Entertainment
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By Payton Farber
Cherry Blossom
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By Natalie Murphy With the growth of the Northwest Arkansas music scene in the last decade, the University of Arkansas Headliners Concert Committee has created a staple event, bringing some of the biggest names in the industry to the university as part of the Springtime of Youth music festival. The festival, first introduced to the…
The Dream Team Behind Springtime of Youth
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by Erica Wilson As fifth-year senior Madeline Kendall watched the Hannah Montana movie when she was around eight, it ignited a passion in her for Taylor Swift that would follow her throughout her childhood and into college. Swift wrote two of the tracks in the movie and also made a brief cameo, performing her song…
Growing Up with Taylor Swift
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By Alyssa Riley B-I-N-G-O, You’ve Got a Drag “Drag is an art form, and I think any art form can either rub some people the wrong way or bring some people together.” Bryan Duncan A lottery channel, SpongeBob SquarePants, and the Providence v. UCONN men’s basketball game is playing on the televisions stationed around the…
Dilemma Downpour for Drag
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By Marin McGrath FAYETTEVILLE, Ark.— On Saturday Feb. 20, families and college students alike patiently awaited the floats and attractions that the Fat Saturday Parade of Fools has to offer. No one seemed to mind the chill in the air and the cloudy sky, they were there for an entertaining time. It’s been 30 years…
Fat Saturday in Fayetteville
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By Erica Wilson Professor Nophachai Cholthitchanta wanders the organ room in the music building, observing his students create their own clarinet reeds. They have spent weeks curing the cane, using a guillotine to split the material, gouging the cane into blanks with an aggressive blade and examining its arcs to select the perfect tip. They…
The Details Behind the Details: A relentless pursuit of musical perfection
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By Natalie Murphy As Jennette McCurdy speaks at the Distinguished Lectures Committee, the audience is very familiar with her. Simply put, the first time the mostly college-age attendees heard of and watched her on TV was when they were in middle school. But she is no longer the character we knew her as. Not Sam…
“Life Begs For Comedy”: Jennette McCurdy on Her Time in Therapy, Her Mom and Her Best-Selling Book.
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How do you separate the savory from the rotten and the sour from the sweet? Going through the days, I’ve gotten lost in obscene thoughts and nooks and crannies of my mind. Maybe tomorrow or yesterday, I can find the answers I’m looking for. While life goes by I ponder a time where I realize…
Throwing Out the Milk by Paige Babcock
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It’s raining. Of course it is. It had been forecasted for a while now. It should have been obvious, The wisps of white that mimed Paul’s Revere, The temperature reaching a fever pitch, The air itself seemed to sweat so that the Earth Must wipe it all away, leaving a gray streak in its…
Silver and Gold- Joshua Droll