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The Suite Life on Deck Cast: Then and Now By Billy Nilles of E! | Dylan Sprouse After finally saying goodbye to Zack Martin nine years ago, Dylan attended New York Universitys Gallatin School of Individualized Study, obtaining a four-year degree in video game design. Hes been slower to return to acting than his brother, taking roles in indie films like Dismissed and Camila Cabello and After We Collided, the sequel to the 2019 film After. In 2018, he co-founded the artisanal All-Wise Me...

T.J. Griesenbrock now on the fast track to earning his master’s degree ‌ T.J. Greisenbrock, who first attended RIT in 1992, is among this year’s graduates after earning his bachelor’s degree through the Completer Project at RIT’s School of Individualized Study. It’s been nearly 30 years since T.J. Griesenbrock first attended Rochester Institute of Technology. But he never could call himself a graduate because he needed just two more courses to earn his degree. “I fully intended ...

From Wrongful Arrest to Anti-Prison Activist: Bryonn Bain’s Road to ‘Lyrics From Lockdown’ From Wrongful Arrest to Anti-Prison Activist: Bryonn Bain’s Road to ‘Lyrics From Lockdown’ courtesy of / Bryonn Bain Content warning: This article contains use of the N-word. Monday, November 25. Dawn. Bryonn Bain is one of several inmates chained together to board a bus to Rikers Island. Once on the bus, the men, rolling 12-deep, are told that they will be heading to a new location, Vernon ...

March 9, 2021 This fall, Arizona State University’s Department of English and Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies will welcome five new faculty members who will work toward the center’s mission of enabling and promoting the most expansive, creative and daring scholarship in medieval and renaissance studies.  This hiring initiative was led by Ayanna Thompson, director of the center and a Regents Professor in the Department of English, in an effort to elev...

The Black Public Relations Society-New York and the Black Theatre Network in association with SimonSays Entertainment, have come together to create BLACK INSPIRATION, a virtual audience development initiative for the Broadway-bound production THOUGHTS OF A COLORED MAN by Keenan Scott II, directed by Steve H. Broadnax III. Today the partnership announced its first event, "BLACK INSPIRATION: An Artistic Continuum, A Dialogue." The program will take place on Tuesday, February 23, 2021 at 7:00 pm E...

With fashion brand ‘bubuleh,’ designer Jordan Star honors his heritage The gender-neutral, fashion-forward line pays homage to his grandparents, one of whom died of COVID-19 last year Courtesy Share The brim of the Signature Keppie Cap is chock full of Xs and Os and hearts — a fashion love letter with hugs and kisses to designer Jordan Star’s Jewish grandparents. The crew-necked and loose-fitting BH Relaxed Tee is adorned with the letters “b” and “h” in a broad brushstroke, low...

A. Sue Weisler Students last semester drew live birds brought by the organization Wild Wings. A Zoological and Botanical Illustration class being offered again this spring allows students to accurately depict animals and plants for use in various media. You thought 2020 was bad? Try living in the dark underworld of 19th-century Victorian England, which featured poverty, cholera, epidemics, the Summer of the Great Stink (which led to the first modern urban sewage system), madhouses, arsenic p...

The Spirit of Community Dancers, performing a dance interlude during “Spoon River Anthology.” “I can imagine what things sound like even though I am deaf,” Robert Panara wrote in his poem, “On His Deafness.” I can imagine the strumming of a guitar, I can imagine the rustle of a star. The words appear at the end of a new production of Edgar Lee Masters’ “Spoon River Anthology,” a century-old collection of poems re-envisioned with c...

The Maine Community Foundation has awarded $95,000 in grants to 11 recipients in Hancock and Washington counties through its Downeast Innovation Fund, the foundation said. Launched in 2018, the fund supports nonprofits that provide programs to improve or increase entrepreneurship and innovation in business and the local economies in Hancock and Washington counties. Recipients in the latest funding round include the Maine Aquaculture Innovation Center Inc. in Walpole, which will receive $10,00...

Biddeford arts organization Engine hires a new director Jessica Muise brings experience working with the creative economy and on community-building in the Boston area. Share Engine, the decade-old community catalyst in Biddeford that focuses on the arts, has hired a new executive director with experience in metro Boston as an artist, administrator, curator and community builder. Jessica Muise of Waltham, Massachusetts, will begin her duties in Biddeford on Feb. 1, after emerging from a field o...