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The Emporia State choir will perform  “Let Us March On: Voices of the Black Diaspora,” 7:30 p.m. April 29 at First United Methodist Church. The program was put together by interim choral director Joshua Donaldson, and consists entirely of music written by black composers.

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Taquella Roze takes off her wig during her performance of “This is Me” from the Greatest Showman soundtrack. The crowd screams in support as she takes off her wig and performs the emotionally powerful song.

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Cowboy boots, line dancing, dirt, old windmills, a banjo. Those are all of the things I pictured as I listened to the first album on Apple Music by Steel Skarecrow.

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Emporia Arts Council brought in Gary Mullen & The Works, a Queen tribute band, to perform One Night of Queen on March 14 during Emporia State’s spring break. I sat in the very front row, basically touching the stage. I could literally reach out and my hand would be on it. 

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Sex and shells were the topics of discussion at the Profit Aquatic Research and Outreach Center March 24. Emporia State students learned the complex reproductive cycle of mussels as well as tips for mussel identification from scientists from the Kansas Department of Health and Environment (KDHE).

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HBO Max turned a post-apocalyptic video game, released in 2013, into a TV show and I like it. It‘s not the best thing I have ever watched, it wasn’t life changing, but I like it. 

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On a regular day, retired educator Lorie Rogan wakes up in the morning to swim at the Emporia Recreation Center, comes home to care for her three loved ones with disabilities, and preaches at her church. 

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Emporia has few live music venues such as Bourbon Cowboy and The Granada Theatre. This column consists of me having the venue’s schedules then listening to their music to inform readers of concert opportunities or hopefully expose people to a new sound.

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Members of Emporia State’s theater department received regional and national ranked awards last week while attending the Region 5 Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival in Des Moines, Iowa. Sound design, scene design, costumes, directing and acting were some of the categories in wh…

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On Sunday, July 17, 1983 hikers found the body of Sandra Bird and her car submerged in the Cottonwood River under the Rocky Ford Bridge. What those hikers didn’t know that morning was that this murder case would later lead to the urban legend Emporians know today.  

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The glass blowing studio at Emporia State is a blistering chamber of creativity where every surface in sight will not just burn, but scald skin. There are lit torches every which way, stacks of wet newspaper that are used as the only barrier between a glass artist’s hands and molten glass, a…

Stained glass panels rise above pews filled with silent faces gazing toward the towering, white cross shining on the front wall of the Methodist church as 190 voices fill the room, singing to the world to “let music live.”  

Last Saturday evening, Hammond Park was filled with yard signs, music, students hiding glowing Easter eggs and people with baskets ready for the hunt. Emporia State’s A Capella Choir hosted Glow Hunt to fundraise for a trip to Washington D.C. 

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A new fossil gifted to the Emporia State Johnston Geology Museum challenges the notion of a predator by showcasing what happens when the predator be-comes the prey. The new Xiphactinus fossil was donated by Kenneth Harlan, a longtime supporter of the museum.

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Believe it or not, the daytime job of local paranormal investigator Brandy Nance is as Emporia State’s web content and marketing communication manager.

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This year, Emporia State’s Homecoming theatre production is “Urinetown.” Audiences can see the live performance at 7:30 p.m. on Oct. 21-23 and at 2:00 p.m. on Oct. 24 in the Karl C. Bruder Theatre in King Hall.

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After months of COVID-19 precautions, Emporia State’s music department is excited to start performing in concerts again for the first time in 11 months.

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Emporia State students gather in the ESU Student Recreation Center to participate in a variety of different glow activities. ESU's last Friday night event was held on Oct. 1. 'Glow ESU' consisted of everything glow, from Bazooka Ball to a glow run around campus. 

Claire Calvert (left) junior social science education major, volunteered to give trivia questions for the Mardi Gras Gala on Feb. 22 at the Lyon County Historical Center.Photo courtesy of Darla Mallein

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With the recent purchase of a $9,999, eight-foot-tall contrabass flute, the music department has been busy and will continue to get busier with the multitude of music performances scheduled in February.  

I have had a really hard week so far. Between classes, more than one job, a job interview, volunteer tutoring and just making time for homework, I’m booked. 

While Emporia has a great variety of Mexican restaurants, El Lorito at 2114 US-50 offers some of the best steaming flavors in town in an intimate space. 

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One of the owners of La Dona Food Truck, Tomas Ocampos, tells about his father who died at the age of 25. The food truck participated in the Day of the Dead Celebration on Oct. 26 by selling traditional Mexican food to vendors in downtown Emporia.

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