The Wake

Cinema buffs rejoice! For you have a safe haven, a sanctuary, a place to call your own, and you might not of even known it. But you better get there soon, because it might not be around too much longer.The Oak Street Cinema prides itself in showing classic, repertory, independent and foreign films. They also are a venue for the annual Minneapolis-St. Paul International Film Festival held every spring. However, suffering from financial troubles and (low?) attendance, the theater’s future looks bleak. The theater had to shut down from June 12 until Labor Day because of low attendance due to …

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Adem Rudin is an okay-looking dude. His beard is trimmed, his hair under control. This is a fairly new development. When Rudin came to the U as a freshman he was overgrown and frightening, an intimidating beast of a man overflowing with hair in all directions. He struck onlookers as a man destined either for greatness or for a street corner with a hand-made sign. Rudin made the first step towards his destiny when he joined the UMN Solar Vehicle Project. But a step in which direction?Rudin signed up for the solar car team in October of his freshman year. …

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