For writer Karen Leona Anderson, poetry and science go hand-in-hand. She wrote her dissertation at Cornell University on the two subjects and researched bees for her latest collection of poems, titled...

Following a musical in the fall, Kirkwood Community College students will experiment in drama and farce in a dark comedic production. House of Blue Leaves will be produced three times, beginning Friday...

While the works of British, German, and American composers are easy to find in Iowa, music from other locales may at times be less prominent. This weekend, the YL Male Voice Choir, a Finnish group, will...

Devotion can come in many forms. For some, including female Hindi ascetics, it can mean sacrificing a typical life in the name of religious adherence. Antoinette DeNapoli, a visiting professor of Asian...

Investigative journalist Jeff Biggers is not a big fan of coal. Having his family’s ancestral home of Eagle Creek, Ill., razed to make way for coal production, Biggers found no other way to illustrate...

If President Obama ever suffered a loss of words, Honest Abe’s legacy could act as a tag team and spring into the ring. “The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present,” President...

SWISHER— The trio standing in the Cedar Ridge Winery in Swisher created quite the visual contrast. The first two men to speak — Hancher executive director Charles Swanson and music director for Orchestra...

Annie Clark wanted to be among her own — the freaks. “I’m, in some ways, really glad I grew up in the suburbs, because if I hadn’t, I don’t think I would’ve wanted to move to New York City,”...

The late 1940s saw plenty of social change, including the beginning of the end of segregation and discrimination. It was the concept of this cultural upheaval that put the wheels in motion for author...

** out of ***** With its all-star cast and enticing previews, Valentine’s Day was bound to give moviegoers high hopes. It resembles the 2003 romantic comedy Love Actually and at first even appeared...

Tie-dye is usually associated with peace signs, long hair, and the psychedelic. However, the practice dates as far back as 500-800 A.D. pre-Columbian fashions, a little before the Grateful Dead took the...

Working at a homeless shelter, fixing a leaky roof, organizing benefits for those in need — these things were all part of a typical day for Russell Karkowski until he fell from his roof in November 2009. The...