By Tommy Morgan Jr.
tommy-morgan@uiowa.edu
Local rock band Birth Rites will play their last show before a semester-long hiatus tonight with Coyote Slingshot and Grand Tetons at the Mill, 120 E. Burlington. The show begins at 9 p.m. and admission is $3.
Birth Rites formed in Iowa City in 2007.
They got their start playing house and basement shows, [...]

mp3 sample: Pelican

“Strung Up From the Sky”
Pelican has accomplished what many people can only dream of — the band recently had a hamburger named after it.
According to the restaurant Kuma’s Corner in Chicago, the “Pelican Burger” consists of a 10-ounce Kobe beef patty, with pan-seared scallops and lardons, in a garlic white wine sauce on [...]

Dying films will be reborn on screen tonight with filmmaker Bill Morrison.
By Greta Hagen-Richardson
greta-hagen-richardson@uiowa.edu
Film archives keep locked behind their doors images and stories that cannot be preserved and maintained forever, even with the abundance of modern digital media.
Among these dying reels of film, New York City artist Bill Morrison discovered many of the images that [...]

The Englert’s Masquerade Ball fundraiser will host diverse music and dance.
By Alexis Dorr
alexis-dorr@uiowa.edu
Imagine a sea of glistening masks, adorning the faces of mysterious dancers, all swaying to music provided by a masked DJ.
On the night before Halloween, this cinematic scene will invade the Englert Theatre, 221 E. Washington, to raise funds for the historic Iowa [...]

A vintage jewelry exhibit showcases the concept of jewelry as art at M.C. Ginsberg.
By Hanna Rosman
Jewelry is meant to be more than merely an accessory; it is artwork. Throughout the decades, the concept and creation of jewelry has changed from being one-of-a-kind art to highly commercialized and mass-produced pieces.
M.C Ginsberg, 110 E. Washington St., seeks [...]

Otis Redding

Otis Redding: The Best See & Hear
****1/2 out of *****
Otis Redding is a posthumous one-hit wonder, but his promise of soul remains forever imprinted in the genre’s music history. Otis Redding: The Best See & Hear is a CD/DVD set that celebrates the short four-year career the singer enjoyed before a tragic plane crash [...]

Seattle-based rockers This Providence plays its first headlining show tonight at the Picador.
By Tommy Morgan
Every time This Providence has trekked to Iowa City, it has always been a performer, never a headliner. Until now.
This Providence will play the Picador, 330 E. Washington St., at 6 p.m. today with Inept and Danger is my Middle Name. [...]

About a month ago, three former UI students started a political parody movement. The movement’s recruitment video has since been featured on “The O’Reilly Factor” and will be posted on Fox News’ website today. 
Former DI staffers Soheil Rezeyazdi, Andrew Swift, and John Schlotfet created the Biden Birther Movement in downtown Iowa City. What Rezeyazdi said [...]

“I Should be Killed in the Dead of a Siberian Winter?”
I have been infected by poetry. 
Poetry is the brightest celestial body ripping holes in the established cobwebs of your mind. 
Late at night, just as I am closing my eyes and as I slip away into my dreams, I can hear those words of men, while [...]

Baroness
Blue Record
**** out of *****
Like an undefeated heavy-weight prize-fighter who recites 15th century French poetry between brawls, Georgia-based sludge band Baroness’s latest release, Blue Record, is charged with colossal power and finesse.
Blue Record is a fitting conceptual follow-up to the group’s 2007 Red Album, though it’s undeniably more subdued record than its earlier counterpart. Instead [...]