This weekend, as part of Oktoberfest, a dedication of Iowa City's newest art project will take place. The North Side Marketplace Literary Walk, a recently completed Iowa City Public Art Project, will...

Wilco's new album, The Whole Love, showcases a band that sounded better when the members were suffering from depression and prescription-drug addiction. The Whole Love is the first album released by the...

This week's beer of the week is Trois Pistoles from the Unibroue (Hah, like unibrow?) Brewery in Chambly, Québec, Canada. Trois Pistoles is a bold Belgian ale that has a 9 percent alcohol content. Along...

Booming, resonant bass lines and soaring high notes will fill the air this weekend as dozens of bows touch dozens of strings at the Iowa City Cello Daze, a two-day festival celebrating all things cello....

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...

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,...