The Wake

With the future of healthcare looming ominously over every presidential debate, it is with sheer hopefulness that one mutters the idiom “laughter is the best medicine.” For students graduating this summer and leaving the warm embrace of their insurance policies, laughter and liquor may be the only two medicines available. Luckily, the ACME Comedy Company in Minneapolis serves up plenty of both – and every Monday at open mic night, the laughs come …

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Illustration by Ben Alpert

Building 14 of 2010 East Hennepin Ave SE looks abandoned. Like the other buildings on the large cement lot, its cracked foundation is made of dark brown bricks and features unlit, grimy windows. The collection of some 15 buildings was once owned by General Mills, but now play host to a variety of businesses, artists and …

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Illustration by Ben Alpert

After months of stressing out and working hard, the prospect of staying in Minneapolis and relaxing sounded like the perfect spring break for me. It was going to be completely stress free, nothing but watching some movies, playing a few video games, and doing some reading. Most importantly, my minimalist spring break was going to mean …

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For this week’s How-To guide, The Wake exploits a secret of the supermarket.

Tomato soup is a great addition to sandwiches of all sorts, especially grilled cheese. Instead of buying individual cans of soup, a large jug of V8 can become a delicious and cheap alternative.

Buy a large bottle of tomato juice,

Pour a good amount into a pot and heat,

Add a cube of beef bouillon if desired,

Squeeze in a lemon and garnish with parsley.

The main modifier …

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The Wake’s Multimedia Staff covered this years Democratic and Republican caucuses.

A Vote

We all know robots are going to take over the world. It’s simply a fact - tried and true. Someday, someone is going to make a machine that is so advanced, it realizes it can enslave us all, and that will be that. The obvious scenario for a robot-dominated planet is a human race that is kept immersed in a virtual existence, blissfully unaware of its own bondage. With creations like the PS3 Home, …

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On Friday, September 28th, the new iPod Touch officially hit shelves. To give an accurate review, The Wake attempted to contact Apple’s PR department about testing the new iPod but they failed to respond to any emails or calls. So, like lowly reporter scum, I was forced to saunter into the Apple store at Rosedale and demo the iPod Touch guerilla style: popping in every few minutes to quickly test a feature, and then …

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