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‘Sound of Music’ telecast garners huge ratings and mixed reviews

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MAGGIE GILROY Reverb Editor The hills are alive with … a former American Idol? As soon as the casting was announced for NBC’s live telecast of “The Sound of Music,” with former American Idol winner and country superstar Carrie Underwood in the leading role of Maria, fans of the beloved......
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‘12 Years a Slave’ — A nation’s dark history is the year’s best picture

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A negro musician in 1981 is drugged kidnapped and sold into slavery. Director Steve McQueen and actors Chiwetel Ejiofor and Michael Fassbender throw you headfirst into the pits of hell that would unbearable if it never actually defined the American slave trade. CONNOR BURTON AND DAVID GLANTZ Specials to The......
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Worldwide App, Inc. launches mobile app

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S.L. FULLER Special to The Leader The Worldwide App, Inc launched a mobile app this past August for iPhone, iPad and Android. Crystal Callahan, founder and president of The Worldwide App, Inc, chose the SUNY Fredonia Technology Incubator to help her organize and get her business on its feet. With......
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Arturo Sandoval, Cuban Jazz trumpeter, supplies soul to SUNY Fredonia

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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......

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