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The Appalachian

Holiday Drag Show hosted by SAGA brings a taste of city life to Legends

Alexander McCall November 19, 2013

Audience members of the SAGA Holiday Professional Drag Show were properly introduced to the start of the holiday season at Legends on Friday night. Appalachian State University’s own Shelita Bonet...

Active Minds hopes to raise mental health awareness through artwork

Alexander McCall November 13, 2013

Active Minds will host an Expression Night on Thursday at 7 p.m. in the Whitewater Room of Plemmons Student Union. The event aims to bring awareness to mental illness, showing how it affects people...

REVIEW: Lady Gaga calls her album ‘ARTPOP,’ but she is good at neither

REVIEW: Lady Gaga calls her album ‘ARTPOP,’ but she is good at neither

Alexander McCall November 13, 2013

There was a time when Lady Gaga didn't take herself so seriously. Mostly on "The Fame," but also on choice tracks from "The Fame Monster," the eccentric star sounded like she was enjoying herself even...

Andy Page (left) performed with guitarist James Schaller (right) at Crossroads Coffee House in Plemmons Student Union on Monday night. Photo courtesy of Andy Page

Jazz guitar professor shines on stage and in the classroom

Alexander McCall November 13, 2013

After traveling parts of the world, performing on cruise ships and journeying across the United States with a theater tour, the mountains drew Andy Page back to the High Country.   Page, an active...

Annual Dance Marathon fundraiser scheduled for February

Alexander McCall November 12, 2013

Appalachian State University’s service learning organization Appalachian and the Community Together has opened registration for its 11th annual Dance Marathon. The fundraising event will benefit local...

Review: Mount Eerie goes post-T-Pain on ‘Pre-Human Ideas’

Review: Mount Eerie goes post-T-Pain on ‘Pre-Human Ideas’

Alexander McCall November 12, 2013

Jay Z rapped about the “Death of AutoTune” in 2009, which called out rappers for hinging their artistic sensibilities on artificial software that would essentially write melodies for them. He was trying...

Then senior anthropology major Michael Story shows off his moustache during Speakeasy Tattoo Company’s Beard and Moustache Party last year. The fifth annual party will be held at Appalachian Mountain Brewery on Wednesday at 7 p.m. Photo by Olivia Wilkes | The Appalachian

Speakeasy celebrates five years with facial hair

Alexander McCall November 12, 2013

Following a quieter celebration last year, Speakeasy Tattoo Company has partnered with Appalachian Mountain Brewery to move its fifth annual Beard and Mustache Party out of its downtown shop. The open...

Cuban-native Jose Kozer visits for bilingual poetry reading, discussion

Michael Bragg November 7, 2013

Jose Kozer, winner of the 2013 Pablo Neruda Ibero-American Poetry Award, visited Appalachian State University on Monday and Tuesday for a bilingual poetry reading and discussion. This was Kozer’s...

Appalachian professor explores family history through dance

Alexander McCall November 7, 2013

Assistant professor in the Department of Theatre and Dance Sherone Price has incorporated creative elements of modern and African dance in his extensive choreography work throughout his career at Appalachian...

Review: M.I.A. names album after herself, Hindu goddess with ‘Matangi’

Alexander McCall November 7, 2013

English-Sri Lankan pop star Mathangi Arulpragasam, better known as M.I.A., fell slightly from public favor in 2010 due to her album “Maya,” which was an aggressive, paranoid screed that got critically...

‘The Laramie Project’ brings circumstances of infamous hate crimes to light

Michael Bragg November 5, 2013

The LGBT Center will host a staged reading of “The Laramie Project,” a play chronicling the story of Matthew Shepard, to honor the 15th anniversary of the gay student’s murder that resulted in the...

Appalachian’s Rotten Appal brings its satirical voice to campus Thursday

Alexander McCall November 5, 2013

Appalachian State University’s first satirical periodical, the Rotten Appal, will release online Thursday, according to the publication’s website.  Referring to itself as “Boone’s most...

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