Forget about winning Oscars or making millions in Hollywood. Budding filmmakers have to start somewhere, and usually that’s submitting work to any film festival possible. “It’s really nerve-racking,...

The steady jingle of bells resounding outside malls and local businesses is as familiar to the holiday season as Bing Crosby singing “White Christmas.” And the sight of a bundled up volunteer ringing...

Adam Richman does more than observe regional cultures — he ingests them. Whether visiting Nevada to duel with a burrito taller than a toddler or passing through San Francisco to demolish a two-gallon...

In a season saturated with Santas, snowflakes, and sleigh bells, rarely do the holidays conjure up images of hot-tub baptisms and teenage girls skinny dipping. However, for the actors at Riverside Theater’s...

I share my bed with Tina Fey. When things get really crazy, I invite Steve Carell along for the action. Some nights, I cuddle up with as many as five or 10 media personalities. This companionship comes...

While the term “a novel” usually accompanies the title on the cover of a fiction book, a different phrase appears on Russian legend Vladimir Nabokov’s last work, The Original of Laura. It is a novel,...

There is no secret formula or process to local author Larry Baker’s writing. He wakes up in the morning, drinks some coffee, and sits down at his computer for a few hours every day. For him, consistency...

At midnight tonight, the sounds of shrieking women will resonate throughout Iowa City. No, the screaming isn’t because vampires are sinking their fangs into unsuspecting victims. The cries will come...

Sassy zebra couches, affordable couture, and a friendly, customer-oriented environment fill the space next to Java House. Once the home of Vortex, the store now houses trendy designer items. With its...

In a world with more than 6 billion people and nearly 200 hundred countries, there’s one thing we all have in common — the need to eat. “Food is the one common denominator to humans and the world,”...

In seven days, hundreds of millions of Americans will sit down and all eat the exact same food at roughly the same time. Such behavior would probably seem like one of the strangest cultural phenomenon...

Twilight makes me disappointed in America Make it stop. I don’t want to hear about Edward. I don’t want to hear about vampires. I don’t want to hear about werewolves. I don’t want to hear about...