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 [...]
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Three DI alumni recognized for parody
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 [...]
Geek out: poetry
“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 [...]
CD Review: Baroness
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 [...]
Movie Review: Whip It
Whip It gets female relationships right with its realistic characters and unconventional setting By Greta Hagen-Richardson greta-hagen-richardson@uiowa.edu At the world première of Whip It, Drew Barrymore stood on stage with the dozen women who star in her directorial début. She spoke highly of her “tribe” and spent much of her 20-minute introduction praising them individually [...]
Movie Review: Zombieland
Zombieland takes some silliness, a little absurdity, eats a little flesh, and pukes it all on the big screen for some classic fun By ERIC SUNDERMANN eric-sundermann@uiowa.edu Grab your weapon of choice — ax, shotgun, or pitchfork. Enter your destination — restroom, gas station, or restaurant. Now — chop, shoot, or stab a blood-spitting, skin-eating [...]
CD Reviews: Alice in Chains and the Melvins
This week’s reviews: Alice in Chains and the Melvins
Jean-Luc Godard double feature at Bijou
The French New Wave is in rare form this week at the IMU’s Bijou Theater. Hitting the silver screen are the previously unavailable Jean-Luc Godard films, *Made in U.S.A* and *Two or Three Things I Know About Her*, as a double feature. Tonight, *Made in U.S.A.* screens at 7 p.m. and *Two or Three Things [...]
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