Organizers from 80/35 recently released their final acts for Wellmark Main Stage at the Des Moines music festival. Saturday Noon — The Chatty Cathy’s *Play-In Addition Noon — Rebel Creek *Play-In...

The beer of the week is Goose Island’s Sofie, a Belgian Style Farmhouse Ale. Bottled in Chicago, the saison brew is aged in oak barrels with orange peels and fermented with wild yeasts. Because of...

The Beer of the Week is a citrus-flavored, medium-bodied India Pale Ale bottled in Frederick, Maryland. Snake Dog IPA, a brew available year-round, is concocted by Flying Dog Brewery and described on...

A brawl broke out among a dozen teenage boys last week. Punches were thrown, switch blades were pulled — yet not a drop of blood hit the ground. Just three minutes later, the boys busted out a song-and...

Family — everybody has one: a tightly knit, complex unit of people who love one another unconditionally. Most of the time. The Iowa Summer Rep’s theme for the season examines the absurdities and dramatics...

Local artist Dave Zollo has two upcoming performances this weekend — the first for good music and the second for a good cause. Zollo, along with his band, the Body Electric, will play the Mill Friday...

Iowa City’s “Party in the Park” series returns to the area today. The series is designed to give locals the opportunity to meet in a neighborhood park for live music, games, arts and crafts, and...

It was a beautiful day. People were out and about. The chirping birds were not enough to drown out the constant drumming or the playful music coming from the humble stage nestled in Lower City Park. Four...

University of Iowa alum Craig Moreau will return to Iowa City after almost three years this weekend. And with him he’s bringing more than 50 poems — “Love Letter Never Written,” “Trinidad and...

There’s only one place in Iowa City to find go-go dancers, drag queens, and disc jockeys spinning for dance parties any day of the week — Studio 13. The vibrant downtown establishment, the city’s...

As teenagers, Sam Locke-Ward and future wife Grace were huge fans of the punk band Dead Milkmen and its frontman, Joseph Genaro. Or, as he was otherwise known, Joe Jack Talcum. Years later, the three...

Tom Grimes sat beneath a stoplight at dusk some 20 years ago, wondering how he ended up in Iowa City. Being accustomed to the thrills of New York City, the place he then called home, he was bewildered...