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Flutes for Fido: Volunteers play music to soothe shelter animals

DENVER (AP) — It’s often said music is the universal language of humanity. Now a 12-year-old Houston boy is putting that to the test for an unlikely audience — man’s best friend. Yuvi Agarwal started playing keyboard when he was four and several years ago noticed his playing ...

Millbrook Playhouse to present ‘Grease’ starting today

MILL HALL — The Board of Directors, Artistic Director David Leidholdt, and Managing Director David Gritzner are excited to kick off the 2025 Main Stage season with a timeless audience favorite. Get ready to slick back your hair and dust off your leather jackets — “Grease” with ...

Movie Review: In ‘28 Years Later,’ a zombie pandemic rages on

Most movies are lucky to predict one thing. Danny Boyle’s 2002 dystopian thriller “28 Days Later” managed to be on the cutting edge of two trends, albeit rather disparate ones: global pandemic and fleet-footed zombies. Add in Cillian Murphy, who had his breakout role in that film, and “28 Days Later” was unusually prognostic. While many of us were following the beginnings of the Afghanistan War and “American Idol,” Boyle and screenwriter Alex Garland were probing the the fragile fabric of society, and the potentially very quick way, indeed, horror might come our ...