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 jasmine-putney@uiowa.edu  “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 isaac-hamlet@uiowa.edu 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 justus-flair@uiowa.edu 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,...

By Jasmine Putney jasmine-putney@uiowa.edu  With soul and rhythm that carries from the ears down to the dancing feet, music has the inexplicable ability to transcend social and economic barriers. But...

By Tessa Soloman tessa-soloman@uiowa.edu When I was young, my mother chanted a special rhyme to heal any injury. Caressing a burnt finger or scraped knee, she sang, Sana, sana, colita de rana, si no...

Given that there will be upcoming battles in baseball’s postseason culminating in the MLB World Series, the Iowa City Community Theater opened the play Damn Yankees, based on the novel The Year the Yankees...

Gin, orange juice, and syrup compose this sweet treat. EXPERIENCE: The alcohol is not at all an overwhelming taste in this martini. That’s quite possibly because there wasn’t much in it, but either...

Being a college student is hard. With 8 a.m. lectures, group projects, and assignments that keep you working into the moonlit hours when you’d much rather be sleeping, sometimes the only motivation to...