By Megan Sanchez [email protected] Thick black-rimmed glasses, a flat-bill hat, tip wagon, and a bottle of water are all Ace Jones needs to make music. And, of course, his acoustic guitar. His...

By Gracey Murphy [email protected] At age 4, Lynne Arriale had a little toy piano and re-created tunes she heard on the radio. She begged her parents for lessons and wouldn’t take a nap unless...

By Gracey Murphy [email protected] What the hell am I watching? That’s what I kept asking myself while watching Iowa City Community Theater’s Psycho Beach Party on Sunday. This manic-infested...

By Girindra Selleck [email protected] Sebastian Silva’s new film,Nasty Baby (which he both directed and stars in), is a complex tale about life, death, and the complicated nature of the time...

Stanley Plumly’s *The Immortal Evening: A Legendary Dinner With Keats, Wordsworth, and Lamb * is being awarded the highest honor in literary criticism, the Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism. A...

Last night Pulitzer-Prize winner Jane Smiley read from her newest novel Golden Age to a packed room at the Iowa City Public Library. Smiley didn’t give a reading like most authors do. Instead of...

By Claire Dietz [email protected] For Jane Smiley, two things have always been a part of her life: reading and writing. Her writing career has been fruitful, including a Pulitzer Prize for her novel...

By Devyn Young [email protected] Viewer understands the performance shall not be viewed as a male or with a masculine perspective. Viewer shall view the performance solely as a woman. Sign Here:...

By Isaac Hamlet [email protected] King Arthur, a noble king of legend known for his purity and losing Guinevere to the knight Lancelot, has been the subject of centuries of epic tales, poems, and...

By Cassandra Santiago [email protected] Black Queens. Why I Refuse to Cut My Hair. Shots Fired. The Voice of Our Mother. These words headline the works on the new, wall-breaking literary...

By Girindra Selleck [email protected] At 4 p.m. Oct. 25, three of Iowa City’s most exciting writers will come together for a joint reading at Prairie Lights, 15 S. Dubuque St. Yael Neeman...

Riverside scares up some radio By Claire Dietz [email protected] Radio may not be a huge American pastime anymore, but Riverside Theater hopes to bring back the idea of staged radio.     It...