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Friday, April 4, 2025

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Theater In Our World Today

I took my first acting class when I was 13 years old. We put on a spoof of "Cinderella," and I was the wicked step-mother even though I thought I would have been an amazing Cinderella. From there, I went on to try out for plays in middle school as well as an outside theater production. In my years of ...


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America's Next Top Model

"America's Next Top Model:All-Stars" began with all the girls acknowledging Lisa for getting Best Photo, while Lisa pointed out that the girls with the biggest personalities were getting sent home first. The morning after elimination, the girls got a surprise visit from reality star Kristin Cavallari. ...


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Who's that Girl It's Jess!

On Oct. 4, 2011, the third episode of New Girl premiered on Fox television. For anyone that isn't quite up-to-date on the new television buzz, New Girl is a quirky comedy starring Zooey Deschanel.  Zooey plays an extremely awkward girl, named Jess, who came home one day to find her boyfriend with ...


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My Last Oktoberfest

So it seems as though I just returned to school, and my last Oktoberfest has come and gone. The weekend went pretty smoothly, however, and ended up being pretty fun. I'm not too upset that it was my last Oktoberfest, but more so the fact that I am that much closer to graduation. Before I know it, Halloween ...


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Suburgatory

"Suburgatory" premiered on ABC on Wednesday night, Sept. 28 at 8:30 p.m. George Altman, is an architect and a father of a teenage girl named Tessa, who is 16 years old. They move to the suburbs from New York City after her dad finds a box of condoms in her room. Her mom left them after she was born, ...




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Review for NCIS "Penelope Papers"

SPOILER ALERT! NCIS fans stay seated! This episode is all about the one and only Timothy McGee, AKA "Probie". As the third episode of the already hair-raising ninth season opens, we meet a college professor who is arguing on the phone with his wife. After a mysterious phone call, he winds up dead. When ...


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Battle of the Bands Duels it Out for Winning Title

Oktoberfest weekend began with an inspiring Spirit Week, diving into Color Wars on Friday, which was followed by Battle of the Bands from 5 to 10pm later that evening. The event is held every year to start off the excellent live band line-up throughout the week. It is sponsored by WMLU, Longwood University's ...


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"White and Blue" Lyrics

CHORUS Yeah, uh-huh, you know what it is We've go the brigadier general, Finnegan Yeah, uh-huh, you know how we do We rep our school colors, that's white and blue Ridin' through Farmville, ain't nobody more ill White and blue, it's white and blue, it's white and blue, it's white and blue Longwood University, ...



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The Lying Game

Shhh! Don't tell, but for weeks now "The Lying Game" has been climbing the charts of the hit channel ABC Family. After taking the time slot of the show "The Secret Life of an American Teenager," it gained a lot more followers. The new time slot allows for them to play the previous episode before so ...


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America Next Top Model: All-Star

In this episode of "Americas Next Top Model," the girls do a photo shoot for Pinks, a famous hot dog stand in L.A. that has been around since the 1930s... In addition to the photo shoot, the girls also receive a makeover. Bre's huge mane is cut off  and she wants to go home after the fact.. She ...



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'Dolphin Tale': An Inspiring True Story

The notion that "behind every setback in life lies a potential rainbow" is laid on a bit thick in "Dolphin Tale," an appealing family film that doesn't know when to quit inspiring. In telling the true story of a dolphin whose damaged tail is eventually replaced by a prosthetic one, the actual dolphin ...


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My Day at The National Book Festival

On a highly overcast Saturday morning, I got in my car, drove up to the Springfield-Franconia Metro Station and rode the Metro up to Washington D.C. for what many of my peers regard as an excessively nerdy thing to do early on a Saturday morning; I was headed to Washington D.C. for the National Book ...



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PSA to the USA

Senseless violence, tyranny and envy. We are simply fulfilling our own self-satisfaction. Positive actions we all should take for the sake of our forsaken nation. To be ever so blatant, we are in a state of urgency. We all certainly are not so blind to the obvious. We live in a bottomless pit of self-righteous ...


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'Moneyball': Conventionality in Unconventionality

Brad Pitt, Jonah Hill, and Philip Seymour Hoffman team up in "Moneyball," a true story about how statistics can tie into a game of skill and heart, directed by Bennett Miller ("The Cruise," "Capote").  Despite the mountains of baseball and underdog films, "Moneyball" manages to stand above ...