Allie Ludvigson is moving her head so methodically back and forth that her shoulder-length braids are slowly unraveling. Her petite frame undulates with the beat while the sticks gripped tightly in her hands crash into the cymbals. When the song's over, she stands up from behind the drum set, motioning to her teal flats, which cover pink-and-black striped tube socks. "These are the worst shoes for drumming," she says. (1) comment
Comedians are audience to any number of odd responses to their acts - everything from hostility from an especially offendable viewer to hordes of female groupies (well, if you're Dane Cook).
Guilt trips via e-mail, not so much. Unless you're Jim Gaffigan. "Somebody sent me an e-mail, they're like, 'Is it true that Hot Pockets is laying people off 'cause of you?' "
The reference to one of Gaffigan's signature routines - discussing the most disgusting qualities of the go-to microwavable foodstuff - aside, you have to assume that not many other current comics are getting such conversational communications from their listeners.
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For every Jäger bomb you choked down last night, there were 10 more events planned around campus to keep you from drinking. In a community in which alcohol-fueled nights are the norm, the university wants to do everything to keep students safe and sober.
That includes committing funding to student organizations around campus to provide dry entertainment: SCOPE produces concerts, the Bijou tackles independent film, and the University Lecture Committee handles, well, lectures.
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The other day, a professor of mine posed an interesting question: Why would the state Board of Regents help fund a building such as Art Building West? Good question, I thought. This rust-hued, sculptural structure designed by architect Steven Holl rests west of the river and has housed the School of Art and Art History since the fall of 2006, when it moved from its 1936 building across the street. (1) comment
"We flee not from death itself, but from the manner of death; for the goal of our highest desires is death."
This statement, engraved on a tomb in a print by German Symbolist Max Klinger, encapsulates the message of the UI Museum of Art's latest exhibition, Dark Matters: Max Klinger's Print Cycle On Death and Other Ruminations, on display through April 15.
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Stackable plastic chairs arranged in rows on green carpet. An author idling near the front of the room. A petite woman - probably wearing a pantsuit - holding a microphone, about to give an introduction.
If you pay any attention at all to Iowa City's writing world, you probably know where we are: upstairs at Prairie Lights Books, 15 S. Dubuque St., waiting for a reading to begin.
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