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Amar y enseñar: To love and to teach

In a small home nestled between rolling mountains and a volcano, a Costa Rican family welcomed Julia Knight. This was her new host family, but she spoke little Spanish. “Más lento! Slower, please,” Knight repeated. Talking a-mile-a-minute, Knight’s host mother and sister prepared Knight a smoothie. The mother called

Trading the stage for stitches: costume shop uses materials to sew masks for AU staffers, community members

The roaring hum of sewing machines fills the costume shop where masks of brown, maroon and floral are being carefully crafted. Sitting at a worktable in the center of the room, Cindy Bakke and two students sit snipping fabric, winding bobbins and threading their machines. One folds pleats into the

Review: Sunny’s serves up top-notch slices of thin crust pizza

Sunny’s sassy sign slogans aren’t the only eclectic draw to the new pizzeria. Inside the once-abandoned laundromat are a few arcade games, cable TV, a party light in the bathroom, tap beer and, of course, a quirky pizza menu. The best part? The mascot and namesake is the

Talk Show event celebrates Black History Month

The Our Growth Project (OGP) partnered with the Black Student Union (BSU) at Augustana University to craft the very first Black History Month Event Talk Show which focused on educating the public about local entrepreneurs. The program was filled with many different styles of entertainment, including a dance break from

Students escape to fantasy worlds with Dungeons and Dragons

A high elf rogue, a human warlock, a tabaxi bard and a goblin walk into a tavern. The high elf, with a long waterfall of ebony hair, orders ale for herself and the goblin, who isn’t tall enough to be seen over the counter. After a while, the goblin

Introducing: rapper Hoodie Allen

Hoodie Allen will be rapping as the headliner of the Union Board of Governors’ Big Event at 8 p.m. on Friday, Feb. 28. He most recently released his album “Whatever USA” last summer. His songs on the album combine laissez-faire living, parties, love and honesty. In a recent podcast

Gallery pays tribute to former Augustana art professor Carl Grupp

Thoughtful, organized chaos stretches across canvases in the Eide/Dalrymple Gallery. The late Carl Grupp was not only an art professor at Augustana University (1969-2019) but also a beacon in the Sioux Falls art community that earned many awards throughout his career. Former colleague of Grupp and assistant curator of