Living

Available at the Cedar Valley Humane Society

The Greater Cedar Rapids Housing & Building Association invites you to explore the Fall 2025 Parade of Homes.

Mediaverse is a place for filmmakers to get their projects created. The space and crew’s time can be rented, but mostly, they work together and with other filmmakers to improve their skills, lend their expertise and create.

Although the Great Lakes and oceans come to mind when thinking of watery grandeur, Marion and Rick Patterson’s recent visit to the Land Between the Lakes in Kentucky and Tennessee helped them comprehend how two massive reservoirs link to an interconnection of rivers, oceans and lakes spanning much of the United States.

Available for adoption at Cedar Rapids Animal Care & Control

To carry out the mission of working with their hands, Trappist Monks in Dubuque County focus on conservation, forestry and making caskets.

Two storytelling events in Cedar Rapids — one returning and one new — hope that the power of storytelling from locals and nationally recognized narrators will show us that we’re more alike than we are different.

Seagrove, North Carolina may be tiny, but its pottery scene is anything but small. Within a 20-mile radius, about 100 potters live and work, producing everything from utilitarian bowls to dazzling works of art. On a recent trip to Seagrove, Lori Erickson discovered that nearly every back road leads to a potter’s workshop, each one offering a fresh take on the region’s centuries-old clay traditions.