"I want people to feel like they're sitting down with the person telling a story,"New York Times bestseller author Robert Goolrick said. "I love a novel that sounds like you're being told...

Classic opera isn't just for 19th-century aristocrats — as the University of Iowa Summer Opera program can demonstrate. On Friday, the program will open its production of H.M.S. Pinafore, a comic opera...

Perhaps the most famous fictional detective, Sherlock Holmes has been portrayed in dozens of books, TV shows, and movies — and now, on a University of Iowa stage. Members of the Iowa Summer Rep said...

Classic opera isn't just for 19th-century aristocrats — as the University of Iowa Summer Opera program can demonstrate. On Friday, the program will open its production of H.M.S. Pinafore, a comic opera...

Grammy award winning singer/songwriter Marc Cohn will perform at the Englert Theater, 221 E. Washington St., at 8 p.m. today. Iowa City will be the second stop on the performer's nationwide tour ending...

The fourth-annual Iowa City Book Festival, presented by the University of Iowa Libraries, will kick off Friday with the Literary Carnival at 7 p.m. More than 80 events will take place over the weekend...

The Summer of the Arts' Free Movie Series will show the film Hugo on Saturday on the Macbride lawn. Pre-film activities will be in conjunction with the Iowa Book Festival. The 2011 family film Hugo was...

Late last night and the night before, tommyknockers, tommyknockers, knockin' at the door. What is a tommyknocker? Some say they're mischievous little leprechaun-like creatures that pester unfortunate...

A jam session broke out at a friend's house over the weekend and led to a discussion about the greatest guitar solos of all time. I suggested the closing solo of Dire Strait's "Sultans Of Swing,"...

Local reading series blue//green will promote local writers with a reading at 8 p.m. today at the Mill, 120 E. Burlington St. Admission is free. Blue//green, a project started by Sean Gath and Josh Brandon,...

Gabe's will bring Dick Dale's guitar music to the Iowa City music community from 9 to 11:59 p.m. Saturday at Gabe's, 330 E. Washington St. Dale, an electric guitarist known as the "King of the Surf...

Iowa City's Gazebo on the Green, 3002 Newport Road N.E., will host an ice-cream social from 1-5 p.m. July 8. Mary Ellen Hill, the owner of the Gazebo on the Green, said she thought the social was a nice...