The Wake

The Return of Captain Invincible is a film that has sadly gone virtually unnoticed since its release. This is a film I bought used with nine other movies for five dollars. That haul contained the worst film of all time, The Jar (1984, director Bruce Toscano), but The Return of Captain Invincible, on the other hand, has become one of my favorites. It is a piece of campy cult-musical brilliance! Director Philippe Mora has shown …

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A period of social, economic and political repression can describe Nazi Germany, where opposition was handled through swift execution. Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a German theologian, became a spiritual voice in the resistance movement against Adolf Hitler’s unethical and inhumane Third Reich. Traced and examined in Martin Doblmeier’s documentary Bonhoeffer, the actions and demonstrations attempted by the young pastor/pacifist/Nazi resister put increased stress upon the role of the Catholic Church in a society controlled by a false …

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The sleek new Regis Center for Art opened for classes in September, replacing the leaky, mouse-infested temporary building that housed the art department for the past 38 years. The new $41.5 million building, located at the southernmost tip of the West Bank, has an angular white and brick exterior and exposed concrete interior with lots of spare metal fixtures, giving it a blank-canvas look inside and out. Along with painting, drawing, digital and printmaking studios, some …

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The television lit the room.
Good evening ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to Miss America!
“I need a smoke.” His cigarettes were by the door.
“You can’t just blow this off!”
“I think I’m in the better position to judge what I can and can’t blow off.”
“Wallace!”
Wallace lay sprawled out on the couch, one hand dangling over a bag of Doritos. She stood between him and the television.
…Let’s meet this year’s contestants!…

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Dusk pulled night’s curtain down upon them…She told him that when the evening came the sun remained burning inside of them until it pronounced its entrance into the next morning. Night brought them closer together… …Parallel worlds only cross under the right circumstances. In each other’s presence seconds were contained in short breaths, and minutes carried their minds toward the clearing between two different understandings of what companionship is. They liked to …

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Walking into the parking lot for the Gophers tailgate party on Sept. 20th, I expected to see a crowd of maroon-and-gold-wearing college students hitting beer bongs and attempting keg stands. When I got there, however, I found there was much more to tailgating then students and booze. Grandparents, children and grandchildren brought lawn chairs and charcoal grills to relax and spend time with family and friends before the game. Students grilled burgers, hot dogs and …

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Sweatpants: You know them. You’ve worn them. You’ve skipped class in them while eating day-old pizza and watching bad John Cusack movies. Now there is a chance to appreciate sweatpants on a whole new level.There is a student group whose entire purpose is to lounge around and do leisurely activities while wearing the comfortable cotton leg wear.Their name is the Sweatpant Club.“It’s a club about nothing,” said Mike Langland, coordinator of the Sweatpant Club. “It …

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The makeup of the Minnesota Student Association has changed quite a bit recently.But new Vice President Jeff Nath thinks these changes won’t hurt the MSA’s core goal of being a voice for the student body.“MSA still has the same over-arching goals as it head before all of this happened,” Nath said. “We want to do what we can for the students to make their lives better.”Nath’s references to the “changes” in MSA stem from the …

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A dead horse resides at 603 Fifth St. in the Marcy-Holmes neighborhood.The home in the historic Fifth Street district used to belong to women’s suffrage activist and writer Charlotte Van Cleve and her husband Horatio, a general in the Civil War. Horatio Van Cleve and his beloved warhorse, Bessie, both returned wounded from the war. They were nursed back to health at their residence in the Marcy-Holmes neighborhood, where Bessie became Charlotte’s prized carriage horse …

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After an undefeated regular season last year, The University of Minnesota men’s club soccer team still has unfinished business left on the field. A quarterfinal lose at last year’s national tournament in Bakersfield, Calif. have the Gophers excited to get the ball rolling in 2003 – this time with a new crop of ballers. “We have at least 11 new players. That’s more than half the squad that has been changed,” Merrick said. “We’re trying …

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