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The Maneater

Overdressed: But not to impress

Morgan Young August 20, 2013

In high school, I got the award for "Best Dressed Senior Girl." (Keep in mind, this was not difficult due to the fact that most of the girls in my grade seemed to think the school had adopted a strict...

Summer wraps up with LouFest 2013

Summer wraps up with LouFest 2013

Madison Feller August 20, 2013

Attention, Tigers: don’t even think about putting away your flower crowns and fanny packs just yet. After the first few weeks of class come to a close, feel free to gather your friends, grab your best...

Channel Changer: Summer TV binging is hard to do

Sarah Kloepple August 20, 2013

Normally, summer isn’t a time when people like to be glued in front of the TV. Since I’m not normal when it comes to television, I had no problem tuning in every night for some of my guilty pleasure...

Melodies to overcome poolside withdrawals

Ellise Verheyen August 20, 2013

Getting to class can be a struggle any day of the week. Why walk all the way from Mark Twain to Anheuser-Busch when you could so easily lie in your little fortress of blankets while watching the latest...

A look at LouFest

A look at LouFest

Jack Flemming August 20, 2013

**The National: _Trouble Will Find Me_** It’s easy to get lost in The National’s newest release _Trouble Will Find Me._ It’s easy to get lost in the gentle crooning of frontman Matt Berninger. It’s...

Biannual Alumni Exhibition honors Gemkow and Pfeifer’s human portrayal

Biannual Alumni Exhibition honors Gemkow and Pfeifer’s human portrayal

Tess Hart August 16, 2013

The Biannual Alumni Exhibition will be held at Bingham Gallery from August 19-29, and will once again honor two alumni of the art department’s MFA program. Dan Gemkow and Therese Pfeifer will be showing...

Q&A with The Neighbourhood

Q&A with The Neighbourhood

Heather Finn August 14, 2013

Their name uses the British spelling, but they're from the West Coast. They made their first national, live television appearance on "Jimmy Kimmel Live," but they did so in black and white. They first...

Album review: Luke Bryan's 'Crash My Party'

Album review: Luke Bryan’s ‘Crash My Party’

Joe Cristo August 14, 2013

Country music is going through a type of rebirth: a boom of young, talented singer-songwriters (like Kacey Musgraves) who write solid, observational lyrics over sparsely arranged and well-written chord...

Kidnapper escapes Caldwell County jail

Kidnapper escapes Caldwell County jail

Beatriz Costa-Lima August 11, 2013

The man accused of [kidnapping an MU student](https://www.themaneater.com/stories/2013/6/16/missing-mu-medical-student-found-columbia/) in June escaped from the Caldwell County Detention Center late Saturday...

MU Alert installs emergency notification systems on campus

Crystal Duan August 11, 2013

MU is currently installing emergency beacons equipped with strobe lights in classroom and administration buildings to compliment the MU Alert System. The beacons will be programmed to flash in the event...

Movie review: ‘Elysium’

Pranav Shastry August 10, 2013

Most sci-fi and action movies since "Star Wars" have left us bored or dismayed, and the arbitrary explosions of director Michael Bay (the man behind the "Transformers" films) haven't helped either. Written...

MSA prepares for opening of Truman’s Closet

Steven Chaffin, Jr. August 9, 2013

Truman’s Closet, originally introduced as part of Missouri Students Association President Nick Droege and Vice President Zach Beattie’s presidential campaign, is a clothes-lending service aimed at...