Steve Gravelle

Back Porch Pickers and Artisans in Mount Vernon features 56 antique dealers, artists and crafters sharing the 9,000-square-foot space.

Vintage Market and Supply in Cedar Rapids’ Czech Village opened in July, with an emphasis on local and regional historic items.

Cedar Rapids business All Out Rampage is space for trashing cellphones, computers and other appliances with baseball bats, golf clubs and sledgehammers, located at 371 Edgewood Road NW.

Scribe Stationer, a stationery shop in an old Cedar Rapids firehouse in the New Bohemia neighborhood, promotes an “authentic way to communicate.”

Bargain hunters and families going through transition have helped Upscale Retail support local community-service organizations since 2016.

Hy-Vee grocery near Lindale Mall closed earlier this month, but the mall’s manager and other business experts aren’t worried — the mall is in one of Cedar Rapids’ busiest retail districts.

Since 2016, Comic Sandwiches in Hiawatha has supplied shields and other props — batons, maces and battle hammers — to cosplayers and comic-book fans in two dozen countries.

For 35 years, Hiawatha-based Banacom has evolved to include decals, life-sized cardboard cutouts and vinyl wraps for virtually anything that can carry a message.

Brice Lukasko will recount his experience starting BLX during a 1 Million Cups discussion Dec. 15.

Her talent for the homemade blanket that became an art form led Megan Bracy to build a studio in the basement of her family’s Marion home. There she stitches the finishing touches to others’ work.

Local residents whose sweet tooth puts them at odds with a vegan diet or gluten restrictions can thank a church bake sale for expanding their options.

Beth Livingston, assistant professor of management and entrepreneurship at the University of Iowa’s Tippie College of Business, is one of a team of investigators that’s among the first to look at how artificial intelligence could affect the future of clerical work.

That will mean some new names alongside traditional mainstays such as Schild Brau and Iowa Pale Ale. Many new styles will be offered in cans, also new for Millstream.

Ice Cube Press lists dozens of titles still in print, including some of its earliest.

Where to go, what to bring, and how to crack them open.