Alison Gowans

In normal times, Chew on This focuses on restaurant openings and closings. These are not normal times, with restaurants ordered …

Editor’s note: An earlier version of this story listed the incorrect dates the DJ company appeared at North Dodge Hy-Vee …

On Monday afternoon, the city of Cedar Rapids asked all Cedar Rapids bars and restaurants to close for St. Patrick’s …

When Tim Gallenbeck saw an Etch A Sketch at a thrift store for 99 cents in 2013, he picked it …

CEDAR RAPIDS – People who receive daily food deliveries from Meals on Wheels already are part of the demographics most …

Organizers have canceled the Mission Creek Festival, changing course Thursday night just days after announcing Iowa City’s annual festival of …

People who want to open a restaurant or home catering or baking business but don’t know where to start can …

IOWA CITY – When Scott Ward announced he would have to close Daylight Donuts in Iowa City because the location …

The 45th annual SaPaDaPaSo parade, a Cedar Rapids St. Patrick’s Day tradition, has been canceled due to fears about the …

CEDAR RAPIDS – In the Smith gallery at the National Czech & Slovak Museum & Library last month, people pressed …

The owners of Coralville and Cedar Rapids restaurant 30hop have bought the location that housed Louie’s Wine Dive, 901 E. …

Boston Fish is back – again – with the opening of The Fish Store at 4342 16th Ave. SW, Cedar …

  CEDAR RAPIDS — Shannon O’Shaughnessy has always worked in restaurants, starting as a teenager as a car hop at …

Villas Patio Several months after a fire shut it down, Villas Patio has reopened in Marion. Though the fire on …

Eight years after the book ‘The Maid Narratives” collected stories from black Iowa women who were domestic workers in the …