**** out of ***** Shakira is back and sinking her claws into the charts. She Wolf, Shakira’s third full-length English album, is strange, exotic, and positively hypnotizing. Its disco-inspired tracks...

*** 1/2 out of ***** Since at least his second album, Heavier Things, there have been two types of John Mayer. There is the “Daughters” and “Your Body Is A Wonderland” Mayer, who writes catchy,...

At the age of 9, Dean Jacobs hopped onto his green Schwinn Stingray bicycle and rode from his hometown of Fremont, Neb., to the neighboring town of Arlington. He rode by himself for miles down gravel roads...

More than one month ago, Gov. Chet Culver ordered a 10 percent across-the-board cut in the state budget, a percentage more than twice as large as any such cut in the state’s recorded history. The action...

The world as we know it (always a dicey proposition) will come crashing to an end in 2012, we have it on good authority. Something like a mystery planet will come hurtling out of nowhere, or a neighborhood...

Feel free to smoke up downtown — as long as it doesn’t conflict with businesses’ profit margins. If local business owners get their way, those could be the unfortunate parameters. “We’ll give...

On Monday, Iowa senior tight end Tony Moeaki was named a semifinalist for the 2009 John Mackey Award, which will be presented on Dec. 10 to the best tight end in college football. The 6-4 tight end has...

Ricky Stanzi Call me Kirk Ferentz, but when the Hawkeyes go bowling, Ricky Stanzi is starting. All the junior quarterback has done since being named the starter is win. He is 17-4 since getting the starting...

The fate of Iowa’s 2009 women’s cross-country season was decided at 6 p.m. Sunday, when a panel of NCAA judges chose Michigan State over the Hawkeyes. For the first time in four years, the women’s...

For the Iowa men’s cross-country team to qualify for the NCAA championship meet, it needed big-time finishes from the entire Hawkeye roster. But while freshman Jeffrey Thode and junior Mark Battista...

Every Monday, a group of Iowa athletes wake up early, ready to lead. But rather than leading their respective sports teams during practice, they lead a classroom filled with lively fifth- and sixth-graders...

The Iowa women’s basketball team (2-0) is set to face No. 19 Kansas (1-0) on Wednesday at Carver-Hawkeye Arena. The game marks the second-straight year the two teams have met in a nonconference contest....