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...

Lean back in a worn booth surrounded by wood-paneled walls. Hear a few beer bottles clank. See a silhouette in low-lights. Hands move rapidly as voices dance above the room’s cluttered racket. The scene...

Thanksgiving’s over, and thank goodness. Most of us couldn’t wait to get home and away from the stress of school, and just a week later, we couldn’t wait to get away from the stress of home and...

Katherine Heigl used one in The Ugly Truth. Comedian Katt Williams devoted an entire movie to their use. And even some in Iowa City are getting the click of it. Popular films often portray users of online...

Would Stephen King make it into the Writers’ Workshop? The literary elite often put off the author’s work as simple reading that requires very little analysis or thought. Ask a UI English professor...

**** 1/2 out of ***** As “Dora the Explorer” has taught legions of children and college students with free mornings, foxes are mischievous. But can a fox with a family give up his thieving ways and...

Imagine a world without children crying in a shopping cart as they wait for their mothers to choose a healthy kids’ cereal, or a world without nutrition facts and confusing labels, or even a world in...

Artistry will replace athleticism in Carver-Hawkeye Arena on Nov. 22. Shoppers and craftsmen of all varieties will flock to the arena’s concourse at 9 a.m. for the Annual Fall Arts and Crafts show....

Forget about winning Oscars or making millions in Hollywood. Budding filmmakers have to start somewhere, and usually that’s submitting work to any film festival possible. “It’s really nerve-racking,...

The steady jingle of bells resounding outside malls and local businesses is as familiar to the holiday season as Bing Crosby singing “White Christmas.” And the sight of a bundled up volunteer ringing...

Adam Richman does more than observe regional cultures — he ingests them. Whether visiting Nevada to duel with a burrito taller than a toddler or passing through San Francisco to demolish a two-gallon...

In a season saturated with Santas, snowflakes, and sleigh bells, rarely do the holidays conjure up images of hot-tub baptisms and teenage girls skinny dipping. However, for the actors at Riverside Theater’s...