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The Daily Iowan

The independent newspaper of the University of Iowa community since 1868

The Daily Iowan

The independent newspaper of the University of Iowa community since 1868

The Daily Iowan

Iowans stage WWII stories in A Grateful Nation

CLAIRE DIETZ November 13, 2014

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...

UI play questions beauty standards

ASHLEY MURPHY November 13, 2014

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...

Bridging dance and literature

MADDIE CLOUGH November 13, 2014

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...

Delving into the Black Angel

JUSTUS FLAIR November 13, 2014

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...

Food Challenge: Airbus Burger

ADAM GROMOTKA November 13, 2014

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....

W. Kamau Bell, star of FX’s ‘Totally Biased,’ comes to Mill

DI STAFF November 13, 2014

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...

Folk/blues musicians to perform at Uptown Bill’s

DI STAFF November 13, 2014

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...

Review: Tengami

CONOR MCBRIEN November 13, 2014

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...

Drink of the Week: Red Rambler Ale

DI STAFF November 13, 2014

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...

Tyranny with a musical score

DEVYN YOUNG November 6, 2014

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...

UI to present Pollock masterpiece

CLAIRE DIETZ November 6, 2014

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...

Mike Stud brings ‘college pop’ back to IC

EMMA MCCLATCHEY November 6, 2014

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,...