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Giving up isn’t an option for Grace Greenan
By MERET KELSEY | Dec. 9, 2022Grace Greenan was a toddler when she first started songwriting.
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Five holiday songs you’ve never heard of that’ll jingle your bells
By ALEX NOVAK | Dec. 9, 2022Step aside, Mariah Carey.
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The ultimate concert survival guide
By DOMINICK MATARESE | Dec. 9, 2022First step: learn the tricks of the trade from experienced concert-goers.
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Swifties’ ‘Bad Blood’ with Ticketmaster
By ALEX NOVAK | Nov. 29, 2022After spending hours in the queue on Ticketmaster, only to be kicked out or find no tickets available, many Taylor Swift fans — UB students included — found themselves disillusioned with her massively popular “The Eras” Tour.
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The seamless chaos of ‘Noises Off’
By JULES EVANS and ALEX NOVAK | Nov. 22, 2022Three of the play’s five showtimes were canceled due to last weekend's snowstorm, but the cast rebounded for a stellar final showing.
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Emerging Choreographers Showcase highlights undiscovered student talent
By ALEX NOVAK | Nov. 17, 2022UB’s Emerging Choreographers Showcase presented dance works by BA, BFA and MFA dance students.
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UB Art Galleries’ latest exhibition explores the absurdities of the human body
By MERET KELSEY | Nov. 17, 2022“I don’t know you like that: The Bodywork of Hospitality” takes on the human body, in all its bizarre and beautiful glory.
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Taylor Swift’s ‘Midnights’ smashed records
By ALEX NOVAK | Nov. 17, 2022For the first time in history, one artist occupied all Top 10 spots on the Billboard Hot 100 chart: Taylor Swift.
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‘More Love, Less Ego’ displays how her love is better than ‘Her Loss’
By AJ FRANKLIN | Nov. 17, 2022From the smoothness of his voice to the seductiveness of his lyrics, WizKid vividly showcases his romantic abilities on “More Love, Less Ego.”
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Drake and 21 Savage’s ‘Her Loss’ feels like a Drake solo project
By MORGAN S.T. ROSS | Nov. 17, 2022‘Her Loss’ comes as a long-awaited full-length collaboration between Drake and 21 Savage, as fans of the duo reminisced on the successes of the pair’s previous songs together.
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‘Black Panther: Wakanda Forever’ inspires audiences to break away from their generational curses
By AJ FRANKLIN | Nov. 17, 2022“Black Panther: Wakanda Forever” takes audiences through a heartfelt journey filled with hopeless grieving, laugh-worthy comedy, engaging battles and relentless characters.
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Dark academia bewitches Fashionista Club
By JULES EVANS and ALEX NOVAK | Nov. 17, 2022UB's Fashionista Club is an on-campus group that promotes self-expression, finding meaning through one’s style and committing to an aesthetic vision.
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UB’s Student Concert Band offers a unique experience to student-musicians
By JOSH BILLIG | Nov. 16, 2022Composed of flutists and saxophonists, tubists and percussionists, and everything in between, the UB Student Concert Band creates a space of camaraderie among its unique group of musicians.
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UB’s ‘The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee’ is sweet like honey
By REBECCA BUXTON and ALEX NOVAK | Nov. 9, 2022“The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee” may be a mouthful of a title, but UB’s fall musical certainly gave audiences a lot to chew on.
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Sophie Allison and Co.’s performance at the Town Ballroom was vulnerable and visceral
By MERET KELSEY | Nov. 9, 2022Soccer Mommy, the musical personality of singer-songwriter Sophie Allison, gave a vulnerable, visceral performance at the Town Ballroom last Friday.
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UB artists invite patrons into the studio at Art in the Open
By MERET KELSEY | Nov. 2, 2022Attendees were met with the lively, bustling atmosphere of UB’s most talented artists in their natural habitats: their studios.
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UB k-pop group brings energy and attitude
By ALEX NOVAK | Nov. 2, 2022Mix’n’Max rehearsals aren’t your traditional dance classes.
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‘Artistic healing’: UB students and artists collaborate on labyrinth project
By MERET KELSEY | Oct. 26, 2022With guidance from visiting artist Dara Friedman, a German-born film and video artist whose works have been exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art and the Hammer Museum, a group of adventurous students spent much of this semester constructing River Hill, a large-scale labyrinth and pollinator garden.
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‘Public art is my sport of choice’: The story behind UB’s Title IX mural
By ALEX NOVAK | Oct. 26, 2022Behind every “contemplative site” is the artist that brought it to life.
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Midnights is a “Glitch” in Taylor Swift’s long list of no-skip albums
By KAYLA ESTRADA | Oct. 26, 2022“Midnights” is just that: mid.
