Iowa City’s “Party in the Park” series returns to the area today. The series is designed to give locals the opportunity to meet in a neighborhood park for live music, games, arts and crafts, and...

Local artist Dave Zollo has two upcoming performances this weekend — the first for good music and the second for a good cause. Zollo, along with his band, the Body Electric, will play the Mill Friday...

Family — everybody has one: a tightly knit, complex unit of people who love one another unconditionally. Most of the time. The Iowa Summer Rep’s theme for the season examines the absurdities and dramatics...

A brawl broke out among a dozen teenage boys last week. Punches were thrown, switch blades were pulled — yet not a drop of blood hit the ground. Just three minutes later, the boys busted out a song-and...

The Beer of the Week is a citrus-flavored, medium-bodied India Pale Ale bottled in Frederick, Maryland. Snake Dog IPA, a brew available year-round, is concocted by Flying Dog Brewery and described on...

As teenagers, Sam Locke-Ward and future wife Grace were huge fans of the punk band Dead Milkmen and its frontman, Joseph Genaro. Or, as he was otherwise known, Joe Jack Talcum. Years later, the three...

There’s only one place in Iowa City to find go-go dancers, drag queens, and disc jockeys spinning for dance parties any day of the week — Studio 13. The vibrant downtown establishment, the city’s...

University of Iowa alum Craig Moreau will return to Iowa City after almost three years this weekend. And with him he’s bringing more than 50 poems — “Love Letter Never Written,” “Trinidad and...

It was a beautiful day. People were out and about. The chirping birds were not enough to drown out the constant drumming or the playful music coming from the humble stage nestled in Lower City Park. Four...

“Hey, fag with the skinny jeans, why don’t you-—”, a group of men yelled at me from a teal green Honda Accord which accelerated down Gilbert Street at a speed almost certainly against the law....

I hate to sound like another liberal bleeding heart beating the war drum in Iowa City, but as far as I’m concerned, there are some issues on which one cannot remain silent. Family planning is one of...

University of Iowa Joseph B. Tye Law Professor David Baldus died Monday after a long battle with colon cancer, ending the career of a man who worked tirelessly against an unjust system. Baldus, 75, had...