“What we’re really trying to do is get the funk out to people so they don’t forget what it’s about,” said Ben Soltau, the bassist for local band Big Funk Guarantee. “Getting the funk out”...

Matchmakers are an elusive breed of meddlesome women, seeking to insert their self-proclaimed superior expertise in love upon unsuspecting strangers. The most notable matchmakers include Yente in Fiddler...

Some artists need only mundane objects to create a masterpiece. Kimberlee Rocca is one of them, and she uses foil. Rocca, a local artist, uses a novel printmaking technique — foil imaging — that requires...

Aaron “Heatbox” Heaton isn’t trying to write the instruction manual for ventriloquism or Kamasutra foreplay. “You just force your lips not to pay attention to what the back of your mouth is doing,”...

Ready for a fitter, happier, and healthier you? The DI is here to help. Each week, we’ll feature a new tip you can easily incorporate into your daily regimen to promote oneness of body, mind, and spirit. Ancient...

Each Thursday, the snarky Arts reporters at the DI will rip apart the upcoming trends that the masses will undoubtedly be talking about in favor of promoting the brilliant innovations everyone should be...

Rock Plaza Central’s last album, Are We Not Horses?, is a narrative story of six-legged, robotic horses. The creatures discover they aren’t flesh and blood and are forced do deal with the consequences...

A place for us to reminisce about the movies we loved, lost, and still live for to this day. Better Off Dead, 1985 Directed by Savage Steve Holland. Starring John Cusack, David Ogden Stiers, and Kim...

I miss the Masturbating Bear. In 2004, when NBC announced Conan O’Brien would take over as host of “The Tonight Show,” many of us “Late Night” diehards worried if he’d soften up his image...

You may have seen Nathan Musser’s work before — his art has appeared in several downtown businesses, including the Buzz and Revival. It is fitting, then, that his first formal gallery exhibition opened...

Bestselling author Andre Dubus III said he has fond memories of growing up in Iowa City. “My grandmother had just bought us four kids a little black and white TV, which not everyone had in the 60’s,”...

Mac is the Man Until about three weeks ago, I was a PC user. I researched and switched. And now, I couldn’t be happier. Mac’s superiority is obvious in many areas, the first being security. The majority...