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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...

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...

Renovations complete on Mark Twain Hall, dining facility

Renovations complete on Mark Twain Hall, dining facility

Mark Kim August 8, 2013

The new Mark Twain Hall and The MARK on 5th Street dining facility will open their doors to incoming students Aug. 12. The residence hall consists of seven stories and 380 beds. It returns to service...

Acoustic Columbia showcase to sing out for Blues in the Schools

Crystal Duan August 8, 2013

When: 7:30 p.m., Saturday Where: The Blue Note Tickets: $3 Math, science, writing and history were not the only subjects we learned as kids — we could also look forward to learning how to sloppily...

Album Review: 'The Civil Wars'

Album Review: ‘The Civil Wars’

Morgan McPartland August 7, 2013

Perhaps most publicly recognized for their collaboration with Taylor Swift on "The Hunger Games" soundtrack in 2012, the American folk duo of Joy Williams and John Paul White has come a long way in the...