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Students Share Rodeo Tradition

“I’ve been involved in it too long to not do it,” senior Kristi Lammers said, summing up the general opinion of every other person at practice on a Wednesday afternoon. They squint against the afternoon sun that shines in their eyes. The dust blows in their face.

NobleMen Find the Road to Lodo

At first, the NobelMen may seem a bit too streetwise for a Sioux Falls. Just look at the posters hanging up on walls around campus. Check the stark portrait of three men in matching white outfits, with bandanas and jewelry. Then there is their newest CD, The Road to Nobility.

OutKast Pushes Boundaries on Speakerboxx/ The Love Below

OutKast is like the Radiohead of the Hip-Hop world: an inventive, virtuosic outfit that releases virtuosic, inventive material that pushes genre boundaries that still outsells half of the directly commercial acts on the rack. Compared to Nelly’s “Hot in Herre,” Outkast’s “The Whole World” may as well be “Knives Out.

Bill Murray is Funny and Arty

Jesse Christen Sofia Coppola’s Lost in Translation, now playing in Sioux Falls, is a small masterpiece of mood that any thinking film fan should enjoy. Its plot is relatively simple. A famous actor (Bill Murray) having a mid-life crisis meets a young, married woman (Scarlett Johannson) who is having an early-life crisis in Tokyo, while [...]

James Solberg’s Blues at Skinner’s

Get ready music fans. Brookings is about to get something it doesn’t deserve: the James Solberg Band. Anyone who’s followed blues music already knows who James Solberg is. He’s won two W.C. Handy blues band of the year awards (the blues music equivalent of a Grammy), backed the late blues legend Luther Allison and has jammed with everyone from BB King to John Entwistle (late Who bassist).

Jet’s First Album Okay

Jet is a rock band. Their press release makes sure you know this. It goes on at great length about how they are influenced by rock classics ranging from AC/DC to Oasis to the Kinks. it even brags that Mr. Rock ‘n’ Roll, Keith Richards, would love their album.

Strong Women the Focus of Film Series

“Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, Nor hell a fury like a woman scorned.” -Congreve The South Dakota State Art Museum will premiere its first movie on Thursday, October 9, to kick off their new series of independent films offered to students throughout the fall and spring semester.

Try Sex on Campus for Adventurous Couples

Dear Kara, I want to spice things up. Where are some good places to have sex on campus? –Adventurous Dear Adventurous, I’m glad you are trying new things. Along with the good, I’ll give you a list of places to steer clear from! Well, lets get started.

From pen and paper to needle and thread

For eight years, Doris Giago has been as busy on many evenings as she is during the day.

Is your party safe from interruption?

On any given Friday night, a party rocks somewhere in Brookings. Sometimes the police catch wind of these parties. Sometimes they don’t. Sometimes residents call in complaints, sometimes they don’t. But there will always be parties and there will always be arrests when those parties are busted.