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...

Have a desire to see beautiful lingerie? Well, go no further than the Theatre Building this weekend for the department’s latest play, Intimate Apparel. Intimate Apparel will open at 8 p.m. today in...

Kabir may have lived and died in the 15th century, but his 600-year-old footprint is still visible today. The transcendental poet of north India has enjoyed generations of Hindu, Muslim, secularist, and...

Beer gets countless beer fests, and the Renaissance gets Renaissance festivals. Now, a 15th-century Indian weaver and poet named Kabir gets one, too, this weekend, when the UI hosts its first Kabir Festival. Friday...

In 1987, Brian Waller and Brock Beekmann forged a friendship while attending Nodland Elementary School in Sioux City. Today, the two are the founding members of Des Moines-based psychedelic-indie-jam quintet...

Polish poet and essayist Adam Zagajewski isn’t afraid to tackle the big issues. His work encompasses a variety of complex topics, including vast landscapes, long passages of time, and the meaning of...

Swing, the biggest dance and music craze of the 1920s and ’30s, will swoop through the UI campus this weekend. The Hawkeye Swing Festival will return for its fourth year of lindy-hopping mania Friday...

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...

Any fan of the undead ought to give Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith’s collaborative effort, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, a shot (aiming for the head, of course). “I haven’t any right to criticise...

Tonight, author Eula Biss extends an ‘invitation to thought’ with a reading at Prairie Lights. With an undeniable passion for writing and the drive to improve her craft, author Eula Biss is making...

Beer and Loathing in Panama City is dedicated to Doug Stanhope. Yes, that Doug Stanhope, of “The Man Show” and “Girls Gone Wild” fame. Dedicating a book to someone of Stanhope’s ilk sets the...