by Rachel Stewart This week, September 21-27, is “Banned Books Week,” hosted by The American Library Association. It’s an annual event which celebrates the freedom to read, freedom of speech, and highlights the value of free and open access to information. The event hopes to draw attention to the harms of censorship, to encourage readers to pick up books that have been banned in the … Continue reading Liberating Literature: Banned Books Week
by Alyssa Rogers How is it that dance choreographers are being paid for their services, without actually coordinating a live performance? The answer is YouTube! That’s right, with YouTube partnerships there are thousands of video makers being paid to post content they specialize in. This includes funny videos, beauty and fashion videos, informational videos and so on. However in the past few years it’s become … Continue reading Choreographers Paid to Make YouTube Videos?
by Bridget Richard The Man Booker prize, established in 1969, is a literary award that is given to, “Any full-length novel written by a citizen of the Commonwealth or the Republic of Ireland and published in the United Kingdom for the first time in the year of the prize. The novel must be an original work in English (not a translation) and must not be … Continue reading Man Booker Awards and the Importance of Modern Literature
by Alyssa Rogers NYC Fashion Week 2014 was September 4-11. There are so many beautiful pieces we see walking down the runway, but some are quite bizarre from this small town’s perspective. *Disclaimer* There is no intent to offend or insult these designers’ works of art. This video is for entertainment purposes capturing the reactions of young high school students to high fashion. Continue reading BHS Reacts to New York City Fashion Week
by Dru Hunsaker As a general rule, I like to review books that I actually enjoyed and so inspire readers to pick them up and bask in their mildewy pages the same way that I did. However, the young adult genre seems prone to some serious clunkers that really just make me reassess what, exactly, such books are teaching the thirteen-through-eighteen year olds that are … Continue reading Book Review: Hush, Hush
by Dru Hunsaker Shannon Hale is actually one of my favorite authors so it probably comes as no surprise that I am a tremendous fan of The Goose Girl. This charming novel is what I would label realistic fantasy. Now, Goodreads has a bookshelf set aside for books with such classification; however, I am not actually sure that this is a real genre. Consequently, I … Continue reading Book Review: The Goose Girl
by Mitch Powers The New York Philharmonic is, as I was told, the best group of musicians I was ever going to see in my life. Granted, my knowledge on philharmonics is limited to about two, so I don’t really have room for comparison. So when I went to see the Phil this past weekend in Lincoln Center, NYC, I was experiencing perfection. The piece being performed … Continue reading The New York Philharmonic: Jawdropping in D Major
by Dru Hunsaker I suppose you could say that I’m a bit late to the party when it comes to Jodi Picoult’s My Sister’s Keeper. After all, the book was published more than a decade ago and a movie was made in 2009, but sometimes I wonder if we allow the messages explored in books from the past to fade away when we focus only … Continue reading Book Review: My Sister’s Keeper
by Dru Hunsaker In an age where some young adult literature has begun to branch away from the shallow, trite writing of ages past, and thus become more appealing to a wider audience, The Book Thief is a novel that will move all who devour its pages. Artfully crafted by Markus Zusak, the narrator, Death itself, first encounters young Liesel Meminger when her younger brother dies on a … Continue reading Book Review: The Book Thief
By Abbey Knupp Without hyperbolizing, Hyperbole and a Half: Unfortunate Situations, Flawed Coping Mechanisms, and Other Things that Happened easily ranks as one of the funniest books I have ever read. Using intentionally crude illustrations drawn in Paintbrush, Allie Brosh colorfully depicts humorous escapades she experienced while growing up. The tales range from topics such as ravenous geese to eating an entire birthday cake and … Continue reading Book Review: Hyperbole and a Half
