Tagged: Murray State

Today on NPR:  For The First Time, Mr. Gay World Crowned In Africa

Kentucky Legislation:

A commission tasked with coming up with elements of a new tax code for Kentucky held its second meeting in Frankfort today.

Jackson Purchase:

Kelsey Emme is a freshman from Piedmont, South Dakota. She’s bubbly, outgoing and she’s likely a better shot than you. Emme is an up and coming member of MSU’s Rifle team; and much like another Racer team you may have heard of, she attended this year’s NCAA tournament in her sport, competitive shooting. She narrowly missed the finals, landing only four points short.

But unlike the Murray State basketball team, the rifle team struggles to keep itself funded.

“Oh yeah, rifle is a very expensive sport.”

The Murray State University Classical Guitar Ensemble is fairly new to campus. Last year, the ensemble played in its first full concert with the string ensemble, and they will be doing so again this Tuesday evening. Much of the music from the first concert came from the Brazilian composer, Maestro Celso Machado. And this year, the ensemble will present the United States premier of Maestro Machado’s most recent composition for quartet, Suite Amazonas. Gary Pitts, a member of the ensemble, reports on the life and works of the composer.

Murray State’s Reading Series presents crime novelist Lou Berney Thursday, April 5 at 7:30 in Clara M. Eagle Art Gallery.  Barry Award nominee for Gutshot Straight, Berney’s follow-up novel, Whiplash River, is coming out this year.  Kate Lochte invites us to meet the Oklahoma City University creative writing faculty member.

2011-2012 Reading Series: Visiting Writer 

April 5, 2012 at 7:30 p.m. 

Clara M. Eagle Art Gallery