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and pray. Another braced for flashbacks as he entered the auditorium where 12 people died and dozens were injured during a massacre six months earlier. Others refused to come, viewing the reopening of the multiplex as insensitive.
• The former Century 16, now renovated and renamed the Century Aurora, opened its doors to victims of the July 20 attack on Thursday night with a somber remembrance ceremony and a special showing of "The Hobbit."
• Theater 9, where neuroscience graduate student James Holmes allegedly opened fire on a midnight screening of "The Dark Knight Returns," is now an XD theater with a wall-to-wall screen and stadium seating.
• "We as a community have not been defeated," Aurora Mayor Steve Hogan told victims, officials, and dozens of police officers and other first responders who filled half the theater's seats at the ceremony.
• "We are a community of survivors," Hogan declared. "We will not let this tragedy define us."
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Bolshoi Theater's artistic director attacked with acid in Moscow
• MOSCOW (AP) -- The artistic director of the Bolshoi Theater's ballet troupe was attacked with acid in Moscow and his eyesight is threatened, the theater said Friday.
• Sergei Filin, a 42-year-old former ballet star, was approached Thursday night by an unknown man who splashed acid on his face as he got out of his car outside his home in central Moscow, Russian television reported.
• Bolshoi spokeswoman Katerina Novikova, who visited Filin at the hospital Thursday night, told The Associated Press that his condition is stable but his eyesight is threatened.
• Filin was appointed artistic director of the Bolshoi's ballet company in March 2011. He danced for the Bolshoi on and off from 1988 to 2004 when his sustained a severe injury onstage.
• The theater's director general Anatoly Iksanov told Russia's Channel One that he believes the attacked is linked to Filin's work.
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With Te'o silent, critics and supporters wait for answers about his role in 'girlfriend' hoax
• SOUTH BEND, Ind. (AP) -- Manti Te'o has already tried to explain how his heartwarming story of playing through adversity was a lie he wasn't responsible for, (Continued on page 39)
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