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The Daily Iowan

The independent newspaper of the University of Iowa community since 1868

The Daily Iowan

The independent newspaper of the University of Iowa community since 1868

The Daily Iowan

Augusten Burroughs not crying wolf

MELEA ANDRYS April 7, 2009

Controversial memoirist Augusten Burroughs will speak tonight on fact, fiction, and A Wolf at the Table. What’s next for an author who has topped the New York Times Best-Sellers list, been ranked as...

A slow and ponderous way to drive a plot

KELLY DIGGINS April 6, 2009

Film Review: Fast & Furious Fast & Furious fails to excite the viewers, despite trying with all the old parts. Since the 2001 opening of *The Fast and the Furious*, there have been two more installments...

Cook in Progress: How to Hollow Out an Egg

MELEA ANDRYS April 6, 2009

“Just put your lips together and blow.” Enjoy decorated eggs year after year by hollowing out the shell. Easter is right around the corner, and that means several things: candy-induced stomach aches,...

Not thinking of drying off

BRIAN DAU AND MELEA ANDRYS April 3, 2009

Wet Hair use cassette tapes and various other electronics for a bizarre live show at the Cave of Spirits. Shawn Reed and Ryan Garbes, otherwise known as Wet Hair, first and foremost consider their act...

All over the art scene

KELLY DIGGINS April 3, 2009

From the music to the venue, No Age likes to experiment in more ways than one. On Saturday at 6 p.m., when No Age takes the stage at the Picador as part of Iowa City’s Mission Creek Festival, the venue...

Far from the herd

CAROLINE BERG April 3, 2009

The Mountain Goats’ John Darnielle leaves the herd and joins long-time collaborator John Vanderslice in Iowa City tonight as part of the Mission Creek Festival. The Mountain Goats’ John Darnielle...

Trendspotter: “Man” as a prefix

MELEA ANDRYS April 3, 2009

The men of America have spoken, and they demand a new language. It seems traditional nouns and syntax are not enough to fully encapsulate the surging testosterone that courses through the veins of the...

City Circle Acting Company pushing the edge

KATIE HANSON April 2, 2009

Let’s think geometrically for a minute. If the entire American playwriting canon existed in a giant circle, Oklahoma would be smack-dab in the center. It’s clean and happy, the embodiment of “wholesome...