Iowa City Owl

You're thrashing your arms, alternating kicks with your legs,  while attempting to maintain your rhythm. The trumpet has your hips moving and you’re getting tossed around like one of the lotto balls inside a drum before a Saturday night Powerball drawing.

2011 was another successful season for field hockey teams across the Big Ten, the University of Iowa included. Four teams from the Big Ten made it into the field of sixteen competing for a national championship.

Police in riot gear have corralled members of the Occupy Wall Street and begun systematically throwing away the property of Occupy members and destroying tents while trying to clear the park under the order of the city's mayor.

You're home for the holidays, vegging out and reuniting with family. By day two you realize you’ve gained 10 lbs and need to get out of the house. It's been a while since you’ve been in Des Moines, or maybe it's your first visit, so whats there to do other then meeting friends at your favorite watering hole.

If there's one message that's clear from Johnson County Board of Supervisor's recent decision to join a coalition to hire lobbyists for the corridor region, it's that even state politicians are grossly out of touch with constituents.

If you haven’t followed Big Ten women’s soccer this season you probably don’t know that for nine of the twelve universities, 2011 has ended. Ohio State, Penn State and Illinois earned berths in the field of 64 to determine a national champion and will play at least one more game.

Three cups of tea: first cup your a stranger, second cup your an honored guest, and third cup your family and will be treated as such till the death if need be. This is what makes this book fantastic and amazing how such a vilified and unknown culture can go out of there way to show the utmost respect to strangers and finally accept them as family as if it was meant to be this way.

The Iowa City farmers market held its final market of 2011 Saturday. Located on the ground level of the Chauncey Swan Parking Ramp on East Washington Street, the farmers market has long been a place for Iowa City farmers and artisans to sell their goods.

The Big Ten Volleyball season is now past its halfway point and it’s safe to say that the conference may be the best in the nation. Six teams are ranked in the current Coaches’ Poll (Nebraska, Illinois, Penn State, Purdue, Michigan State and Michigan).

Kill me if you can is a semi thrilling thriller told in the 1st person point of view by Matthew Bannon a struggling ex wartime marine turned artist who also moonlights as a contract killer named the ghost.