It took the tutu hundreds of years to evolve. When ballet was born in the early 1400s, it most certainly didn’t look like the ballet of today. It started as a social dance in ballrooms for French and Italian nobility. Participants would dance for special occasions like a royal birth or an important marriage. They […]
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Don Ness was elected Mayor of Duluth in 2008, just as the American economy was imploding. The city had a debt of $1.35 million, was being sued by the federal government, had massive sanitary sewer overflows into Lake Superior, and lacked a strong plan for building the infrastructure and retaining young professionals. Ness took a
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On August 5th of 2011, 15-year-old Keith Cozart, better known as Chief Keef, released a music video for one of his first real songs, “Bang,” featuring he and his friends showing their gang signs to the camera. When released, this song took the online rap community by storm, with Chief Keef becoming a staple of
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Like any serious musician, Maynard James Keenan exorcises his demons and defends his beliefs through his art. This passion led him to create three popular heavy metal bands, each accentuating Keenan’s unique and distinctive sound, performance style, and visuals. The unapologetic eccentric also has interests that expand outside of music, all of which enrich his
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On warm Saturday nights in the summer when others go to the movies, hit the nightclubs with their friends, or hang out at the mall, I go to the football stadium. Everyone there is wearing head-to-toe red and black. Kids have numbers painted on their faces, and their moms carry the handmade “Go Daddy!” signs.
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For the first time in decades, the United States is seeing a major outbreak of avoidable diseases like measles, rubella and pertussis because some parents are saying “NO” to vaccinating their children for medical and religious reasons. All three of these diseases can be prevented with a series of MMR and TDaP vaccines given in
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