Earth Day has yet to gain the revered status Valentine’s Day, Halloween, and other secular holidays have in American society. This is understandable, given the populace’s love for Farmers’ Markets...

Pop Quiz: Do your meal options rotate between fast food, ramen noodles, and anything that isn’t covered by a thick layer of mold in your fridge? Was the last thing you “cooked” a bowl of cereal?...

The latest addition to the Disney throne isn’t rising to power quietly. Though Disney’s first black princess won’t make her theatrical debut in The Princess and the Frog until December, the Internet...

Throughout The Progressive’s 100-year history, the magazine has emphasized the rights of all individuals and has remained true to its forward-thinking values. “The Progressive has always believed...

311 played a semi-decent show on April 18 at the Field House. Though the concert wasn’t good enough to warrant day-after talk, it held its own. I’ll be honest — when 311’s Nick Hexum and S.A....

Welcome to Bitch Please, the newest offering from The Daily Iowan’s rabble-rousing Arts and Culture staff. Bitch Please is a place where two DI staffers argue about all that is wonderful in the entertainment...

Film Review: 17 Again Zac Efron makes us wonder if maybe everything does happen for a reason. 17 Again is the story of Mike O’Donnell, who misses out on his chance to become a successful basketball...

Nearly a year of work and dance will culminate in this weekend’s UI dance department thesis concert. Oh, the honors thesis. For prospective graduate students, it’s a hulking, inescapable piece of...

The third-annual swinging and grooving celebration known as the Iowa Dance Fest will kick off tonight at Chait Galleries Downtown. A large golden pipe organ rested in the background as two seasoned Iowa...

Going home for Easter was great, wasn’t it? Your grandma made her famous cheesy mashed potatoes, your dad carved up a mouth-watering ham, and some rabbit left you so much chocolate that the average individual...

Growing up in Council Bluffs, UI junior Quinn Walsh had an advantage in the alternative-rock scene. Just across the Missouri River, in Omaha, is the birthplace of one of rock’s most popular bands, 311. “I’ve...

Around a year ago, Richard Guy Wilson, a Commonwealth professor of architectural history at the University of Virginia, got a call from the White House asking if he would speak there for Thomas Jefferson’s...