Elijah Decious

With special art installations throughout the city and newly incorporated festivals, Cedar Rapids is making new efforts during Welcoming Week to support immigrants who will be critical to the future of Cedar Rapids.

Art Cullen, the subject of a new documentary on the Storm Lake Times, a 2017 Pulitzer Prize winner, will appear at a Friday screening as part of a national tour for the new film, “Storm Lake.”

Run for Pie runners will have the chance to earn a homemade apple pie while raising cash to educate children in rural Haiti.

A year after George Floyd’s death, two organizations that gained visibility took different tracks on the trail to their goals.

Cedar Rapids’ newest Indian restaurant brings not only a new taste from the owner’s home country, but a vision of it in a way many international cuisine restaurants haven’t attempted.

The popular Italian restaurant will reopen at the iconic former People’s Savings Bank nearly nine months after closing last year. Also in this week’s Chew on This: Black Sheep Brewed now open.

As America commemorates the 20th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, one Eastern Iowa Gold Star family says the ultimate sacrifice paid by their son, Sgt. 1st Class Terryl Pasker, was not in vain.

With increased isolation since the pandemic, reaching out is more important than ever. That’s how 8-year-old Kenley Lindstrom and Jack Stevens, 72, became pals. With Grandparent’s Day on Sunday, now is good time to reach out.

In this week’s Chew on This: Parlor City temporarily closes in Marion, Delhicacy opens a new Indian restaurant in Cedar Rapids, and several Corridor women are tapped for honors by the Iowa Restaurant Association.

SpareMe brings new bowling, arcade games and elevated casual food under one roof.

Though maps outlining “undesirable” areas were only produced by the federal government from 1935 to 1940, the effects on seven Iowa cities live on to this day.

“At some point, you have to take action,” said Tamara Marcus, county sustainability program manager and co-author of the county’s first greenhouse gas emissions report. “We have to act now.”

The new restaurant at Bowman Square in Northeast Cedar Rapids held a grand opening Aug. 25.

Looking for the best food in downtown and Northside Iowa City? See what made our list from Taste of Iowa City.

Despite brisk business now, new challenges — from staffing shortages to delta variant — threaten to hold restaurants back from full pandemic recovery.