Pulse Nightclub
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Astroworld: a preventable horror
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Far too often at music festivals, thrill turns into disaster. This was the case at rapper Travis Scott’s Astroworld festival on Nov. 5, where a massive crowd surge left ten people dead, including a nine-year-old boy, and hundreds reportedly injured. Scott was performing to a sold-out NRG Park stadium complex in Houston, Texas. Once he…
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Kitchener-Waterloo sets date for the first Mel Brown Music Festival
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The Kitchener-Waterloo region has announced the first Mel Brown Music Festival for next May. The event is in honor of musician Mel Brown, an influential blues artist. It is planned to feature Black artists in live performances across Kitchener-Waterloo. The festival will also include a conversation on systemic racism within the music programs of higher…
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Filters, festivals and fake followers
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Music festival season is a time where social media is flooded with photos of Valencia filtered girls in distressed shorts, flower crowns and chokers. Guys who look like they stepped out of a Vans ad can be seen smiling smugly, snapbacks firmly in place, peace signs thrown in front of them to match their picture’s…
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Waterloo remembers Orlando at candlelight vigil
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Hundreds gathered late Thursday night for the Waterloo Region Candlelight Vigil for the Orlando Shootings, held in Waterloo Town Square. The event was a response to the mass shooting carried out early Sunday morning, June 12, at Pulse, a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida. The shooting, carried out on the club’s Latin themed night, resulted in…
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Summer music festival survival guide
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Summer festival season has kicked off strongly with Ever After 2016 having just concluded at Bingemans. July and August, as usual, are the months of festivals, with WayHome and Boots and Hearts quickly approaching. Whether or not you are a festival novice, here is a festival checklist to live by: MAKE UP Everyone, listen up.…
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