In response to regulations forcing them to temporarily close due to the COVID-19 pandemic, a handful of downtown Iowa City clothing stores have made the switch from in-person to entirely online sales...
The MusicIC Festival, coming up on its 10th anniversary, has officially cancelled in-person programming for this June, according to a press release by the UNESCO City of Literature.
The festival was...
The International Writing Program has been forced to adapt to changes surrounding their summer and fall 2020 programs with the continued spread of COVID-19 across the world. The futures of the Summer...
Sunday night was the season three finale of Westworld, and for the first time in the show, it ended on a possibly positive note for humanity.
The HBO TV show is about the robots, or “hosts,”...
If you would have told me in January that I would now be living in social isolation with a boyfriend at his house, I would have never believed you.
A little over two months ago, I met a boy off...
The transition from school life at the University of Iowa to home life in Olathe, Kansas, has been a big adjustment but also a familiar one for junior and transfer student Amanda Pendley. Before coming...
I started watching Netflix’s new show Outer Banks because I myself have vacationed in the Outer Banks of North Carolina, and couldn’t escape hearing about how good the show was on my Twitter feed....
From the basement of his family home in Illinois, hockey player, musician, and UI accounting major Mikey Fontana described what his “new normal” looks like in a COVID-19 pandemic-era world. The...
While closures and lockdown measures due to COVID-19 have made collaborative artistic projects difficult for University of Iowa students, first year cinema major Dalton Bantz has only become more motivated...
Last year, students and members of the University of Iowa community gathered on the T. Anne Cleary walkway to listen to volunteers read The Iliad. Their reading took over 24 hours. The event, known...
When I walked through the doors of my local Walmart, I noticed a vast array of shoppers wearing colorful masks. What used to be a dull trip to the supermarket now became interesting. Even though it’s...
The costumes are hanging patiently, the set is built, and the performance venue is secured, but for the University of Iowa’s anticipated spring production of The Light in the Piazza, the show must...
