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Thursday, January 29, 2026

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Television's Greatest Night

Television is a magical thing. It's a time to bring the family together for that-day-of-the-week bonding; it's a time to have a neighborhood party, or even to have a first date. It's a time when famous people invade the lives of average people, bringing laughs and tears with them, or sometimes a mixture ...


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Rock the Block: A Successful Third Year

  Students and Farmville residences alike turned out to "Rock the Block" on Friday, September 16 for the third of what is sure to remain an annual tradition and partnership between Longwood University and the town of Farmville. Local businesses like Domino's, Sleeping Bee, Karen's Bridal, The Dutch ...


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Garbage Dreams

On September 17, the Longwood Center for the Visual Arts held a screening of the documentary, "Garbage Dreams." The 2009 film follows the lives of three young men living in the world's largest garbage village outside of Cairo, Egypt, known as Mokattam. The men are just three of 60,000 Zaballeen, Arabic ...






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Mooz-lum: Understanding Together

  Based on true events, the 2010 film "Mooz-lum" tells the story of an African-American Muslim family living in Dearborn, Michigan. The majority of the film takes place around the time of the devastating events of September 11, 2001. The movie focuses around the character of Tariq (Evan Ross, "ATL"), ...




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"Love Struck"

Author: Melissa Marr Publisher:HarperCollins Price: $1.99 for Kindle "Love Struck" by Melissa Marr is a short story that was first seen in the anthology, "Love is Hell" (published in 2008). The short story was recently released as a Kindle Single. A Kindle Single simply refers to a story—sometimes ...


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9/11 in Retrospect

10 years after the tragic events that unfolded on Sept. 11, 2001, where do we stand as a society? I would say that our culture is largely dominated by fear; fear of the unknown and fear of what is to come. That day was so heavily scrutinized that we base a great deal of our daily lives around the incidents ...


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Lady Antebellum Releases Album "Own The Night"

The country trio, Lady Antebellum, released their third country album September 13th to an eager audience. Their single hit, "Just A Kiss", went out as a teaser to country fans on May 2nd, 2011, receiving a wide span of attention and playing on country stations nationwide. The trio came together in ...




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'Apollo 18' Shoots for the Moon and Misses

"Apollo 18"  is reminiscent of the "Blair Witch Project" … almost a "'Paranormal Activity' in Space."  The trailers for "Apollo 18" are enigmatic, confusing and fragmented, which is a good representation of the one hour and twenty-six minutes of the film in its entirety. Viewers are first ...


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The Help": Change Begins with Truth

Based off of Kathryn Stockett's 2009 novel, "The Help," the film adaptation features the lives of Mississippi women, raised in a world where mothers pass off their motherly duties to African American maids and nannies, called "the help." Set in the early 1960s, the racial discrepancies are outlined ...


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The Name of the Star Preview

The Name of the Star / By Maureen Johnson / 384 pages / Putnam Juvenile / $16.99 When Maureen Johnson, author of "13 Little Blue Envelopes", "The Last Little Blue Envelope", and the "Suite Scarlett" series, announced her newest book, "The Name of the Star", her entire fan base was set atwitter (quite ...


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It's All About The Connections

This weekend, my roommatesand I trucked it to Virginia Beach for a little adventure and much needed sunlight after being back at school for two weeks. (Four months wasn't long enough, honestly). After a day of bumming it on the beach, we took to the streets, walking from shop to shop just browsing and ...


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A Secret Life Finale

The fourth season of "The Secret Life of the American Teenager" on ABC Family has been filled with drama and heartbreak, and the season finale was no exception. At the beginning of the episode, Grant High School was buzzing over the rumor that Ricky would be proposing to his girlfriend and the mother ...


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Drowning (B0y G3nius Original Poem)

I feel so alone Even when I'm surrounded As I stand in the middle of a crowd I see hundreds walk by And still there is a feeling of loneliness It feels as if I'm the only one left The lone survivor of a bloody massacre My cries for company are not heard They must not be able to see me Or maybe ...