By CLAIRE DIETZ [email protected] Meghna Ameen fell in love with Carnatic music at 6 years old. Now, decades later, she says it is still her second love, only behind her family. Her pursuit is...

Kevin Bermingham will receive prestigious UI award for literary criticism. By Brett Shaw [email protected] A well-known author will be honored today for his work in English-language literary criticism....

This year’s Bette Spriesterbach Distinguished Lecturer, the artist Faith Ringgold, known best for her iconic, narrative-charged quilts, will be giving a talk today at 7 p.m. in Art Building West, room...

Decorated Macedonian poet, novelist, and translator Lidija Dimkovska, whose work has appeared in publications including The Paris Review, will read from her newly translated novel A Spare Life, today at...

This month, the Center for Afrofuturist Studies announced October’s artist-in-residence, Chicago-based conceptual artist Alexandria Eregbu. By TESSA SOLOMON [email protected] If Afrofuturism...

By Isaac Hamlet [email protected] You’ve probably heard Nick Lowe’s music, even if you haven’t heard of him. The 67-year-old British pop artist’s biography asserts he’s the “songwriter...

By Claire Dietz [email protected] The Book of Mormon begins with a doorbell, sitting there, waiting to be rung. As the lights go up, the audience is greeted with what is, to some, an all-too-familiar...

Dale Fisher is the curator of a new exhibit about the importance of clay as an artistic medium. By Claire Dietz  [email protected] There has long been debate in the art world over the artistic...

UI Symphony and Concert Band alumni return to Iowa City to commemorate the opening of the new Voxman Music Building’s crown jewel: its 700-seat concert hall. By Isaac Hamlet  [email protected]...

By Claire Dietz [email protected] Paul Miller — more widely known by his stage name, DJ Spooky — is a self-proclaimed nerd. With a wide variety of hobbies and interests, he creates experimental...

“I hope I’m not going to get sprayed with any substances,” said a young man at the end of the row, one among many in the sold-out, conspicuously millennial crowd at the Englert’s Eric André standup...

On Oct. 8, America’s Queen of Opera,” Renée Fleming, performed at Hancher as part of a globe-trotting recital tour. The Daily Iowan took some time on the afternoon of Oct. 7 to ask the legendary...