With an orange kanga — a cotton cloth symbolizing womanhood in many African communities — wrapped around her body, Grace Gathua performed a piece combining singing, dancing, and drum-beating, kicking...
As stocks plummet and unemployment rates jump, businesses across the country are posting losses.
But there’s no business like show business.
Movie theaters are seeing a counterintuitive trend: As the...
Iowa City School District officials have made their first cuts in an effort to reduce expenses by $6 million over the next two years, Superintendent Lane Plugge said.
Included in the district’s initial...
Even for Doug True, the UI senior vice president for Finance, budget crunching is no walk in the park.
“I’d like to think that by now, I’ve seen everything,” he said.
But he said he has never...
UI alumnus Tanner Faaborg felt weightless, his self-perception was absent, and his eyes became linked “to what I thought was a new dimension.”
Laughter overtook his helpless body.
“Reality then...
If he lived during the Great Depression, Chris Washington would have ridden the rails. But on Tuesday, he waited for the bus.
“I’ll ride the buses all day. I like jumping from state to state,” he...
Everyone knows what happens when mom and dad drop off their baby in the dorm room: Mom is crying, holding on to every moment of that last hug, while dad nostalgically looks out the window remembering his...
Artfully dodging the sting of the recession, the UI Press is preserving itself with traditional business practices and introducing some new ones, too.
Nationwide book sales for most college presses are...
UI psychology Professor Mark Blumberg is fascinated with freaks.
But these freaks — a man with no legs who learned to walk with his hands, a dog in Oklahoma who learned to walk upright, and Siamese...
Some West Coast farmers and foodies are urging their peers to consider abandoning certain buy-local ideals when it comes to pork. The ideal source of the savory meat, they say: Iowa.
“If you’re looking...
Kristin Langhammer is not really a death investigator. Travis Wilkening is not a real expert witness. And Alex Whitt is not a real lawyer. But every night, these UI students practice playing their courtroom...
One day a year, women take off work and receive gifts from their employers and flowers from their families and friends.
Not in Iowa, but in Anna Lipnik’s home country, Ukraine, the nation annually celebrates...
