Joanna Rosenthal remembers the loft in the University of Iowa's dance building, Halsey Hall. She recalls the big, old open space in the beginning of the fall or spring semesters, when sunlight shone...

Arthur Lee Land's musical performance may create disconnect between one's eyes and one's ears. "We're doing something really different," said Katie Roche, the Englert development director....

A collection of 15 collaborative looks, such as a tuxedo-style little black dress by Theory paired with tights and heels from a local Iowa City boutique, will make up tonight's Rent the Runway fashion...

Late into the evening weeks before the University of Iowa's Dance Gala, dancers clad in spandex and sweats rehearse in a studio. Bodies stretch, turn, move, and work together. Musical beats envelope the...

Paul Taylor's dancers possess a different way of moving, carving their bodies through space as if they are swimming through something denser than air. Their dancing is musical, a full-bodied experience. "What...

The actors in The Rocky Horror Show aren't afraid to rub up against each other with pelvic thrusts. The lead character, Frank-N-Furter, struts across a dance-studio floor singing about being a sweet transvestite...

The members of They Might Be Giants recorded songs on an answering machine and advertised the number in local newspapers. The band coined its creation "Dial-A-Song." The Brooklyn-based message...

Thanks to the musical group AnDa Union, throat singing, the horse-head fiddle, and rich Mongolian folk music can be heard in Iowa City today. This Hancher event will begin at 7:30 p.m. today in the Englert...

While the sound of punk-pop group All Time Low might not be heard on the radio often, the band's music is well-known by the genre's fans because of the group's rigorous tour schedule. The band will visit...

Unibroue of Québec, Canada, has been brewing our beer of the week since 1992. Maudite (translates to "the damned one") is a Belgiun-style amber with a legend fit for this Halloween weekend. Pictured...

In the quiet confines of Theatre B, the Mission Impossible theme song plays throughout the room as actors crouch, creep, and crawl down the center aisle stairs to the stage. A complex game of red light,...

Poet Marvin Bell, a 40-year faculty member of the IowaWriters' Workshop, will read from his new collection, Vertigo: The Living Dead Man Poems at 7 p.m. today at Prairie Lights, 15 S. Dubuque. "He...