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TALK DOESN'T COOK RICE: Ice hockey’s mature players: Check your issues at the door
If you’re really adventurous ... you might want to think about another, more rigorous indoor winter sport: you still get to woosh around on the ice, but in this case, you’re chasing a puck — and so is everyone else.
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DANCE REVIEW: Jin Xing Dance Theatre Shanghai dazzles Penn State audience
Chinese cultural icon, dancer and choreographer Jin Xing brought her Dance Theatre Shanghai to the Eisenhower Auditorium stage Wednesday night at Penn State. The company offered an accomplished performance combined with stunning visual imagery and mesmerizing choreography.
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Weekender & More's concert listings
Browse a list of concerts throughout the Centre Region and Pennsylvania.
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MUSIC
Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra seeks soloists via YouTube
PITTSBURGH — The Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra is seeking instrumental soloists who aren’t represented by talent agencies to post YouTube videos of their music in a contest that will let the public vote on which four will get to audition for musical director Manfred Honeck.
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Leonard Cohen goes spiritual on 'Old Ideas'
Throughout his 45-year career, Leonard Cohen has often juggled love, sex and religion, often embodying the trinity in the same song. Cohen doesnt abandon those themes on his latest album, Old Ideas, his first studio recording in eight years and perhaps one of his best in decades.
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MOVIES
Wholesome sequel tackles unusual mission with ‘Journey 2’
Michael Caine must be a jolly good sport. Some time during the making of “Journey 2: The Mysterious Island,” a director had to say to him, “Sir Michael Caine, this is the part when you clamber atop a bee the size of a small plane, hold on tight and pretend to fly over...
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The Vow: Can amnesia block romance? Forget about it
At the beginning of The Vow and again at the end, in case you had forgotten you are told that it was inspired by true events. There is always a lot of latitude in such a claim, and no one would accuse this mild, soggy romance of excessive realism. But a cautious...
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Safe House a sad excuse for action adventure
Safe House is an idea for a movie. Its a few blustery gestures in the direction of a story, with five good actors doing their best, trying to hold up the barest frame of an idea, while investing the surrounding emptiness with all the truth they can muster.
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Karl Denson covers Rolling Stones with flair
Karl Denson doesnt have the largest of fan bases. But the loyalists supporting his band, Karl Densons Tiny Universe, are voluble and knowledgeable. When Denson announced plans to perform the Rolling Stones album Sticky Fingers for a recent tour, some fans were not sure...
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Glenn Close brings ‘Albert Nobbs’ to edge of satisfaction
Glenn Close is very still in her latest film quiet, never cracking a smile. Playing a member of the staff of an upper crust Dublin hotel in the late 19th century, the idea was to be invisible. Think of people “in service,” the butlers and maids of “Downton Abbey”...
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Shanghai Chinese Orchestra steeped in tradition
The first modern orchestra in China will bring a 20-person ensemble to Penn State’s Schwab Auditorium this weekend.




