When I moved to Iowa City 25 years ago, one of the first things I did to familiarize myself with my new surroundings was ...

This comic was originally published in Little Village’s November 2025 issue.

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Father Guillermo Treviño, Jr., pastor of St. Joseph Catholic Church in West Liberty, died on Friday. His sister, Mariela Treviño-Luna, said in a social media post on Friday evening that Treviño had ...

Prescribed burn practitioners with the Nature Conservancy’s Trailblazers Academy prepare for a burn in the Broken Kettle Grasslands preserve. — Bethany Kaylor/Little Village “When Americans think of ...

Des Moines Symphony offered another crowd-pleasing performance last month with the second installment of their Masterworks series, Wisdom – Dvořák 6 & Chopin. Their program once again featured a ...

This comic was originally published in Little Village’s November 2025 issue.

Dozens of pharmacists, students and pharmacy owners attended the Senate subcommittee meeting Feb. 5, where Sens. Annette Sweeney, left, Mike Klimesh and Sarah Trone Garriott heard public comments on a ...

Promo still from The Puppet Masters (1994) — courtesy of Hollywood Pictures Hey folks, welcome back to Little Big Screen: On the Big, Big Screen, where film columnist Benjamin McElroy recommends five ...

Jonathan Spector’s 2025 Tony Award-winning Eureka Day, with its sharp humor and painfully familiar questions about privilege, progressivism and public health, has found a lively and incisive staging ...

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): In the late 18th century, Balloonomania came to Paris. Large crowds gathered to watch inventors and impresarios send hot air balloons into the sky. Spectators were ...

Some Iowa Head Start programs providing child care and early childhood education could be impacted if the federal government shutdown continues into November. Pictured are children at the Downtown ...