Between singing songs and playing the keyboard last night at the Mill, 120 E. Burlington, Vanessa Carlton talked about being a new mother, relationships with her family, wine, and more. Carlton is on...

By Cassandra Santiago [email protected] The trees lining downtown Iowa City and campus are replacing their green leaves with bold reds, bright oranges, and fallen-to-the-ground browns. Sweaters...

By Tessa Solomon [email protected] The ballerina raises a slender leg, then bounds across the smooth floor. She transforms the lingering notes into movement. The scholar translates a sonnet. “Au...

Halloween: the time of endless candy corn, pumpkin-flavored coffee, cupcakes, cookies (actually anything edible), and culturally appropriated costumes. Cultural appropriation is the exploitation of a group’s...

By Jasmine Putney [email protected] With pumpkins, ancient hunting tools, and a life-size poster of a Wizard of Oz flying monkey, some survival skills of the past become entertaining in the...

Fall is now in full swing, and that means shorter days and colder nights. It also means that it’s time to make that annual trip to the apple orchard.  Fight off the chill and follow up your trip with...

Malaysian Nisah Haron, a member of the International Writing Program, talks about her early writing career. (Audio compiled by Anis Shakirah Mohd Muslimin & edited by Lily Abromeit) Nisah Haron...

By Girindra Selleck [email protected] Fresh off the release of her new album, Lieberman, Vanessa Carlton will perform at the Englert Theater, 221 E. Washington St., at 7 p.m. on Nov. 1. Although...

By Claire Dietz [email protected] Imagine real-estate agents taking a motivational seminar in a New York City comedy club. Now you have the basis of Red All Over, running tonight through Nov....

The word “magician” conjures the image of a man draped in a colored cape, sporting a sequined shirt or wearing leather pants. Nate Staniforth prefers to do his shows in jeans and a button-up. Staniforth...

By Adam Buhck [email protected] Stilettos, fishnets, black underwear with garter, and a front-lace corset. The outfit would be striking on anyone. On a 5-9 man with red lips and darkly drawn eyebrows...

By Justus Flair [email protected] Drew Barrymore is obsessed with her kids. It’s a well-known trope. Coming from “the blueprint of what not to do,” as Barrymore said, made her want a stable,...