Clap your hands, pack your bags and get ready to fly to Neverland this weekend with Peter Pan. Nolte Academy’s fifth musical production, which opens…
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Witching Hour Festival announces Doomtree, PHOX, Su Friedrich and more
Friends: The clock is set for Witching Hour — a new festival set to launch in Iowa City this fall. Presented by the Englert Theatre and Little Village…
Little Village presents the experimental comedy of Ian Abramson
Declared the “Best Experimental Comedian” by Chicago magazine and the host of the A.V. Club’s new Chicago comedy show series The Bell Hop, Ian Abramson…
PS1’s ‘Sanstress’ project reminds us just how awesome it is to build things out of cardboard
Public Space One (PS1) will send off its summer studio project “Sanstress” with a festive gathering this Saturday starting at 1 p.m. Sanstress is an artistic…
Photos: Take a day trip to F.W. Kent Park
Located just three miles west of Tiffin on Highway 6, F.W. Kent Park encompasses 1,052 acres and includes a plethora of recreational opportunities, including 86 camp sites (with modern restrooms, […]
Interview: Private Lives Director Rachel Korach Howell on the making of a modern classic
The play centers on the lives of divorced couple Elyot and Amanda, and their tangled path back into one another’s hearts. …
Interview: Naomi Jackson on family, influence and her formative years in Barbados and Brooklyn
Mention Naomi Jackson’s name to anyone who’s been on the local literary scene for a few years and you’ll elicit an excited, “Oh!” Readings she did while…
Hinterland 2015: ‘The Lands Behind’ are far ahead
One does not simply go to the Hinterland. The organizers — or perhaps the gods — made this abundantly clear during the festival’s inaugural year when flooding demanded a last-minute […]
Photos: The inaugural Hinterland Music Festival
The inaugural Hinterland Music Festival took over the tiny township of St. Charles, Iowa, this weekend after a rising Raccoon River in Des Moines led officials to relocate the two-day event away from its original locale. Despite the high waters and rejiggered venue…
Sixth annual Comedy for Charity event trades laughs for cancer-fighting funds
Laughter is always a great medicine, and for people who want to help fight cancer, Comedy for Charity is a great way to help…
Folk icon Eric Taylor and Nathan Bell to play The Mill
In a musical landscape dominated by bombast, we too rarely find ourselves invited to pause and reflect to the sounds and stories offered by musicians familiar with the power of language. The double feature of Eric Taylor and Nathan Bell…
Screenshot: ‘Her Story’ offers a unique, non-linear approach to gameplay
If you had walked in on me playing Her Story over the past few days, you may not have realized I was playing a game at all. My play sessions — which consisted…