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...

Jackson Pollock described one of his most distinctive murals as a scene out of the American West, a stampede of cows, horses, antelopes, and buffaloes: "Everything is charging across that goddamn...

Baseball-player-turned-pop-star Mike Stud will make Iowa City one of his first Closer Tour stops at 8 p.m. Friday, He will perform in the IMU Second-Floor Ballroom alongside Clinton Sparks and Austin Harris,...

In a country falling apart, three queer women flock together. thing with feathers, a University of Iowa Gallery Production written by graduate student Sam Collier, will open in Theater Building Theater...

Nintendo’s Wii U online store is now selling Pier Solar, a recent role-playing game made for a classic system. Pier Solar is a “home brew” game: consumer-developed software made for...

The 2014 election season is over, but tensions are still high on both sides of the aisle. Whether you're celebrating a political victory or mourning lost dreams — or simply want to repress the memories...

Roller derby: The cliché of crazy, barbaric, mindless women skating around, driving their elbows into their opponents while some violent ’90s rock chugs along in the background? Nah. The revival...

The members of Spider Bags don’t always know what’s going to happen when they step on stage. From the first chord of a psychedelic rock song to the last, no matter how many times they’ve performed...

“It was Colonel Mustard in the Ballroom with the Candlestick.” These three declarations can win a game of Clue, in which cards and plastic figurines stand in for murderers and weapons (in the game)....

Families may encounter a number of setbacks while on vacation, from missed flights to bad motels. Rarely, though, do vacationers face off with monsters, mysterious strangers, and acts of violence. This...

Literature, film, and television have been dominated by horrifying abominations of nature and science for generations. As rest is not something granted to the wicked, new incarnations of our fear have...

The greatest classical movie of our time, Mean Girls, gave us this gem about Halloween: “In the regular world, Halloween is when children dress up in costumes and beg for candy. In Girl World, Halloween...