Cuttin’ it old school

Scott Walus stops in the kitchen on his way to the basement and takes out a small wooden box. The lid opens, revealing what looks like a turntable and needle. When he is finished with his latest record, a venture with local garage act Monte Carlos, that small box will cut grooves into a wax cylinder and create a mold from which vinyl copies of the record will be pressed.

Location, location, location

Find an interesting location: Snap a low-resolution picture and upload it onto the Missouri Life Web site. If it sounds simple, that’s because simple is exactly what the minds behind the Location Scout contest intended. The idea is to create a thick portfolio of locations that will help recruit big-time producers to all that Missouri has to offer.

Vinyl v. iPod

You need an accessory to go with your new skinny jeans, but you also enjoy taking your music with you. What goes better with your faux hawk? Vinyl or iPod?

Faces of Warhol

No one better encapsulates the ’60s-era pop art craze than Andy Warhol, the coolest of outcasts. Celebrating its 20th anniversary, the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts recently gave obscure photographs from the depths of Warhol’s factory to MU’s Museum of Art and Archaeology.

Move over Glamour

It’s Amateur Radio instead of Allure, Rock and Ice instead of Food and Wine, and Online Genealogy instead of O. Each of these niche magazines can be found in Columbia, and Vox is here to take you inside the pages. We unearthed just a few niche magazines in case you need the perfect periodical for the cat lady with afghan quilts galore or the trench coat-wearing kid who never steps away from his horror-ridden videogames. Here are just a handful of the crazy, quirky magazines found around town.

Life on the Road

Being a roadie is more than free concerts and free beer. It’s late nights, difficult schedules and long months away from friends and family. Although usually not thought of and typically not seen, these people are as crucial to the performance as the actual musicians. These people are roadies.

Who does that?

It’s the perfect summer day. On the golf course, you drive your cart to the next hole. You take a swing and your ball splashes into the nearby lake. Besides being over par, you’re overheated and decide to head inside for a beer and leave the ball to sink to the bottom of the lake bed (or maybe get swallowed by the gator that took Chubs’ hand).

Book of the Month

The Unlikely Disciple: A Sinner’s Semester at America’s Holiest University details Roose’s experience as a Liberty student and his attempts to learn about the oft-ridiculed but little-studied, subculture of Christian evangelism.

On the job: Trophy engraver

From beakers to bedpans, frames to footwear, Hervey has engraved a ton of wacky stuff for her son’s business. With her smiling blue eyes and lively laugh, her insight goes past engraving and extends to life’s problems, her grandchildren and flip-flops.

Vox asks Columbians

What was your worst summer job, and why?

Serendipity, summer, Vox

Since coming to college, I’ve worn quite a few hats: stressed student, self-proclaimed band geek, reporter, designer, roommate, friend. Many of these were expected and some were not (who knew I’d decide to do marching band when in college — not me). But least expected is the role I find myself in this summer: editor.

From Brown to republican red

(Web Exclusive) Several topics shouldn’t be brought up at a cocktail party. Politics, sexual preferences and religion are especially sensitive issues, as Kevin Roose learned firsthand. At age 19, Roose left his liberal haven at Brown University and traveled to the über-conservative Liberty University in Lynchburg, Va. He documented his experience in The Unlikely Disciple: A Sinner’s Semester at America’s Holiest University.