Clifford the Big Red Dog, Curious George, and Pippi Longstocking aren’t typical visitors to Gibson Square. But this weekend is different. The children’s book characters will be a part of the Book...

Music festivals are the perfect event for the ultimate outdoor live music lover. For the Iowa City area, Camp Euforia, however, forget the sweat, subtract the overwhelming crowds, and add a scenic country...

Listening to Wondervisons, Delicate Steve’s first album, you could at first be forgiven for thinking that you were overhearing a practice session. Many of the tracks start inconspicuously, seemingly...

The last time Evan Sult played in Iowa City, he wound up in the hospital with stitches. Having played here three times before, he returns with his lively new band, Sleepy Kitty, and new band member Paige...

The New Testament didn’t mention that Mary Magdalene lived in Hollywood and Jesus was a disc jockey. Namely, because they didn’t. But Mary Magdalan and Gzus do. The 27-year-old’s constantly colored...

The Beer of the Week is Tommyknocker Brewery’s Hop Strike Black India Pale Ale. Brewed in Idaho Springs in the Colorado mountains, the heavily hopped brew is characterized by a dark, heavy body, spicy...

On the South Side of Iowa City, behind a little white house and through a thick door, Luke Tweedy sits in front of a screen of multicolored sliding bars. He’s in his editing room in early July, cleaning...

Matt Jagow plucks the banjo. Steve Bateman plays the harmonica. Caleb Horne — the mandolin. Yet the members of the Wisconsin-based Evergreen Grass Band, including Tim Listcher and Dan Turner, refuse...

The Get Up Kids has dealt with the label “emo band” since Day 1. “It’s a blessing and a curse,” said Matt Pryor, vocalist and guitar player. Now, 16 years later, the band members don’t care...

The lyrical themes of mechanical tyranny in Iconoclast mark a drastic shift from the fantasy epics the New Jersey metal quintet explored on past albums, most recently 2007’s Paradise Lost. Yet these...

Nathan Gould is a 2010 University of Iowa graduate who works as a marketing associate at the Englert Theatre. The Daily Iowan: What exactly is your job at the Englert? Nathan Gould: My title is marketing...

Holly Newsom considers herself more of a songwriter than a vocalist. Passionate about the paradox of life and the things in it, she creates the most powerful songs she can with the least number of words.  “We...