By Austin Henderson
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On Saturday, a soulful Des Moines band, the Maytags, will make the trip from the capital to Iowa City for a night of entertainment at the Blue Moose Tap...
By Tessa Solomon
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In the din of Prairie Light’s crowded coffee shop, Professor Theresa Geller discussed extraterrestrial experimentation as she flipped through her new book,...
By Claire Dietz
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The celebrated pianist Emanuel Ax first performed at Hancher in 1974, and now, a little over four decades — and a brand new building — later, the pianist is...
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,...
