Rachael Lindhrach is quite willing to get into the drama trenches with her actors. The director of Dreamwell Theater's production of Baby with the Bathwater sits on a bench with two cast members and the...

Lewis Liú relocated from China to the United States with a Hollywood dream. But during his three years in film school, his Hollywood dream met reality. Liú's M.F.A. film thesis, Drifting in Los Angeles:...

Saying that Richard Wiebe's Univeristy of Iowa course Microcinemas and DIY Distribution requires class participation is an understatement. Not only do the students have required assignments, but they are...

People are breaking out in song on every other channel on television today. Such shows as "Glee," "The Voice," "Smash," and "The Sing Off" create a singing sensation,...

Phillip-Michael Scales began writing songs in middle school, but he has learned a lot about music since then. The Chicago transplant grew up outside Detroit and studied music at the Berklee College of...

Science fiction is a genre that means entertainment to most. But two assistant professors at the University of Iowa studying the subject will hold a conference to explore how science-fiction filmmakers...

The couple depicted in Iowa native Grant Wood's American Gothic painting are known across the world. A man stands stoically next to a woman, holding a pitchfork and wearing glasses. His overalls are dressed...

The Daily Iowan sat down with Jessica Jenkins, the editor-in-chief of earthwords, the undergraduate literary review at the UI, which accepts submissions from all undergraduate students. The publication...

The Daily Iowan sat down with Jessica Jenkins, the editor-in-chief of earthwords, the undergraduate literary review at the UI, which accepts submissions from all undergraduate students. The publication...

My dad says the Who is the world's greatest rock and roll band. Quadrophenia, this week's tracks from the past, was the group's sixth studio album and second rock opera. And in my opinion, it's the best...

The closest to thing to alpine terrain at the University of Iowa is walking up the hill from the IMU to the T. Anne Cleary Walkway. But that doesn't mean we can't enjoy this week's beer of the week —...

Kurt Cobain would probably hate me. When Nirvana's In Utero, this week's tracks from the past, was released in 1993, I was probably watching "Boy Meets World." That was almost a decade before...