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When you think of a Loyola graduate, usually you think of an accountant or any number of normal jobs, but perhaps you should start thinking of musicians. Recent graduate Billy Redfield will soon be releasing his first album. Although Billy always had an interest in music, he recently began to seriously devote himself to singing and songwriting.

Laramie: "…a noun, a definition, a sign." The students involved in The Spotlight Player's production of "The Laramie Project," shown in McManus Theatre Jan. 27-29, set out to prove this statement wrong and to breathe life and perspective into the brutal murder of Matthew Shepard and to show a nearly sold-out audience the breadth and impact of his death.

It appears that Loyola's Art Gallery has been devoted to the many facets of trees in the new show, "The Geography of Place." The show opened Jan. 26 and features the work of photographer Joseph Hyde and sculptor Marcia Wolfson-Ray. Hyde's photos concentrate upon individual trees as well as structured groupings of them, while Wolfson-Ray's sculptures are abstract arrangements of natural materials like leaves and twigs.

Meet Burt Munro. After he rises from his tattered little bed in the corner of his garage, he takes a morning whiz on his lemon tree and tinkers with his 40-year-old motorcycle. His home is cluttered with broken pistons and gear heads, which he calls "sacrifices to the god of speed," and he cuts his lawn with gasoline and a lit torch.

The band called Amestory had its beginnings as a duet between pianist Doug Prior and musical savant Mike Russell, friends and residents of Thousand Oaks, CA. The two released their first record -- a split CD with guitarist Tim Wilson -- way back in September 2004.