Three video-game lovers spend every Friday afternoon cramped together in a small room in the middle of campus. But instead of being clustered around the latest Xbox release, they are huddled around microphones,...

What thoughts do you roll over while chewing? Can you recount the history of the wind by the path of footprints in the snow? What treasures and terrors can be uncovered in the crap of everyday life when...

Some kids hate their parents’ taste in music. Not many musicians are able to play music people of numerous generations will enjoy. But 2009 Grammy award winner Loudon Wainwright III seems to have...

Four days; 96 hours; 5,760 minutes. That’s how much time event organizers have allotted for a public reading of War and Peace. This weekend, UI students, staff, and community members will take...

A small room filled with plants bursting out of pots and roaring Western music created a distinct mood when entering the Riverside Theater on Sept. 13 for a performance of Sam Shepard’s True West. The...

Product Of: Evil Twin Brewing, Copenhagen, Denmark. Imported by Twelve Percent LLC, Brooklyn, N.Y. I picked Before During And After Christmas Beer for one reason: the label. This Danish ale is a bit pricy...

Some people are able to identify a specific moment in their lives — the moment — when they felt themselves transition from a kid into an adult. For award-winning writer Marc Bamuthi Joseph, this instance...

In a brick-wall room with wrought-iron light fixtures hanging from the ceiling, customers at Clinton Street Social Club are encouraged to take a seat at the leather armchairs and read books. When owner...

When Jose Gobbo composes a song, he tries to create a story in which he develops a set of characters. But the University of Iowa graduate student studying jazz performance said his method of composing...

Daily Iowan reporter Emily Burds chatted with Steven Douglas Ross, the guitarist and vocalist of local metal band Blizzard at Sea, about funding the band's upcoming album and why he sees the process as...

One week after arriving in Iowa City from Afghanistan, International Writing Program writer Mohib Zegham went to see President Obama speak on Sept. 7. What he observed as he surveyed the crowd, he said,...

It took three years of careful observation for nonfiction writer Inara Verzemnieks to get the complete story of a group of people living at a rest stop on an interstate in Portland, Ore.  That diligence...