Rick Williams’ father served in the U.S. Navy during World War II. Ron Clark’s uncle was stationed in Pearl Harbor when the Japanese attacked in 1941. Still, the two Iowans grew up hearing...

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...

Tin cans, glass containers, and a cardboard box provide targets for University of Iowa percussion graduate student Andrew Thierauf's mallets. As microphones amplify the various sounds, he directs a room...

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...

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...