Extend the Dream/Uptown Bill’s Coffee House will be hosting its EIGHTH annual Dickens and Donuts, at Public Space One (538 SOUTH Gilbert in Iowa City) — a celebration of the holidays with the aforementioned doughnuts (and perhaps some caffeinated beverages as well), coupled with a community reading of the original text of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol…

Because nothing celebrates the holidays quite like recounting the heartwarming story of how the rich must be violently traumatised by supernatural forces into adopting a spirit of generosity befitting the Christmas season.