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 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...

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...

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...

By Levi Wright [email protected] “Drive-by Truckers” fan-love for singing about real social issues without sugarcoating the truth. The controversial topics the group covers range from Donald...

By Tessa Solomon [email protected]   When Esperanza Spalding’s self-titled 2008 debut was released to the public, they embraced it with delight. Her jazz -- a dizzying, tri-lingual...

By Naomi Hofferber [email protected] Each fall in Iowa City, the undead come alive for one weekend to swarm the streets in a massive, demented horde — for a good cause, of course. The...

North Side Oktoberfest/Iowa City Brewfest will be held at Iowa City’s historic North Side Marketplace on Saturday; The Daily Iowan explores the city’s long history with beer and brewing. By Claire...

By Tessa Solomon [email protected] This week, Iowa City’s Center for Afrofuturist Studies — an ever-expanding project in its inaugural year — will welcome its September artist-in-residence,...

By Quentin Yarolem [email protected] The music of the band Dead Horses — whose members hail from Oshkosh, Wisconsin, of Oshkosh, B’Gosh fame — displays a healthy combination of gospel and...

Sean Lewis’ new play, Black and Blue, explores the subject of police brutality and opens Friday at Riverside Theatre. By Isaac Hamlet  [email protected] Rage is a bubbling, righteous feeling....

By Alex Kramer [email protected] An introverted mind can lead to great things, its cogs eternally cranking out something new, ghastly, or even brave. This is certainly the case for Hannah Pittard,...