From an email announcement: The 2nd annual Local Foods BBQ at Common Ground Food Co-op is Thursday, September 17, from 5 to 7 p.m. in the Lincoln Square parking lot directly across from CGFC. For …
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A motley crew
Mt. St. Helen’s Vietnam Band has traveled through most of western Canada (Two feet of snow! Uphill both ways!) to get to Pygmalion tonight.
Morgan Orion on “Phoning It In”
Morgan Orion and the Constellations will be performing at the Red Herring on Thursday at 6 p.m. as part of Pygmalion, but they’ve also been up to some other cool stuff. For example, they were …
Speakers in C-U: September 14 – 20
There’s an oil hawk, a historical revisionist, and a southern foodie coming to campus this week, and that’s just by Wednesday.
Worth Sharing: Chuck Klosterman repeats the Beatles
The lede: Like most people, I was initially confused by EMI’s decision to release remastered versions of all 13 albums by the Liverpool pop group Beatles, a 1960s band so obscure that their music is …
Speakers in C-U: September 8 – 13
Global warming, Cypriot national identity, Peruvian indigenous politics, and Indian architecture. Yep, classes are back in session, and that means the speakers are back!
Listen Up!: September 1 – 6
Learn about the mechanics of book publishing or get meta with a Seminar on Seminars.
Anarchy in the MN
Stealth camping! Joe Mauer’s head on a stick! Freak bikes! Here’s a dispatch from Bike!Bike! in Minneapolis, your home for anti-capitalist bike repair.
Tracing sweet corn to the source
Everyone’s heading to the Urbana Sweetcorn Festival this weekend — so many people, in fact, that they need 30,000 ears of corn. And yes, it’s sourced by Wal-Mart. But what does that mean, exactly?
Dizzy from the fall
Scott from Seattle’s Throw Me the Statue checks in with some thoughts on candy rap, Patron, and NKOTB sneaking into his music