Six years ago, the first Darwin Day celebration was planned at the University of Iowa, but a blizzard forced all of the events to be canceled. Since then, the yearly tradition has grown larger, and this...

This week's beer of the week is the Sierra Nevada Bigfoot. The brew is a barley-wine ale. But despite its name, barley wines are very much beers and often strong and intense beers at that. The Bigfoot...

Naked flesh. And lots of it. That image comes to Nick Rees's mind as his most memorable moment while touring with the Second City comedy troupe. "I did a show where we got streaked by 25 students...

The classic wooden game Jenga stands in the middle of a back room of the University of Iowa Theatre Building, surrounded by multicolored fairy-wing costumes. In this Gallery Series production, two...

Matthew Santos was nominated for a Grammy award in 2009 for his collaboration with Lupe Fiasco on the song "Superstar," but Santos doesn't feel responsible for the song's success. The folk-rock...

Everyday life morphs into poetry for writer Cathy Wagner. "I'm very interested in poetic processes and finding ways to allow whatever is going on in my life to make poems," she said. "Then...

On an average day in the Bailiff household, the band members wake up to blaring Beatles' songs around noon and empty Domino's pizza containers in the kitchen. There is no heat in the band's rehearsal...

Coming to us from Bell's Brewery in Kalamazoo, Mich., this week's Beer of the Week is Bell's Hopslam. The brew is a well-balanced India Pale Ale. It is a "double" or "imperial"...

Following the most recent announcement, in mid-January, the leaders of the Mission Creek Music Festival announced an additional list of performing acts on Wednesday. Kimya Dawson, Caroline Smith &...

XV will stop in Iowa City on his "Midwest State of Mind" tour on Saturday, after creating new music in preparation for the release of his début album, The Kid with the Greenback. Donavan...

The members of Passafire never experienced going to a large state school — they all attended the Savannah College of Art and Design, where they started their musical careers. But But they leap at...