This semester, UI dancers have experimented with realism, left rehearsals with bruises, and tested boundaries of space and expression to produce the intensively collaborative event Dance Gala 2009: Synergy....

As the title of their latest album suggests, the members of Taking Back Sunday are no strangers to being New Again. Since forming in 1999, Taking Back Sunday has undergone quite a few lineup changes —...

He was raised in the church. As a child, he played in the parking lot with his friends. His dad led the music program. As he grew, he tried to be a good person. Then, it changed. David Bazan questioned...

When thinking of aesthetic pleasure, one seldom considers a book. Michelle Huneven was hooked from the moment she was first read to. The love for the crafting of a written piece, inside and out, has driven...

Ryan Walsh makes collages. Not with craft scissors, construction paper and magazine cutouts but with music. He takes a guitar, a trumpet, a cello, a keyboard, a bass, a sampler, and glues it all together...

At the age of 18, Griffin House made a decision that would change his life forever. The now-29-year-old musician turned down a golf scholarship at Ohio University and went to Miami University, where...

The thought had been pressing Iowa City restaurateur Derek Perez’s mind for a long time — the opportunity to do something different, offering locals an option that would usually require a drive. The...

*** 1/2 out of ***** Canadian indie-pop sisters Tegan and Sara show signs of maturity on the duo’s sixth album, Sainthood. Coproduced by Chris Walla of Death Cab for Cutie, the album is an attempt...

**** out of ***** It’s Halloween, which means one thing — another Saw movie. Six films into the franchise, it would be easy to pass off the latest installment as more of the same (i.e., just another...

Art is evolutional, a creative extension of the mind that grows and adapts as the artist does. Jason Briggs, a visiting artist in ceramics, will lecture today at 6 p.m. in Van Allen Lecture Room 2, where...

Eyes Set to Kill vocalist Alexia Rodriguez has always been shy. That’s why it was such a shock when she stepped up as a lead vocalist in the band. “At first, I didn’t even talk to the crowd, like...

A play honoring one of Iowa City’s greatest literary figures will finally be staged to the extent it was originally intended. Oct. 12, 2008, marked not only Paul Engle’s 100th birthday but also the...