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...

Imagine crossing the finish line of a marathon. You just finished running 26 miles under the hot Hawaiian sun, your skin continues to pour rivers of sweat, and your legs feel as if they’re made of JELL-O....

Maureen Mondanaro is to yoga as Richard Simmons is to aerobics. The studio owner said she wants Iowa City residents to participate in and feel the benefits of the ancient practice of hot yoga. First...

The UI Museum of Arts collection in the IMU will open to Iowa City’s general public today during its regular Tuesday hours, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., and will be available for viewing through the rest of the...

Jay-Z: The Blueprint 3 Jay-Z’s latest, The Blueprint 3, doesn’t exactly break new hip-hop ground. Jay-Z (a.k.a. Mr. Carter, a.k.a Hova, a.k.a. Beyoncé’s boo) drops the same bombs he has on every...

Nothing goes right Vivian Girls: Everything Goes Wrong Vivian Girls is a pioneer of the recent ‘nu riot grrl’ indie trend. The members of the all-female rock band may not boast the same feminist...

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...

Though the two members of Experimental Dental School may have grown up on opposite sides of the world, their common musical interests brought them together with one goal in mind — to break any musical...

Architecture has meaning outside of its function — a well-designed building becomes a space that leaves the beholder a personal and psychological impression. In particular, governmental institutions...

There is a long-standing misconception about art galleries that implies it takes a certain snobby, pretentious, elitist individual to fully appreciate artwork. Devon Wootten, a doctoral candidate and co-curator...

Playwright, novelist, and screenwriter Marius Ivaskevicius said he sees himself as a storyteller before anything else. “I don’t think about my position as a writer,” he said. “I don’t really...