This is what is going on here.

February 29, 2008: In May 2007 I moved to Wilmington, Delaware, so Culture Hawk is no longer about Iowa City. It didn't turn out to be about much at all. This time I have no intentions about what this space will be like or what I'll include. We'll just see if it's anything at all.

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Iowa City has been my home intermittently since the fall of 2000. From the beginning our relationship has been complicated. I only came here because the school I really wanted to attend put me on a waiting list. I stewed and pouted during my first two semesters. Then I moved away and commuted. I moved back for a semester. I studied overseas for a year. I moved back for a semester. I studied overseas for a semester. For a year I was neither in Iowa City nor overseas. Last fall I moved back and started law school.

Despite the fact that I kept hopping around and had at first harbored a childish bitterness about being here, somewhere along the line I really started to appreciate Iowa City.

The purpose of this blog is to chronicle its cultural life. I take a wide view of culture and intend to talk about everything from the street layout to the coffee shops to the grocery stores as well as high culture events like readings, plays and whatnot.

It will take in things from the wider American culture or from other countries that are accessible in Iowa City. No city is an island, not even a small one in the hinterlands of the US.

I'm not aiming at a strictly Iowa City audience and I hope others will find it of interest as well. If you end up moving here because of my stirring descriptions, please let the City Council or Chamber of Commerce know. Maybe they'll set me up with a nice salary for my service.