The door to the taekwondo studio opens and a 9-year-old orange belt walks in.
“Hello, sir!”
“Hello, Michael!”*
We run just another regular class, but afterwards, my co-worker comes up...
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For Orchesis, the...
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A drummer strikes the last cymbal while a guitarist plays the finishing chord of a song. Their band, Zeitgeist, walks off the lit-up stage as the winners of this year’s Battle of the Bands, an annual...
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