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Ready for the Rumble

Ready for the Rumble

Lowell’s Western Education readies to perform at Boston’s Rock’n’Roll Rumble and release first full album It’s like the beginning of a dream: you find yourself in some strange situation between the believable and the unbelievable. Between what you think you can do and what you imagine you could do in daydreams. “I’m not saying I’m

Harrington: of manuscripts and musicals

Nicholles Klevisha Connector Contributor “I didn’t know if I could write a book,” Laura Harrington said to an audience of young writers and university professors. Harrington has written across genres, produced plays, musicals, operas, and even the occasional radio drama. Winner of the 2008 Kleban for Most Promising Librettist in Musical and the 2009 MIT

Bigger Than the Moon Landing

It only took 16 days, seven hours, and 45 seconds for what seemed impossible to come true: an online crowd that surpassed 100,000 at times beat Pokemon Red with a flurry of inputs. The game was broadcasted over the video game streaming website Twitch.tv on which viewers could all control the game at the same

Mothers of Rock: A Tribute to Women in Music

March 8 7:30 P.M Durgin Hall Benefit Concert The past and the future of music collide in the present for one night only in Lowell. This year, the Music Entertainment Industry Student Association presents the 10th anniversary of it’s annual tribute to women in music, Mothers of Rock. This year, old favorites from years past

Saving the music scene

Alexander Gentile UML Student Have you ever wondered where your favorite musical artists came from? Assuredly they one day picked up an instrument or decided to start singing in the shower, and thought to themselves, “I’m ready to give something to the world.” They spent years practicing, met other musicians that helped to develop a

“Was not this love indeed?”

At times, oh yes, it was Playing on the theme of love, the performance featured readings from “Romeo and Juliet,” “Twelfth Night,” and “Troilus and Cressida”- in that order, which happens to also be the descending order of most to least known. “Romeo and Juliet” being the play so well known that it’s reference is