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Birthdays just got better

Posted by The Advocate on March 25, 2011 at 11:00 am

The Advocate’s guide to scoring free meals on your birthday BY RACHEL LEINGANG leingara@mnstate.edu A college student’s favorite price is free. Attending meetings for clubs you never intend to join for the free pizza is one path, but the easiest way to get free food and drinks is to have a birthday. Breakfast By signing [...]

2-3-4 Fillers: Local band rocks loud

Posted by The Advocate on March 25, 2011 at 11:00 am

BY SADIE JONES jonessad@mnstate.edu A band whose musical influences include Steely Dan, The Beatles, G Love and Special Sauce, Jack White, Bob Dylan, The Band and Buddy Guy has a hard time classifying their sound.It hasn’t stopped them from attracting fans. The Fillers, a group that started at open mic night at MSUM, is now [...]

Students awarded at film festival

Posted by The Advocate on March 11, 2011 at 8:07 pm

BY CONOR HOLT holtco@mnstate.edu The 11th Fargo Film Festival wrapped this Saturday night after screening over 80 films, from animated shorts to feature narrative films. Many awards are given out at the festival every year, from Best in Show to Best Screenplay, as well as awards in each individual category. There are also several other [...]

‘[Title of Show]’: ‘Not your grandmother’s musical’

Posted by The Advocate on March 11, 2011 at 8:04 pm

BY BRIANNA BRICKWEG brickwegbr@mnstate.edu “[TITLE OF SHOW]” will be playing at the Fargo-Moorhead Community Theatre from March 10 to 13. “[TITLE OF SHOW]” is a musical about a composer and a lyricist collaborating to create a show for the New York Music Theater Festival in three weeks’ time. They decide to write the show about [...]

Students and professors screen films at F-M film festival

Posted by The Advocate on March 3, 2011 at 3:29 pm

Share BY CONOR HOLT holtco@mnstate.edu The Fargo Film Festival continues today through Saturday at the Fargo Theatre. Among the many films from around the world, several films screening are from the students and faculty of MSUM’s Film Department. “Beautiful. Thank You.” •Directed by Kate Enge •Official Selection: Student Category •Screening: Thursday, March 3 at 2:15 [...]

Open mic comedy gains popularity

Posted by The Advocate on February 28, 2011 at 5:41 pm

Share BY AARON LEHMAN lehmanaa@mnstate.edu The stand-up comedy scene is growing in the F-M area. What started as a bi-monthly open mic for stand-up comedy at Courtney’s Comedy Club has grown into open mics available bi-weekly at two different locations in the F-M area. MSUM alumnus Adam Quesnell has seen the growth of stand-up since [...]

New Radiohead album continues down experimental path

Posted by The Advocate on February 28, 2011 at 5:30 pm

Share BY MATT LECH lechma@mnstate.edu “Little by little, by hook or by crook. I’m such a tease and you’re such a flirt,” sings Thom Yorke in “Little By Little,” the third song off Radiohead’s new album, “The King of Limbs.” The album, released Feb. 18, is a bit of a tease, running under 40 minutes [...]

Brandau remains in the spotlight

Posted by The Advocate on February 23, 2011 at 5:37 pm

Share BY CONOR HOLT holtco@mnstate.edu A local Prairie Public television series, “The Prairie Pulse,” will be featuring a filmmaker for the first time, MSUM film professor Tom Brandau. The show will air on Prairie Public at 7:30 p.m. on Friday. “I was very flattered that they would consider me,” Brandau said. Brandau, originally from Baltimore, [...]

Black Swan: a twisted, intense thriller

Posted by The Advocate on January 18, 2011 at 2:35 am

Share BY CONOR HOLT holtco@mnstate.edu Through all of his films, Darren Aronofsky has explored the themes of addiction and obsession, from “Requiem for a Dream,” a cautionary drug tale, to “The Wrestler,” the story of a fighter who refuses to quit. Now Aronofsky turns his eye to a wholly new environment, a ballet company, but [...]

MSUM alumni to screen award-winning film

Posted by The Advocate on December 16, 2010 at 1:42 am

BY CONOR HOLT Staff Writer MSUM alumni Gregg Holtgrewe and Michael Howe are returning to MSUM this week to host a special screening of their latest feature film, “Dawning.” Holtgrewe and Howe will also be serving as judges for the film studies department’s juried film exhibition. Holtgrewe and Howe first met at MSUM in 1994, [...]

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