Before becoming a world-renowned ukulele player, Eddie Vedder had a life in music as the front man for Pearl Jam. The band has released nine studio albums to date. Its second, Vs., is this week's tracks...

Mayberry opens with the actors of the play portraying themselves, rather than their characters. They stand behind a chainlink fence and tell the audience about their life in Iowa City. The set then transforms...

The members of Grace Potter & the Nocturnals met at a small university in northern New York about 10 minutes from the Canadian border. With few places to practice and many other bands in the town,...

My friend Mark bought Weezer's début album at a garage sale in 1997. I stole it from him a few weeks later and have enjoyed listening to it since. Weezer's Weezer is this week's Tracks from the Past. As...

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...

My friend Mark bought Weezer's début album at a garage sale in 1997. I stole it from him a few weeks later and have enjoyed listening to it since. Weezer's Weezer is this week's Tracks from the Past. As...

A disco ball spins lightly in the center of the gymnasium as females in floor-length formal dresses and males in tuxedos dance among tables scattered around the high-school prom scene. But this isn't...

Robin Hemley wanted to give writers a how-to guide of the literary style he most enjoys. So he created a book to show writers how to immerse themselves in the world around them and record those experiences...

North America is a band composed of twin brothers Josh and Jesse Hasko. The two create dark, psych-pop tracks influenced by strange encounters with energies surrounding their home in New Mexico, dreams,...

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:...

The infectious beat and flurried movements of Latin music and dance will take center stage at this year's Gusto Latino. "There are a lot of diversity events on the University of Iowa campus, but...