Chekhov’s gun is canon law for the dramatic principle of foreshadowing. It goes a little like this: If a loaded gun is mentioned in the opening of a story, before the story is over, the gun must be used. Otherwise, it should be omitted.
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The Waco Symphony Orchestra will be joined by guest violinist Jolente de Maeyer in its last concert of the season. The orchestra will perform three pieces all rooted in folk music.
The program will begin at 7:30 p.m. Thursday in Waco Hall. Tickets are $7 for students and start at $20 for general admission.
Cookie Monster stands accused of shoving a 2-year-old. Super Mario was charged with groping a woman. And Elmo was booked for berating tourists with anti-Semitic slurs.
Times Square is crawling with entrepreneurs who dress up as pop-culture characters and try to make a few bucks posing for photos with visitors to the big city. But some of these characters are unlike anything you’ve seen on “Sesame Street” or at Disney World.
A slip of the tongue lead to the wrong winner to be announced at this year’s Stompfest competition on Friday.
Out of the three groups in the independent category, the Asian Students Association was announced winners while the Baylor Transfer Council were given the award of Audience Favorite.
For the fourth year in a row, the women of Zeta Tau Alpha can claim victory at StompFest. Zeta Tau Alpha beat six other teams for the StompFest title with its Hollywood-inspired step routine.
Vitek’s BBQ Gut Pak is officially the Best College Eat, according to a Battle Bracket hosted by the Cooking Channel.
Cooking Channel made the finalized announcement Saturday.
The polls for the Bracket Battle: Best College Eats championship, hosted by the Cooking Channel, appeared to close early Friday with Vitek’s BBQ Gut Pak leading by 1,000 votes.
The polls were scheduled to close at 4 p.m. Friday. Currently, the Gut Pak has 15,025 votes and its final opponent Marquette’s Real Chili’s The Marquette has 14,035 votes.
Philadelphia is getting ready for a supersized game of “Pong” — on the side of a skyscraper.
The classic Atari video game will be re-created later this month on the facade of the 29-story Cira Centre, where hundreds of embedded LED lights will replicate the familiar paddles and ball.
The World Hunger Relief, Inc. will hold its annual Spring Farm Day Festival from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday at the World Hunger Relief farm located at 356 Spring Lake Rd. in Waco.
According to its website, worldhungerrelief.org, World Hunger Relief, Inc.’s mission is to help those who struggle with food insecurity.
For the next few weeks, the Baylor Dance Company will have its hands full as it prepares for one of the busiest months of the year.
April marks three major performances for the company to include its Spring Showcase this weekend.
Blake Herridge, pastor of the First Baptist Church of Marlin, will attempt to meet the fundraising needs of history students from Marlin Middle School by doing something he does best — reading minds.
Herridge, under the stage name Blake Adams, will perform a mentalist show to raise money for the Marlin Middle School students’ field trip to Washington, D.C., at 7 p.m. today and on Saturday in the Palace Theatre in Marlin.
You don’t have to look very far to find Baylor students going above and beyond. This time, look no further than the art department, where a varied collection of artwork is currently on display.
The Martin Museum of Art is hosting the Baylor Art Student Exhibition, which started on March 28 and will run until April 17 in Gallery 1 and 2. The exhibition is free and open to the public.
When I tried curry for the first time, I was in Ireland. It was at a high priced restaurant in Dublin city center. The whole experience was a night of firsts. I had a lamb curry. Here in the States, lamb is not as accessible on a student budget. But while I was eating the curry, I thought this could easily be done with different kinds of ingredients, much like stir fry. It had its simplicity and the ability to involve any kind of vegetable or meat I wanted. As a college student, this was paramount to me.
Baylor Men’s Basketball aren’t the only ones competing for a championship title. Vitek’s BBQ’s Gut Pak beat out University of Montana’s Cascade Country Store’s Breakfast Burrito. They will compete against Marquette University’s chili-topped spaghetti The Marquette in the final round.
Voting will open Thursday until Friday at 2 p.m. central time.
Baylor has another claim to fame after Monday night’s blind audition episode of “The Voice.”
Lorena sophomore Holly Tucker has come a long way from performing at such venues as the local farmer’s market to wowing the thousands that tuned in to watch NBC’s “The Voice” with her performance. Tucker is currently in Los Angeles, Calif., preparing for the next stage of the competition.
