By Isaac Hamlet [email protected] Paddock calls and the star-sighted aims of some grow out of the smothered ambition of the less fortunate. Power is fought over, and onlookers deem who has the...

By Hannah Crooks [email protected] When she unearthed the history of the heroic — but vastly unknown — couple Jan and Antonina Zabinski, author Diane Ackerman knew it was a story meant to be...

By Lily Goodman [email protected] SCOPE has teamed up with the Black Student Union to bring hip-hop artist Noname to the IMU following the Black History Month Talent Show on Friday. Noname, a native...

By Claire Dietz [email protected] Before the curtain rises, the audience is greeted with a swell of music from the orchestra featuring the instrumentals of ABBA’s best-known hits. This is how...

The Englert will host a critically acclaimed one-man comedy show depicting the Indian-American Muslim experience. By Brett Shaw [email protected] In today’s contentious political climate, a touring...

By Levi Wright [email protected] “All religions are ultimately focused on an experience of transcendence, an experience that goes beyond the material realm,” said renowned religion scholar...

By Lily Goodman [email protected] Growing up in Cambridge Bay of Nunavut, the largest and northernmost territory of Canada, Inuit throat singer Tanya Tagaq described the small community of 2,500...

By Claire Dietz [email protected] With Valentine’s Day just ending, the Old Capitol Opera decided to try something new: an anti-Valentine’s Day musical, Jason Robert Brown’s The Last Five...

By Claire Dietz | [email protected] “This is not for you,” is how the reader is greeted when opening Mark Danielewski’s postmodern novel House of Leaves. It has been more than 15 years since...

By Isaac Hamlet | [email protected] This past week, Junot Díaz — a Pulitzer-Prize-winning author and activist — visited campus through the auspices of the Magid Center for Undergraduate Writing,...

The University of Iowa’s queer-inclusive fraternity will hold its first large drag event. By Brett Shaw [email protected] Hunties and gentlemen, grab your wigs and lace up your boots for a premièring...

Artists raise funds for Planned Parenthood and the Emma Goldman Clinic. By Hannah Crooks [email protected] Rebelling against ideologies that oppress women and minorities, the Nasty Women art exhibition...