Cramped spaces, bodies pushed up against each other, hiding in dark corners of an attic — this is the environment Anne Frank lived in for two and a half years. The young girl logged her experiences of...

One sip of Hot Buttered Rum can leave listeners addicted. The mouth-watering mixture is made up of San Francisco band members Aaron Redner (fiddle, electric and acoustic mandolins), Bryan Horne (double...

Count Jabula loves Dale Earnhardt. The lead vocalist for Iowa City-born band Human Aftertaste harbors an absolute devotion to the late stock-car driver not in a romantic or fatherly way, but in the most...

Everyone has a different, stress-relieving outlet. For some, it may be reading a novel. For others, it may be working out. For Misty Boyce, the outlet is music. “I think as a kid [music] is always...

The members of the Black Dahlia Murder — producers of blindingly fast metal music and dark lyrics — are nerds at heart, lead vocalist Trevor Strnad said. “World of Warcraft has kind of taken over...

At the age of 75, poet and now Ivy League Professor Mark Strand still manages to travel for readings across the country and muster through unexpected questions from fans and critics. However, after 50...

Jump to the left and step to the right — another Halloween approaches, meaning it’s time for Iowa City to do “The Time Warp” again. The Bijou will present its annual midnight showings of the cult-classic...

Unless you’ve been spending a lot of time in caves lately, you know that the state and country are suffering financial difficulties. The most worrisome development is that 150 fewer of my fellow graduate...

The war in Afghanistan has cost us billions of dollars and countless lives. But what if there was a better way to address potential conflicts and looming national-security challenges on the front end —...

The City Council’s proposal to hike snow emergency fines is cold. Iowa City officials want to raise the fines for parking violations during snow emergencies from $15 to $50. This move, they say, would...

After Wednesday night’s game at the Hawkeye Recreation Fields, DCD has still only allowed one touchdown all year. The squad’s sterling defense shut out Dirt Show, 27-0. Initially, it didn’t look...

Derek “White Chocolate” Johnson is an intramural-sports lifer. Voted the DI Intramural Athlete of the Week last week, Johnson, 22, is a fifth-year senior studying marketing and management. The Urbandale,...