Count Jabula loves Dale Earnhardt. The lead vocalist for Iowa City-born band Human Aftertaste harbors an absolute devotion to the late stock-car driver not in a romantic or fatherly way, but in the most...

One sip of Hot Buttered Rum can leave listeners addicted. The mouth-watering mixture is made up of San Francisco band members Aaron Redner (fiddle, electric and acoustic mandolins), Bryan Horne (double...

Cramped spaces, bodies pushed up against each other, hiding in dark corners of an attic — this is the environment Anne Frank lived in for two and a half years. The young girl logged her experiences of...

Cheesy science-fiction flicks such as Armageddon, The Day After Tomorrow, and 2012 probably don’t catch the attention of any expert in global climate change. The Age of Stupid, a 2009 film from the...

Since 2003, the Mobbed Mafia has been living the skater life. The 11-member skateboarding group’s collective lifestyle has culminated in its first full-length skate video, Mobbed Mafia II. The movie...

Young, hungry, hairy people singing and bumping into each other. That’s what Keller Williams says to expect from his show at the Englert Theatre, 221 E. Washington St. Yes, his response is unexpected,...

Forty years of art, 40 years of friends. This is the motto the UI Museum of Art has adopted to celebrate 40 years of bringing art to the community. Although official celebrations were in May, the museum...

Tripmaster Monkey is back from the dead. With the exception of a few special shows — including a performance at Rock Island Brewing Company’s 30th-anniversary fest in the summer — the alt-rock...

Hollywood has hit a dry spell. The No. 1 and No. 6 top-grossing movies in America, Where The Wild Things Are and Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs, are adaptations of children’s books. No. 5, The Stepfather,...

Part of a journalist’s job is to conduct interviews and ask questions. In the recently released Eating the Dinosaur, writer Chuck Klosterman asks the reader why that is. Why do we ask others questions?...

The 21st-century zombie — a violation of the genre or bloody good fun? It doesn’t matter if they run or walk They are gory, they are terrifying, they are out for blood — modern movie zombies are...

It’s nearing midnight when you and your friends get the inebriated urge to enter a karaoke bar. You stumble on stage to show off your staggering vocals and give the audience the performance they deserve....