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SSLYBY: Why writing music in your parents’ attic works

Patrick McKenna • October 1, 2013

Since 2004, Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin, an indie rock band branched out of Springfield, Mo., has played at Mojo’s somewhere around 15 times. For each show, the band attempts to enrich its...

Movie review: ‘Rush’

Joelle Jefferis • September 30, 2013

A film about Formula One drivers sounds like it would suit a pretty specific audience: People who watch F1. Needless to say, I wasn’t overly excited to see it. The previews for “Rush” had me thinking...

Gold ribbon cut, Truman’s Closet opens for business

Steven Chaffin, Jr. • September 30, 2013

Members of the Missouri Students Association officially opened Truman’s Closet on Monday, revealing the new space alongside [Tiger Pantry.](https://www.themaneater.com/stories/2012/10/2/tiger-pantry-opens-its-doors/) Monday’s...

New budget aims to reduce expenditures

Kayla Goldfarb • September 28, 2013

For the first time since the 1989 fiscal year, city staff have balanced the city’s general fund, thus ending deficit spending. After citizens in a 2013 city survey said they wanted city government to...

The Craft Studio celebrates 40th birthday

Emily Russell • September 28, 2013

The Missouri Students Association/Graduate Professional Council Craft Studio celebrated 40 years on MU’s campus with a birthday party Thursday. The celebration, which was held in the studio, included...

Mizzou Democrats host talks on education solutions

Walter Glenn Winfrey • September 27, 2013

Mizzou Democrats, a student group whose purpose is to provide an open conversation for anyone interested in democratic points of view, held an education-focused meeting on Sept. 26. The question of the...

Crawl event highlights art, culture on campus

Paul Albani-Burgio • September 27, 2013

The eighth annual Art-i-Fact MU Art Gallery and Museum Crawl event was held Thursday evening at venues across campus, providing a showcase for 11 of the artistic, cultural and scientific facilities and...

School of Law to receives $1.57 million gift

Crystal Duan • September 26, 2013

The School of Law will receive a gift of $1.57 million from the Nancy and Charles Wall Family Foundation to create the Wall Chair in Corporate Law and Governance, an endowed faculty chairman position. The...

Album review: Kings of Leon’s ‘Mechanical Bull’

Patrick McKenna • September 26, 2013

After a hiatus that looked a lot like a band-ending breakup, the scruffy southern rockers Kings of Leon have returned with their first album in nearly three years. _Mechanical Bull_ is an album examining...

Album review: ‘Pure Heroine’

Joe Cristo • September 26, 2013

It’s easy to get caught up in what “makes music good.” But sometimes, when an album is especially great, the entire idea of deconstructing it seems contrived: why waste my time trying to execute...

LBC elects four new senators

Brad Spudich • September 26, 2013

The Legion of Black Collegians voted in four new senators during its second Senate meeting Sept. 18. Those voted into the organization were freshman Naomi Collier, freshman Mackenzie Jones, sophomore...

Peace Corps prep program comes to MU

Briana Saunders • September 26, 2013

Students, former Peace Corps volunteers and Office of Service Learning faculty and staff filed into the Columns room in the Reynolds Alumni Center on Wednesday to hear about MU’s new Peace Corps Prep...