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Volume 27, Issue 6, September 16, 2004

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A taste of the Good Life

by Tuyet Nguyen
The Metropolitan

Ryan Fox doesn't have a home. The multi-instrumentalist for The Good Life is on the road so much that when he does end up back in his hometown of Omaha, Neb. he has neither a job nor a place to live More >>

gibby haynes, we have a problem

by chip boehm
The Metropolitan

The Butthole Surfers arrived on the scene in the 1980s from California by way of Texas. On stage, the band's live performances were a musical hurricane of dense instrumental noise and distorted megaphonic vocals backed by disturbing and intense visual projections. Fronting this psychotic cyclone was Gibby Haynes More >>

This Week in Music History

by Adam Goldstein
The Metropolitan

The day and month of his birth are definite: Sept. 20. Yet, the year, like so many other aspects of the life of Ferdinand "Jelly Roll" Morton, is shrouded in myth, hearsay, and conflicting accounts. Recent genealogical research suggests an 1890 year of birth for Morton, although the musician himself always claimed to have been born in 1885. The earlier date would have given him the proper age in 1902 to support his other, more outlandish and notorious assertion-that he invented the musical genre that came to be known as jazz More >>

A plea to the Metro athletic department

by Zach Brooks
The Metropolitan

I have to confess that I've never been to a Metro sporting event (or a CU sporting event for that matter). In fact, I have never been to any sporting event where I was not with either my family or various friends' families.
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