Local artist Mei-Ling Shaw has several paintings on display at local greeting card and invitation store RSVP, 140 N. Linn St. Her paintings are a series of realistic portraits with a twist, “They’re...

A place for us to reminisce about the movies we loved, lost, and still live for to this day. Space Jam, 1996 When I was 9 years old, Michael Jordan reigned in the world — and in my bedroom. I had four...

Stories handed down through generations are vital to survival — or so says author Binnie Kirshenbaum. The New York City resident sometimes begins writing with history, using stories from her past and...

Guillermo del Toro proved he was a visionary genius with the release of Pan’s Labyrinth in 2006. Chuck Hogan earned respect in 2005 when his solo novel, Prince of Thieves, won the crime genre’s Hammett...

The movie soundtrack has been dying a slow and painful death for years. 1998’s Night at the Roxbury might have been the last solid movie album — inspiring massive quantities of head-bobbing and off-pitch...

If there’s one thing we don’t need, it’s more choice in life. Take the supermarket. It’s tough enough sifting through the variations of each product on the shelves, but it’s a miracle if you...

Sometimes an empty day holds infinite promise, the sense of possibilities multiplying all around you, and that day seems wonderful for its sheer blankness. And then the empty day comes around with its...

The disputed election in Iran seems so far away. That’s because it is; Iran’s capital, Tehran, is more than 7,000 miles from Iowa City. But that doesn’t mean locals need be totally disconnected...

After months of strenuous training and competing filled with many highs and lows, the Iowa women’s track and field team’s 2009 campaign ended with the conclusion of the NCAA outdoor championships on...

Finishing the Big Ten meet with 83 points, the Iowa men’s track and field team ended up seventh. “We went to bed after the second night [of the Big Ten championships] thinking we were going to finish...

Incoming Iowa freshman Jaime Printy didn’t look like someone who had never suited up for a Division-I basketball game. The Marion product scored a team-high 15 points in the first half on the way to...

Coralville Hy-Vee received a huge contribution from one of Iowa’s incoming freshmen, but two of the Hawkeyes’ veteran players led the way en route to a 102-82 victory over L.L. Pelling/Cullen Painting...