Wilco will love you, baby. So goes one line in Wilco’s opening track “Wilco (The Song)” off its latest album, Wilco. In its 15-year career, the band has been called a lot of things: alternative...

A little bit of splattered paint on raw canvas is thought of as a good thing. Art is not about the finished product, but about the verb to create. This weekend, artists from all corners of Iowa City in...

“The worldly philosophers” was economist Robert Heilbroner’s term for such great economic thinkers as Adam Smith, Karl Marx, John Maynard Keynes, and Joseph Schumpeter. Today’s free-market economists,...

We’ve already written about the pros and cons of health-care reform in this paper. And I argued in a previous column that young people stand to gain significantly — if not the most — from health-care...

This year has proven to be a field of dreams — or, rather, a field of green — for movie producers filming in Iowa. The economy-boosting idea of attracting films to the state with tax credits — in...

“We failed,” sophomore John Fagg said. That statement summed up the second half for Ball $treet Journal Wednesday night at the Hawkeye Recreation Fields. The score was tied 20-20 just before the...

Some surprising changes have happened in this week’s intramural flag-football men’s open league top 10. Sigma Pi A, TKE, and the Lemon Party climbed to fourth, fifth, and sixth in the rankings after...

In its final nonconference game of the season, the Iowa soccer team pulled out a 1-0 win over Drake in Des Moines on Wednesday. Senior midfielder Jackie Kaeding found the net for the second time this...

When most people think about Division-I college athletes, fame, privilege, and full-ride scholarships come to mind. This would be true if the sport in question is football or basketball. But for athletes...

The Iowa women’s golf team is one of only three programs in the Big Ten that does not have a single international player on its roster. Purdue’s entire roster boasts players from countries not named...

A team’s success doesn’t always depend on one person. While the Iowa volleyball team stands 9-5 overall — one of the best starts in school history — the Hawkeyes make it known their victories...

The Iowa women harriers have three extra runners this season — but none of them are students at the university. Diane Nukuri Johnson, Evelyn Ross, and Jeff Randall are all volunteer assistants helping...