By Tessa Solomon
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In a wooden shack on the edge of the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair, Marie, a young Polish girl, a daughter of immigrant workers, dreams of the White City’s...
By Isaac Hamlet
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For the past decade or so, zombies have been just about everywhere. Among the piles of movies, books, and video games dedicated to spreading stories of postapocalyptic...
By Austin Henderson
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On Saturday, the Blue Moose Tap House will host “Water is Life,” a hip-hop benefit concert attempting to raise money and awareness for the #NODAPL movement.
The...
By Claire Dietz
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When Scott Bradley was a freshman at the University of Iowa, he told me, he was “immediately seduced by the Playwrights’ Workshop.” Now, years removed from...
By Levi Wright
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“All of the things that you make are a kind of quest for immortality," said the artist Keith Haring in a 1988 interview with the Columbia Art Review,...
Moonlight Review
By Girindra Selleck
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Moonlight, Barry Jenkins’s stellar new film—his second, after 2008’s Medicine for Melancholy—evades classification....
By Claire Dietz
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Greg Brown is a singer/songwriter hailing from the Hacklebarney section of Iowa, and anyone familiar with the area — or perhaps even with Iowa in general —...
By Isaac Hamlet
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Many have found this past week depressing. Even on the sunniest, most daisy-adorned of metaphorical green pastures, it’s become starkly apparent that Americans...
Tessa Solomon
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When Farewell, My Love hit Phoenix’s emo scene in 2011, it made an impression. Teased hair, jet-black and streaked with white, eyes rung gaunt with black eyeliner,...
By Claire Dietz
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When you’re walking downtown, it isn’t hard to spot one of the many pianos dotting the cityscape. You probably see them every day, so you might not even notice...
By Isaac Hamlet
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Marital problems happen. Sometimes, they stem from a lapse in communication between partners. Sometimes, they occur because of unforgivable infidelity, or sometimes,...
By Claire Dietz
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A cherry orchard, an ancestral home, three siblings recounting the loss of their parents, and regretting lost opportunities. These are some of the most well-known...
