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October 17, 2025

Coming to you live from the nation’s capital still. We have been absorbing lots of information from all the sessions. We also had some good (and expensive) food, but that’s just D.C.

Anyway, we will be back in the state soon. But we are still providing you with news, so scroll down and read.

Stay golden,

Alexis Letang | Editor-in-Chief | [email protected]

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“LIZZIE: The Rock Musical” is a curiously criminal rock and roll production sure to thrill audiences. | Photo by Bruce Silcox, Open Eye Theatre

Lizze Borden slashes her way to center stage in Open Eye Theatre’s ‘LIZZIE: The Rock Musical’

by Emma Vasa | A&E Reporter | Published Oct. 16, 2025

Lizzie Borden was famously acquitted for the axe murders of her father and stepmother in the summer of 1892 in Fall River, Massachusetts. Though she remained the prime suspect, Borden was never convicted.

Her name lives on in the chilling nursery rhyme, “Lizzie Borden took an axe, and gave her mother forty whacks; When she saw what she had done, she gave her father forty-one.”

The infamous trial that swept across America and captivated the nation is now reimagined in Open Eye Theatre’s production of “LIZZIE: The Rock Musical.” The two-act show follows Lizzie and her sister Emma Borden, their live-in maid Bridget Sullivan, also known as “Maggie,” and Alice Russell, a family friend and Lizzie’s fictional romantic partner.

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University of Minnesota announces NEXT: Forward to our Future plan

By Ash Jones | Campus Reporter

University of Minnesota President Rebecca Cunningham and other faculty presented the NEXT: Forward to our Future plan Thursday, outlining areas the University wants to build on going forward.

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Jack-O-Lantern Spectacular lights up the Minnesota Zoo

By Ziggy Keairns | A&E Reporter

The Minnesota Zoo’s Jack-O-Lantern Spectacular transforms a chilly autumn night into a glowing celebration of whimsy, artistry and fall flavor.

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