Close your eyes and walk around Iowa City swinging a stick — you’re bound to hit a writer in the forehead. For some reason, being surrounded by cornfields produces some of the best writing in the...

Didn’t make it to Summer Camp and couldn’t raise the funds for Bonaroo? Well, there’s still a chance to catch a summer festival this year without having to deal with heavy traffic or breaking out...

Bush The other day, I eclipsed 10,000 songs in my iTunes library — a big accomplishment, at least for a music geek such as myself. Although it may be full of a plethora of tunes nobody (including myself)...

The assembled cast and crew members listened intently to a lecture on costuming during Tuesday night’s rehearsal of The Wizard of Oz. “If anyone so much as touches the Tin Man costume, there will...

When considering a poetry reading, a high-energy performance doesn’t usually comes to mind, unless you’re familiar with Britain’s John Hartley Williams and the Blood Axe poets. But for poet Todd...

Cream-colored paper covered in black oil paint spilled from artist Sylvia Schuster’s hands onto the barren floor of her temporary studio on North Linn Street. “Well, that’s a good place for them,”...

Thirty years ago, David Rhodes stood on top of the writing world. He had graduated from the Writers’ Workshop and had three novels published in five years — receiving critical acclaim from author John...

Few musicians have ever managed to concoct a satisfactory supergroup which, by definition, must be a better band than whatever it stems from. Velvet Revolver never lived up to the caliber of Stone Temple...

Clutch’s new album, Strange Cousins from the West, makes it difficult to pass definitive judgment on the group. The band’s Southern rock/blues sound invokes thoughts of ’70s bands that tried to...

Harry Potter: Hottest wizard ever Maybe I just like living in my own fantasy world, but I think Harry Potter freaking rocks. The common argument against the series — aside from many people believing...

**** out of ***** “Vassup?” asks Brüno, a gay fashion designer from Austria. The answer? A whole lot of penis. Sacha Baron Cohen has been known for his satirical character creations. He started...

* out of ***** I Love You, Beth Cooper is the purest definition of a cliché flick. It’s not even “good” cliché, which is what makes this movie a grossly wasteful $18 million expenditure for 20th...