* 1/2 out of ***** I was prepared to have a spring break that everyone and her mother envied. I would become best friends with a white-sand beach in the Caribbean and spend my days dreaming of a shirtless...

* out of ***** Sometimes, there’s nothing better than a popcorn movie. One that doesn’t really have a message or intense complexity. One in which the viewer need only sit back and be entertained. That...

* 1/2 out of ***** Movie-goers throughout the world should hire a bounty hunter to catch the makers of this movie. The climax of The Bounty Hunter is more like a gently rolling hill, or a couple of speed...

It is truly an accomplishment for Lindsay Lohan to take one of the only commercials I actually pay attention to while watching TV and turn it into a lawsuit. An E-Trade commercial, which originally aired...

Bible of the Devil has a new outlook on its music, succinctly defined in one phrase: “freedom metal.” The band performs in the spirit of its hard rock/metal predecessors, emphasizing the concept of...

Although 12 organizations stand on the Iowa City theater platform, a group of local entrepreneurial thespians have found a theatrical niche to fill in the Cultural Corridor. “I started the Red Door...

When she was young, Jennifer Fawcett lived on a goat farm. Then, at the age of 23, fresh out of the UI Playwrights’ Workshop, she wrote her first play based on those experiences, Goat Show. After writing...

The Linn Street Café wants to put some class into St. Patrick’s Day. Not that the Irish aren’t already classy. For its first time, the local gourmet eatery will create a five-course Guinness Dinner...

The term “sophomore slump” doesn’t faze Via Audio. Rather, the Brooklyn-based indie-pop quartet confidently released its second album, Animalore, as a “melting pot” of eccentric and varied sound,...

The lore of spring break’s mass student exodus depicts Iowa City as a one-week ghost town. However, the Englert Theatre, Yacht Club, and Dreamwell Theatre contend that the town celebrates when the university...

Local bands in Iowa City are uniting this evening to bring people together through music in the wake of a disaster. Hey Hello and Mother Culture will perform with opener Stubborn Tiny Lights VS Clustering...

Once the stuff of national tours, vaudeville acts and tricks are now often relegated to circuses and county-fair sideshows. Sword-swallowing, fire-juggling, and glass-eating will make their way out of...