Arts

October 24, 2012
 Winona State University is about to get scarier. Strobing lights poor out of a 60x30 tent in the middle of the WSU campus courtyard as WSU’s Tau Kappa Epsilon Fraternity prepares for the debut of its haunted house fundraiser. The haunted house is scheduled from 7-11p.m. Friday on the WSU campus with a $5 entry fee. The majority of the proceeds will be donated to St. Jude’s Hospital.
 
10.23.12
It’s not everyday bluegrass music and college football come together. Every typical college football game has a tailgate, but this year Winona State University and the Mid West Music Fest Club took it to a new level by bringing in local bluegrass band Beet Root Stew to play for enthusiastic tailgaters. Pre-game partiers tapped their feet and bobbed their heads as they grilled hotdogs and listened to Beet Root Stew’s performance.
10.15.12
A family's home is haunted by a host of ghosts.
10.05.12
The crowd is silent aside from the light gasps of worrisome watchers flickering throughout the audience as the woman dangles by her ankle from a silk string nearly 20 feet off the ground. Jess Clark has performed her routine hundreds of times, but the risk is evident. She elegantly wraps herself in the white sheets dangling from a tree branch inside the Boats and Bluegrass festival grounds. Cocooned inside the silk Clark suddenly lets go, quickly unwinding down towards the...
10.03.12
A small paper bird dangles from the ceiling inside the tour bus. Love letters from passionate fans adorn the narrow walls nearby. A collection of chapter books fills the single cupboard hanging near the entrance. Vocalist and trumpeter Sarah Anderson fishtail-braids her hair in the small medicine cabinet mirror tucked behind the bus’ accordion bathroom door. She repositions the pins tucked inside her hair, her eyes smiling.