In an extraordinary performance, John Darnielle of the Mountain Goats will play a solo show at an intimate venue in Iowa City. The event, hosted by SCOPE, will take place at 9 p.m. April 21 at the First...

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...

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...

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...

While studying music and musical theater in college, Colleen Ballinger met a lot of confident people. Some of them, she believed, were too confident. Confident to the point of absurdity. Ballinger saw...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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...