By Doug Berg and Randy Nelson Second Semester is well underway and Mini-School is busy with its Trips Program. It has been a good winter with abundant snow and Mini-Schoolers have taken advantage of it. Justin Streeter, Joe Molland, Austin Manship, Chris Wegler, Maya Diedrich and Joanne accompanied me (Doug) on a Winter Activities trip, … [Read more…]
By Anthony R. Cruikshank If you’re a Blind Melon fan you might be asking yourself, “Wasn’t the lead singer Shannon Hoon’s life tragically cut short?” Yes, that is true; and no, Blind Melon hasn’t decided to go with the same name and a different vocalist. There were quite a few great songs that Shannon recorded … [Read more…]
By Josh Shoberg On November 3rd of 1996, I attended the Gwar concert at First Avenue. Skold was the first band to open. It seemed like they weren’t too experienced but all in all they were pretty good. The second band to play was the Genetorturers. To put it bluntly, they sucked. The guitar work … [Read more…]
By Bill Gallagher The point of the movie was to entertain and that’s just what it did. Kevin Costner was a champion golfer in college beating his friend for the title. The story takes place in a tiny town in Texas where his job is to take care of the golf course he owns. His … [Read more…]
By Lacey Landt The definition of a “classic”. Airplane was a comedy with not much of a story, and zero purpose. But, if you need a good laugh I highly recommend it. It was made in the late 70’s. The very thin story line is a man trying to get the love of his life … [Read more…]
By Carrie Tiggas Recently a friend of mine who is in a band asked me to come and listen to them. I didn’t know what to think. He had told me that they had formed the band about eight months before and their guitarist had just started playing right before they formed the band. My … [Read more…]
By Lacey Landt After a hard Friday night of working we were tired, but by the time we were heading downtown we had already started feeling really good. Lance Hamlin, Mike McGinn, Josh Chowen and I all were heading down to the Planetarium which was featuring “The Wall”. We saw an assortment of different outfits. … [Read more…]
By Rick Fisk My school in Florida sucked because they were too strict about seating changes or leaving class. Here in Minnesota it’s ok. I like Mini-School a lot. The kids are much different, they’re not stuck up. I have a problem with staying in class. Mini-School is better then my old school in Florida. … [Read more…]
By Lance Hamlin Nicolai Alatzas – Acting school at NYU. Scott Bakkelund – Going to college. Josh Chowen – Work, Vo-tech Kristi Dahl – Work full-time, move, HTC in Jan 98′ Josh Day – Go to work in Montana Greg Fasching – Moving out, finishing school at HTC, then going to have fun Clint Fero … [Read more…]
By Josh Shoberg On the opening night of the New Hamlet, three friends attended the showing at the Uptown Theater. If you’re a Shakespeare buff like me you’d be happy with how the movie turned out, besides two parts. In the play, Hamlet tells the king that Polonious’ body is upstairs after he tells the … [Read more…]