The UWM Post

Founded by Jane’s Addiction front man Perry Farrell in 1991, Lollapalooza was once the premiere North American traveling music festival, showcasing the best alternative rock and hip-hop of the 90s. After calling it quits in 1997 and a failed resurrection attempt in 2003, Lollapalooza has been calling Chicago’s Grant Park home for the last three years.

Riding on the success of their latest album, “Attack and Release,” the gritty, yet soulful blues-rock duo The Black Keys will headline Sept. 5 at Turner Hall Ballroom.

Since early 2006, Brookfield, WI native and UW-Eau Claire student Nate Gruber has been carefully sculpting musical compositions under the moniker Hitide.Lotide. His debut release, “The Forest” (2008) is a concept album about forest creatures and the land in which they dwell.

So you just graduated from high school where for one solid school year you were the king of cool, the ultimate senior. You may have flaunted your awesomeness in the form of fashion, obsessive hygiene or popularity to the younger, naïve freshmen while you manipulated them into doing your bidding. But now, the roles have reversed. You have been forcefully stripped of your crown and are in danger of becoming foot stool to some pompous senior or teaching assistant, paying your dues just like you did four years ago.

I am excited to be bringing a new weekly feature to the fringe section. Each week, I’ll be recognizing good things, and not so good things, going on here at UWM and in Milwaukee. And I’ll either give them gold stars or red X’s, respectively.

Is it possible to qualify one film as the greatest comedy of all time? Probably not, but Ben Stiller’s “Tropic Thunder” should at least get a mention on the list of greatest comedies.

Fall semester once again looms on the horizon, ultimately signaling the end of the summer blockbuster season. A gaping hole is now left in the line of decent films until the holidays come.

To make a good wine, one needs the proper ingredients. Perfect soil yields perfect grapes. Yet while these statements are true, it does fall upon the vintner to expertly craft the mixture and ultimately deliver the perfect bottle. Conversely, director Randall Miller’s film “Bottle Shock” could serve as a concise example of great ingredients sadly lost through poor filmmaking techniques.