A new exhibition at the Cedar Rapids Museum of Art uses artworks from the CRMA's extensive collection to shine a spotlight on clothing—what it says about the artist who highlighted it, the person who wears it, and the culture it comes from. The images in Dressed Up (And Down): Depictions of Clothing in the Collection| Iowa Source - Iowa's Enlightening Magazine
“Secure the lease, then manage the people. The first task is easy. . . . It’s the second that can get you killed.” —Billy Bob Thornton as Tommy Norris, describing his job as landman Welcome to the Permian Basin, a 75,000-square-mile “patch” through West Texas and Southeast New Mexico that has long served as| Iowa Source - Iowa's Enlightening Magazine
O ne hundred years ago, Calvin Coolidge said that “the chief business of the American people is business,” and it’s still true today. By the time you read this, the Super Bowl will have been played and Major League Baseball teams will be in spring training. The Super Bowl has been played every year since| Iowa Source - Iowa's Enlightening Magazine
What’s my idea of heaven? That would be the annual Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas each January. A whole week of state-of-the-art gadgets. Can you imagine? And, no surprise, one of the highlights this year was artificial intelligence. One of these years I’ll attend, but for now I’ve asked my favorite chatbots for some| Iowa Source - Iowa's Enlightening Magazine
Discovery Channel’s Alaska: The Last Frontier, the 11-season reality show that ended in 2022, garnered quite a fanbase, with millions all over the world following the exploits of the Kilcher family, homesteaders living off the land near Homer, Alaska. But what many people don’t know is that the Kilcher family has been attracting attention for| Iowa Source - Iowa's Enlightening Magazine
It's been four years since Fairfield was dubbed the world’s first “TerraCycle Town” for its progress towards zero waste. In addition to taking part in conventional recycling, local residents (and many of you readers) have diverted 89,000 plastic products from landfills, enough to fill 10 bathtubs with solid plastic. These are thousands of everyday products| Iowa Source - Iowa's Enlightening Magazine
Founded in 2002, Iowa City’s Public Space One (PS1) has become a thriving, artist-led, community-oriented art center, maintaining multidisciplinary, experimental spaces for Iowa City and Southeast Iowa. Not only does PS1 advocate for art in everyday life, it also supports artists with welcoming spaces for making art, innovative programs that stretch boundaries, and cultural resources| Iowa Source - Iowa's Enlightening Magazine
Fairly often, I am tempted to reread a book. Most of the time, I resist the urge. There are some notable exceptions. I have, for example, returned to Douglas Adams’s Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy series—a trilogy in five parts, as the marketing sometimes reads—any number of times. As regular readers of this column know,| Iowa Source - Iowa's Enlightening Magazine
Every day is a holiday. Don’t believe me (or Katy Perry’s 2015 hit)—you can check for yourself. Just log on to your computer and ask what we commemorate today (or whenever). There’s always something being celebrated by someone somewhere. Most people know that February is the month of Valentine’s Day, Presidents’ Day, and even Groundhog| Iowa Source - Iowa's Enlightening Magazine
The worst speakers in our homes these days are the ones in our TVs. There, I said it. But why is this always true? The obvious problem is that today’s TVs are so skinny, it’s impossible to build a speaker cabinet that’s big enough to allow the speaker to hit any low notes. Speakers that| Iowa Source - Iowa's Enlightening Magazine
A show of new paintings by Fairfield artist Joanie McGinnis opens at ICON Gallery this Friday during on Fairfield First Fridays, 6:30 to 10 p.m. McGinnis’s upbeat abstract paintings appeal to a wide range of viewers. ICON Gallery Director Bill Teeple explains, “People often remark, ‘I don’t normally like abstract art, but I love Joanie’s| Iowa Source - Iowa's Enlightening Magazine
