| Dec
23 (Sa)—Holiday
Open House and Benefit for JCHS-----1-7pm, 114
& 1/2 E. College St (the Hall Mall) downtown Iowa City.
To celebrate the winter holidays, the friendly vendors at
the Hall Mall hosted a benefit and donated 5% of all sales
(not just profits, gross sales) to us.
 The
benefit included:
•
refreshments and music with plenty of holiday cheer
•
a Special Needs Kitties Christmas Tree to showcase JCHS
cats with special needs
•
a raffle
It
was a wonderful opportunity to spread the “spirit
of the season” to include animals in need just by
doing a little holiday shopping or dropping off a donation.
About
Iowa City's Upstairs Underground
The
Hall Mall is ground zero of Iowa City's counter culture.
For more than 30 years, it has been the place for anti-corporate
customers to hook up with anti-establishment entrepreneurs.
Hours are from noon-9pm Monday through Saturday (individual
shops hours vary).
Located on the ped mall above College Street Billiards,
the Hall
Mall is the current home of:
• Antiques &
Oddities* features an assortment of vintage wierdness,
from autographed cymbals to harley pipes.
• Exile
Tattoo* is the home of award-winning tattoo artists
Stingray and Lurch.
• FERAL!*
Kustom Kulture's home in IC has vintage bicycles, lowriders,
bike parts, jewelry & accessories, outsider art, Day
of the Dead & Tiki art, agit-prop t-shirts, and organic
catnip, and cat toys. For more info go to the FERAL!
website
• Focus
Body Piercing* features jewelry and piercing by Bil,
one of Iowa City’s most experienced piercers, with
more than12 years in the biz.
• The
Konnexion features an awesome selection of smoking
accessories, incense, t-shirts, and gifts.(Please remember
to bring your ID.)
• Rusty
Records offers a huge selection of affordable vintage
vinyl, used CDs and tapes, and now vintage clothing—“cool
threads mostly for dudes”!
• Velocipede
provides 24-hour delivery of virtually anything you need.
•
InfoShop is the place for ’zinesters.
• The
White Rabbit* features custom designs by local artists.
T-shirts, panties, onesies, purses, bags, gloves, pillows,
stickers, buttons, and more.
A
hearty thanks to all of these vendors for remembering homeless
animals during the holidays! And loud purrs to Ericka and
Rich Dana from FERAL! who did a fine job of organizing this
event.
*donated
items for the raffle
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