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The Daily Iowan

The independent newspaper of the University of Iowa community since 1868

The Daily Iowan

The independent newspaper of the University of Iowa community since 1868

The Daily Iowan

DIIV-ing into Mission Creek

April 9, 2017

By Claire Dietz [email protected] DIIV performed April 7 at the Englert as a part of Mission Creek Festival. The Englert is not the typical place one would see people eagerly crowding closer...

Cool Kids reunite for Blue Moose performance

April 9, 2017

By Claire Dietz [email protected] After four years of separation, the Cool Kids has returned, this time to Iowa City’s Mission Creek Festival on April 7 at the Blue Moose. The group, consisting...

Pieta Brown brings Americana home

April 9, 2017

By Claire Dietz [email protected] Pieta Brown is a familiar name to Iowa City and the Mission Creek Festival. As an American singer/songwriter with a penchant for poetry and music in her...

Lit Crawl takes over central IC

April 9, 2017

n  By Claire Dietz [email protected] Iowa City is the nation’s only UNESCO City of Literature and home to the world-renowned Iowa Writers’ workshop. Ergo, it comes as no surprise to see...

IC band Port Authority shines in Mission Creek début

IC band Port Authority shines in Mission Creek début

April 8, 2017

By Brett Shaw [email protected] A band created in the dorms of the University of Iowa by the name of Port Authority was excited to perform in the famous Iowa City festival that they have attended...

Contributed

Cho’s radical brand of comedy burns brightly at Mission Creek

April 7, 2017

By Brett Shaw [email protected] Strutting onto the Englert stage in a Christmas sweater, pajama shorts, torn leggings, and boots, Margaret Cho exhibited absolute fearlessness before delivering...

Artist photo (contributed)

Tennis, with love, set to play Mission Creek

April 7, 2017

By Austin Henderson [email protected] Indie-rock darlings Alaina Moore and Patrick Riley performed as Tennis at 7 p.m. April 7th at the classic Iowa City venue Gabe’s alongside rising...

Mykki Blanco lights up the Blue Moose

Mykki Blanco lights up the Blue Moose

April 7, 2017

By Brett Shaw [email protected] Hanging from the rafters, throwing trash cans, whipping a tutu in the face of her fans, Mykki Blanco’s performance at Blue Moose on April 6 was anything but...

Mission Creek Review: Ghostface Killah

Mission Creek Review: Ghostface Killah

April 6, 2017

By Brett Shaw [email protected] It has been a long while since the Wu-Tang Clan has released music; however, as audience members threw up the iconic ‘W’ and chanted along to verses, it was...

Elizabeth Moen plays guitar while performing inside Shorts Burger & Shine on Clinton Street on Sunday, July 31, 2016. Moen frequently plays an indie folkrock soul set at Shorts on Sunday nights. (The Daily Iowan/Joseph Cress)

Songbirds arrive at the Mill

Claire Dietz, [email protected] April 6, 2017

Elizabeth Moen has come a long way in a little more than a year. A soulful voice that took her to countries across Europe. Now the songbird has returned back to Iowa City. Now with a few new songs, Moen's...

Electronica takes Mission Creek

Electronica takes Mission Creek

April 6, 2017

By Brett Shaw [email protected] Standing still, an appropriate distance between one another, gazes locked on the performers and moving images before them, the audience at Gabe’s on Tuesday...

FilmScene Screens Oscar Shorts

FilmScene Screens Oscar Shorts

February 9, 2017

2017 Oscar-Nominated Shorts: DI’s Chosen Three By Lily Goodman [email protected]   There’s something to be said about a film that has a runtime of forty minutes or less and utilizes...