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Dani Girl (Oct 1-3, 2015) at the Geyer Performing Arts Center

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In school, we expect our professors to answer our questions, to return our emails, to invite us in for a consultation, to pay attention what we say and read carefully what we write. One of the important lessons of being a student journalist is learning how to deal with the unexpected. Unfair things happen in…

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One wild place. (Sunday.)

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Amazon may well be the most evil company in tech

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Just wrote the first ending to my in-progress journalism game (created in Twine)

3,486 words, 120 links, 57 lexias, and currently this is the only ending.

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