Archive for February, 2010
By Kyle Berg on February 22nd, 2010
Tom Waits fans rejoice; Heath Ledger fans pay your respects. Both, for sure, should head to the theater to see director Terry Gilliam’s The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus. Yes, it is rated PG-13, but here Gilliam has successfully created a reflective, mature, and narratively sophisticated movie that didn’t need to tone itself down to garner the box office boosting rating from the MPAA. It is only showing at the Lagoon Theatre in Uptown, and you had better get there quickly because it probably will not run much longer—and it’s surely a film best seen on the big screen: the …
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By Deniz Rudin on February 10th, 2010
By Eric Brew on February 10th, 2010
By Amy Nelson on February 10th, 2010
By Zach McCormick, Jessica Orton and Angie Sanders on February 10th, 2010
Try something new. Do something different. Change someone’s life. The Twin Cities are home to thousands of nonprofit organizations seeking volunteers to help them make a positive effect on the community. No matter the cause, there is an organization that exists for each person, all he or she needs is the desire to get involved.
The following nonprofits are some of the more unique organizations in the Metro area, but there are plenty of other causes to dedicate time to.
Comunidades Latinas Unidas en Servicio (CLUES):
Minneapolis Contact: Angela Severson, 612-465-8081, aseverson@clues.org
St. Paul Contact: Teresa Ortiz, 612-379-4222, tortiz@clues.org
CLUES works …
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By Zach McCormick on February 10th, 2010
Video games are stereotypically cast as the bane of a productive, sociable existence. Yet, this image hardly matches the one seen every Saturday in Stephen Pfister’s Apple Valley home. The room is packed with some 20 odd people, mostly male, of varying age, ethnicity and profession, all chatting pleasantly about game nuances, jobs, girlfriends and the occasional wager on a match’s outcome. In the center of the action, two combatants tap away at specialized joysticks made to mimic those found on the stand-up arcade machines …
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By Matt Miranda on February 10th, 2010
In war, the military and intelligence forces often engage in psychological warfare operations to influence popular opinion in a foreign country. One of the most important goals of these campaigns is to control the “information environment,” as the first step toward altering people’s beliefs is to control the overt and subconscious messages they receive through television, radio and other media. Media are one of the greatest forces in the process of socialization, through which individuals construct their beliefs about how the world is and how …
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By Sam Karns on February 10th, 2010
The earthquake in Haiti was felt around the world. It is important not only because of its scope and the shattering number of victims, but because it has forced people to reexamine the response of the government to such disasters, the role of media in times of crisis, the history of impoverished nations, the tragedy of underlying corporate interests, and the nature of human compassion.
Media portrayal of the tragedy in Haiti has dramatically influenced the average American’s response to the situation. We, like other western nations, see it as our obligation to help the poor, the starving, the underprivileged. Mass …
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By Mark Thompson on February 10th, 2010
We probably should’ve seen this coming: Beach House’s musical development has floated along much like one of their songs. Beginning beautifully but a bit obscured by the haze, the band’s intentions cleared up on their second album, Devotion, paralleling the intoxicating, mysterious melodies that gradually seep into their songs. With Teen Dream, the band’s third and latest album, we see this song blossom into a chorus more gorgeous and entrancing than could have been imagined at its humble beginning.
Beach House loses nothing and gains much on Teen Dream, their debut on Sub Pop. Still present are the lush organs …
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By Rachel Keranen on February 10th, 2010
How close do we sit to complete world destruction? According to the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, six minutes. While the figure might seem ominous, it’s actually an improvement on where our position was one month ago. On Jan. 14, citing a more “hopeful state of world affairs,” the BAS moved the minute hand of their figurative Doomsday Clock backwards, from its previous position of five minutes to midnight.
One minute may seem insignificant but, in the history of the Doomsday …
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By Deniz Rudin on February 10th, 2010
Goldmund – Philip Glass film scores on quaalude.
-Eric Brew, Editor-in-Chief
Ocrilim – Beautiful guitarfucking.
-Deniz Rudin, Editor, S&V
Scout Niblett
-Peter Poght, Contributor
By Deniz Rudin on February 10th, 2010
Bangs – Take U To Da Movies
There is a recent and tremendous surge in the popularity, both general and youtubular, of the self-consciously or “ironically” bad, but people shooting for so-bad-it’s-good generally end up at so-bad-it’s-even-worse-for-trying. In this climate, Bangs’ gigantic and sincere awfulness is just the pick-me-up a serious camphound needs. Check out this fantastic video from Sudan’s finest rapper.
By Pete Noteboom on February 10th, 2010
On Saturday, January 23rd, I had the privilege of going to see the gods of extreme death metal, South Carolina’s Nile, at Station 4 in St. Paul. For all the indie kids who comprise the bulk of the Wake’s readership, going to see Nile would be the equivalent of you going to see Wilco or Yo La Tango or something—Nile is a band widely regarded by metal aficionados to be at the top of their genre. Live, they are stunningly tight: they flawlessly replicate songs from six albums, material spanning over a decade (including last year’s Those Whom The Gods …
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By Kevin Tully on February 10th, 2010
ChatRoulette.com is the kind of website your parents warned you about when you first got dial-up in 1996: it’s chock-full of loose women, perverts, masturbation, pedophiles, and explicit language of the most vulgar and racist sort. It’s also got the ability to rope you in faster than you can say, “I’m failing out of college.” The concept is simple: it’s video chat with completely random strangers. If the person you get paired up with is insufficient in any way, no problem: just click the button that …
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By Matt Carlson on February 10th, 2010
I’m a white kid from Minnesota named Carlson, and it should be no surprise that I bleed purple. Unfortunately, Viking fans have shed mostly tears after yet another loss in an NFC championship game. It’s the Vikings’ own fault, though. This year it was turnovers, five of them. In 1998 Gary Anderson blew a chip shot field goal, which resulted in a loss to the Atlanta Falcons. But even though the Vikings continue to shoot themselves in the foot, the format of NFL overtime isn’t exactly …
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