Addams Family’s Lurch shares memorable stage moments
Get ready for a spooky, kooky trip down memory lane. The Addams Family is playing at the Broward Center for the Performing Arts from April 15 to 21. The musical brings to life the delightfully ghoulish characters from Charles Addam’s cartoons, including Morticia, Gomez, Pugsley, Wednesday, and Uncle Fester. Since the cartoons debuted in the late 1930s, the Addams family has been...
The Addams Family brings ghoulish delight to Broward
The Broward Center for Performing Arts is getting a spooky makeover. “The Addams Family” is playing at Broward from April 15 to 21 and audiences are in for a ghoulish treat. The musical brings to life Morticia, Gomez, Pugsley, Wednesday, Uncle Fester, Lurch and other characters from Charles Addams cartoons, which have also been featured...
“Priscilla” brings glitter, disco music, laughs to Arsht Center
Drag queens, disco music and debauchery, oh my! The Broadway tour of “Priscilla: Queen of the Desert” is rolling into the Adrienne Arsht Center and audiences are guaranteed a fun and fabulous evening. The show, which is based on a 1994 Australian cult movie, is running from Thursday to Sunday in the Ziff Ballet Opera...
Actor talks touring, Broadway, speedos
A pink bus full of glitter, flamboyant costumes and fabulous shoes is rolling into the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts. “Priscilla: Queen of the Desert” is running at the Ziff Ballet Opera House from Thursday to Sunday. The play, which is based on a 1994 Australian cult movie, tells the stories of two drag...
Student Government Elections 2013
Editor’s note: The list of platforms for the One of U ticktet is currently not displaying properly. The Miami Hurricane is working to correct this problem quickly. With no referendum on the ballot, this year’s Student Government election is all about the candidates. Two tickets are vying for the top seats, students are running for...
‘Inspired by U’ plans for spring semester
Almost a year after election, the “Inspired by U” team is still energized and full of inspiration to benefit the student body. “I’m proud of the progress we have made,” Student Government (SG) President Nawara Alawa said. Many of the platforms the ticket campaigned on last spring are now in motion. One of those was...
Online enrollment program increases in popularity
An admission to Princeton University is no longer necessary to enroll in its courses thanks to the recent explosion of massive open online courses, or MOOCs. MOOCs are free online classes that are taught by professors from universities around the world. Enrollment in these classes varies from a couple hundred to a couple thousand students....
Football player arrested in connection to laptop theft
Sophomore Thomas Finnie, a defensive back for UM’s football team, was arrested Tuesday morning in connection to the theft of a Macbook Pro on campus on Dec. 4. According to a press release by the Coral Gables Police Department (CGPD), Finnie has been charged with occupied burglary and grand theft. He was booked at 2:25...
Suspect arrested in connection to campus theft
The University of Miami Police Department arrested Del’Neco Streeter Wednesday night in connection to the theft of a MacBook Pro from Pearson Residential College, which took place Tuesday. According to a press release from the Coral Gables Police Department (CGPD), the laptop was stolen from an unidentified student’s dorm room in Pearson. Upon discovering the...
Cleaning service helps students stay sanitary
Freshman Alec Roth rarely did his own laundry before coming to the University of Miami. But after several weeks of living in Stanford Residential College, Roth found himself struggling to keep up with his ever-growing piles of dirty clothes. His solution was to hire Crystal Clean Miami LLC, a Miami-based laundry and room cleaning service...
Dean of Libraries steps down after 10 years
Dean of Libraries Bill Walker never intended to become a librarian. “I came to libraries through the back door,” he said. In the early ‘70s, Walker was pursuing a master’s degree in French at the University of Michigan. Desperate for cash, he began working for the Taubman Health Sciences Library at the School of Dentistry....
ROTC transforms students to leaders
Lt. Col. Paul Connor, who graduated from the University of Miami in 1993, has been working for the U.S. Air Force for 20 years. He has been a rocket scientist and a medic; he has worked on projects involving nuclear weapons and classified data; he led humanitarian missions to Bangladesh and Timor Leste. “They’ve got...
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