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The Daily Iowan

The independent newspaper of the University of Iowa community since 1868

The Daily Iowan

The independent newspaper of the University of Iowa community since 1868

The Daily Iowan

Q&A: Steven Douglas Ross

DI STAFF March 31, 2011

Local band Blizzard at Sea will perform for the first time at Mission Creek this week. We spoke with band member Steven Douglas Ross to learn what to expect at one of the group’s performances and what...

International troupe performs play about Hurricane Katrina

JESSICA CARBINO March 31, 2011

Halfway through watching the play Ameriville, a play about Hurricane Katrina, people in a New Orleans audience walked out of the theater, only to return a few minutes later. The audience members didn’t...

Authors share stories at Mission Creek Lit Crawl

EVAN CLARK March 31, 2011

A strong selection of writers will descend on Iowa City this weekend, along with the numerous musical acts, for the annual Mission Creek Festival. Literature has played an important role in each of the...

Iowa Poetry Prize winner reads today

RILEY UBBEN March 31, 2011

As a child, Julie Hanson began her life as a poet by jumping on her grandmother’s bed. Or more precisely, immediately afterwards, when her grandmother, upset about the noise, burst into the room and...

DeVotchKa performs multi-instrumental sound

LAURA WILLIS March 31, 2011

While passing through Baltimore last week, DeVotchKa’s frontman Nick Urata visited poet Edgar Allan Poe’s home. As a child, he was terrified by Poe’s short story “The Black Cat,” in which a man...

Movie icon Waters performs one-man show

RYAN COLE March 31, 2011

John Waters is not a typical filmmaker. In his 47 years in directing, he has cast porn stars, taught in prisons, pushed Johnny Depp out of his teen-idol image, and brought the pencil-thin mustache worldwide...

Graduate students present dance concert

SAMANTHA GENTRY March 31, 2011

A combination of hanging and standing heavy antique doors surrounds a group of 15 dancers. Throughout the piece, the dancers build and tear down the structures. “[The doors] are all really old and have...

Rock icons headline Mission Creek with lecture and performance

ERIC HAWKINSON March 31, 2011

Thrust into a world of artistic change, Kim Gordon and Thurston Moore narrowly escaped the tumultuous downtown New York City arts scene of the early ’80s. But out of the chaos, they created a jewel,...

Ambiguously “American”

SHAY O'REILLY March 31, 2011

The pupating question is emerging from under the earth, as it does every four years. Why caucus in Iowa? What makes our “fly-over” state, the stereotypical land of sweet corn and barbecue, the perfect...

Gov. Branstad should eschew transition period opacity

DI EDITORIAL BOARD March 31, 2011

Gov. Terry Branstad’s reluctance to release details pertaining to the development of Executive Order 69 is drawing some fire. The order, which bans the allocation of public money to projects entered...

Iowa softball wins its fifth-straight game

DI STAFF March 31, 2011

The Iowa softball team won its fifth-straight game on Wednesday, beating Western Illinois, 10-2, at McKee Stadium in Macomb, Ill., to improve its record to 19-12. The Hawkeyes got off to a blazing start,...

Doubles point crucial to success for women’s tennis team

NICK SZAFRANSKI March 31, 2011

As the Iowa women’s tennis team is in the midst of Big Ten play, the squad knows winning the doubles point in a match is crucial. But this has not been a simple task for the Hawkeyes. Finding the...

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