“Women’s rights are like the canary in the coal mine,” former Sen. and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said in October 2014. “If you don’t protect women’s...

This year, thousands of Deadheads around the world — including in Iowa City — will celebrate the 50th anniversary of the advent of the Grateful Dead, which burst onto the rock ’n’ roll...

Felicity wakes up next to a man she can’t remember marrying. Zamir, her apparent husband, insists that the previous night they met at a Hooters, got drunk, and hitched up. None of this is helped...

The 24th-annual Gamicon, the biggest and longest-running gaming convention in eastern Iowa, will be held at the Sheraton Hotel, 210 S. Dubuque St., Friday through Feb. 22.  The event will feature...

When Academy Award nominations were announced last month, many were outraged over the lack of women and people of color in the nominees. However, Iowa City film buffs may get a taste of diversity through...

Pushing leaves aside as you slowly walk through a jungle, you can feel your heart pound. You concentrate your entire being on listening and being as quite as possible. Suddenly, a monster three times the...

Iowa Law, dubbed the oldest law school west of the Mississippi, opened its doors in Des Moines in 1865 before settling in Iowa City three years later as the University of Iowa College of Law. Now, the...

The Bread Garden Market is chock full of organic juices, vegetables, and granola — and, it turns out, organic beer. Pinkus-Muller Brewery in Münster, Germany, is the first organic, USDA-approved brewery...

Lauren Watt is kind of a theatrical superhero. From crying actors to flickering lights to water splashed across the stage, the stage manager handles it all without a blonde hair out of place.  When...

A dancer moves to the music of a violin player and saxophonist. Their gloved hands moves through the air, simultaneously providing data for a computer program called HIDI, which uses them to create a unique,...

Chicago’s Second City improv and sketch group has taught some of the world’s most successful comedians, including Chris Farley, Joan Rivers, Steve Carrell, and Stephen Colbert, to name a...

Actor, singer, and songwriter Chuck Mitchell has been around the block, from New York City and California to a farm outside of Detroit, and finally to a Mississippi River house in Iowa. With every move...