February 9, 2024
Three Young Bands
Three bands—Wasted Pretty, Soup, and Candy Cigarette—will perform on February 24 at the Cactus, located at 40 W. Hosmer St. in Marinette. The show will start at 7:00 p.m. You must be at least 21 years old or be with a parent to enter!
Marinette’s Wasted Pretty is a trio punk band. Vocalist and guitarist Ginger Sky, drummer Joe Bauer, and bassist Joey Knauer make up the members. With a few covers thrown in, their repertoire consists mainly of original songs.
Progressive blues rock group Candy Cigarette is based in Oconomowoc, WI. They have two vocalists, the Deitz twins Isaac and Lucas, who play bass and guitar, respectively, and a drummer named Evan Sterken. Candy Cigarette’s set consists mainly of original songs with a few covers thrown in.
Soup is an alternative/grunge band based in Escanaba, MI. Members include vocalist Tyler Kangas, bassist Cheyenne La March, drummer Tregan Lippens, and guitarist Calvin Thibault. Though they have written some original songs, Soup primarily performs covers.
[Editor’s note: Wasted Pretty’s Ginger Sky is none other than Marinette campus student and Driftwood Horoscopes Editor Ginger Knauer!]
Looking for a music album that can combat the groggy Wisconsin winter weather? Skiptracing (2016) can do just that. The American dream pop group Mild High Club, created in 2013 by Alexander Brettin, released their second studio album, Skiptracing, in 2016. Based out of Chicago, IL, this Midwestern group is known for their psychedelic sound and trance-like full albums.Skiptracing is a 30-minute album that starts with a light track and creates a relaxing mood so the listener can focus on closing their eyes and imagine soaking in the closest sun rays. The second song, titled “Cary Me Back,” continues the serene scene as if the listener is still mentally sun-bathing and now drifting down a lazy, slow river. The vibrant and meditative tracks rotate throughout the album, creating a full picture in only half an hour. For example, “Tessellation” is a groovy and smooth transition to the next track titled, “Head Out.”
Westerns have always been about tough gunslingers traveling frontiers and stopping villains. The protagonists of the genre are taciturn tough guys without emotion. Our protagonists either have a very famous name or no name, a righteous quest, and the adoration of the community. Christianity often finds its way into the genre, usually as a guide for the protagonist, sometimes a hindrance. Clint Eastwood’s numerous Westerns have become the default for the genre, but shows like The Mandalorian and even the 1954 Japanese movie Seven Samurai put spins on it. With the generic themes of the genre exhausted, there is nothing left to do but innovate, and that’s how we get the underrated anime Trigun.
The four-part docuseries You Are What You Eat: A Twin Experiment was released on Netflix on January 1, 2024. This show is based on the “Standford Twins Nutrition Study” conducted by nutrition scientist Christopher Gardner, PhD. Of the 22 pairs of twins who are taking part in this study, four are featured in this fascinatingly informative show. This eight-week experiment requires each set of siblings to consume drastically different diets: they are randomly given either a vegan or omnivorous (meat- and plant-based) diet. For the first month, they will receive a food delivery, and they are only to consume what is specifically provided. For the last four weeks, they will maintain their designated diet, and they must make and buy their own food. The purpose of this experiment is to study the impact of the two diets for various health categories, including cardiovascular health, metabolic status, etc. During the first episode, many of these topics are further discussed as the doctors weigh the pros and cons of the meat- and dairy-based diet versus the plant-based diet.
In this movie full of drama and adventure, Cage’s character Ben Gates is a historian and code breaker. He has spent his whole life searching for a treasure that is said to date back to the creation of the United States of America. He teams up with treasure hunter Ian Howe, and together they find a clue that points them toward their next step: stealing the Declaration of Independence. With the knowledge of this new clue, Howe betrays Ben with the hopes that he doesn’t have to share the treasure when he finds it. The two then race to the document and the next clue that will lead them to the find of a lifetime. Who will get to the Declaration first to get the next clue, and will the treasure ever be found? Available on Hulu and Disney+.
If you are a fan of hilariously bad movies, this one’s for you. In this film (which is quite obviously a rip-off of Five Nights at Freddy’s), Nic Cage plays an unnamed man who finds himself with a flat tire in a small town with only one auto shop that can help him out. The mechanic at this shop offers him a deal: he will fix the car for free, but the man must spend the night cleaning an abandoned Chuck E. Cheese-inspired restaurant called Willy’s Wonderland. He accepts this offer and heads over to the restaurant. It doesn’t take long before he realizes the animatronic animals that perform at Willy’s are no ordinary robots; rather, they are vicious killing machines. On this same night, a group of teenagers who know the truth about the nature of Willy’s Wonderland decide to break in and burn the place down, ending the robots once and for all. Together, the man and teenagers fight against the robots and try to survive until the morning. Will they make it out alive, or will Willy the Weasel and his band get them all? (Please note that this film does contain violence.) Available on Hulu, Amazon Prime, the Roku Channel, and Tubi. 
Valentine’s Day came from the ancient Roman celebration of Lupercalia that went from February 13 – 15, which is thought to have honored the Roman fertility god Lupercus. Many rituals were performed throughout the festival, such as animal sacrifice and whipping women with strips of goat hide.
