The girl’s modern dance choreography workshop

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Ominous Darkness Descending On Webpage Portends Grim Age Of Autoplaying Ad To Come

Fortune’s fool, I wagered I would be spared and forsook my ad blocker, and now a pitiless gloom that will abide for 30 seconds has descended. No X in the corner will succor me. No five-second opt-out will rekindle the embers beneath this wicked mist. Lo, the Mazda Summer Sales Event nears. Stop my ears with wax! Forgive me! Forgive me! –The Onion

U.S. Press Freedom Tracker

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A performance, two auditions and a cast party. #busyweekend

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Carolyn as Luciana in the PPT Shakespeare Summer Intensive

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It’s Friday night in July, and I’m jamming with my fall course preps.

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