Human Aftertaste is one of the most bizarre bands to tour the Midwest. The group claims to be the only meat canning company and live band in-one. The group's shows feature performances by strange characters...

Intrigue, mystery, and questions of sanity arise in Ten Small Beds, fiction writer Kate Kasten's newest novel. Kasten will read from the book today at 7 p.m. at Prairie Lights Books, 15 S. Dubuque today. The...

Riverside Theatre this weekend will present its annual monologue festival, which features original works created by playwrights from around the country. This year's series is called Walking the Wire:...

Performer Davy Jones died of a heart attack Wednesday at a hospital in Florida, the Associted Press reported Wednesday. The Manchester, England, native started his acting career as a child and appeared...

The founding director of the University of Iowa's Nonfiction Writing Program, Carl Klaus, searched for critical and scholarly commentary on the essay when he taught graduate courses on the subject in the...

Two Hearted Ale consistently ranks in the top 100 beers in the world on ratebeer.com and is categorized as "world class" on beeradvocate.com This brew is an American IPA brewed at Bell's Brewery...

Surrealistic Pillow is Jefferson Airplane's second studio album, and this week's Tracks from the Past. The album is just under 35 minutes long and falls into a few genres: folk rock, psychedelic rock,...

In the final minutes before a show starts, the 10 members of Tower of Power gather to pray, because they believe they are "making music for the glory of God." In 1988, when the musicians had...

The play Sidewinders deals with how defining something can only get one so far and that acceptance is important. University of Iowa graduate student Basil Kreimendahl wrote the play, which follows the...

Forty-five minutes before the rehearsal of Gigi is set to begin, there is chaos in the Englert Theatre. Musicians take their seats in the makeshift orchestra pit as they start to tune their instruments. During...

Pirouetting across the stage, dancers blur into a flurry of movement as they articulate the message of the piece through their bodies. A myriad of styles will be presented when the University of Iowa's...

Bill Kanengiser's first performance was an impromptu solo show. When he was 4 or 5 years old, the now-professional guitarist played a rudimentary bass built by his father from a cigar box, a broom, and...