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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

Drink of the Week: The Midterm Toss-Up

DI STAFF November 6, 2014

The 2014 election season is over, but tensions are still high on both sides of the aisle. Whether you're celebrating a political victory or mourning lost dreams — or simply want to repress the memories...

Review: Pier Solar and the Great Architects

CONOR MCBRIEN November 6, 2014

Nintendo’s Wii U online store is now selling Pier Solar, a recent role-playing game made for a classic system. Pier Solar is a “home brew” game: consumer-developed software made for...

UI Theatre to stage modern myth

DI STAFF November 6, 2014

In a country falling apart, three queer women flock together. thing with feathers, a University of Iowa Gallery Production written by graduate student Sam Collier, will open in Theater Building Theater...

Mike Stud brings ‘college pop’ back to IC

EMMA MCCLATCHEY November 6, 2014

Baseball-player-turned-pop-star Mike Stud will make Iowa City one of his first Closer Tour stops at 8 p.m. Friday, He will perform in the IMU Second-Floor Ballroom alongside Clinton Sparks and Austin Harris,...

UI to present Pollock masterpiece

CLAIRE DIETZ November 6, 2014

Jackson Pollock described one of his most distinctive murals as a scene out of the American West, a stampede of cows, horses, antelopes, and buffaloes: "Everything is charging across that goddamn...

Tyranny with a musical score

DEVYN YOUNG November 6, 2014

The stage is dry, gray. But then there’s a lighting change. The characters transform from everyday, normal people to monsters. This is the beginning of the nightmare scene.  The Consul, an...

Q&A: Joseph Dobrian, author of Ambitions

MADDIE CLOUGH November 6, 2014

Novelist, journalist, would-be politician, and Iowa native Joseph Dobrian will read from his new novel, Ambitions, at 7 p.m. Friday at Prairie Lights, 15 S. Dubuque St. After graduating from the University...

Lighting up the IMU

ISAAC HAMLET November 6, 2014

It’s the moment everyone waits for walking into a theater or cracking open a book cover: to see the hero rise from trial and tribulation and emerge victorious over evil. It’s a story told hundreds...

Germans and Americans weigh in on Berlin Wall anniversary

JASMINE PUTNEY November 6, 2014

The wind blows softly. American Stars and Stripes flutter in the breeze next to the German flag. The sky is overcast, but the hope and spirit from the crowd illuminate the city. Excitement charges the...

UI Laptop Orchestra redefines classical music

ASHLEY MURPHY November 6, 2014

Tin cans, glass containers, and a cardboard box provide targets for University of Iowa percussion graduate student Andrew Thierauf's mallets. As microphones amplify the various sounds, he directs a room...

Richson: Personhood amendments dangerous

BRIANNE RICHSON November 6, 2014

I like to think that no one has control of my physical body except me, but the state of women’s rights has me thinking otherwise. Maybe I’m wrong, but it seems logical that people vote according...

Beary: Bad news for student debt

HANNA BEARY November 6, 2014

The big day is finally here; your parents are sitting in the crowd with tears in their eyes as you walk across that stage to receive your college diploma. Only to let it sink in that you will spend the...

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