The annual Riverbank Art Fair will flood the IMU Main Lounge once again this weekend. One of the largest indoor art exhibitions in the area, the annual Riverbank Fair, hosted by the University of Iowa...

Food is the foundation of many a hallowed tradition, from the Jewish festival Passover in which unleavened bread called matzo is eaten during a week of prayer to the annual Blue Ribbon Bacon Festival...

Lying is a daily occurrence. Whether we think about it or not, everyday dialogue is smattered with exaggerations, misrememberings, and white lies. For the character of Dorante, though, the proclivity to...

A lot can happen in a year. For Annie Levitz and Kristine Moffitt, this year brought them something they never saw coming: a comedy festival. The first Floodwater Comedy Festival will take over downtown...

Notes, beats, and rhythms. Though together they create the composition of music, blues and soul artist Tony Brown said they are simply surface matter. “This medicine called music is more than a...

In the run-up to the International Dance Day on April 29, UNESCO's official Dance Day Around the World webpage highlighted an Iowa City event Tuesday. InterDance, created nine years ago by Nora Garda,...

Parts of the parking lot between Bluebird Diner and George’s are sinking. Beneath the blacktop lurks the remnants of an inaccessible brewery — one of several historic sites throughout the Iowa...

A tiny black radio in a room with walls painted turquoise and red, tucked in the corner on the third floor of the IMU, plays static and then a song from Jurassic Park. In the adjacent room, a student...

Commence the “winter is coming” puns. The fifth season of HBO’s big-budget, high-octane fantasy series Game of Thrones befell April 12, attracting 8 million viewers — and that’s...

Pizza is far from uncommon in Iowa City. There’s a dizzying array of potential places to treat your taste buds to cheese, meat, and vegetables piled atop cooked dough. I endeavored to try to taste the...

You are a goat. A somewhat normal, nearly indestructible goat.  To an outside observer, Goat Simulator is something a little too out of the ordinary. The game seems as random as Octodad, another...

Some puzzle platforming, a bit of Inuit mythology, and a cute white fox. When I picked Never Alone up, I figured all of these together would make for a fun game. I was wrong.  The game starts off...