By Cassandra Santiago [email protected] Robots and theater? Who would have thought? Denise Szecsei, that’s who. This fall, Szecsei, a University of Iowa lecturer, taught Storming the...

TOM SELLECK Though it’s named after the actor who played the famous private investigator Thomas Magnum in “Magnum, P.I.,” this drink is no mystery. The Tom Selleck is light, sweet, and the perfect...

How can something so healthy taste so good? The Trumpet Blossom Café, 310 E. Prentiss St., serves desserts, drinks, and sandwiches made entirely of vegan ingredients. It is the only exclusively vegan...

Trendy pop singles, electronica, and hip-hop dominate the charts every week. Rock and roll, it seems, has taken a back seat. But Long Island collective Wake the Sun is out to prove the genre is still...

For the last 25 years, Iowa City has received a tour around the world without having to travel very far. Food, music, crafts, and educational stations brought to life traditions of the many cultures thriving...

John Scalzi will appear as part of the Iowa City Book Festival at 4 p.m. Saturday at 136 S. Dubuque St., the former Wedge space. He will promote his new science-fiction book, The End of All Things. This...

Too often textbooks and homework are seen as the only tools in learning. However, a stage filled with music and magic can be just as educational as a classroom. At 7 p.m. Friday, the Amazing China...

4/10 I’ll be honest; I fell victim to marketing this time around. The description for The Deer God is “'The Deer God is a breathtaking 3D pixel art adventure that will challenge your religion and...

By Jasmine Putney [email protected]  “College students needed.” Coinciding with the promise of $15 per day, this simple phrase in a newspaper ad lured in more than 70 Stanford University...

By Isaac Hamlet [email protected] Actors sometimes spend years honing the specificity with which they embody a single character. A more challenging task is to perfect more than 50 characters, all...

By Justus Flair [email protected] Accumulating so much stuff took time. Crumpled paint tubes are strewn across a wooden table. Dried flakes of red, black, and green cover the edges of caps not...

This is the inaugural piece in 80 Hours’s new series on Iowa’s International Writing Program fall residents. IWP brings writers from around the world to Iowa City for classes, workshops, readings,...