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This year, spandex snaps back. The Iowa Women’s Music Festival has been a local institution for 16 years — but for the first time, the performances aim to draw in a more diverse crowd with a wide...

Canine-based humor takes over Gilbert Street this fall as the members of Riverside Theatre preform A Dog’s Life — a play that delves into the topics of life, love, and friendship. The play premières...

Brooklyn-based Woods thrives in natural environments, often recording songs in jam sessions done at home or writing tunes while pulled over on the side of the road. “It’s all pretty off-the-cuff,”...

City Ballet of Iowa is a David-sized school with a Goliath-sized mission. The founders and directors of the 1-year-old dance school, Sarah and Eloy Barragán, are determined to develop their infant enterprise...

Beer rarely contributes to a performance beyond the all-too-often inebriated drummer. But the Kyle Hollingsworth Band, from Boulder, Colo., changes the trend. Euforquestra and the Kyle Hollingsworth Band...

He is a curly-haired, accordion-playing nerd. Much of his body of work is devoted to polka, obesity, and surfing the Internet. Prince refuses to even consider a collaboration. In spite of all this, the...

Titus Andronicus is a band providing its audience with an escape from everyday life. “The best rock ’n’ roll concerts will allow those that attend them to forget all their other troubles for a couple...

The names Paul, John, George, and Ringo have dominated the past 40 years of British music (though occasionally, other names, such as Sid and Morrissey, shared the spotlight). But underneath the madness...

Fflur Dafydd’s eyes glint when she talks about her writing. The Welsh fiction writer and singer/songwriter is known to tell fantasy tales of weapon-wielding librarians holding a lockdown and of eccentric...

In days past, I was an intrepid Cub Scout. Each fall, I walked around my home town, ringing doorbells and interrupting people’s dinners, all in the hope of selling them little tin cans of incredibly...

Along with competing with gamers around the world, one of the best parts of the Xbox LIVE and PlayStation Network services is the ability to download game demos at no extra cost. No longer do players have...