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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

Your Next Brew: Zipline’s India Red Ale

DI STAFF April 10, 2014

Zipline India Red Ale Alcohol content, 7.1 percent Description: A culmination of red ale and a citrus flavor that would come from a traditional India Pale Ale. The first seasonal brew from Zipline to...

Ferreira to perform

DI STAFF April 10, 2014

SCOPE and the 10,000 Hours Show will host a performance by Sky Ferreira this weekend. The concert will begin at 8 p.m. April 13 in the IMU Main Ballroom. The show will open with Iowa's  electronic-pop...

Printmaking for a passion

DI STAFF April 10, 2014

University of Iowa alum Jason Urban will return to Iowa City to speak about the passion he turned into a career. Urban will lecture on printmaking in 116 Art Building West at 8 p.m. today. The event is...

TOUBA returns to FilmScene

DI STAFF April 10, 2014

After three sold-out screenings in the fall of 2013, the feature documentary Touba is back  this weekend for a special encore presentation at FilmScene, 118 E. College St. The film will be screened at...

Celebrating 101 years of Bill Sackter

DI STAFF April 10, 2014

On Saturday, a different band and a different cake will be showcased every hour at Uptown Bill's, 730 S. Dubuque St., in celebration of Bill Sackter's birthday. Sackter, who would have been 101 this year,...

Brave New Brew

BEN VERHILLE April 10, 2014

To the west, farther than the barren wasteland of Ames, rests the land of the Cornhuskers — more importantly, the home of Zipline Brewing Co.  Located in Lincoln, Neb., Zipline's story has been one...

Enter the slaughter house

CASSIDY RILEY April 10, 2014

Pass through the plastic-sheet doors and enter the slaughterhouse, in which blood stains the floor and raw meat hangs from the ceiling. Slaughter City will open at 8 p.m.  today in the Theater Building's...

New spin on superstar

EMMA MCCLATCHEY April 10, 2014

Religious films have struck movie theaters like a plague this spring, turning Biblical stories into spectacles of computer effects and melodramatic morality tales. But before Noah, The Bible, or even Mel...

Young Adult author reads

ISAAC HAMLET April 10, 2014

The past decade has seen the rise of Young Adult books, stories written for children that were often disregarded and deemed as having minimal merit. On Saturday at 5 p.m., Prairie Lights, 15 S. Dubuque...

In the Aer

MCKENNA PAULUS April 10, 2014

Four projects and just shy of 90,000 likes on Facebook, the "diverse duo" Aer remains unsigned with any record label. Aer, made up of David von Mering and Carter Schultz, has been successful...

Whitmore to play sold-out show

MCKENNA PAULUS April 3, 2014

Outsiders may stereotype Iowa as full of rows of corn and possessing a monotonously horizontal landscape. But those of us in the state typically see things a little bit differently. One "insider,"...

Connecting kids to the arts

CASSIDY RILEY April 3, 2014

This week Iowa City, a community known for its rich arts scene, literature, and unique eateries, has turned the cultural dial all the way up for this year's Mission Creek Festival — a weeklong extravaganza...