Prairie Lights Books will hold its first “Live from Prairie Lights” poetry reading without the help of longtime moderator Julie Englander today. Stepping into her place will be Sarah Fay, advisory...

In a culinary world of partially hydrogenated and high-fructose corn syrup, many people these days have no idea where their food comes from. And furthermore, they don’t care. That is exactly why the...

He is a curly-haired, accordion-playing nerd. Much of his body of work is devoted to polka, obesity, and surfing the Internet. Prince refuses to even consider a collaboration. In spite of all this, the...

Titus Andronicus is a band providing its audience with an escape from everyday life. “The best rock ’n’ roll concerts will allow those that attend them to forget all their other troubles for a couple...

The names Paul, John, George, and Ringo have dominated the past 40 years of British music (though occasionally, other names, such as Sid and Morrissey, shared the spotlight). But underneath the madness...

Fflur Dafydd’s eyes glint when she talks about her writing. The Welsh fiction writer and singer/songwriter is known to tell fantasy tales of weapon-wielding librarians holding a lockdown and of eccentric...

In days past, I was an intrepid Cub Scout. Each fall, I walked around my home town, ringing doorbells and interrupting people’s dinners, all in the hope of selling them little tin cans of incredibly...

Imagine crossing the finish line of a marathon. You just finished running 26 miles under the hot Hawaiian sun, your skin continues to pour rivers of sweat, and your legs feel as if they’re made of JELL-O....

Maureen Mondanaro is to yoga as Richard Simmons is to aerobics. The studio owner said she wants Iowa City residents to participate in and feel the benefits of the ancient practice of hot yoga. First...

The UI Museum of Arts collection in the IMU will open to Iowa City’s general public today during its regular Tuesday hours, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., and will be available for viewing through the rest of the...

Jay-Z: The Blueprint 3 Jay-Z’s latest, The Blueprint 3, doesn’t exactly break new hip-hop ground. Jay-Z (a.k.a. Mr. Carter, a.k.a Hova, a.k.a. Beyoncé’s boo) drops the same bombs he has on every...

Nothing goes right Vivian Girls: Everything Goes Wrong Vivian Girls is a pioneer of the recent ‘nu riot grrl’ indie trend. The members of the all-female rock band may not boast the same feminist...