The end is nigh. Winter break is almost upon us — a full month of promising yourself you’ll do something productive tomorrow and knowing in your heart that’s a lie. I’m here...

This one goes out to all my homies who can’t eat regular bagels. While the idea of a gluten-free diet might seem like a silly fad to some, the stuff of eager health nuts and posh Hollywood stars, the...

The stragglers of 2014 are inching across the finish line to make a little bank this holiday season. Kingdom Hearts is a series of games that crosses over classic Disney movies such as The Lion King,...

Evil Twin Brewing’s Hipster Ale The burden of being a liberal-arts student with an asymmetrical haircut and glasses is the continual accusations of being a hipster. Though I've never much identified...

It is not uncommon to have strangers knocking on your door around the holidays, pleading for donations, singing carols, or preaching a gospel. It is rather unusual, however, for a solicitor to be wrapped...

Angels, soldiers, and the always adorable sugarplum fairies will take the stage numerous times this weekend for a festive performance of The Nutcracker ballet. Put on by Coralville’s Nolte Academy...

A section of the world’s largest community folk-art piece — and one of the most important HIV/AIDS memorials — has made a stop in Iowa City, arriving Monday for Worlds AIDS Day and staying for the...

It’s a familiar setting to most in the American Midwest: slipping from the cold blanket of white peacefully covering the world into a warm department store adorned for the holidays — often with...

The world has seen A Christmas Carolin many ways: novels, animated series, staged, movies, and, most recently, at the Riverside Theater as a one-man production. Through Dec. 14, A Christmas Carolwill...

By the time the semester comes to a close and you head home for the holidays, there aren’t a lot of prime shopping days left. So what better way to thank your parents for the tuition money or remind...

The air outside the Mill on a Sunday night smells like perfectly charred cheeseburgers, and in the front portion of the establishment,couples and groups of friends sit lightly chatting, a timid...

From enacting scenes and juggling to trapeze swinging and aerial acrobatics, Pandora’s Circus performers seem to laugh freely in the face of gravity as they break its laws. “I will be doing...