Seeing the beauty of the red sand beaches in Hana, Hawaii, would not have been so powerful an experience for Eva Adderley had she not met Ruth, one of the locals. Ruth contended that before Adderley could...

The Chicago Afrobeat Project describes its sound as a sort of concoction of flavors. Take Ben & Jerry's ice cream for example. The group members said their genre is like a juxtaposition of Rocky Road...

The DI sat down with Megan Flanagan, the managing director of the Coralville Center for the Performing Arts, to talk about how the show is running during the opening months of production. DI: How was...

The lights flash, and the hum of electronic beats and folk music fill the air. Bomba Estéreo's music combines familiar aspects with elements that will surprise the audience. The Colombian band will perform...

The Capital Brewery, a relatively young brewery located in Middleton, Wis., is the producer of the beer of the week this week. The Autumnal Fire is a German style lager known as a Doppelbock. The brew...

Many of the women playing at this year's Iowa Women's Music Festival say that without the generations of strong female musicians before them, they would have probably never entered the field. "When...

The Swan Lake score acts as an inspiration for junior theater student Bethany Jackson. As the death scene of the ballet plays, she is usually writing some of her most intense work. With the help of the...

Megan Gogerty's great-grandmother was 16 when she started working in the kitchen of a steamboat, her baby in tow. One day, there was a fire aboard the boat, and she was forced to jump overboard, even though...

A morning glory seed and a German Pink tomato seed brought from Bavaria to the U.S. in the 1870s were passed down by generations of family members into the hands of Diane Ott Whealy. From that moment,...

The DI sat down with the University of Iowa's Robin Hemley, the director of the Nonfiction Writing Program, to learn what is new in the writing field on the UI's campus and around the globe. DI: How...

Pop/rock artist Tyrone Wells will return to Iowa City with his self-proclaimed Stevie Wonder morphed into James Taylor and Coldplay sound. Wells will play songs from his new album as well as some old...

This weekend marks the first performance in the new Coralville Center for the Performing Arts, located at the intersection of Fifth Street and 12th Avenue in Coralville. After years of planning and building,...