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Walk the Moon and Timeflies rock annual Back to the Brook concert

Walk the Moon and Timeflies rock annual Back to the Brook concert

Rena Thomas September 18, 2015
In four days, the marching band successfully organized a spin of “Shut Up and Dance” in a key different from one played during halftime scheduled for this football season.
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Campus Spotlight: Mills, Mahmood and a boom box

Rena Thomas September 3, 2015
A mundane walk through Roth is shaken by the sound of upbeat music radiating over the murky pond. Two boys surround a Brookstone “Big Blue Party Speaker."
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Nice Shot, Kid at this years Vans Warped Tour. PHOTO CREIDT TKTKTK

Catching up with Nice Shot, Kid after a rocking summer

Rena Thomas August 24, 2015
Even after experiencing Warped Tour, the group stands behind its local garage band values and venues.
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Student leads push for a new nature trail for SBU

Rena Thomas April 30, 2015
One Stony Brook University student’s senior project is growing into a cause hundreds of Stony Brook students support.
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Brookfest 2015 rocked the house with a fresh mixture of genres

Rena Thomas April 25, 2015
This year’s Brookfest concert, featuring B.o.B, Twenty-One Pilots and Panic! at The Disco at the Island Federal Credit Union Arena, resulted in a large success for the Undergraduate Student Government.
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Hayes continues family legacy at Stony Brook

Rena Thomas April 22, 2015
Senior short-distance runner and long jumper Lamar Hayes is nearing the finish line of his career, after four years of placing in a number of races and overcoming an injury.
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The URECA exhibit, above, is being showcased in the SAC Art Gallery. More art around SB campus can be found at the Wang Center and the Alloway Gallery in the library.

First annual Art Crawl shines a spotlight on SBU student artists

Rena Thomas April 12, 2015
The Shirley Strum Kenny Student Arts Festival was a celebration of creativity, bringing light to the hidden gems of Stony Brook’s various art galleries.
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Students bring classical Indian dance to SB with Taandava

Rena Thomas March 9, 2015
Stony Brook’s Taandava Indian dance team had the crowd smiling as they performed classical dances for a cause this Saturday at the Charles B. Wang Center.
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Students Sofya Pugach, left, and Ahmad Fordous on Saturday, Feb. 28, 2014 at the third annual Bengalis Unite Mock Wedding. The ceremony aimed to give Stony Brook University students a taste of Bengali wedding culture. CHRISTOPHER CAMERON / THE STATESMAN

Bengalis Unite hosts third “Mock Wedding”

Rena Thomas March 2, 2015
Bengalis Unite cordially invited everyone to the beautiful traditional “wedding” of Ahmad Fordous and Sofya Pugach on Saturday night.
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Julianne Moore plays a linguistics professor battling early onset Alzheimers in Still Alice. According to deadline.com, the film is based on Lisa Genovas book of the same name. PHOTO CREDIT: NICHOLAS GENIN

SUNY shines light on the arts with new three-year program

Rena Thomas February 23, 2015
Lights, camera, action. Stony Brook introduced the SUNY system's first ever Master of Fine Arts program to its Southampton and Manhattan campuses.
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The 72nd annual Golden Globes Awards was the final time that comedians Tina Fey (left) and Amy Poehler would host the show. The two hosted for the past three years.  (LOS ANGELES TIMES / TRIBUNE NEWS SERVICE)

Proud pens and pins: stars support Paris at the Golden Globe Awards

Rena Thomas January 27, 2015
Pens and pins were the accessory of choice for stars like Helen Mirren, George Clooney and Sunrise Coigney at the 72nd Golden Globes Awards on Sunday, Jan.11.
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(PHOTO CREDIT: ZIFEI WU)

French artist helps bring Shadow Puppetry to Stony Brook viewers

Rena Thomas November 4, 2014
Shadow puppetry’s rich theatrical background of Southeast Asia was highlighted at last Saturday’s puppet performance and creative shadow puppet-making workshop at the Wang Center.
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