Hasidic Jewish reggae mixed with beat boxing, hip-hop, and rock ’n’ roll. It may seem strange, but artist Matisyahu makes it work. “I like to make music,” Matisyahu said. “I don’t think about...

Gregory Hines may have made it cool to tap dance, but Tilly and the Wall proves it can gain worldwide success with a few indie tunes and a whole lot of hoofing. Tilly and the Wall will play 80/35 Friday...

The Dig Angees: Surfing up some pop rock The Dig Angees of Des Moines will bring gig-bags full of rock ’n’ roll to this year’s 80/35 festival on Friday at 5:15 p.m. on the Meredith West Stage. The...

Thursday marks the anniversary of acclaimed writer Ernest Hemingway’s death in 1961. The author committed suicide by laying a Boss & Co. shotgun at an angle on the ground, leaning his face over the...

Michael Jackson: The Good Michael Jackson, a man of extremes, was never simply good. When he was low, he sunk way low, but when he was “good,” he was the all-out blazing King of Pop. His achievements...

The ’60s had Jimi’s guitar. The ’80s had Michael’s dance moves. The ’90s had Kurt’s vocals. The ’00s have … laptops? Well, that’s the case for Deepak Mantena. “I got really bored...

Suicide Silence stresses the “death” in the hard-core genre “death metal.” That isn’t to say Suicide Silence completely crashes in its sophomore album, No Time to Bleed, but the mark it leaves...

Jimmy Fallon is a tool “Late Night with Jimmy Fallon” is almost as bad as NBC’s following show, “Last Call with Carson Daly.” Maybe it’s just because Fallon has to live up to the high standards...

*** out of ***** A summer blockbuster such as the Michael Bay-directed Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen is hard to tackle when doing a review. The script is weak overall, there is a lot of cheesy dialogue,...

The tall, dark, and textured walls of the set of Dead Man’s Cell Phone evoked a sense of absurdism similar to Alice’s trip down the Rabbit Hole. In Dead Man’s Cell Phone, Alice is represented by...

*** out of ***** For those hoping to see the film adaptation of Jodi Picoult’s My Sister’s Keeper, it’s unlikely to be found here. Without even mentioning the drastic change of ending the producers...

Pogs — oh, how much fun can one kid derive from a bunch of little cardboard milk caps with cartoons on them? Not that much, but two kids can have one hell of a tournament. High-stakes was the name of...