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

The independent newspaper of the University of Iowa community since 1868

The Daily Iowan

Drink of the Week:  Hipster Ale

DI STAFF December 4, 2014

Evil Twin Brewing’s Hipster Ale The burden of being a liberal-arts student with an asymmetrical haircut and glasses is the continual accusations of being a hipster. Though I've never much identified...

Review: Kingdom Hearts 2.5 HD Remix

CONOR MCBRIEN December 4, 2014

The stragglers of 2014 are inching across the finish line to make a little bank this holiday season. Kingdom Hearts is a series of games that crosses over classic Disney movies such as The Lion King,...

Review: "Too Many Comics" at The Mill

ADAM GROMOTKA December 4, 2014

The air outside the Mill on a Sunday night smells like perfectly charred cheeseburgers, and in the front portion of the establishment,couples and groups of friends sit lightly chatting, a timid...

Feature: Your Iowa City gift guide

JUSTUS FLAIR December 4, 2014

By the time the semester comes to a close and you head home for the holidays, there aren’t a lot of prime shopping days left. So what better way to thank your parents for the tuition money or remind...

Riverside presents A Christmas Carol as one-man show

DI STAFF December 4, 2014

The world has seen A Christmas Carolin many ways: novels, animated series, staged, movies, and, most recently, at the Riverside Theater as a one-man production. Through Dec. 14, A Christmas Carolwill...

Bringing Irish Christmas to Iowa

ISAAC HAMLET December 4, 2014

It’s a familiar setting to most in the American Midwest: slipping from the cold blanket of white peacefully covering the world into a warm department store adorned for the holidays — often with...

World famous quilt and AIDS memorial on display

CLAIRE DIETZ December 4, 2014

A section of the world’s largest community folk-art piece — and one of the most important HIV/AIDS memorials — has made a stop in Iowa City, arriving Monday for Worlds AIDS Day and staying for the...

Young dancers restage The Nutcracker ballet

MADDIE CLOUGH December 4, 2014

Angels, soldiers, and the always adorable sugarplum fairies will take the stage numerous times this weekend for a festive performance of The Nutcracker ballet. Put on by Coralville’s Nolte Academy...

Laugh, cry, and sing a carol

JASMINE PUTNEY December 4, 2014

It is not uncommon to have strangers knocking on your door around the holidays, pleading for donations, singing carols, or preaching a gospel. It is rather unusual, however, for a solicitor to be wrapped...

Prall: Institutional racism still pervades our society

JACOB PRALL December 4, 2014

Institutional racism is invisible, ambient, and powerful. It coats everything like a thin layer of gunpowder, from D.C. to our shining seas. Heightened tensions and explosive upheaval should not be surprising,...

Richson: Stigma, what AIDS and Ebola have in common

BRIANNE RICHSON December 4, 2014

There are certain cinematic images that stick with you, even if you watched a movie only once. For me, that image is of Tom Hanks in Philadelphia, playing an HIV/AIDS stricken lawyer who fought disease...

Korobov: Where free speech ends

MICHAEL KOROBOV December 4, 2014

You’ve probably noticed them. Every time you look over at people, chances are they are on their phones. And if they are on their phones, chances are they are on Facebook. The social-media giant has...

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