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WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 4, 2013
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Plan a night of merriment this season with cocktails featuring popular winter flavors, such as peppermint, chocolate and cinnamon.
Make your holiday merry with these festive, seasonal drinks
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Freezing temperatures and approaching finals can lead to a lack of motivation to hit the bars. These four cold-weather inspired drinks can make for a great night in with roommates and friends.
The cinnamon flavor of Rumchata is great for many holiday-flavored drinks. Combine Rumchata, vodka
and ice in a martini shaker. Shake and strain. Coat the rim of the glass with the cinnamon sugar and pour in the shaken martini. Garnish with a mini-snickerdoodle cookie to make for a fun presentation (and a little dessert).
This chocolate peppermintini is perfect for a movie night in with the roommates. Chill the Godiva liqueur prior to making the drinks
Combine the liqueur with the pepermint schnapps, vanilla vodka and ice in a martini shaker. Shake thoroughly and pour into glass. Top it off with a mini candy cane. For an extra sweet pepermintini, add one tablespoon of Hershey's chocolate syrup.
This drink makes for a great after-dinner treat. Combine Kahlua.
Godiva liquer, vodka and ice in a martini shaker. Pour into a glass and top it off with whipped cream and mini marshmallows. Add chocolate syrup for an extra sweet kick.
A cup of coffee with a kick is a great evening drink to have at home. Make a cup of coffee, add in the Bailey's and bourbon. Serve warm.
- Edited by Emma McElhaney
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Lady Gaga arrives at the 2013 American Music Awards at the Nokia Theatre L.A.
Live in Los Angeles on Nov. 24.
Lady Gaga announces North American tour
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LOS ANGELES — Lady Gaga is ready to hear applause in arenas across North America this spring. The always provocative pop star is readying a tour in support of her latest album, "Artpop". Billed as "artRave: The ART-POP Ball" Gaga's upcoming show is set to open on May 4 in Ft. Lauderdale. The 25-date trek will wrap on July 21 with a stop at Staples Center in downtown Los Angeles.
Gaga's lofty ambitions for flashy spectacle are the core of her live showings, with her tours continuing to up the ante.
Her last outing, 2012's massive Born This Way Ball, was a master class in spectacle with a sprawling, three-story medieval castle and extravagant set pieces such as a mechanical horse, the infamous Grammy egg and a motorcycle that doubled as a costume.
But the show's grueling choreography led to a hip injury that required surgery for Gaga and the cancellation of more than a dozen dates earlier this year. The new tour will include several cities she was forced to skip because of the injury.
The "artRave" could be a tipping point for Gaga, who has taken some hits this year.
"Artpop's" lead single, "Applause," didn't make the sort of noise typical for a Gaga release and critics have been largely split on her new tunes. "Artpop" did open at No. 1 when it was released in November, but its first-week sales paired in comparison to releases from fellow pop divas Katy Perry and Miley Cyrus. She also parted ways with her long-time manager a week before the album hit stores and a recent Thanksgiving special for ABC anchored by the album and the Muppets flopped.
Before opening the new tour, Gaga will stage a sold-out series of shows at New York's famed Roseland Ballroom in late March. Her seven-night stint will be the last shows at Roseland and set the record for the most consecutive shows by any artist at the venue.
Tickets for most dates go on sale Monday through Live Nation.
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The Penn Museum, part of the University of Pennsylvania, began offering touch tours in 2012 as part of an initiative to make their extensive collections more accessible.
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Museum touch tours enhance experience for visually impaired
But he's making an exception for the Penn Museum, an archaeology and anthropology center that offers touch tours for the blind and visually impaired. Ayala can now feel the eroded limestone of an ancient Egyptian sarcophagus and the intricate hieroglyphs on the statue of a pharaoh.
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PHILADELPHIA - Angel Ayala has never been a big fan of museums. Blind since birth, the high school student says the exhibits are so sight-dependent that he can't enjoy them.
The institution, which is part of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, began offering the tours last year in an effort to make their extensive collections more accessible. Museums should serve
"When I touch things, it's my version of a sighted person's eyes. It tells me way more than a person describing it would ever," Ayala said.
Just because a person has low vision or can't see doesn't mean that they're not completely interested in culture or learning about ancient artifacts," Maunder said.
impaired.
Such accommodations began well before the Americans with Disabilities Act and have increased as museums "have transformed from institutions that house objects to institutions that work with audiences," said Nina Levent, executive director of the New York-based art organization.
the community at large and that includes the unsighted as well as the sighted, said program coordinator Trish Maunder.
Most major U.S. metro areas have at least one museum that offers some type of hands-on experience, from touching objects with bare hands or gloves to feeling replicas, according to Art Beyond Sight, a group that makes visual culture accessible to the blind and visually impaired.
Museums that don't offer tactile
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"I'd be hard-pressed to think of an audience that does not want to touch." Levent said.
tours often have personal or audio guides for the blind. But Levent contends that developing touch components can benefit a wide range of visitors, including children's groups and students with learning disabilities.
The Penn Museum has held hands-on tours twice each Monday — when the building is otherwise closed — for the past two fall seasons.
Ayala's recent visit came during a field trip with about a dozen classmates from the Overbrook School for the Blind. The students got to feel a quartzite likeness of Ramesses II, a black basalt statue of the goddess Sakhmet and two stone coffins. Smaller reproductions of the pharaoh and deity were available for those not tall enough to touch the tops of the statues.
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