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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: Milk Stout

DI STAFF April 23, 2015

Never doubt a beverage with a cow on the label. The Milk Stout, a roasted malt and coffee ale, comes out of Left Hand Brewing Co. in Longmont, Colorado, and has won numerous awards, including two World...

Riverbank Art Fair returns to IMU

DI STAFF April 23, 2015

The annual Riverbank Art Fair will flood the IMU Main Lounge once again this weekend. One of the largest indoor art exhibitions in the area, the annual Riverbank Fair, hosted by the University of Iowa...

EPXCON video game convention returns for fourth year

JORDAN RYDER April 23, 2015

Most video-game lovers have at some point pondered what it would be like to design one. Some of those people then decided to make that their goal. This weekend, gaming’s creatively inclined will...

Q&A: folk singer/songwriter Rorey Carroll

EMMA MCCLATCHEY April 23, 2015

Nashville-based artist Rorey Carroll has traversed from a middle-class Chicago upbringing to a tour guide job in Colorado to strumming her guitar in the New York City subways to living out of her car in...

Review: Iowa documentary Who Took Johnny

MICHAEL KADRIE April 23, 2015

>> Click here to view the trailer. Missing children and the ghosts they leave behind are specters which have likely haunted humans since the advent of our species — a primordial parental anxiety....

Theater tour encourages interest in arts amongst middle schoolers

CLAIRE DIETZ April 23, 2015

With arts programs slowly being stripped from schools, Riverside Theater hopes to bring live theater and classic literature back into schools with its Will Power Tour.  At 5:30 p.m. today, Riverside...

South Indian temples inspire local performance art show

ISAAC HAMLET April 23, 2015

Kuldeep Singh is fascinated by South Indian temples, the idea that a building, a massive feat of artistry, could contain rooms vivid enough to be a work of art on its own accord. Singh’s interest...

Wacka Flocka Flame set to perform for River Bash

JASMINE PUTNEY April 23, 2015

Waka Flocka Flame — a rapper, Atlanta native, and, according to a video released through Rolling Stone on April 20, a presidential hopeful — will follow Marco Rubio and Hillary Clinton to Iowa this...

Q&A: Jackass’s Preston Lacy

GRACE HAERR April 23, 2015

Famous for his daredevil antics in the “Jackass” TV show and all five films, Preston Lacy will bring his brash brand of humor to Gabe’s, 330 E. Washington St., today as part of his Cockus...

City Circle summons Into the Woods back to the stage

DEVYN YOUNG April 23, 2015

At the beginning of the show, there are three pieces onstage: a chimney, a fireplace, and the outside of the cottage, a black curtain serving as a backdrop. The narrator, a man dressed entirely in black...

Guest Opinion: PHIL Is The Foundation

GUEST OPINION April 23, 2015

It has been a long time since I was a University of Iowa student. I graduated from the UI in 1949 with a degree in accounting and a solid educational foundation on which to build a successful life. Even...

Lane: Has medicine lost the personal touch?

JOE LANE April 23, 2015

Last week,  The Daily Iowan reported on the forthcoming physician shortage that is projected to face the United States. By 2025, according to the American Association of Medical Colleges, there is projected...

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