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...

Cracking jokes, being sarcastic, making people laugh — such is the life of a comic. Bobby Miyamoto embraces the stereotypical lifestyle, but he knows how to bring his own flavor to the art of comedy. “I’m...

Prairie Lights Books will hold its first “Live from Prairie Lights” poetry reading without the help of longtime moderator Julie Englander today. Stepping into her place will be Sarah Fay, advisory...

In a culinary world of partially hydrogenated and high-fructose corn syrup, many people these days have no idea where their food comes from. And furthermore, they don’t care. That is exactly why the...

The stage is set, the dancers are warmed up, the band is tuned, and excitement and intrigue linger in the air. The audience, full of generous patrons and alumni, fill the Mabie Theatre seats and await...

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...