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Amy Stevens Brings Her Art and Inspiration to Longwood

Amy Stevens is an artist of many different talents who came to Longwood’s campus Tuesday, Feb. 5. To say her work is merely original would be an understatement. Her creativity and ability to make something that looks flawed become art were shared with the students of Longwood. Her story, as she explained, ...


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A Piece of Roman History in the Middle of England

Yesterday, I went to Bath for the day. Bath is famous for being one of the homes of Jane Austen, famous for her powerful love novels where the heroine is a girl. As a dedicated English Major it was exciting to travel to another literary relevant location. In most of her novels she mentions Bath as a ...


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Marketing innovator Andy Stefanovich to speak at Longwood

Farmville, Va.—Andy Stefanovich, an innovative marketing consultant, will speak Thurs- day, Feb. 21, at 6:30 p.m. in Longwood University’s Blackwell Ballroom. The lecture, “The Museum of Life,” free and open to the public, is part of the Barbara L. Bishop Distinguished Lecture Series in the ...


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Longwood Theatre to present L’Amour: An Opera Theatre Workshop Production

Farmville, Va.—L’Amour: An Opera Theatre Work- shop Production, will be presented by the Longwood University theatre and music programs for the 7th Annual Opera Workshop. The adaptation of the 19th century play La Ronde will be performed from Tuesday, Feb. 19, through Saturday, Feb. 23, at 7 p.m. ...


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Grimm’s Fairytale Turns Gruesome in ‘Hansel and Gretel’

Enter a world of fantasy in Grimm’s classic fairytale, “Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters.” However, the classic fairytale takes a spin into the action-horror genre in the 2013 adaptation directed and co-written by Tommy Wirkola. In the prologue of the hour-and-a-half-long film,  their father ...


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Fight or Flight? Cop or Cougar? Questions...Questions.

“Cougar Town” Season One – Recent divorcee, Julie Cobb, runs a successful business, has amazing friends and a son she loves without fail. However, the single mom’s biggest issue: relationships. She discovers more and more that in order to find herself, she needs to let herself go and sometimes ...



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A Place Where Famous Writers Sat: A Day in the Oxford Countryside

Studying abroad is a lot like listening to a scratched CD. There are moments when the music is coming out of the speakers perfectly, everything is going smoothly and you are just singing along. Then, you hit that first scratch and the music snaps into repetition before abruptly stopping for a long, ...


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What's Up with All the Sequels

2013 seems to be the year for sequels. I mean, come on – not only is the ever-popular “Hunger Games” sequel, “Catching Fire”, coming out this fall, which is possibly one of the most anticipated sequels of the year, but we’ve also got everything from the “Smurfs 2” movie to "Star Trek: ...


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‘The Carrie Diaries’: ‘Friday Night’

In this week’s episode of "The Car- rie Diaries", it was Halloween night in the year 1984. Carrie was still trying to handle her breakup with Sebas- tian, so she played an awkward game of hide-and-seek in her high school hallways in an attempt to avoid him. Instead of going to Sebastian’s party, ...


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Josh Groban is ‘Brave’ in His New Album, ‘All That Echoes’

Acclaimed American singer, song-writer and musician Josh Groban released his latest album yesterday. The album, entitled “All That Echoes,” is overall a mellow, deep, classic Josh Groban sound. Honestly, I was never the biggest Josh Groban fan. I have listened to his music, and he is widely popular ...


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Memorable Super Bowl Commercials of 2013

Many Americans on Feb. 3 watched Super Bowl XLVII for the football game between the Balti- more Ravens and the San Francisco 49ers. Even though football is a great source of entertainment, it certainty is not for everyone. Those who did not care much for the game primarily looked forward to the memorable ...


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'Cheers' to Funny Ideas

“Cheers” from Plymouth, England. I have been in this new world for 27 days (see what I did there), and I can finally say I feel comfortable. When I first decided to do a semester abroad, I prepared myself for an entirely different kind of experience. In my mind, it was the idea of constant travel, ...


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Longwood Theatre Presents 'L'Amour'

Longwood University Theatre is proud to pres- ent L’Amour: An Opera Theatre Workshop Production, a hybrid theatre-opera piece, conceived and directed by Gene Muto and Dr. Christopher Swanson. The performance will open Tuesday, February 19th at 7:00PM and run through Sunday, February 24th. The performance ...


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Poetry Corner: The Storm is Coming

A teardrop of water Out of the cold, lonely sky.  A crack of deep thunder Follows each of his lies.  The lightening that strikes Belongs to the anger in her heart.  But the calm before the storm, The one whose silence is in the part, Is the one that everyone hears And the one he needs ...



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Pretty Little Liars: Mona 2.0 or Meredith?

Don’t lie to yourself. You have been watch- ing this show every Tuesday like it’s a reli- gion. This week, like each week, we still have more mysteries than answers. Here are a couple things we know for sure from previ- ous episodes: Toby is part of the A team with Mona and Lucas is innocent, ...



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A Week of Cops, Writers, Entrepreneurs and Rock Legends

"The Paperboy" After Charlotte Bless pleads for help to newspaper reporter Ward Jansen, Jansen and his associate travel to Miami, Fla. to attempt to get convicted murderer Hillary Van Wetter released from death row. While Charlotte has maintained only a written relationship with Hillary, she insists ...



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This is the Best Season of the Year And No, I Don't Mean Winter

This is one of my favorite seasons. No, it is not the winter; I hate the winter and the cold (minus the snow for some reason). My favorite season is awards season. Celebrities have chosen their one-of-a-kind gowns that probably cost more than I will ever see in my life, and the paparazzi are stocking ...