FILM REVIEW: The Informant! Whether he has George Clooney rob a Las Vegas casino or has Julia Roberts adopt a Southern accent to take down a corporation, director Steven Soderbergh makes his audience...

BRAAAINS! Zombies will invade Iowa City on Saturday for the Fourth-Annual Iowa City Zombie March — an event that raises money for various charities while allowing people to unleash their inner thirst...

The first lyrics Mike Herrera sings on his latest album are a call to action: “Let’s drink, let’s drink till we fall down / let’s drink, I’ll see you on the ground / let’s drink, let’s drink...

The members of Third Eye Blind have lived more than a semi-charmed life. The band’s domination of ’90s alt-rock airwaves included four albums, three top-10 U.S. singles, and a hit song that covertly...

An evening with the ‘Schmemmys’ The Creative Arts Emmys (or as host Kathy Griffin calls them the “Schmemmys”) occurred last weekend (though it’ll technically air today on E!), and I wanted...

Taking Back Sunday Everyone who has ever been dumped needs this album. Taking Back Sunday’s debut, Tell All Your Friends, is a piece of hard-core brilliance — 45 minutes of relentless melodic wailing...

The play Écoute: pieces of Reynaldo Hahn is not a history lesson audience members can access on Wikipedia. Rather, it is an intimate meeting with an influential French mélodie composer. “Sometimes...

Sept. 11 marked legendary bassist Victor Wooten’s 45th birthday. After asking him what his advice was after decades of playing bass, he paused and simply said, “Make it groove.” “Nowadays, the...

A cross-country tour and credits on numerous television soundtracks have put singer/songwriter Tyrone Wells on many people’s radar. Those following Wells will find him in Iowa City tonight. He will...

The connection between Robert Redford and Kiki Petrosino can easily be misunderstood. In her first anthology, Fort Red Border, she utilizes an imaginary Redford to serve as the caring, quintessential...

Approximately one year after the devastating flood displaced and disheartened the UI School of Art and Art History, the largest piece of artwork to ever come out of its studio will be installed in the...

We all know Nicholas Sparks: that guy who inspires men’s girlfriends everywhere to cry while they read his books or watch his movies, asking themselves when they are going to find a guy like that —...