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Photos by Matt Miranda and Scottie Tuska
D-day. Convention week. September 1st-4th. Republican Christmas. Call it what you will, the atmosphere in St. Paul that week was truly bizarre. Amongst the commotion surrounding the MSNBC Free Speech Stage® a Tucson cop buys himself a hocked McCain-Palin T-shirt. A man in a suit claims to be McCain’s second choice for VP. A group of antiwar feminists decry the nomination of Sarah Palin and a group of radical …
No Bikes on the Bridge
As you probably know by now the Washington Avenue Bridge is not being so kind to the bicyclists of our fair campus. Now you will be ticketed $80 if you try to ride through the enclosed walkway. Here’s what I sent Vice President O’Brien and President Bruininks:
To whom it may concern,
You claim to be caring for the safety of your students, yet you have the entire lower deck open for traffic. If all was fair, …
The Beer’s Just Better
Here’s a shameless plug for a magazine we worked on at the University of Minnesota’s School of Journalism and Mass Comm. In the battle of wine vs. beer, who wins? Head over to Digest Mag to find out.
Sometimes it seems like winos run the world; they even get better movies, à la Sideways. When you see beer in popular culture, it’s a bunch of frat boys doing keg stands or sad saps in sad …
A Debate Between the DFLers – Nelson-Pallmeyer and Franken
We talk to the prospective DFL Senate candidates. Actually we talk to Jack Nelson-Pallmeyer and Al Franken’s Communications Director Andy Barr.
Part I
Part II
The Return of a Milwaukee Classic
Schlitz is Back!
Milwaukee beers get a bad rap, but heck don’t most of the Ameircan mega-brews. Schlitz was once at the heart of Milwaukee’s brewing powerhouse. But don’t be worried, there’s plenty of brews still being brewed in my hometown and a lot of them aren’t half bad.
The “Beer that Made Milwaukee Famous” is back and I just happened …
Splendidly Put
Because I’m not that interested in writing today here is a history of why beer is great today and where it came from the New York Times.
Beer used to be easy: You were a Bud guy or Miller guy, maybe even a Schlitz or Ballantine guy. Not that it mattered much, since they tasted virtually the same.
But the days when American beer was all suds are long gone. In a great example of grass-roots …
Tomorrow’s Technology, Today’s Crap
Photo by Ben Alpert
Now I’m as much of a technophile as the next geek. I’ve built computers and bought my fair share of surround systems, HDTVs and the latest, greatest videogame consoles. Most of them have been great, but something has plagued me over the last year and I don’t think I’m alone. It seems that with every technological …
Iraq War Protest at Coffman Memorial Union
Coffman Union Protest
Sesame Street Live!
Big Bird on Sesame Street Night
Oscar the Grouch
The Count meets Cookie Monster
Read Can You Tell Me How to Get… How to Get to Sesame Street
Alabama Struggles Through Prohibtion, 87 Years On
Here is a recent story the piqued my interest on NPR’s All Things Considered. It seems pretty crazy that some 87 years after the end of prohibition that there are such harsh laws still on the books. Then again everything is illegal in America. This is after all the land of political correctness. Anywho, listen to this great story at the link below and buy poor Dan a beer, he might even enjoy it.
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Wilco Loves New Glarus
Wilco recently played a five night stand at Chicago’s Riviera Theater. Rolling Stone recapped the career spanning shows and much to my chagrin, Wilco had Wisconsin’s own New Glarus backstage.
Pre-show, the band snacks on seafood curry and jasmine rice while roadies tap a keg of the hard-to-get Wisconsin microbrew New Glarus. (”We discovered it at a venue in Milwaukee,” says Stirratt.) Tweedy, who’s sipping sparkling water and munching chips, drives each night from …
LOLcat Strikes Again.
Peanut B. Pipsqueek becomes entranced by the roar of the shaver, like a snake to his charmer.
A Mesmerized Cat
Bobby Seale and the Civil Rights of Social Power
Bobby Seale the co-founder of the Black Panther Party For Self Defense recently spoke at the University of Minnesota. Here is a clip in the midst of the civil rights movement.
Bobby Seale Speaks