Slam poetry: spoken word under pressure

Posted by Caleb Rainey | Apr 24, 2019

At the risk of coming across as that obnoxious English lit instructor, or a dinner party show-off,...

AIDS documentary recalls heartbreaking activism

Posted by Lisa Skriver | Apr 21, 2019

Early on in the documentary “How to Survive a Plague,” activist Larry Kramer is shown giving a...

Posted by Ross Clowser | Mar 17, 2019

When musicians perform, audience members only see the final portion of their work. That show,...

Posted by Ross Clowser | Feb 28, 2019

Every year, I dive through the music industry’s “best of” lists, looking for albums and artists...

Posted by Lisa Skriver | Feb 22, 2019

A village in Kenya serves as the colorful backdrop for the drama that unfolds in the film “Rafiki”...

Posted by Caleb Rainey | Feb 3, 2019

Caleb Rainey Iowa’s spoken word community is a snowball rolling down a hill, picking up...

Posted by Lisa Skriver | Jan 19, 2019

Lisa Skriver provides a review of Cassandro, The Exotico!, a documentary about Lucha Libre pro wrestling pioneer Saúl Armendáriz.