** out of ***** Movies with a message, from environmentally conscious documentaries to political thrillers, have dominated the Hollywood landscape recently, as moviegoers search for a little substance...

** out of ***** One word to describe Antichrist? Uncomfortable. Divided into five parts, the film opens with an epilogue depicting a couple having sex as their little boy falls to his death out the window...

From the outside, the covered windows don’t give much to the imagination for those passing by. But that isn’t the case inside. Brightly painted walls of yellow and green, a crimson floor path that...

Ebaa El Melik just wants to thank Iowa City. The Qatar native has lived here for only four years, but in that time, she has developed a love for the town. So as her way of giving to the community, the...

Beautiful, unkempt music Balancing the tasks of being a performer and a mother can be difficult for Natalie MacMaster. Yet, she manages to be both a world-class fiddler and a mother of three. “It’s...

Art is capable of being delicate and fine in design. But can it be packaged in wrapping paper for the holidays? The UI Fine Arts Council aims to do just that. The organization will host its annual Holiday...

Stephen Elliott knows addiction. The 37-year-old author used to shoot heroin and said he still takes 10 mg of Adderall a day – a drug he has been using for years. Early into his latest nonfiction book,...

Say you want to learn the inner-workings of creating an iPhone application. There’s a class for that. Next semester, the UI School of Journalism and Mass Communication, in coordination with the computer-science...

It is early in the morning — the Sun has barely risen above the horizon. All deckhands are already hard at work, hauling up from the depths thousands of the world’s largest oysters. Stephen Bloom...

Living through a frightening epidemic is more than a plot line for Jen Silverman. In 2007, the playwright was living in a small, rural, southern Japanese town when the avian-flu outbreak hit. “[The...

Exploding torsos and other dances Eight choreographers will showcase work at this year’s Graduate/Undergraduate Dance Concert, and each dance differs from the others. The performance will take place...

I sat down with Dean Koontz’s latest novel, Breathless, after having heard many a guilt trip because I had never explored his terrain. This kind of pressure led me to believe that I was in for something...