Jami Attenberg will read from her most recent novel, "The Middlesteins," at 7 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 7, in a free reading at Prairie Lights Books in downtown Iowa City. The reading also will be streamed live on the University of Iowa Writing University website.

Joshua Weiner and Peter Campion will read from their poetry at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 6, in a free reading at Prairie Lights Books in downtown Iowa City. The reading also will be streamed live on the University of Iowa Writing University website.

Drawing on musical influences from around the globe, Natalie MacMaster and Donnell Leahy offer up a performance filled with fiddling, dancing, and song when University of Iowa’s Hancher presents Masters of the Fiddle Tuesday, Nov. 12, at 7 p.m. at the Englert Theatre in downtown Iowa City.

University of Iowa Police are investigating a report of a strong-arm robbery around 8 p.m. Monday, Oct. 28, on Melrose and Grand Avenues, near the Boyd Law Building.

The University of Iowa men's and women's basketball teams made their first public appearances of the 2013-14 season on Friday at the annual Black and Gold Blowout.

The UI's selection for 2013 Mom and Dad of the Year are, respectively, Tammy Taylor of Callender, Iowa, and Willie Delfs of Sioux City, Iowa. The parents were nominated by their students and then honored during Family Weekend festivities.

The East Central Iowa Council of Governments will hold a meeting on the University of Iowa campus Thursday, Oct. 31, to gather information as part of an effort to develop a comprehensive, multi-jurisdictional hazard mitigation plan for Johnson County.

The top bands of the University of Iowa School of Music will take center stage with the annual Band Extravaganza at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 5, in Carver-Hawkeye Arena. The Band Extravaganza is a popular showcase for the Johnson County Landmark jazz band, the Symphony Band, and the Hawkeye Marching Band.

The University of Iowa School of Music will present a free recital by the Tuba/Euphonium Studio at 7:30 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 3, in the University Capitol Centre Recital Hall. The recital will feature solo and ensemble performances by tuba and euphonium students of professor John Manning.

Rural Iowans are quickly losing access to legal services as aging attorneys retire and close their small practices, leaving a void that younger lawyers aren’t rushing to fill. But University of Iowa College of Law graduate Kelsey Hollingshead went against that grain, starting her career in the summer of 2013 as a solo practitioner in Britt (population: 2,000) under the wing of a local attorney.

Shelby Rheinschmidt is your normal teenager, except she just got a cochlear implant. Not just any cochlear implant—a hybrid cochlear implant, as part of a trial pioneered at the University of Iowa. Follow her journey from the decision, through the surgery, to the turning the implant on.

Works of art created during the New Deal are the subject of a free public lecture to be presented by Ann Prentice Wagner on Wednesday, Nov. 6, at 7:30 p.m. in 240 Art Building West on the University of Iowa campus.