Gnomes have stereotypically been known to sit on lawns and have no purpose other than decoration. That stereotype though is long gone at Northern Michigan University where, during the last three years, Norman the Gnome has been floating around the NMU...
“The Age of Miracles” by Karen Thompson Walker was recently selected as the 2013 One Book, One Community (OBOC) award winner. The OBOC program encourages the Northern Michigan University and Marquette County community to read the same book and discuss...
Amid a current of fashion faux pas in which consumerism urges buy-buy-buying new, quality-stunted clothes at competitively low prices, a light doth shine at the end of the redundancy-stricken tunnel. If you talk to a person age 50 and above, they wouldn’t...
A Northern Michigan University art and design student recently had the honor of having a table and chair design that he created displayed in a New York exhibit. Senior furniture design major Brendan Solinsky was one of 12 students selected from across...
Nestled on the shore of Lake Superior, Marquette offers a wide variety of things to keep students busy on their summer break. One of the most popular hobbies Marquette’s terrain allows for is hiking. Presque Isle serves a number of purposes, with hiking...
The California-based band Wavves will bring their surf-tinged brand of punk rock to the north coast on Saturday, April 27 for a show in the Great Lakes Rooms of the University Center. The group is being brought to campus through the student organization...
It’s a notion that is perhaps all too familiar for those living and working in times of economic despondency: if you want to see something happen, sometimes you’ve got to do it yourself. When Marquette’s largest music venue, the Upfront and Company,...
My introduction to any sort of journalistic activities began with writing music reviews at this here publication. Sharing and talking about music has always been a great passion, and putting that discussion onto paper has always presented a challenge...
When it comes to bonus tracks, most bands are content to throw together a few B-sides or remixes and call it a day. Phoenix is not most bands. The deluxe edition of “Bankrupt!,” the French indie pop band’s fifth album and first since breakthrough...
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