Student Spotlight: Daniela Rosario
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Marching band hazing often overlooked
Last year, when I read an article in The New York Times about the gruesome death that resulted from “blunt force trauma that caused hemorrhaging and left deep bruises on a man’s chest, arms, shoulder and back,” I expected the story to recount murder by an armed and dangerous criminal. But I was heartbroken to...
SURVEY: Where does Miami buy its beats?
After 60 years in business, Spec’s Records and Tapes will be shutting its doors by the end of the month. Will the store’s closing affect where you buy your music? Check out the results in The Miami Hurricane’s Jan. 17 issue. Tweet
Walk Off the Earth talks overnight success
Last January, Walk Off the Earth’s five members dressed in black and performed a brilliant cover of Gotye’s “Somebody That I Used to Know.” They uploaded a video of their performance to YouTube, and it went viral. With the video now at more than 137 million views, Walk Off the Earth has remained in the...
News Briefs – 10/29
Jewish voters Ira Sheskin, director of the Jewish Demography Project at the Miller Center for Contemporary Judaic Studies, will give a lecture called “The U.S. Presidential Election – How Are Jews Voting?” Tuesday at 8 p.m. at the Miller Center Auditorium in the Merrick Building. Sheskin will discuss the issues that drive the Jewish vote...
Six days of Ultra essentially a death wish
When Ultra Music Festival organizers announced that, for the first time in history, the annual EDM festival would span two weekends, many people rejoiced – specifically my entire newsfeed, South Florida’s drug dealers and anyone with stock in American Apparel. I, on the other hand, found myself at grips with a near-fatal panic attack. Six...
Ultra Music Festival 2013 will last two weekends, six days
The Ultra Music Festival 2013 will be expanding to two weekends. An announcement made by Ultra Music Festival Monday at noon confirmed that the event will be longer in celebration of the electronic music festival’s 15th anniversary. Ultra released the news on its Facebook page through a video: “Ultra Music Festival will be the first...
The Killers return from hiatus with more personal album
After a summer packed with candy-pop tunes like “Call Me Maybe” and “Part of Me,” this autumn marks the return of the The Killers, after a four-year hiatus, with the release of the band’s fourth album, “Battle Born.” Released on Sept. 18, “Battle Born” marks a new era for The Killers, straying away from the...
Hospital volunteers hit the right notes
The hallway in the Miami Children’s Hospital Intensive Care Unit was quiet last Saturday afternoon, save for the constant beeping of monitors. Suddenly that changed. Nurses danced, doctors peered out of rooms to see what all the commotion was, and one little boy grinned from ear to ear as he bounced up and down. The...
Daring Spam Allstar founder talks folky tres, Cuban flavor
As the founder and leader of local band Spam Allstars, Andrew Yeomanson (a.k.a. DJ Le Spam) has brought his daring sound to Miami’s music scene with a multicultural appeal for more than 10 years. The Miami Hurricane had the opportunity...
Students take tuneful talents to help others
At the Frost School of Music, students are using their tuneful talents to assist others in the community. The University of Miami is now one of a few schools in the U.S. where students can major in music therapy. The small but growing program allows its 40-plus students to combine two of their passions. “I...
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