The Wake

This column is the result of an awesome new relationship between KUOM and the Wake. In each issue, we print an excerpt from an upcoming Radio K News Day broadcast. In turn, Radio K airs “The Wake Up” the following Friday morning at 8:45. “The Wake Up” is a five-minute, This-American-Life-style news feature from the Wake.Under & AloneWilliam Queen, a veteran of the Vietnam War, spent twenty years as an agent of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms. He went undercover for two years as Billy St. John to infiltrate the Mongols, a violent motorcycle gang. He now lives …

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Candace Bushnell is living the American dream, or at least the 21st-century female version. For many of us, Bushnell’s success and her column-cum-TV show “Sex and the City,” looks an awful lot like what we dream about on cold, dreary days hours before a term paper is due and the motivation to write it hasn’t yet surfaced.Shod in deep periwinkle, diamond-encrusted Manolo Blahnik mules, Bushnell swept into Coffman Union April 26th for an hour of “Sex and the Twin Cities.” Bushnell, with her signature raspy voice, instantly charmed the overwhelmingly female audience.“Minneapolis is known to us [New Yorkers] for a …

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Jan. 2, 1905 visitors at the Capitol “drank in the beauties of the decorations, and grew enthusiastic over the wonderful mural art which adorns the halls and legislative chambers,” the Minneapolis Tribune reported at the building’s opening more than one hundred years ago.The Minnesota Historical Society commemorates this year’s centennial celebration with an exhibit at the Capitol. The exhibit includes an oil portrait of architect Cass Gilbert and another of his wife on loan from the Smithsonian. They hang on either side of the entrance to the Minnesota Supreme Court chambers.In March, Rep. Phyllis Kahn, the “U’s” representative, introduced a …

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Dozens of well-dressed men at a The Saloon dance club in Minneapolis stand in a semi-circle around a glass-encased shower elevated a few feet off the ground, effectively turning the shower into a stage. Thunderous dance music pounds off the nearby dance floor, but none of the men look like they’ll be moving to the dance floor any time soon.The dim lights explode to life, bathing the shower in light. The water sprays. An emcee babbles on about the show, but the men don’t seem to be listening. They’re waiting for the next performer.It’s 1 a.m. on a school night …

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‘I’m Rich, Bitch’ Award: Marion Barber III Minnesota’s own star running back decided to forgo his senior year of eligibility and throw his head into the NFL draft. Barber and Lawerence Maroney were a wicked one-two punch at halfback (the only two in NCAA history to rush for 1000 yards on the same team two years in a row). So why is he skipping out on one last chance to prove the Gophers can be as good as everyone wants them to be? The draft pool for running backs wasn’t too deep this year. Did someone hear a cha-ching?Master of …

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