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More than your typical pageant, Delta Chi holds annual fundraiser

Contributor to The LeaderNovember 6, 2013August 16, 2019

by Contributor to The LeaderNovember 6, 2013August 16, 2019

ALEXIS FORES Special to The Leader Whether it is Miss America or Miss Universe, pageants seem to have existed in American society for years. For five years now, the Delta Chi Fraternity will be hosting its very own pageant on the SUNY Fredonia campus Nov. 11. The Miss Delta Chi...

Movie Review: The Counselor “Not for the casual moviegoer”

Contributor to The LeaderNovember 6, 2013

by Contributor to The LeaderNovember 6, 2013

CONNOR BURTON and DAVID GLANTZ Specials to The Leader The Counselor is a suspense thriller about a respected lawyer who gets caught up in a drug deal gone badly as the world around him spirals out of control. It is a film of greed, caution and deception and the consequences...

Arturo Sandoval, Cuban Jazz trumpeter, supplies soul to SUNY Fredonia

Contributor to The LeaderNovember 6, 2013August 25, 2019

by Contributor to The LeaderNovember 6, 2013August 25, 2019

COURTNEE CESTA Staff Writer Nine-time Grammy winner and protégé of Dizzy Gillespie Arturo Sandoval will join SUNY Fredonia students and faculty on Monday, Nov. 11 at 8 p.m. in Rosch Recital Hall. Sandoval is a distinguished musician in both the jazz and classical worlds, and performs regularly with some of...

Remembering Thomas Dean: Blanket forts, blood brothers & The Beatles

Contributor to The LeaderNovember 6, 2013August 17, 2019

by Contributor to The LeaderNovember 6, 2013August 17, 2019

COURTNEY GFROERER and SYLVANA DUSSAN Managing Editor and Editor in Chief “We would make forts in the living room out of sheets and blankets, dress up in costumes and make funny videos, play with Legos and play outside a lot. We would play video games together a lot — our...

A friend, a colleague, and an artist

Contributor to The LeaderNovember 6, 2013August 31, 2019

by Contributor to The LeaderNovember 6, 2013August 31, 2019

Dan Hahn, for Thom Dean I don’t claim to know Thom best, I know a few folks who deserve that space and this is as much for them as it is for Thom. We were friends, we put our hearts and time towards some of the same goals and yeah...

Townhouses: off campus lifestyle while on campus

Contributor to The LeaderNovember 6, 2013September 1, 2019

by Contributor to The LeaderNovember 6, 2013September 1, 2019

JESSICA COLON Special To The Leader Burgio & Campofelice Inc. is currently undergoing the task of constructing new university village townhouses located on campus. Housing in “Townhouse Village” will be offered in the Fall of 2014 to provide students with an off campus lifestyle while still living on campus. Located...

Chris O’Dell on gender, drugs and rock ‘n roll

Contributor to The LeaderNovember 6, 2013September 1, 2019

by Contributor to The LeaderNovember 6, 2013September 1, 2019

EILEEN MOWREY Assistant Reverb Editor Last Tuesday, Chris O’Dell, author of “Miss O’Dell: My Hard Days and Long Nights with The Beatles, The Stones, Bob Dylan, Eric Clapton, and the Women They Loved,” shared with Fredonia students what it was like to work with some of the biggest rock and...

Adjunct Spotlight: Musically and technically speaking, Yuen has it all

Contributor to The LeaderOctober 29, 2013September 1, 2019

by Contributor to The LeaderOctober 29, 2013September 1, 2019

CARL LAM Staff Writer Many who are not familiar with Mason Hall could attest that all that can be seen are doors. Gray doors, green doors, wooden doors — any type of door, really. And then there are the red doors, often filled with reminders, lesson schedules, concert information and...

The Lone Bellow

Contributor to The LeaderOctober 29, 2013August 31, 2019

by Contributor to The LeaderOctober 29, 2013August 31, 2019

EILEEN MOWREY Assistant Reverb Editor One morning at Dizzy’s Diner in Park Slope, Brooklyn, three musicians, Zach Williams, Brian Elmquist and Kanene Pipkin, made music together for the first time. They were, respectively, a solo artist, a diner employee and a girl who had recently returned from Beijing. Today they...

ARIA: Another year, a new album

Contributor to The LeaderOctober 29, 2013August 31, 2019

by Contributor to The LeaderOctober 29, 2013August 31, 2019

EILEEN MOWREY Assistant Reverb Editor Last October, The A-Tracks featured a story on ARIA, a female-fronted rock/alternative band from Buffalo, NY. Since then the band has been busy, and now they have new stories to tell. When we last talked to ARIA, they were preparing to take on the country....

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More than your typical pageant, Delta Chi holds annual fundraiser

Movie Review: The Counselor “Not for the casual moviegoer”

Arturo Sandoval, Cuban Jazz trumpeter, supplies soul to SUNY Fredonia

Remembering Thomas Dean: Blanket forts, blood brothers & The Beatles

A friend, a colleague, and an artist

Townhouses: off campus lifestyle while on campus

Chris O’Dell on gender, drugs and rock ‘n roll

Adjunct Spotlight: Musically and technically speaking, Yuen has it all

The Lone Bellow

ARIA: Another year, a new album