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 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…]
By Anthony R. Cruikshank George Lucas’ imagination came up with the creation known as Star Wars. His dream however, wasn’t able to be fully realized because of the primitive special effects capabilities of the time. So, in the special edition re-release Lucas added computer generated bits and pieces where he wanted them. It hasn’t changed … [Read more…]
By Steve Kopischke If you listen to hard core moshing music, this is a band to listen to. The lead singer yells a lot and sometimes you can understand him. The cool thing about this band is the lead singer plays the bagpipes and has it on a couple songs. Why I like Korn is … [Read more…]
By Kristi Dahl May 10th 1996, my boyfriend, Bryan and I, set out around 9:30 p.m. to camp out in the Burnsville shopping center parking lot to purchase KISS concert tickets at 10:00 the next morning. We were prepared to fork over $90.00 total for our 2 tickets, but keep in mind that the St. … [Read more…]
By Steve Kopischke On Sunday, September 15, 1996 at 7:30 p.m. a concert by one of the greatest bands, in my opinion, started. The concert was at the Roy Wilkins Auditorium and we got there at about 6:30 or 7:00 p.m. We came in and saw this tableful of this group called R.A.I.D. (which stands … [Read more…]
By Mike Ennis METALLICA LOAD Metallica’s new album “Load” has got to be their worst album to date. They gave up their heavy metal sound to hop on the alternative bandwagon and they did a bad job of doing so. It’s not that I have anything against alternative music, it’s just when I think ‘Metallica’ … [Read more…]
By Kortnie Hansen Twister is filmed in Oklahoma, during the summer of 1996 when a series of storms were lined up. One hits right after another. A crew of tornado chasers have a device called Dorothy which was designed to get sent up in the tornado and will send back information to a computer about … [Read more…]
By Doug Berg One of the real pleasures in the slate of movie releases in 1996 is Courage Under Fire starring Denzel Washington and Meg Ryan. I think it’s the best movie I’ve seen in the last year, maybe two. The setting is the Gulf War, Desert Storm, 1991. Denzel Washington plays the part of … [Read more…]
By Chris Alexander-Utne It was April first, the day of the Ministry concert. Mini-School had just gotten out and I was planning to go back to Gabe’s crib, who I was going to the concert with. There seemed to be a small dilemma, Gabe never came to school that day and Marna, who was going … [Read more…]