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Guns can convey peace

Caroline Covington emphasizes peace through superior firepower, if you discarded the bullets. The exiting sculpture student loads concepts of Eastern spirituality and Western weaponry into well-honed pieces that she said she hopes inoculate dangerous images through symmetry and meditative form.

Murder novel released by best-selling author

With over 15 million copies in print, New York Times’ best-selling author Meg Cabot parlays her trademark observation and wit to teens and adults across the world.

Focusing on young adult entertainment, Cabot stirs romance and comedy to enchant her readers.

Founding radio technician considering retirement after 35 years of commitment

Away from the clear glass paneling and radio switchboards in Memorial Hall, Wilbur Herrington took a seat in his office chair.

Thirty-five years ago, Herrington flipped the switch on WUOG. In a bittersweet coincidence, the station’s 35th anniversary also marks his retirement.

Artwork displays music’s visible aspects

Music captivates Lumi Sakakura – so much that her latest collection of artwork, “Musica con Amore,” became the next exhibition at the Tate Center Art Gallery. “It’s ‘music with love’ in Italian,” Sakakura said. “All of this is trying to give back to music.

S.C. musician set to release new album

Joal Rush released his second album “Imagination” in South Carolina Monday. Apparently, people noticed- Rush sold out the local 5 Points Pub.

“We had about 300 plus people that night, with more standing in the back,” Rush said. “Just amazing.”

The South Carolina native, navigating a pop-rock landscape reminiscent of John Mayer with sweeping guitar and drum ensemble, takes the stage in Athens Friday, following the Gamecocks to town from Columbia.

Student starts non-profit to aid African talent

The West African country of Namibia has artists without international markets.

Benjamin Cobb, a senior from Huntsville, Ala., and founder of Promote Africa, said he wants to bring it to them.

Cobb said he doesn’t dabble in aid-based, cookie-cutter solutions.

Melting Point welcomes familiar wise performer

Eighteen albums and 14 years later, Bill Mallonee continues to dive face first into wells gushing with details of the everyday grind, faith, illness, depression and the amorphous nature of love. Critics from Rolling Stone, The New York Press and Paste pen glowing reviews while the University alumnus, who graduated with a history degree, takes aim with Americana-style song-writing.

‘Sandbar’ to offer Bahamian escape from the downtown norms

Strolling past what once housed a Wolf Camera outlet on College Avenue, one notices stacks of boards, nails, hammers, palm tree trunks and paint.

If the fourth item on the list seems a bit out of place, then you have observed what Jason Dunn hopes will be the main attraction of his new bar.

Buying cheap foods in bulk keeps meal budgets intact

If you’re not on the meal plan, there is no shame in yearning for a stale, half-eaten Moon Pie next to your apartment door.

Or there is, I’m lying and you’re too hungry to care. Regardless, your food budget may need some tweaking. Consider the following:

When you’re able to cook without setting fire to the complex, think about buying pastas, chicken broth and rice in bulk.

Interpol’s ‘Love’ a gift considering past efforts

Take no mind to the cover of Interpol’s latest studio release: a menagerie of animal taxidermy in stand-still action poses. “Our Love to Admire” should provide you with all the ample reasoning to toss out the former two outings of “Antics” and “Turn On The Bright Lights” for the summer.