As with somber TV commercials featuring little kids with cancer or abused animals, serious topics are often presented to people in ways that provoke emotion. However, Role Models, part of the University...

Dancers drag themselves out of Halsey Hall sweaty, with their hair tied up in buns, donning sweatpants, walking slowly on sore legs. Meanwhile, writers saunter out of the English-Philosophy Building with...

After moving to Iowa City, it doesn’t take long to hear of the Black Angel. The legend may be told more often in darkened dorm rooms than around campfires, but the Black Angel of Oakland Cemetery is...

I was finally attempting to put my money where my mouth was — $19.44 at the Airliner, established in 1944. The restaurant’s Airbus is one of the few local food challenges I found listed online....

Attacking a variety of controversial issues such as race and religion in a seemingly fearless manner, sociopolitical comedian W. Kamau Bell says, “I tell jokes, but I’m not kidding.” Bell...

At 7 p.m. Saturday, Uptown Bill’s Coffeehouse, 730 S. Dubuque St., will present musicians Rick Vornbrock and Jake Ilika. Ilika was one of the performers at the 101st birthday of Bill Sackter, celebrated...

Mobile gaming is expected to take over the video-game market in the coming years, but the new Wii U game Tengami may delay this trend. A couple months ago, Hajime Tabata, codirector of the upcoming Final...

This craft beer comes straight out of Knoxville — no, not the gateway to the Great Smoky Mountains National Park and the University of Tennessee, but a small town in Iowa (around 50 minutes outside of...

The wind blows softly. American Stars and Stripes flutter in the breeze next to the German flag. The sky is overcast, but the hope and spirit from the crowd illuminate the city. Excitement charges the...

It’s the moment everyone waits for walking into a theater or cracking open a book cover: to see the hero rise from trial and tribulation and emerge victorious over evil. It’s a story told hundreds...

Novelist, journalist, would-be politician, and Iowa native Joseph Dobrian will read from his new novel, Ambitions, at 7 p.m. Friday at Prairie Lights, 15 S. Dubuque St. After graduating from the University...

The stage is dry, gray. But then there’s a lighting change. The characters transform from everyday, normal people to monsters. This is the beginning of the nightmare scene.  The Consul, an...