Every August, Grant Park in Chicago hosts a three-day music festival — a modern Woodstock, if you will. People across the country flock to the hub of Illinois for Lollapalooza to see some of the biggest...

3.5 out of 5 stars One of my favorite moments of “Siskel & Ebert,” thankfully available for any curious parties to watch on YouTube, was when they devoted an entire episode to discussing...

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...

Just south of downtown Iowa City, a local café bustles with action and excitement. Mostly looking over scripts and reading lines, around 10 men and women sit in a circle of chairs surrounding a small...

Dozens of red plastic tubes hang like oversized Twizzlers from the walls of 30hop’s walk-in cooler, some stretching as far as two stories up through the walls. Soon, these tubes will assist in a...

Friday will see the release of Luc Besson’s Lucy a science-fiction action film starring Scarlett Johansson as a woman who, upon being forced to ingest an experimental drug, is given abilities that...

I have never felt as though I belonged in Iowa — there was always a part of me that felt I needed to be elsewhere, be someone else. Last month, my dream of studying abroad came true in Madrid, Spain....

There are few art forms that inspire more devotion from their fans than anime. This entire weekend, local fans will get a chance to demonstrate that devotion at AnimeIowa, the annual anime convention held...

5 out of 5 Stars Snowpiercer is the dark prince of the summer movie season. It’s rogue, subverting every expectation associated with the action and sci-fi genres, from how the basic plot mechanisms...