"The Black Gold Tapestry," a hand embroidered piece by Canadian artist Sandra Sawazky, takes viewers on a journey over millions of years using 52 vignettes centered around one element: oil.
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"The Black Gold Tapestry," a hand embroidered piece by Canadian artist Sandra Sawazky, takes viewers on a journey over millions of years using 52 vignettes centered around one element: oil.
Long known as the Henderson House, one historic mansion in Marion will now move forward under a new name: The Smyth.
The Freedom Foundation, a local nonprofit that supports military personnel and families, has partnered with PACT for Animals, a national organization, to help veterans and active duty servicepeople find pet fostering options through Operation Foster during deployment or long-term medical care.
For Nathan Berns, owner of Two Men and a Truck franchises across Eastern Iowa, Maryland and New York, knowing the odds has been part of a long-term strategy that has paid off well. But if the Eastern Iowa native has learned anything, it’s not how to play the numbers — it’s how to understand the humans around him.
As the co-founder of Community Health Free Clinic retires, the nonprofit’s new CEO expects the need for affordable medical care to grow even more urgent.
A new documentary film is unveiling the blueprints of Grant Wood’s treasured Memorial Window in Cedar Rapids, plus the pivotal story of who the artist was before he was world famous.
At Aaron Moseley and Laura Kerr’s Iowa City home, dozens of ceramic mugs serve as snapshots of the life they’ve shared together.
It’s not often that “thinking inside the box,” is lauded as a winning strategy. But for spoken word poet Henry Morray, it won Slamovision’s 2025 international slam poetry competition.
Babs Haggin-Roy recalls growing up in Illinois, the second daughter of deaf parents. Their home was quiet. No music, no singing, no telephone, no radio and no television.
As the last working Sister at Mercy Medical Center in Cedar Rapids retires, their legacy and mission lives on in a new way.
Here’s how the owner of Razzle Dazzle, a new video and music store, is making old media shine again in his Lindale Mall spot.
“Twilights,” a new public art exhibit, brings innovative lighting to a previously dark alley connecting the Pedestrian Mall to the area in front of The Graduate Hotel on South Dubuque Street in Iowa City.
For some, traditions look a little different in the kitchen. Here’s how families from different cultural backgrounds fold their own heritages into holiday celebrations.
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