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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: Pinkus Munster Alt

DI STAFF February 19, 2015

The Bread Garden Market is chock full of organic juices, vegetables, and granola — and, it turns out, organic beer. Pinkus-Muller Brewery in Münster, Germany, is the first organic, USDA-approved brewery...

Exhibit honors 150 years of Iowa Law

DI STAFF February 19, 2015

Iowa Law, dubbed the oldest law school west of the Mississippi, opened its doors in Des Moines in 1865 before settling in Iowa City three years later as the University of Iowa College of Law. Now, the...

Review: Evolve

JORDAN RYDER February 19, 2015

Pushing leaves aside as you slowly walk through a jungle, you can feel your heart pound. You concentrate your entire being on listening and being as quite as possible. Suddenly, a monster three times the...

Film fest aids Girls on the Run

JUSTUS FLAIR February 19, 2015

When Academy Award nominations were announced last month, many were outraged over the lack of women and people of color in the nominees. However, Iowa City film buffs may get a taste of diversity through...

Gaming convention returns

JORDAN RYDER February 19, 2015

The 24th-annual Gamicon, the biggest and longest-running gaming convention in eastern Iowa, will be held at the Sheraton Hotel, 210 S. Dubuque St., Friday through Feb. 22.  The event will feature...

Torture, terrorism, and paranoia

ISAAC HAMLET February 19, 2015

Felicity wakes up next to a man she can’t remember marrying. Zamir, her apparent husband, insists that the previous night they met at a Hooters, got drunk, and hitched up. None of this is helped...

Grateful Dead tribute band to play Gabe’s

GRACE HAERR February 19, 2015

This year, thousands of Deadheads around the world — including in Iowa City — will celebrate the 50th anniversary of the advent of the Grateful Dead, which burst onto the rock ’n’ roll...

Mill concert to benefit women’s rights

JASMINE PUTNEY February 19, 2015

“Women’s rights are like the canary in the coal mine,” former Sen. and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said in October 2014. “If you don’t protect women’s...

Review: Dan Gable’s A Wrestling Life

CODY GOODWIN February 19, 2015

In April 2012, Scott Schulte found legendary Iowa wrestling coach Dan Gable in Carver-Hawkeye Arena during the Olympic Wrestling Trials. Schulte approached Gable with the idea to write a story about the...

Best of the Best Pictures

EMMA MCCLATCHEY February 19, 2015

While I am not a cinema expert by any means, I am an avid movie-watcher and Rotten Tomatoes junkie with lots of opinions. And thanks to FilmScene and $5 movie nights at the local Marcus Theaters, I managed...

Openly gay Iowa senator to host reading

MICHAEL KADRIE February 19, 2015

Matt McCoy is the highest ranking openly gay politician in Iowa. Currently, he is the senator for Iowa’s 21st District, which contains the southern and southwestern portion of Des Moines. He began...

Brown: Arkansas steps backward in LGBT rights

MARCUS BROWN February 19, 2015

The Arkansas House of Representatives made a surprising step backward in terms of protecting the rights of the LGBT population by voting in favor of a bill that would prevent the implementation of anti-discrimination...

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