When you’re outside on a hot summer day, grilling hamburgers or hot dogs for dinner, a good beverage to think about matching with the meal is the Bavik Premium Pilsner. This light beer, which contains...

The Lexicon Collective is hosting a green-theme runway show titled Beyond the Hemline at 8 p.m. Saturday at the White Lightning Wherehouse, 700 S. Dubuque St. Admission is $8. A silent auction and door...

Jam band Wookiefoot will play at 10 p.m. at Gabe’s, 330 E. Washington, with Insectoid. Admission is $10. The Minneapolis-based ensemble, composed of more than 10 members and described on its website...

Mike Stanley will perform standup comedy at 10 p.m. today at Public Space One, 129 E. Washington St. Admission is free. The UI Campus Activities Board will host the event. Originally from the metro Detroit...

Local Iowa City writing programs and businesses will celebrate the UNESCO World Book and Copyright Day on Friday and Saturday. UNESCO, the United Nations Education, Scientific, and Cultural Organization,...

Eight women stand shoulder to shoulder on a cold cement floor. Their voices mingle and bounce off the barren, gray walls. They are welcoming, beckoning anyone who will listen to take a ride on a train...

New York artist and University of Iowa alum Sam Gassman makes sure that his annual Smithing and Arts Materials Awards push the envelope beyond what art competitions are supposed to be. That is, just far...

Author Paul Harding resorted to his grandfather’s intimate stories of growing up in rural Maine when writing his latest book. The novel unfolds with the memories of an old man on his deathbed, returning...

Much has changed for Kevin Gordon since his five-year stay in Iowa City during the ’80s. He was studying poetry at Iowa Writers’ Workshop, splitting a $300 rent check with his girlfriend, and playing...

Twenty-three years ago on a hot summer day in Iowa, a legendary video clip was born. Founders of the Found Footage Festival Nick Prueher and Joe Pickett have dubbed it “Jack Rebney: The World’s Angriest...

The prom queen looks like living hell. A ghost-white foundation covers her face, and blue and black shadows highlight her sleep-deprived eyes. Dark red lipstick is smeared along her cheeks and neck, giving...

Poet Michele Glazer began writing creatively when she was young and took a path toward poetry partly out of necessity. “I’m a failed fiction writer,” she said. “I can’t sustain a narrative.”...