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...

When Brit John Oliver was asked about Stephen Bloom's article in The Atlantic, he said he hadn't read a word. But he noted that if it attacked the exaggerated importance of the Iowa caucuses, it might...

Lord of the Underworld's Home for Unwed Mothers is a mixture of myth and history that takes the ancient Greek story of Demeter and Persephone and shakes it up in the 1960s and 1990s. "It's about...

Roger Rosenblatt long knew he wanted the life of a writer after growing up in a neighborhood in Manhattan that had been home to such literary icons as Herman Melville and Nathanael West. He remembers...