By Claire Dietz [email protected] A cherry orchard, an ancestral home, three siblings recounting the loss of their parents, and regretting lost opportunities. These are some of the most well-known...

By Tessa Solomon [email protected] For rapper Dizzy Wright, music began as a family affair. Born in Flint, Michigan, but raised in Las Vegas, Nevada, Wright — real name La’Reonte Wright —...

Poet D.A. Powell returns to the Writers’ Workshop for a reading of era-defining poetry both new and old. By Tessa Solomon [email protected] Poet D.A. Powell has a theory about writing. Everything...

By Claire Dietz [email protected] On Friday, two musical worlds will converge in Iowa City. Though the distance between these worlds is only 1,139 miles apart, it spans a much larger divide. At...

By Tessa Solomon [email protected] Around 5 p.m. Nov. 4, I was walking down Washington Street when I passed two young women talking animatedly. Hungry and intent on reaching Osaka, where I...

By Naomi Hofferber [email protected]  For a three-piece band to keep awake — let alone rock out — a theater of people at 11 at night, Low completed an amazing feat. Low, a slowcore indie...

Isaac Hamlet [email protected] Way back when, people filled theaters and packed halls to hear the music we now call classical. Over the course of centuries, though, with music-making becoming...

The Daily Iowan looks ahead to a weekend of culture and creativity, courtesy of the second Witching Hour Festival. The Witching Hour will fall upon Iowa City this weekend, but no ghosts or demons will...

By Claire Dietz [email protected] Professor Armando Duarte’s piece begins with a flourish. The lights go up. We see a group of dancers on stage enact with movement the physical manifestations...

By Tessa Solomon [email protected] At the Writers’ Workshop Dey House, James Alan McPherson’s study sits untouched, say those familiar with the room. His books — spines creased from continual...

Fifth Biennial Grant Wood Symposium celebrates the legacy and time of the artist, who was written out of art history. By Claire Dietz [email protected] Everyone is familiar with Grant Wood’s...

By Isaac Hamlet [email protected] Like all art, music is a catalyst for memory, meant to replicate the emotions of the writer and performer, to some extent, in its audience. For composer David...