, Hart is a writer of mysteries, thrillers and more. He’s also the host of The Games & Writers Show podcast, which launched in February and features extended interviews with authors and actors. On May 18, Hart, via his own Northern Lake Publishing, is hosting the Indie Star Book Festival. Avid readers can meet a variety of area authors writing in an array of genres, including several whose work I have read and enjoyed.

Indie Star Book Festival, NewBo City Market, Cedar Rapids, Saturday, May 18, 10 a.m., Free

Craig A. Hart Serenity is the first adventure in the story of Shelby Alexander, an aging athlete living in a small town with big trouble.

Unlike many heroes in thrillers,

Alexander isn’t an ex-cop (though he has a pal who is), ex-military or an ex-counterintelligence agent gone solo. He’s a former boxer willing to use his fists and wits to fix problems. Well plotted and paced, Serenity is likely to hook readers who will be eager to follow Alexander’s subsequent exploits.

Karen Musser Nortman The Time Travel Trailer is the initial entry in Nortman’s series of the same name. Nortman imagines a classic camper from the 1930s that delivers its occupants to the past each time they sleep through the night in it. As the book unfolds,

each effort to restore the camper to its original condition results in a deeper trip into the past. The time travel aspect of the book is well handled, and Nortman uses the conceit to explore the nature of family.

M.L. Williams Seers of Verde: The Legend Fulfilled—a multi-generational tale of space colonists whose initial parties are separated by a seemingly impassable mountain range after a vicious attack—was Williams’ debut as a novelist.

He successfully navigates large jumps forward in time and significant changes to available technology, though the story does drag in spots. Battles dominate much of the book, but Williams works in some intrigue and romance.

Erik Therme Therme’s most recent book is I Know You, a thriller featuring a young woman desperately trying to rescue her sister

from a kidnapper. It’s a breathless tale that gives character development short shrift. Its immediate predecessor, Keep Her Close, is the story of a woman who goes missing while seeking her birth parents. Here, Therme gives the reader moments to breathe—particularly while fleshing out a character’s history—and effectively uses humor to break up the tone of the novel. He accomplishes this without lessening the tension he effectively creates.

Dennis Green The author of Traveler and Prisoner is one third of the Writing Lads, a writing group of which I am also a member. We came together at the request of our friend Lennox Randon, who wanted to write a book (he ended up writing two) before he died of cancer, which claimed him six months ago.

Green skillfully helps the reader follow the complexities of his story of Trav Becker, a police detective who keeps encountering himself as he attempts to restore order to an ever-branching multiverse. He is nearly finished with the final entry in the series.

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BODIES OF WORK ACROSS 1. Green blob, in many a health-related PSA 5. All-consonant sandwich 8. Treat like a baby 14. Latex-producing plant 15. All-vowel promissory note 16. A King Lear daughter 17. 1934 song covered by Frank Sinatra, Bob Dylan and the Supremes, among others 19. “Try it ...”

20. Bell-ringing church worker 21. John Maynard who lent his name to a macroeconomics theory 23. Prominent muscle for Terry Crews 24. HS class in which problems might involve solutions 26. Hounds 27. Test that Jeff Winger cheated on to become a lawyer, in Community 28. With 42-Across, folk rock song with an iconic 1964 version by the Animals 31. Glam rock?

32. “I’d really like this,” in terse online slang 33. Sound that’s good to hear from an audience, bad to hear from a lion 34. Pooh-poohed, with “at”

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36. Like the Coatlicue statue in Mexico City 38. Like a beige-and-tan color scheme 40. ___ or miss 41. Prefix with -political 42. See 28-Across 45. Really good song, informally 48. Insta fodder 49. “Go on, git!”

50. I was gonna use a cheese pun for this clue, but nothing I came up with was any ___ 52. Death Comes to Pemberley author 56. People posting Dashboard Confessional lyrics on their Myspace pages, probably 58. Cauldron concoction 59. “Who’s the best?” [/ points two thumbs at self] 60. 1971 David Bowie song that Pitchfork named “the best song of the 1970s” 63. Easy people to prank 64. Social media platform whence the famous “back at it again at Krispy Kreme” video 65. Fertile soil 66. Poli ___ 67. Herbal drink with a colorful name 69. Early bed 73. Is constantly one step ahead of 75. 1996 family movie with LV263 ANSWERS an upcoming sequel ... or a description E D AM A BOD E B I S T L A L A C E N A C A S T I of any of the songs S N OW C A S I O R A I N featured in this I T ORN E V E R B F A R T E E K UN I T Y A L C S puzzle?

EMT S C I T Y 77. More agile DR A K E MOC S A P P 78. Down with what UND E R T H EWE A T H E R GA S AMA L N E A T O the kids are up to R B I S S P E D (these days, I think H A I L HOOE Y S UN C A T T E MON K E Y C L E it’s the “fort nite”) OU S T WA HOO A R T S 79. Figure that’s A L E E T R EME P A R T T S A R OK R A S S P A S higher in gentrified

neighborhoods 80. Worked the land 81. “___, and ...” (improv comedy mantra) 82. Tacks on

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62. Maron who hosts WTF and appears in GLOW 64. Exasperated 67. Repetitive way to learn 68. Needing lotion, in a way 70. Spun records 71. Get, as a coveted job 72. Medics who might perform prehospital deliveries 74. Masc counterpart, in gay culture 76. Its smell might cause people to float, in cartoons

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