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...that other corner,” he recalls.Surviving two days of grueling cuts, Oladehin freestyled and performed a solo of his signature popping moves—the sequential tensing of muscles to a hiphop beat—to beat out nearly 3,000 talented hiphop, lyrical, and ballroom dancers and become one of the 50 individuals to advance to the finals.While Oladehin was ultimately cut in the second round of the finals, he notes that he met a lot of strong dancers that were cut right from the get-go.“It came down to if they liked...

Author: By Alison S. Cohn, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Olakunle O. Oladehin '07 | 5/2/2007 | See Source »

...want this to be acountry where everyone has the same chances I had," John Edwards recently told a large crowd at the Electric Park Ballroom in Waterloo, Iowa. "I want to live in a country where you can go from having nothing to having everything." He paused. "Not sure I want to live in a country where people pay $400 for haircuts." There was a bolt of laughter. "So embarrassing," Edwards said. "So embarrassing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: No Baloney Candidate | 4/26/2007 | See Source »

Favorite childhood activity: Latin ballroom...

Author: By FM Staff, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Julia Gudish | 4/25/2007 | See Source »

...obsessed high school student, she ignored her teachers' insistence that girls should stick to the violin and piano and took sax lessons from a local musician. Gilbert upped her national profile in 1937, when her all-girl band opened the Second Hollywood Swing Concert at Los Angeles' storied Palomar Ballroom, sharing billing with fellow bandleaders Benny Goodman and Louis Prima. A year later she wrote a famous, widely hailed response to a Down Beat magazine article that had detailed the inferiority of the fairer sex. Her commentary cemented her reputation as an influential advocate for women players, despite the unfortunate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Mar. 5, 2007 | 2/22/2007 | See Source »

...theater at the Cambridge Multicultural Arts Center is an old ballroom that gets better with altitude. On the ground, a linoleum floor and interlocking gray wall panels seem like they belong in a middle school cafeteria. Yet the lavishly decorated ceiling, rich with blue and green paint, seems to have avoided any kind of unnecessary municipal “improvement” over the years...

Author: By Richard S. Beck, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: A Tepid Ending for ‘Winter’s Tale’ | 2/19/2007 | See Source »

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