Movie Review: The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 Quick! You need to construct the costume for an average-Joe movie hero. What are the essentials? Glasses? Check. Paunch? Check. Dwight Schrute-worthy mustard shirt?...

Last year, the members of Riverside Theatre were forced, as many in Iowa City, to adjust their lives around water. The company members performed their Shakespeare Festival at City High, quite a different...

Her text traces a set of statues from ancient Greece to early 19th-century Britain, and Karen Essex’s fourth novel, Stealing Athena, will bring the centuries-old controversy to Iowa City. Essex will...

A place to get nostalgic and reminisce about the popular culture that shaped us into the snarky Arts reporters we are today. If you give something 20 years, it’s bound to make a comeback. Hopefully,...

Last weekend, the Iowa Arts Festival filled the streets of downtown with dancing, people walking on stilts, and colorful paintings. Tonight, the Iowa City Summer of the Arts continues with a musical presence...

In many ways, Mahbod Seraji has crossed boundaries. From Iran to the United States, from engineering to writing, and from childhood to adulthood, he carries a wealth of stories. But although his career...

It’s been a rough week for Hollywood-folk. Not only has the press gone wild over actor David Carradine’s shocking death, but Poison front man Bret Michaels face-planted hard on his Tony Award début,...

With the U.S. release of the new iPhone 3GS on June 19 (and the general, overwhelming ubiquity of Apple products), it’s time to give Microsoft some props. The Electronic Entertainment Expo, or E3, kicked...

For some kids, going to the library was looked forward to with anticipation, but age brings dwindling trips to public spaces. Journalist, author, and former DI staffer Jay Walljasper said it shouldn’t...

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...