The student group Young Americans for Freedom once again were allowed by the university to host another transphobic speaker at the Iowa Memorial Union. The lecture was met with protests outside by students and those in the Iowa City community who showed up to support trans people.
Five standout films from Filmscene’s annual Refocus Film Festival, with this year’s theme focusing on adaptation.
Seattle based dance punk band Zookraught talks about their new album “VIDA VIOLET”, touring, and the importance of the DIY community in punk.
On their sophomore album, indie pop duo Magdalena Bay manages to deliver an instant classic that showcases a progressive and genre-blending interpolation of pop music. This release cycle also featured a special performance at the University of Iowa.
Feed Me Weird Things, along with the help of the greater Iowa City community, bring forth this year’s FEaST festival from October 30th to November 2nd at The James Theater. The four nights and eight artists serve a variety of strange and esoteric palette of sounds.
Philadelphia band Her New Knife’s new EP “chrome is lullaby” continues their blasted out odyssey as standard bearers of modern shoegaze.
IOWA CITY – Playing one of the 10 hardest schedules in all of college football would wear on most teams. It’s a grind, week in and week out. Lots of teams aren’t built for it, especially young teams with still-developing stars. Iowa showed us first hand how hard football can be. The Hawkeyes looked lethargic for the second straight week as they dropped their home finale to the Purdue Boilermakers 24-15. “Told our team you win as a team, you lose as a team, and certainly tonight that’s the case,” said head coach Kirk Ferentz. “We lost as a football … Continued
