WCW Nitro debuted live from The Mall of America in Minneapolis on September 4, 1995 kicking off the WCW/WWF Monday Night Wars. It was supposedly a big deal when Lex Luger and his mullet showed up since Eric Bischoff had just poached him from WWF where he had wrestled the week before, and I guess they considered him a draw.

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Legendary punk rock venue, bar, and restaurant in the Twin Cities; basis for the NOFX song, "Seeing Double at the Triple Rock." The video was also shot on location.

The name comes from the 1980 film The Blues Brothers. The Triple Rock Baptist Church (whose pastor is James Brown) is the site where the brothers receive their "mission from god".

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The cover to the Mac Lethal single "Make-Out Bandit" was shot inside the Uptown Bar.

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The Terrebonne Parish neighborhood of the city of Monegut in Louisiana was the principal filming location for the film Beasts of the Southern Wild.

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In the film Beasts of the Southern Wild, the mythical aurochs are enormous boars that inhabit the movie.

Aurochs are (or more accurately, were) neither mythical or pork-like. The wild ancestor of cattle, aurochs were enormous and ferocious versions of today's docile domesticated breeds. Cave paintings in France depict battles with aurochs, and their territory ranged from western Europe to eastern Asia, and into northern Africa.

Through over-hunting, habitat destruction, and diseases from domesticated cattle, the auroch numbers diminished. The last auroch died in 1627 in the forest outside of this Polish village. There is a monument there to commemorate the extinction of this species.

There is currently a scientific collaboration, Project TaurOs, to genetically recreate the auroch species.

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