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I Love Fufu, Mammitas Coffee and Her Soup Kitchen are just a few of the many eateries owned by women in the Iowa City area.

The Iowa City UNESCO City of Literature will present a writing jam with local author Chuy Renteria, events at Sidekick Coffee & Books and ice skating.

View Comments When Chuck Swanson first asked Tess Weaver and Jennifer Black Reinhardt to make a children's book inspired by the 30 granite fish now resting on the Hancher Auditorium's lawn, there was some trepidation. “I just remembered walking (outside Hancher) wondering what to do," Weaver said. "I kept having the strangest image of a trunk being pushed onto a riverbank and then falling back into.” From there, the ideas began to flow and — in a fraction of the time typically taken to write, print and publish a children's book — "Fishtastic!" came to fruition. "Fishtastic! A Tale...

Independent Bookstore Day arrives after COVID-19 pandemic challenged Eastern Iowa publishers Isaac Hamlet, Iowa City Press-Citizen © Joseph Cress/Iowa City Press-Citizen Trinity Ray, of the Tuesday Agency, stands in his office, Tuesday, Nov. 19, 2019, at the TUESDAY Agency office in the Chauncey in Iowa City, Iowa. But, as the pandemic revealed across multiple industries, rising tides do not lift all ships. While several of the big-box publishers and distributors, in particular, reported higher sales numbers, that bump was not reflected across the board on the local level...