Songwriters Ken Pomeroy and Loudon Wainwright III played at the James Thater for ICSF 2025. Seeing songwriters encouraging people to start and showing them how to begin is what makes art happen.
A celebration took place in Chicago this September. The 20th edition of Riot Fest has come and passed, and while still covered in a layer of dirt and sweat, next year’s edition can’t come soon enough.
Soldier Field finally had something to celebrate again, as the Chicago Bears snapped their eight-game losing streak to the New Orleans Saints with a 26-14 win. Powered by a dominant defense and resurgent run game, the Bears overcame offensive struggles to notch their fourth straight win and move to 4-2 on the season.
On October 1, 2025, I journeyed to Val Air Ballroom in Des Moines to see a performance from Father John Misty, and left with a disappointment most bitter and foul, great show though!
Iowa education’s system has embraced the arrival of artificial cal intelligence with no signs of slowing down. However, some have raised concerns that it may lead to its downfall while others see it as a successor to the internet and printing press.
This weekend, Las Vegas will host the fourth edition of When We Were Young. A festival celebrating the scene out in the desert holds more than you’ve bargained for as 53 bands take on 4 stages in 1 day. A whirlwind for every pair of vans and fishnets in the pit, it’s Christmas in October for many. Here is your stage by stage preview of When We Were Young 2025.
The first film for the Cinema Spotlight: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966), which stands at the top of director Sergio Leone’s filmography.
Major fashion houses are reshuffling their art directors. Who’s headed where? (Photo via: Benoit Tessier/Reuters)
KRUI catches up with Jocey Coffman, co-captain of the improv group Paperback Rhino.
The most important week of the year in fashion has come to a close. Take a look back at the highs and lows of Paris Fashion Week. Photo via: Alessandro Garofalo
Where did our style go? A look into what the men of Iowa City are doing wrong when it comes to fashion.
On Friday, February 28th, National Theatre Live had a live broadcast of Donmar Warehouse’s production of Coriolanus at the Englert. Coriolanus, one of Shakespeare’s last plays, tells the tale of a proud Roman war hero who returns home after defeating his archrival, the Volscian ruler Aufidius, and attempts to translate his success in the battlefield to the political sphere. However, Coriolanus is too proud to speak to the public and beg them for votes. He first feigns a favorable opinion of the people, but cannot withhold it to advance his campaign. He instead tells the plebeians exactly what he thinks of … Continued
Check out more about Was the Word celebrating and closing Mission Creek Festival.
Read about Bill Adam’s unique photo exhibit at Mission Creek Festival. (Photo copyright: Bill Adams)
Didn’t make it to Rachel Kushner’s reading? KRUI’s got you covered. Check out what you missed here.
Literature lovers everywhere tingle when they hear the word Lit Crawl, make no exception for Iowa City’s reader savy inhabitants.
