2008 Woodie Awards
Two local bands are playing at Skinner's Pub on April 16. The first band to play is Brookings own Welcome to the Cinema. WTTC has made some adjustments since last year. A more noticeable difference is the two new members: Tom Weismantel on synthesizer and Andrew Eide for keyboards/backup vocals.
You still illegally download music off of the Internet and you know it. It's been just shy of a decade since Napster started its rise to prominence. Back in June 1999, Shawn Fanning coded an online revolution, most likely fueled by Cool Ranch Doritos and Mountain Dew.
You know when a band comes on stage and the lead singer is wearing an N'Sync t-shirt that they're going to be amazing. On April 12, at Sokol Underground in Omaha, Neb., I got the pleasure of seeing just that. My friends and I arrived a little late to the show, just at the end of the second band, Charlotte Sometimes' set.
To the rest of Brookings it is known as the Brookings Regional Landfill Spring Clean Up. To college students in the know, however, it can be Christmas in April. But time is running short as all objects will be picked up by the end of this week. The premise of this most wonderful time of the year is that any Brookings resident can clean out their garages, basements or back closets and just dump the "junk" out on the curb for the city to pick up and haul off to the landfill.