The 21st-century zombie — a violation of the genre or bloody good fun? It doesn’t matter if they run or walk They are gory, they are terrifying, they are out for blood — modern movie zombies are...

It’s nearing midnight when you and your friends get the inebriated urge to enter a karaoke bar. You stumble on stage to show off your staggering vocals and give the audience the performance they deserve....

Jump to the left and step to the right — another Halloween approaches, meaning it’s time for Iowa City to do “The Time Warp” again. The Bijou will present its annual midnight showings of the cult-classic...

Garth Brooks: Double Live Before heading into “retirement” like an old pair of dusty cowboy boots, Garth Brooks was a standard artist on any bona fide country-music lover’s cassette tape. The crooner’s...

At the age of 75, poet and now Ivy League Professor Mark Strand still manages to travel for readings across the country and muster through unexpected questions from fans and critics. However, after 50...

Yeah Yeah Yeahs: Fever to Tell Once upon a time, Karen O had raw, grinding vocal power. Yeah Yeah Yeah’s 2003 album Fever to Tell is one of the last standing examples of gritty, modern indie punk....

The members of the Black Dahlia Murder — producers of blindingly fast metal music and dark lyrics — are nerds at heart, lead vocalist Trevor Strnad said. “World of Warcraft has kind of taken over...

Today • Take advantage of the week’s warmer temperatures and falling leaves — make a leaf pile. Grab a rake and some friends, and gather all of the foliage you can find. Then, release your inner...

Everyone has a different, stress-relieving outlet. For some, it may be reading a novel. For others, it may be working out. For Misty Boyce, the outlet is music. “I think as a kid [music] is always...

Count Jabula loves Dale Earnhardt. The lead vocalist for Iowa City-born band Human Aftertaste harbors an absolute devotion to the late stock-car driver not in a romantic or fatherly way, but in the most...

One sip of Hot Buttered Rum can leave listeners addicted. The mouth-watering mixture is made up of San Francisco band members Aaron Redner (fiddle, electric and acoustic mandolins), Bryan Horne (double...

Cramped spaces, bodies pushed up against each other, hiding in dark corners of an attic — this is the environment Anne Frank lived in for two and a half years. The young girl logged her experiences of...