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Nitty Gritty Iowa City: Daytripping: Famous home edition
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Nitty Gritty Iowa City. The Penny-Pincher's Guide to Area Culture). Wednesday, April 30, 2008. Daytripping: Famous home edition. This is a story about the home in the background, avert your eyes from the handsome farmer in the front. American Gothic, what can you say? Everyone knows the original. Everyone loves the parodies. The house was lived in even after the painting became famous before being placed on the National Register in 1974. The house is closed on the inside and the back of the house is ...
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Nitty Gritty Iowa City: May 2008
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Nitty Gritty Iowa City. The Penny-Pincher's Guide to Area Culture). Monday, May 5, 2008. Free events during Finals Week. First up, CAB is sponsoring a free massage chair area located at the Chalk Talk Lounge on the ground floor of the IMU. It will be held from May 6th to the 8th from 9 pm to midnight. So if you got the time, and you think sitting in a massage chair will help you pass that Calculus and Matrix Algebra for Business exam (it just sounds difficult) then stop on by and help yourself.
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Nitty Gritty Iowa City: Free events during Finals Week
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Nitty Gritty Iowa City. The Penny-Pincher's Guide to Area Culture). Monday, May 5, 2008. Free events during Finals Week. First up, CAB is sponsoring a free massage chair area located at the Chalk Talk Lounge on the ground floor of the IMU. It will be held from May 6th to the 8th from 9 pm to midnight. So if you got the time, and you think sitting in a massage chair will help you pass that Calculus and Matrix Algebra for Business exam (it just sounds difficult) then stop on by and help yourself.
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Nitty Gritty Iowa City: Daytripping: Captain Kirk Edition
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Nitty Gritty Iowa City. The Penny-Pincher's Guide to Area Culture). Monday, April 14, 2008. Daytripping: Captain Kirk Edition. Before Riverside (about 15 miles south of Iowa City on Highway 27) became "that town with the casino" and we heard that annoying B.J. Armstrong on the commercial every ten minutes (did you know that he is a former Iowa Hawkeye and Chicago Bull? Well I sure as hell do since I've heard that commercial 1,396,547 times), it was known for a slightly nerdier reason. To commemorate thei...
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Nitty Gritty Iowa City: Poker and a Movie
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Nitty Gritty Iowa City. The Penny-Pincher's Guide to Area Culture). Wednesday, April 23, 2008. Poker and a Movie. As part of Residence Hall Week, put on by the University of Iowa's organization Associated Resident Halls, students will get a chance to enjoy several fun activities over the next week without having to spend a dime. On Wednesday, April 23rd at 8 pm in the Rienow Hall lounge, the ARH will be putting on a free showing of the hit movie. Stars Ellen Page (Kitty Pride in. On the following evening...
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Nitty Gritty Iowa City: Daytripping: Extremely large cookware edition
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Nitty Gritty Iowa City. The Penny-Pincher's Guide to Area Culture). Sunday, April 27, 2008. Daytripping: Extremely large cookware edition. It may not be the world's largest frying pan. You've won this round, Rose Hill, North Carolina), but I'm sure Brandon (an hour north of Iowa City on I-380) is still proud of being the home to Iowa's largest frying pan. According to its Wikipedia page. The frying pan is supposed to hold 88 times more than a regular 10 inch frying pan. 88 pounds of bacon.
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Nitty Gritty Iowa City: February 2008
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Nitty Gritty Iowa City. The Penny-Pincher's Guide to Area Culture). Wednesday, February 27, 2008. So my assignment was to go out and cover a free event held at the Johnson County Historical Society Museum. In honor of Black Hisory Month, the museum was displaying several artifacts and pictures from past African-American Iowan athletes. Being a sports guy myself I had to check it out. What I got out of it was much more. In the next room is a place for historical cars. Automobiles such as the Model-T a...
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Nitty Gritty Iowa City: Music to my ears
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Nitty Gritty Iowa City. The Penny-Pincher's Guide to Area Culture). Monday, April 28, 2008. Music to my ears. What: UI Orchestra Spring Recital. Where: Voxman Music Building. When: April 27, 2008. Ahhhh, recital season. If there is one thing I. Will miss after leaving Iowa City, it will be the free recitals given by the UI music school. When else will I have the opportunity to hear free recitals given by world-class musicians in a sparsely occupied auditorium? Last December I attended a free recital.
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Nitty Gritty Iowa City: Spring Madness
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Nitty Gritty Iowa City. The Penny-Pincher's Guide to Area Culture). Tuesday, April 22, 2008. A little Madness in the Spring. Is wholesome even for the King. Where: Outside your door. Ah, spring. It has seemingly arrived in all of it's rainstormy, bird-chirping, bright-greeny goodness. Accordingly, I am in love with the outd. Oors, the smells of fresh air and sunshine, grass, dirt. life. And lucky me! Iowa City proper is home to 4o parks. I've been coming to Coralville Lake ever since my older. I know I'm...