311 played a semi-decent show on April 18 at the Field House. Though the concert wasn’t good enough to warrant day-after talk, it held its own. I’ll be honest — when 311’s Nick Hexum and S.A....

Welcome to Bitch Please, the newest offering from The Daily Iowan’s rabble-rousing Arts and Culture staff. Bitch Please is a place where two DI staffers argue about all that is wonderful in the entertainment...

Film Review: 17 Again Zac Efron makes us wonder if maybe everything does happen for a reason. 17 Again is the story of Mike O’Donnell, who misses out on his chance to become a successful basketball...

The third-annual swinging and grooving celebration known as the Iowa Dance Fest will kick off tonight at Chait Galleries Downtown. A large golden pipe organ rested in the background as two seasoned Iowa...

Nearly a year of work and dance will culminate in this weekend’s UI dance department thesis concert. Oh, the honors thesis. For prospective graduate students, it’s a hulking, inescapable piece of...

Growing up in Council Bluffs, UI junior Quinn Walsh had an advantage in the alternative-rock scene. Just across the Missouri River, in Omaha, is the birthplace of one of rock’s most popular bands, 311. “I’ve...

Around a year ago, Richard Guy Wilson, a Commonwealth professor of architectural history at the University of Virginia, got a call from the White House asking if he would speak there for Thomas Jefferson’s...

Have a desire to see beautiful lingerie? Well, go no further than the Theatre Building this weekend for the department’s latest play, Intimate Apparel. Intimate Apparel will open at 8 p.m. today in...

Kabir may have lived and died in the 15th century, but his 600-year-old footprint is still visible today. The transcendental poet of north India has enjoyed generations of Hindu, Muslim, secularist, and...

Beer gets countless beer fests, and the Renaissance gets Renaissance festivals. Now, a 15th-century Indian weaver and poet named Kabir gets one, too, this weekend, when the UI hosts its first Kabir Festival. Friday...

In 1987, Brian Waller and Brock Beekmann forged a friendship while attending Nodland Elementary School in Sioux City. Today, the two are the founding members of Des Moines-based psychedelic-indie-jam quintet...

Polish poet and essayist Adam Zagajewski isn’t afraid to tackle the big issues. His work encompasses a variety of complex topics, including vast landscapes, long passages of time, and the meaning of...