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The Iowa City Downtown Gift Card good at 165 plus merchants in Downtown Iowa City

The Iowa City Downtown District offers a district-wide gift card that can be used in-person, over the phone, or online at over 165 shopping and dining locations including street meters, parking ramps, hotels, and the Iowa City Public Library. The gift card can be purchased online, or in person.

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  • PLAY IT AS IT LAYS (10/12/25 04:05 PM)
    Chauncey -Theater 1Maria (Tuesday Weld) is frustrated with her loveless marriage to an ambitious film director who would rather work on his career than their relationship and numbs herself with drugs and sex with strangers. Only her friendship with a sensitive gay movie producer (Anthony Perkins) offers a semblance of solace. But even that relationship […]
  • I AM NIGHT AT NOONDAY (10/12/25 04:30 PM)
    Chauncey -Theater 3In Marseille, the gates and doors are multiplying. The streets are closing. The whole city is affected. Distrust and fear have taken hold everywhere. To free the city from this spreading evil, an unlikely Don Quixote and a scooter-riding Sancho Panza embark on an improbable journey, battling with the castles that are colonizing […]
  • THE HIPS OF J.W. (10/12/25 03:20 PM)
    Ped Mall -Scene 1Inspired by a postcard that French critic Serge Daney sent to director João César Monteiro, this singular piece of cinema ostensibly sees a director (Monteiro) putting on a production of an adaptation of August Strindberg’s novel Inferno. But with writing credits given to Pier Paolo Pasolini, Teixeira de Pascoaes, and André Breton […]
  • THE ICE TOWER (10/12/25 04:00 PM)
    Ped Mall -The Screening RoomJeanne (Clara Pacini), a 15-year-old runaway orphan, witnesses the shoot for a film adaptation of the fairy tale The Snow Queen and becomes fascinated by its star, Cristina (Marion Cotillard), an actress who is just as mysterious and alluring as the Queen she is playing. When her fascination becomes all consuming, […]
  • RIVER OF GRASS (2025) (10/12/25 02:15 PM)
    Chauncey -Theater 3Director Sasha Wortzel reimagines environmentalist Marjory Stoneman Douglas’s celebrated book, The Everglades: River of Grass, which transformed the public’s understanding of the area from worthless swamps to an essential source of freshwater, enabling the ecosystem to endure, just barely, today.