We asked our colleagues across Courier Newsroom, Iowa Starting Line's parent company, to share recommendations for books by Indigenous authors. Here’s what they said. Monday, October 9, is...
In honor of National Banned Books Week, which takes on even more importance this year in Iowa, we asked you for your favorite banned books. Starting Line readers put 48+ books on this list. But a few rose to the top of the pile.
After 148 days on strike, Hollywood writers—including Iowa native Romen Borsellino—reached a tentative agreement with the major studios last week that Borsellino told Starting Line was "an incredible deal" for Writers Guild of America members.
Banned Books Week seems especially relevant in Iowa this year. Here are a couple events to help you celebrate this week, both free and open to all:
One of the things I love about my job is that I often get to cover the topics I’m most interested in.
The nights are getting longer, and the days chillier, and there’s never a better time to get lost in a new book (except maybe the dead of winter).
National Hispanic Heritage Month is held in the US every year from Sept. 15 through Oct. 15 as a celebration of the history, cultures and contributions...
Two new events are coming this month to Sioux City to build a space for and connect the different cultures, backgrounds, and people who have made the city home over the years.
Classic, vintage, iconic, and just plain cool, we found some old movie theaters sprinkled across the state.
It was, ironically, the 2007 writers' strike that got Romen Borsellino interested in writing.
