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

Sligo! And everybody drinks. “We said it one time as a joke onstage,” percussionist George Curtis said. “ ‘Hey, we seem to have a lot of songs that mention sligo, why don’t you take a drink...

The next chance could easily be the last to see Omaha-based band Cursive. This nearly 15-year-old band takes a laid-back, noncommittal approach to its widely respected and energetic music, which leaves...

Vedera doesn’t have a tour bus, so when the members were invited by the guys in the Wallfowers to hang out on theirs, the Vedera members were nothing short of ecstatic. “We drive in a van and trailer,...

Author Nick Reding made a return to Oelwein, Iowa, on Monday for the first time since he finished gathering information for his latest nonfiction book, Methland: The Death and Life of an American Small...

We live in a world in which celebrity gossip is manna to our barren souls. So it’s inevitable that in this little Midwestern sliver of the globe we have accumulated a circulating set of UI rumors. In...

** out of ***** The cover art may not always be the best indicator of a classic album, but I do believe there is some kind of correlation between awesome music and badass artwork. The worst of both worlds...

The Griffin Family reigns supreme over “American Dad” “American Dad!” blows. Personally, I was excited when I heard about this new show coming out that seemed to expand on the early hilarity...

Across the globe, there are several cities I don’t believe I’d survive in. Oh, not for lack of creature comforts — or a sense of adventure and personal intuition — but the simple I-would-be-the-first-one-offed-in-a-slasher-film...

**** out of ***** Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince was better than a three-way with Cedric Diggory, Fred Weasley, and Oliver Wood. Or for folks who enjoy witches — Hermione Granger, Fleur Delacour,...

Male bowerbirds create bowers — or miniature huts — to attract females when courting. To do this, the male decorates each bower with shells and leaves — spending hours arranging the objects in a...

Although J.C. Hallman recently released his third publication, his days of seeing his writing on the printed page started early. “Once, when I was about 16, [my teacher] brought into class a decade-old...