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...

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...

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...

When a single spotlight began to burn in the Englert Theatre, the audience's gaze became fixed on a lone man standing on stage. Two 8-foot cobblestone walls separated by an intimidating black wrought-iron...

The DI sat down with poet, author, and teacher Susan Wheeler to talk with her about her new novel Record Palace and her writing career. She currently teaches at Princeton University and previously taught...

In 1967, University of Iowa music Professor Stephen Swanson was a senior at North Park College in Chicago, working toward fulfilling a bachelor of music degree with a recital program. Now, 45 years later,...

Sweeney, a cast member from MTV's most recent season of "The Real World: San Diego," will speak at 10 p.m. today W151 Pappajohn Business Building. Admission is free. Sweeney is partaking...

The brew is the Watou Tripel from the St. Bernardus Brewery. A tripel is a word to describe a strong pale ale. And while this brew is strong at 7.5 abv, it is more drinkable than most tripel, which...

And the album is the group's 2001 release, Discovery. The record runs a shade more than an hour, and it marks the group's transition from the Chicago-house genre in which it had been categorized to a...

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...

Top-five albums of 2011 Watch the Throne, Jay-Z and Kanye West This dynamic-duo released the collaborative studio album Watch the Throne in August. The album has the soul of Kanye and the swagger...