Dominating the contemporary world of music, the JACK Quartet is a four-man super squad armed with bows and strings. Whether it is decoding 700-year-old musical scripts for a modern-day audience or distorting...

In 1964, Rich Riggleman played the role of the bell announcer in the controversial play The Playboy of the Western World. Now, 45 years later, he is directing a production of that play for Dreamwell Theatre...

“It’s not so much about the reefer.” A bold statement regarding a production titled Reefer Madness, but actor John Watkins insists it’s true. “The operative word in the title is ‘madness,’...

UI President Sally Mason charged us last year to mobilize a campuswide effort — in collaboration with community members — to change the culture of high-risk drinking. At stake is the future of our...

Dan Reicher, director of climate change and energy initiatives at Google, summed up the effort to pass a U.S. climate-change bill as an “epic, epic struggle.” This summer, the U.S. House of Representatives...

Iowa courthouses are struggling, to say the least. As part of statewide budget slashes, courthouses in all 99 Iowa counties will close down for 10 days over the next seven months. Employees across Iowa...

The Big Ten and Big 12 women’s basketball conferences announced on Wednesday the creation of an annual inter-conference challenge set to begin in the fall of 2010. The series will feature a home-and-home...

On Wednesday, Iowa men’s basketball head coach Todd Lickliter announced the signings of four recruits for the 2010-11 season. The Hawkeyes’ 2010 class consists of Devyn Marble, Zach McCabe, Cody Larson,...

For most Big Ten athletes, second-team All-Big Ten honors would be a blessing. But for Iowa men’s cross-country star Jesse Luciano, the majority of his senior season and a 13th-place finish at the Big...

Injuries and world travel have left the Iowa women’s diving team with a freshman and a former gymnast. The squad is without two of its top performers and its two most-experienced collegiate divers —...

James Vandenberg’s mother, Ann, and 7-year old sister, Isabel, have a routine every night. The two sit cozy on their couch while Ann types a text message to Isabel’s four older siblings, writing,...

The Iowa volleyball team ended its streak by adding to Wisconsin’s. Losers of a season-high five games in a row, the Hawkeyes pulled out a five-set, 3-2 victory over the Badgers (19-25, 25-17, 25-16,...