Where math and music meet

Professors and student reveal the formulaic magic of music in new study

By Breann Schossow

What do Ludwig Van Beethoven and Jimi Hendrix have in common? One man, a classical composer and the other, a rock-and-roll guitarist separated by hundreds of years? Well, according to a study by two Eau Claire professors, the short answer is that both men produced great music. While looking at short samples of Beethoven's Piano Sonata in E and Hendrix's 1968 recording of All Along the Watchtower, both have similarities in pitch.

Local belly dancing troupe gives free performance

By Sara Nemec

Posted at 11:00 p.m. 2/5/10
Last weekend patrons of the Acoustic Café were invited to experience this ancient custom with a local belly dancing troupe. Peanut Butter and Gypsy, Eau Claire's original belly dancing troupe, and sister group The Jelly Bellys gave a free performance Saturday night to a packed house.

In review: Shades of Grey

By Carolyn Tiry

Posted at 11:30 p.m. 2/6/10
Shades of Grey introduces an England set about 700 years after a mysterious apocalyptic event, referred to only as the "Something That Happened." Society is now based on a color caste system, where a citizen's ability to see a certain color determines their social class.

In review: Transference

By Thom Fountain

Posted at 11:20 p.m. 2/8/10
Spoon's newest album Transference, their seventh full-length, dabbles in the classic rock-inspired indie that has become popular in the last few years. The piano is clunky and slightly out of tune. The guitars wail with a tone straight from a 1970s biker bar. Even Britt Daniel's melodies seem straight from another decade.

Going up: by hill or by stair?

By Taylor Kuether and Thom Fountain

Well before even applying to this university, UW-Eau Claire-bound students have a pre-existing knowledge of "the hill." It's almost become an urban legend, this massive stretch of pavement and sidewalk laughing at us and separating the classrooms that we toil in from the comfortable dorm rooms that beckon us.

'Secret Post' accepts submissions

On-campus artistic venture gives participants a sense of healing, liberation through sharing secrets

By Samantha Muehleis

Everyone has a secret - it may be heartbreaking, hilarious or touching, maybe shocking, thought-provoking, repulsive or silly. Now is the time for that secret to be told. Eric Jennings, reference and instruction librarian at UW-Eau Claire, is inviting the people of Eau Claire to anonymously reveal a deep, dark secret in a community-based artistic venture, "Secret Post."

In review: Kiss Kiss Bang Bang

By Scott Hansen

"Kiss Kiss Bang Bang" establishes right off the bat that it's supposed to be a tongue-in-cheek style of noir film. This isn't exactly a new concept, so with films that attempt to do such a thing, the execution needs to be spot on and original in order to be something unique and not just another cliché film trying not to be cliché.

In review: Because of Poppy Weisz

By David Taintor

"Because of Poppy Weisz" is the latest production from UW-Eau Claire's own student theatre group, the UWEC Players. The Twitter accounts for Weisz and her nonprofit organization "Poppy Aid" are the Players' clever viral marketing ploy. And it works.