Matchmakers are an elusive breed of meddlesome women, seeking to insert their self-proclaimed superior expertise in love upon unsuspecting strangers. The most notable matchmakers include Yente in Fiddler...

Some artists need only mundane objects to create a masterpiece. Kimberlee Rocca is one of them, and she uses foil. Rocca, a local artist, uses a novel printmaking technique — foil imaging — that requires...

Rock Plaza Central’s last album, Are We Not Horses?, is a narrative story of six-legged, robotic horses. The creatures discover they aren’t flesh and blood and are forced do deal with the consequences...

A place for us to reminisce about the movies we loved, lost, and still live for to this day. Better Off Dead, 1985 Directed by Savage Steve Holland. Starring John Cusack, David Ogden Stiers, and Kim...

I miss the Masturbating Bear. In 2004, when NBC announced Conan O’Brien would take over as host of “The Tonight Show,” many of us “Late Night” diehards worried if he’d soften up his image...

You may have seen Nathan Musser’s work before — his art has appeared in several downtown businesses, including the Buzz and Revival. It is fitting, then, that his first formal gallery exhibition opened...

It’s been four years since the hip-hop tunes of Stacy Ann “Fergie” Ferguson, William J. “will.i.am” Adams, Allan Pineda “apl.de.ap” Lindo, and Jaime Luis “Taboo” Gómez have collaborated...

Bestselling author Andre Dubus III said he has fond memories of growing up in Iowa City. “My grandmother had just bought us four kids a little black and white TV, which not everyone had in the 60’s,”...

Mac is the Man Until about three weeks ago, I was a PC user. I researched and switched. And now, I couldn’t be happier. Mac’s superiority is obvious in many areas, the first being security. The majority...

* out of ***** A few years ago, Will Ferrell made the leap from “Saturday Night Live” star to leading man in the box office. He cranked out some quality, laugh-out-loud comedies with Anchorman and...

New York Times bestselling author Jonathan Miles creates an allegory for a selfish America in his début novel, Dear American Airlines. Google “Jonathan Miles” and you’ll find “Fingerjig Typing...

A place to get nostalgic and reminisce about the popular culture that shaped us into the snarky Arts reporters we are today. Many of us have fond memories of getting up on Saturday mornings, sitting in...