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La MaMa Moves! Dance Festival Returns With Radical New Works for 2025

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Vicky Shick in Tides. Photo by Rachel Keane New York City’s East 4th Street between the Bowery and 2nd Avenue has been taken over by dance. The 2025 La MaMa Moves! Dance Festival, which runs through May 4 in the venue’s four performance spaces, presents eleven shows featuring twenty emerging and veteran, local and international … Read more

North Carolina 16-year-old breaks down, cries for ‘mama,’ after being charged as adult for murder under new state law

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A North Carolina teen was brought to tears, screaming in disbelief, and needed to be held up by court officers after he was told by a judge he would be charged as an adult for murder. Sean Simpson, 16, was charged with first-degree murder last month for allegedly shooting Zaquavious Dawkins, also 16, on Jan. 26 … Read more