The hallway of Headdress Salon was lined with paintings of colorful nature and city landscapes for sale on June 22 to help two nonprofit organizations in the community. The salon hosted the Hatched...

A stage manager adorned in fairy wings buzzed through the crowd to set up for the next performer, adding to the magic and love that filled the back room of the Mill during QueertopIA on the evening of...

How would you celebrate your 200th birthday? For famed poet Walt Whitman, the bicentennial festivities in Iowa City spanned an entire week and wound to a close in the friendly confines of a barroom. As...

As Downtown Iowa City gears up for the third-annual Downtown Block Party, local artists and musicians prepare to inspire people’s curiosity with special shows and pieces. For this year’s Block Party,...

The University of Iowa’s EPX Studio hosted its ninth-annual gaming convention this past weekend, which brought in not just leaders in the video gaming and animation professions but also a community of...

Theater has the ability to bring people out of their lives and into joyous or tumultuous ones of the characters onstage, often through humor or satire. At 7 p.m. Friday through Sunday at The Mill, 120...

Dancers sit on the floor in front of the stage, stretching and laughing as their directors tease them from their perches at the top of the auditorium. The lights dim, everyone falls silent, and a group...

A reader can discover anything in the pages of a book. Printed on the white sheets with black ink are expansive magical worlds, horrifying tales, and reality-bending stories. T.C. Boyle has made an unprecedented...

For some dealing with postoperative pain, relief may come through the form of sweet music. In 2016, after conducting a study that spanned seven years, three women closely associated with music therapy...