Elijah Decious

Insomnia Cookies, known at many locations for its proximity to college campuses, has a new location in the new Kingston Yard development.

Aroma Artisan Pizza’s second location, opened in Kingston Yard on Oct. 31, is the maturing pizza shop’s first stand-alone location outside NewBo City Market since it started in 2017.

NewBo City Market has made significant progress towards its capital campaign goal thanks to an $800,000 contribution from the Hall-Perrine Foundation.

Welcome to Bethlehem, an unofficial pop-up city that appears one weekend every year at

Dirty Dough, which opened its first Iowa franchise in January at 2811 Wiley Blvd. SW, Suite 100, has expanded beyond stuffed cookies and into dirty sodas.

The new location will be Freddy’s fourth in Iowa, and its third in Cedar Rapids.

Captain’s Fish and Chicken, opened by owner Ray Aqel at 1616 First Ave. NE in October, has brought a popular new option to the Wellington Heights and Mound View neighborhoods.

The new spot, at 3254 Crosspark Rd. next to Barrett’s Quality Eats, opens on Wednesday, Dec. 11.

With a collection dating back to the 1500s, there’s plenty to feast on at the Szathmary Culinary Manuscript Collection at the University of Iowa — one of the top five collections in the country. Thousands of books, manuscripts and pamphlets all seem to have one common theme: We are what we eat.

Some live to work. Others work to live. But Ashley Whittlesey finds the two inextricably linked.

After several cafe partnerships and two openings at the University of Iowa, The Eat Shop is opening a new flagship location in Linn County to serve offerings from every other location -- plus a few new things.

Its store on Twixt Town Road closed on Sunday, Nov. 24.

Resilient Sustainable Future for Iowa City (RSFIC) has been offering grants to support neighbors getting together, form relationships, build trust and solve neighborhood problems together. Now, they’re bringing those stories to the big screen with 90-second documentaries before each movie screening at FilmScene.

After escaping from his owner and living on the lam for several days, a Pleasant Hill water buffalo has been put out to pasture in a rural Oxford animal sanctuary.

After 10 years, a service that delivers handmade cards and letters to those in care facilities around the country has expanded into schools with promising results.