One Baylor student, who began selling her own fashion products in high school, has big plans to use faith in her future fashion career.
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NEW YORK — For a compulsive online quiz-taker like Chrissy Noh, the temptation was too great to resist: “Which sandwich are you?”
In this week’s podcast, Taylor Griffin and Taylor Rexrode offer their reviews of the 2014 Sing acts from opening night. For this segment of “Trailer Trash,” the editors discuss the upcoming horror flick, “The Purge: Anarchy.”
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As a newbie to the tradition hype that is All-University Sing, it certainly has been interesting to observe the Baylor culture in this way: guys in eyeliner studying in the library, girls complaining about late nights and the overarching sense of competition in the fresh February air.
What makes a good All-University Sing act great?
Judges look at five main elements — entertainment value, musical quality, choreography, theme development and creativity. While most top acts have a solid combination of all five, there is often one that dominates the others — an exceptional soloist, a never-before-seen dance trick or maybe a tear-jerking theme.
Every year as the All-University Sing competition draws near, the Baylor campus readies itself for a festival of music, culture and memorable performances. The nights are filled with wonder as performances crafted over six weeks of intense preparation are realized on stage.
NEW YORK — iTunes is putting its stamp on South by Southwest, piggybacking on the annual event with its own music festival.
The company said Wednesday it will debut its popular iTunes Festival, a free concert series held in London for the past seven years. While the London version is a 30-day event, the U.S. festival will feature five nights of rock, country, pop and hip-hop at South by Southwest, an international showcase for music, film and interactive projects to be held next month in Austin.
WASHINGTON — Jazz musicians are famous for their musical conversations — one improvises a few bars and another plays an answer. Now research shows some of the brain’s language regions enable that musical back-and-forth much like a spoken conversation.
J.K. Rowling is back with a novel involving
a writer whose acid-tipped pen may have led to murder.
Publisher Little, Brown said Monday that it is publishing
a second book by Robert Galbraith, the “Harry Potter”
author’s thriller-writing pseudonym.
Born Dana Owens, she first became noticed as a hip-hop rapper in her teens, but it didn’t take long for Newark, N.J.’s Queen Latifah to blossom into a worldclass entertainer.
Eight times a day, a group of nuns files into a chapel in their rural northwest Missouri monastery to chant and worship.
Quite unexpectedly, this private, prayerful pursuit has made the Benedictines of Mary a chart-topping recording industry curiosity.
This weekend, Wacoans and students will have the opportunity to see athletes compete under the aliases of TailGator, Smashosaurus and Stinger while launching into the air and smashing cars — yes, this is monster trucks.
LOS ANGELES — Not so long ago, Simon Cowell was probably the most powerful man on American TV. His cranky, caustic judging had helped make “American Idol” an invincible No. 1 hit.
In honor of Valentine’s Day, this week’s “Frankly, My Dear” revolves around gushy romance movies. Which flicks will Taylor Griffin…
On the eve of Valentine’s Day, Zeta Phi Beta along with the Black History Month Committee presented “Jazz and Stanzas” in the SUB Den.
Valentine’s Day evokes images of passion, fun and love. All things are colored red, even the Texas dirt.
The apparel program at Baylor has been ranked among the top 32 most influential fashion schools in the world by fashionplaytes.com.
Dinner and a movie.
Yes, I realize it represents a profound failure of imagination, but this was the date I had proposed to my wife for Valentine’s Day this week. But sometimes life’s obligations (not to mention two kids) limit your options for an evening out, so you flail around, punt and resort to an old standby. It still beats takeout and loading the dishwasher, right?
Testing Pinterest’s too-good-to-be-true recipes and crafts
This Valentine’s Day, couples and singles alike can attend a special dinner and show hosted by Mission Waco and Jubilee Theatre.
Mission Waco’s World Cup Café and Jubilee Theatre are putting on an event called “Love Chronicles” on Friday.
Any kid who ever tap-danced at a talent show or put on a curly wig and auditioned for “Annie” can only dream of being as beloved — or as important — as Shirley Temple.
Spin Connection, a music and vinyl store, is just getting started selling music and has future plans already in the works. The store opened in December and is located at 3703 Franklin Ave.
With two weeks to go before Seth Meyers’ “Late Night” premieres on NBC, the new talk show host has revealed his old “Saturday Night Live” colleague Fred Armisen will be joining him as bandleader.
LOS ANGELES — Fox has X’d out “The X Factor.”
Once seen as the next “American Idol,” Fox has canceled the “The X Factor” after three seasons of shuffling judges and low ratings for the musical talent show.
Do romantic comedies have double standards when it comes to cheaters? Find out in this edition of “Frankly, My Dear,”…
The smell of wet paint crawls through the air in the Mabee Theater in the Hooper-Schaefer Fine Arts Center. Colors blur and blend into one another on the backdrop, so there is uncertainty as to where horizontal begins and vertical ends.
The stage seems to be a character itself.
By Kat Worrall Reporter Today marks the 100th birthday of one of Waco’s oldest buildings, the Waco Hippodrome. The Hippodrome,…
Three students in the Accelerated Ventures Program at Baylor started a business centered on the Baylor plaid: Dapper Bear Clothiers.
The Accelerated Ventures Program is a two-semester course in which students are given $5,000 to start their own business.
NBC is preparing to remake its late-night lineup as Jay Leno exits as host of “The Tonight Show With Jay Leno” today and Jimmy Fallon begins as host of “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon” Feb. 17 (at midnight its first week following Olympics coverage, then moving back to its regular 11:35 p.m. time slot). On Feb. 24, “Late Night with Seth Meyers” (12:35 a.m.) debuts.
