As a little girl, Alexa Ray Joel would slip into costumes handed over by supermodel mom Christie Brinkley, then prance around performing Disney musicals like Aladdin and The Little Mermaid.
Fans danced to Latin music blaring from the speakers.
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Miami Herald,
Miami Herald,
5 Apr. 2026
Vásquez didn’t factor in the decision after a defensive miscue led to the bullpen briefly losing the lead, but the emerging starting pitcher danced in and out of trouble in keeping the Red Sox at bay on an evening in which the wind chill dropped the temperature into the high 20s.
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Jeff Sanders,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
5 Apr. 2026
Angine is not Dillinger Escape Plan or Naked City leaping wildly between time signatures—a loop pedal serves as the third member of the band, so every song is generally locked into a pulse.
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Christopher R. Weingarten,
Pitchfork,
3 Apr. 2026
Baldwin nearly had a homer in the seventh, but Athletics center fielder Denzel Clarke leaped above the wall to make a dazzling catch.
Okay, so the cow immediately finds its baby, and then there is a BABY COW gamboling in a field.
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Alice Burton,
Vulture,
23 Feb. 2026
Know Them By Their Fruits, for example, shows people and animals gamboling among fruit trees, and The Bermuda Triangle of Nacogdoches shows planes crashing into the ocean, in front of a plat of the landlocked town.
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Benjamin Lima
Special Contributor,
Dallas Morning News,
7 Feb. 2026
The team were meek in defeat, but after a weekend carousing and communing in central London, Newcastle fans arrived at Wembley with a collective hangover.
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George Caulkin,
New York Times,
20 Mar. 2026
But that doesn’t add much beyond three crusty Báthory ancestors carousing drunkenly in their coffins.
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