A 24-hour plane trip would exhaust anyone. For Israeli poet and essayist Efrat Mishori, however, her first experience in the United States was anything but jetlagged. “I was told that I shouldn’t...

It’s the Great Pumpkin, Iowa City. Here are some pumpkin carving tips. • There’s no need to pumpkin hunt like Linus and Lucy this Halloween. The best pumpkins can usually be found at the local...

Among the greatest of Halloween traditions is the horror-movie marathon. Rather than sticking to the classics, try these alternatives this weekend. • REC Begin with this 2007 Spanish film, which follows...

It’s that time of year again. Time for pumpkin carving, trick-or-treating, and totally inappropriate costumes. But who can forget Halloween music? Sure, traditional Halloween songs are great, but sometimes...

Halloween is a magical time of year. With all the monsters, costumes, and copious amounts of candy, the entire night gives you the visceral experience of sitting in a movie theater watching a slasher flick. One...

Firehouse: Firehouse Grunge rock exploded on the popular-music scene in the 1990s. Inadvertently, this new musical trend spelled out the death of many ’80s hair bands that were just starting to come...

This semester, UI dancers have experimented with realism, left rehearsals with bruises, and tested boundaries of space and expression to produce the intensively collaborative event Dance Gala 2009: Synergy....

As the title of their latest album suggests, the members of Taking Back Sunday are no strangers to being New Again. Since forming in 1999, Taking Back Sunday has undergone quite a few lineup changes —...

Ryan Walsh makes collages. Not with craft scissors, construction paper and magazine cutouts but with music. He takes a guitar, a trumpet, a cello, a keyboard, a bass, a sampler, and glues it all together...

At the age of 18, Griffin House made a decision that would change his life forever. The now-29-year-old musician turned down a golf scholarship at Ohio University and went to Miami University, where...

The thought had been pressing Iowa City restaurateur Derek Perez’s mind for a long time — the opportunity to do something different, offering locals an option that would usually require a drive. The...

*** 1/2 out of ***** Canadian indie-pop sisters Tegan and Sara show signs of maturity on the duo’s sixth album, Sainthood. Coproduced by Chris Walla of Death Cab for Cutie, the album is an attempt...