MUSIC REVIEW: Alvvays’ music doesn’t seem original

Recently I’ve been feeling the need to take a trip to Seattle and visit a depressing coffee shop to reflect on my pathetic “love life” after listening to Alvvays’ newest self-titled record. It’s not a typo — they’re called Alvvays but pronounced “always.” I discovered them when I watched their KEXP radio station performance on […]

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A fire in the snow: Visiting alumnus helps with kiln

“Baby, it’s cold outside,” but not too cold for the University of South Dakota ceramics students and visiting alumnus artist Johnne Law McMahan. With guidance from Law McMahan, students fired up a recently-completed, wood-fired ceramics kiln they designed and constructed outside of the Warren M. Lee Center for Fine Arts. It has been a year-long research project led […]

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