Radiohead In my short life, I’ve lived through a few memorable events. I remember being in Mr. Rogers’ eighth-grade literature class when I found out about 9/11. And walking on the field in my first...

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...

Lean back in a worn booth surrounded by wood-paneled walls. Hear a few beer bottles clank. See a silhouette in low-lights. Hands move rapidly as voices dance above the room’s cluttered racket. The scene...

Thanksgiving’s over, and thank goodness. Most of us couldn’t wait to get home and away from the stress of school, and just a week later, we couldn’t wait to get away from the stress of home and...

Katherine Heigl used one in The Ugly Truth. Comedian Katt Williams devoted an entire movie to their use. And even some in Iowa City are getting the click of it. Popular films often portray users of online...

Would Stephen King make it into the Writers’ Workshop? The literary elite often put off the author’s work as simple reading that requires very little analysis or thought. Ask a UI English professor...