The Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum is an art museum located on the University of Minnesota campus in Minneapolis.

Designed by Frank Gehry and completed in 1993, the Weisman has a signature stainless steel exterior that sits above the Mississippi River like a jumbled free-form version of the Palace of Oz. The non-linear forms of the facade disguise the fact that the interior is fairly rectangular and conservative to avoid distracting from the art. The open air of the gallery is partially lit by irregular skylights.

The light bouncing off the steel exterior facade is particularly impressive if you travel east across the Washington Ave Bridge.

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Billie Joe Armstrong and Mike Dirnt of Green Day attended Pinole Valley High School and also performed on campus.

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Barrington Hall was a legendary bastion of radical students near the Berkely campus. It became synonymous with political activisim, unorthodox lifestyles, drug use, and supporting music.

In the eighties, "Wine Dinners" were repeatedly hosted where punch was spiked with LSD. The name of the Primus album Tales From the Punch Bowl stems from these parties.

Barrington Hall served as a locus for Bay Area punk rock, with Operation Ivy, the Dead Kennedys, Black Flag, and hundreds of others playing the location.

After many successful defenses, Barrington Hall was forced to close in 1990. The USCA president stated "Barrington has a larger-than-life reputation. All across the continent, people know it as a drug den and anarchist household."

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In May of 1989, Tim Armstrong and Jesse Michaels of Operation Ivy had purchased some beer over on Telegraph Ave and walked to the volleyball courts at this intersection. As they sat, they agreed to end the band.

As Tim Armstrong recollected: "Me and him talked about how the band wasn’t really what it was when it started. It was like a mutual thing. That’s one thing that’s not usually told, it wasn’t like he quit, it was like, ‘Yeah, we’re not really into it anymore.’”

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In June of 1988, after a show that featured Op Ivy, Crimpshrine, Isocracy and the Lookouts, the members of Operation Ivy were sitting outside this burrito joint when they announced wanted to make an album.

Op Ivy tried to record Energy at 924 Gilman Street but recording and engineering difficulties, they recorded at Sound and Vision in San Francisco, California in January 1989. After many different attempts, Energy was released in May of 1989.

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