On La Salle Avenue, a Baylor student can easily find a place to get their car repaired or stop off at the local Dairy Queen for ice cream. Just out of sight, however, on a quick turn off of La Salle down South Fifth Street, a wealth of Waco, Baylor and Texas history lies under an expanse of oak trees. Oakwood Cemetery has been the final resting place for prominent figures in local and state history for decades and has weathered the test of time.
Eric Metaxas, host of Breakpoint broadcasts, New York Times bestselling author and noted Christian speaker, will visit Baylor today.
The Baylor Institute of Religion is hosting “An Evening with Eric Metaxas” at 7 p.m. in the Powell Chapel, where Metaxas will discuss his career, work and best-selling biography, “Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy.”
Could Vitek’s BBQ be the best college dive in the nation? The Cooking Channel wants visitors to their website to make that decision, as Vitek’s has been included in cookingchanneltv.com’s Bracket Battle for best college eats.
The Gut Pak, a signature meal from Vitek’s, will go head-to-head in the online polls against dishes from college towns all across the United States. The competition features meals such as the Phat Lady of restaurant Hoagie Haven in the Princeton University area, and the Ho Burger with Cheddar Tots – a dish from the University of Kentucky students’ local dive, Tolly-Ho. Visitors to the Cooking Channel’s website can vote from multiple devices, once per device per day, in the battling brackets for the restaurant dish they think is the best.
Order a bowl of turkey chili at a St. Louis-area Panera Bread cafe and it’ll cost you a penny. Or $5. Or $100. In other words, whatever you decide.
Three years after launching the first of five pay-what-you-want cafes, the suburban St. Louis-based chain on Wednesday quietly began its latest charitable venture that takes the concept on a trial run to all 48 cafes in the St. Louis region.
Tickets for local Waco talent can now be purchased online since the Waco Civic Theatre debuted its online ticketing system Tuesday.
The new system offers a 24-hour service, where patrons can choose their own seats and buy tickets whenever convenient.
A block away from the newly renovated Waco Convention Center stands a building that looks like it was plucked straight out of the 1600s. Heavy wooden doors positioned beneath and between the carved likenesses of Catholic saints lead to a cavernous room filled from floor to ceiling with historic and meaningful artwork.
Abilene freshman Luke Gibson is just starting his college career, but he is already a hit among the Baylor community. Gibson, a vocal performance major and Uproar artist, sings and plays his guitar at different locations around Baylor’s campus and is well known among Baylor students.
Green wasn’t just a color Thursday at Common Grounds.
Houston junior Eliza Coleman and Plano junior Ryan Schaap designed two “green” outfits for the Project Greenway fashion show at 7 p.m. Thursday. The pair won the competition and received a $500 prize.
A breakfast eatery is closing its doors after just six months.
Sergio’s Café, adjacent to Mexican seafood restaurant Sergio’s, served the last of its patrons Saturday, including several Bearathon participants. Sergio and Sandra Garcia own both the café and restaurant.
Queen Elizabeth II needed no convincing to appear in a James Bond-themed skit during the opening ceremony of the London Olympics — in fact, she volunteered, according to the show’s director.
Director Danny Boyle says he had initially thought a lookalike — possibly actress Helen Mirren — would play the role of Elizabeth alongside Bond actor Daniel Craig.
With the proliferation of e-readers and digital textbooks, the way we view books is changing.
Today, another type of book will appear on Baylor’s campus. Community members will have the opportunity to view a set of artist’s books crafted by a traveling husband-and-wife team.
In a place full of lions, tigers and bears, visitors to the Cameron Park Zoo will learn to live safer lives, as the zoo hosts its Poison Safety Safari. Together with the Central Texas Poison Control Center at Scott & White Healthcare, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, Cameron Park Zoo will have games and presentations for kids and their families, teaching everyone about poison safety. This will be the first time that the Cameron Park Zoo has hosted this event since 2003.
Today the bells in the belfry of Pat Neff Hall will ring to signal the approach of Holy Week.
Lynnette Geary, resident carillonneur (pronounced care-uh-lahn-oo-er), will give the carillon recital beginning at 5 p.m.
David Bolin is a Baylor alumnus and electronic design editor for Celebrating Grace Inc. Waco graduate student Priscilla Powell is currently going for her master’s in biology. Niceville, Fla., sophomore Stephen Farrell is studying trombone performance.
When I was younger, like many other girls, I was a Girl Scout. Yes, I did the whole door-to-door selling cookies, so I developed a soft spot for cookies. My mom was never one for baking either, so when I was old enough to learn how to bake, I was all for it.
