It’s always kind of a touchy subject, when a childhood hero has disappointed you for so long that you consider re-evaluating his or her status as “great inspiration” or “person...

Classes have begun, but summer is still upon us; thus, sweet tea is still firmly on the menu. This country-style beverage comes from Cheddar’s, a hidden gem of a restaurant near Costco in Coralville,...

1. Boyhood  Richard Linklater, the laid-back, exceedingly Texan director of cult-hits such as Dazed and Confused and Slacker, has spoken often of Martin Scorsese’s magnum opus Raging Bull as the...

The doors will open at the Yacht Club, 13 S. Linn St., for eclectic Ghanaian percussionist Paa Kow and his band, By All Means, at 9 p.m. Saturday. The show is part of the release tour for his new album,...

There are many apt terms to throw around when describing filmmaking. One such term might be “persistence of vision.” In scientific terms, “persistence of vision” is the after-image...

The Dailey and Vincent tour bus was midway between Indiana and Wisconsin at 1:30 a.m. on Aug. 3 when the band’s four singers — clad in T-shirts and patterned pajama pants — decided to throw together...

Mike Morsch, the author of The Vinyl Dialogues, will read at Prairie Lights, 15 S. Dubuque St., at 1 p.m. on Saturday. The 1982 University of Iowa graduate’s second book is historical nonfiction. He...

The classic antics and adventures of the Charles Schulz’s “Peanuts” comic strip are coming alive in Amana through the staging of Snoopy the Musical by the Old Creamery Theater Company. The...

Before Book of Mormon became a scandalous Broadway sensation, there was Hair, the “love-rock” hippie musical of the ’60s that dared to stage drug use, nudity, an antiwar mentality,...

When I spoke with Hollie Fullbrook, the lead singer of Tiny Ruins, she was sitting next to a beautiful lake in British Colombia, Canada. Fullbrook and bandmates bassist Cass Basil and drummer Alexander...

Music. A thing so affecting, so etched in time, even Neanderthals listened to it. This is no figure of speech; in 1995, archaeologist Ivan Turk dug up the hills of lusciously verdant Slovenian town Cerkno...

Lee Walsh, or as he is more commonly known as, El Dub, wasn’t always a solo act. But it runs out that it was what he needed to kick-start his career. “I played in a band called Lunar Funk...