Beautiful, unkempt music Balancing the tasks of being a performer and a mother can be difficult for Natalie MacMaster. Yet, she manages to be both a world-class fiddler and a mother of three. “It’s...

Art is capable of being delicate and fine in design. But can it be packaged in wrapping paper for the holidays? The UI Fine Arts Council aims to do just that. The organization will host its annual Holiday...

Stephen Elliott knows addiction. The 37-year-old author used to shoot heroin and said he still takes 10 mg of Adderall a day – a drug he has been using for years. Early into his latest nonfiction book,...

Say you want to learn the inner-workings of creating an iPhone application. There’s a class for that. Next semester, the UI School of Journalism and Mass Communication, in coordination with the computer-science...

It is early in the morning — the Sun has barely risen above the horizon. All deckhands are already hard at work, hauling up from the depths thousands of the world’s largest oysters. Stephen Bloom...

Living through a frightening epidemic is more than a plot line for Jen Silverman. In 2007, the playwright was living in a small, rural, southern Japanese town when the avian-flu outbreak hit. “[The...

Exploding torsos and other dances Eight choreographers will showcase work at this year’s Graduate/Undergraduate Dance Concert, and each dance differs from the others. The performance will take place...

I sat down with Dean Koontz’s latest novel, Breathless, after having heard many a guilt trip because I had never explored his terrain. This kind of pressure led me to believe that I was in for something...

Last week, another season of “Dancing with the Stars” mercifully came to an end with the predictable victory by someone old, wholesome, and white. While grandparents everywhere were delighted with...

Confession time: I’m a fan of Jackass. Perhaps it’s because my tween and early teen years were during the height of Jackass’ popularity. I was one of the many young boys who ignored the “do not...

What better way is there to await the joys of Christmas Day than with the Rat Pack? This playlist combines the romantic and the childlike aspects of Christmas from timeless artists, which lends to the...

Dumb and Dumber, 1994 Dumb and Dumber — the godfather of all intuitive wisdom in this strange reality we call life. It has the answer to any question a person could ask, such as, “Where should I go...