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The Minnesota Daily

Arts & Entertainment

Cavalier or roundhead?

by Gabriel Shapiro
Published June 7, 2004
Morrissey again proves that you don't have to be stupid to like pop music.

Trimming the fat

by Gabriel Shapiro
Published June 1, 2004
Stickin' it to the fast-food man

Know thyself

by Greg Corradini
Published June 1, 2004
School spirit can't cut tuition or pay professors.

A dangerous mind

by Keri Carlson
Published June 1, 2004

Danger Mouse's "Grey Album" will likely be an album still talked about 20 years from now. Maybe even 50. Maybe more. It's hard to say for sure what the significance of the album is right now. It could...

Splendor in the grass

by Keri Carlson
Published June 1, 2004

Gently flowing rivers, swirling windmills, spewing volcanoes and giant purple elephants. The more absurd a miniature golf course gets, the better the course, unless you actually want to work on your putting...

Hot Pants!

by Keri Carlson
Published May 24, 2004

The name never really had any meaning," said Ben Clark, the bassist for the local group Mel Gibson and the Pants. Ryan Olson who started the band had tiles with pictures of Mel Gibson (the actor) on them...

Songs of experience

by Gabriel Shapiro
Published May 24, 2004

Daniel Smith doesn't have the most accessible vocal style in rock music today. His arrangements are also angular, chaotic and sometimes confusing. And when it comes to lyrics, his almost apocalyptic, Blakean...

War, what is it good for?

by Niels Strandskov
Published May 24, 2004

Judging by their pottery, the ancient Greeks were interested in three things: breasts, buggery and badasses. Sadly, "Troy," directed by Wolfgang Petersen, presents evidence of only one of these three obsessions. "Troy"...

Global Blues

by Gabriel Shapiro
Published May 24, 2004
Guy Maddin smirks at the sorrow in every song.

Everything right is wrong again

by Keri Carlson
Published May 24, 2004

In attempts to appeal to a hip, young crowd (or a crowd who thinks its young and hip), car commercials have for many years now played artists taken right off the College Music Journal charts. Volkswagen...

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