Greg Rappleye said he considers poetry “work” because it’s what he cares about. But his day job pays the bills. “I wish there was a way to make a real living at it because I would love to do this...

The cast members of Dreamwell Theatre’s The Drag sweated and sang their way through rehearsal in the cramped quarters at the First Baptist Church on June 10, utilizing the borrowed attic to the best...

The UI theater department’s Iowa Summer Rep began 88 years ago, and it has undergone numerous changes since then, thanks to the artistic direction of Eric Forsythe. For the past two decades, the department...

All things have an inside and an outside. Whether a physical object (such as a building) or an abstraction (such as a relationship), one is either on the inside or the outside. Then (to get really philosophical),...

The movie soundtrack has been dying a slow and painful death for years. 1998’s Night at the Roxbury might have been the last solid movie album — inspiring massive quantities of head-bobbing and off-pitch...

Guillermo del Toro proved he was a visionary genius with the release of Pan’s Labyrinth in 2006. Chuck Hogan earned respect in 2005 when his solo novel, Prince of Thieves, won the crime genre’s Hammett...

Stories handed down through generations are vital to survival — or so says author Binnie Kirshenbaum. The New York City resident sometimes begins writing with history, using stories from her past and...

A place for us to reminisce about the movies we loved, lost, and still live for to this day. Space Jam, 1996 When I was 9 years old, Michael Jordan reigned in the world — and in my bedroom. I had four...

Local artist Mei-Ling Shaw has several paintings on display at local greeting card and invitation store RSVP, 140 N. Linn St. Her paintings are a series of realistic portraits with a twist, “They’re...

It all started when Deer Tick’s lead singer, John McCauley, got bit. “I somehow managed to go 19 years of my life without being bit [by a deer tick],” he said. “But one day, I was out in Bloomington,...

Spinal Tap: Back From the Dead In 1984, director Rob Reiner unleashed the film This is Spinal Tap, setting the standard for all parody films and becoming one of the most revered comedies of all time....

Memories of Sweet Tunes Incubus: Monuments and Memories It’s been three years since the alternative rockers in Incubus have released an album. OK, so the band’s latest, Monuments and Memories, is...