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InspireDANCE works to provide dance education
InspireDANCE offers dance workshops to the UR and outside community.
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Howie Mandel: a comedian as hilarious as he is bald
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Tennis sets sail with retro-pop debut album, ‘Cape Dory’
Why a band whose debut album was inspired by a nautical adventure would call itself Tennis is an enigma to me. This puzzlement, however, doesn’t stand in the way of thoroughly enjoying Tennis’ first album, “Cape Dory,” which was released last month.
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‘No Strings Attached’ ropes in audiences this weekend
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UR has a visitor: McVicar the hypnotizing Trickster
Hypnosis often falls under the same scrutiny as other disputable subjects, such as voodoo and mind reading. But for many…
A memorial to ’60s psychedelia
The Memorial Art Gallery opened its newest exhibit, “Psychedelic: Optical & Visionary Art Since the 1960s,” with a colorful and interactive exhibition party on Sunday, Oct. 16. Activities ranged from a screening of “Woodstock” (1969) to tarot card readings to a live band and go-go dancers to free henna tattoos.
This family can make you laugh
Did you miss your favorite dysfunctional-but-they-still-love-each-other-at-the-end-of-the-episode family? You better have, because “Modern Family” is back with just as much enthusiasm as last season.
Passion Pit fails to rock the gym
If the best part of a concert was playing Uno on the bus ride there, you know the concert was a bit of a bust.
