Graduate Christian Holt sits on the floor outside of a computer lab, red-eyed and notably upset. In an attempt to rid himself of his most recent depressive breakdown, he has removed himself from his classroom and gathered his thoughts.  “I’m closed off from others,” Holt said. “It makes it...

I stepped onto Legacy High School’s campus nearly three years ago as a sophomore with no idea where the J-hall was. AJ115 was printed on my schedule which was by now soggy with palm sweat. J-hall- J for journalism is how I remembered it. I found it eventually- perpendicular to the main entrance and...

“Cynicism is humor in ill health.” -H.G. Wells In an Internet culture infiltrated by “Summertime Sadness,” Daria-esque quips and a hyper-cynical outlook on existence, I see much of myself in the grumpy cat memes and the self-deprecating, yet self-obsessed, tweets, posts, pins and statuses...

You know who you are. Starbucks in hand, Uggs to match and the ever-present Vera Bradley wallet with car keys attached. This one’s for you. 1. Infinity Scarves: Both the style of scarf and the infinite amount. “I like that I don’t have to know any knots, they are so simple.” - A fashionable...

I have attempted to dodge writing a review for Lady Gaga’s ARTPOP since it leaked in early November. To describe my crazed affection for Lady Gaga proves difficult, partially because I cannot formulate the words to describe my fandom, but also because the opportunity hadn’t presented itself until...

Trick or treat, smell my feet, give me some high-fructose candy. Halloween is beginning to smell more like fat children sweating skittles in banana costumes and witch hats. The prospect of gaining weight haunts me ever since I slowly ditched my baby fat in middle school. I was a fairly fat child....

The majority of sixteen-year-old girls occupy their time with final exams and weary driving examinations, essays, frappacinos and lipgloss. This is not to be said for Ella Maria Lani Yelich-O'Connor or, more commonly known as, Lorde, the New Zealand rising pop superstar who, conquering the charts since...

My eyes roll at about 200 mph when one of my peachy-keen peers raves about how much he or she loves the warm weather, how much they missed summer and how the rain and cold damp their sun-tanned demeanor. I, for one, impatiently wait until about mid-November when the humidity subsides and winter, for...

Friday the 13th. Theater 13. Thirteen dollars. Way to be festive, Cinemark. Last weekend, Insidious: Chapter 2 was released to the public with mild reviews and yawning audiences. The first Insidious brought about a throwback to early horror films, which left more to the imagination than the screen—...

The legacy Steve Jobs left after his death in 2011 appears in nearly every backpack and pocket in school; devices so genius and insidious in how society functions that they have now become as monotonous and trivial as a microwave. With candy colored iPhone 5c and 5s in the horizon, the homage to Jobs...

Three years ago, I faithfully relied on the likes of Lizzy McGuire, Angela Chase, Daria Morgendorffer and Charlie (who questionably does not possess a last name in the novel The Perks of Being a Wallflower) to see me through what seemed to me its own entity, a universe in itself: high school. Not...

“What are you doing after you graduate? Where are you planning on going to college?” Those same questions arise in too many conversations, echoing in my head. I’ve gotten used to just telling people my long-term plans include donating organs and bodily fluids for money and living on whatever available...

Yeah Yeah Yeahs’s 2013 record, “Mosquito,” is a balancing act between their shift into throbbing dance music and their brash New York City punk repertoire. Yeah Yeah Yeahs’s variety of side-projects (lead songstress Karen O’s collaboration with Santigold, cover of Led Zeppelin’s “Immigrant...

“If you are chronically down, it is a lifelong fight to keep from sinking ” ― Elizabeth Wurtzel, Prozac Nation The walls were beige and this was not helpful. They seemed uncomfortably professional and sad- the kind of vacant, sanitized atmosphere where character is replaced by a poster thoroughly...

The argument is not an old one: Lady Gaga’s work derives generally from everyone who came before her — David Bowie, Madonna, Elton John and Grace Jones to name a few. Her aesthetic conjures imagery from nearly every decade and every genre of art and music. She’s an artistic encyclopedia, a combination...

“I’ma let you finish.” -Kanye West Certain people get a pass to act however they want— Steve Jobs, Madonna, Elton John. They’ve earned rights beyond the rules of common courtesy. If they were omniscient, they could be considered deities. From the pool of iconic tastemakers who have changed...

Tegan and Sara’s seventh studio album, “Heartthrob,” brings an entirely new crop of indie-pop, post-break-up tunes. Throughout the years the pair has evolved from making grungy folk rock rooted in the likes of Smashing Pumpkins into a synthy, pop duo with buzzing electronics and tinkering percussion...

Junior Triston Coomes walks into Mr. Mason’s art room just in time for the tardy bell to ring. Pulling a chair up to the large black work table, he removes a snack of fresh greens. “Sometimes eating healthy is so gross,” Coomes said. He’s coloring an art project consisting of a cluster...

Routine defines high school. Every day mimics the last to a depressingly monotonous degree. Every day I see the same couples PDA’ing in the exact same corners, as if sectioned off exclusively for them. I contemplate taking a different route from newspaper to sociology, but I suspect if I do the universe’s...

I do not enjoy driving, and I never have. I didn’t even appreciate the sentiment as a child. Never did I dream up my ideal car or the travels I intended to take. Truthfully, I’d rather rely on my parents as my personal drivers and avoid the anxiety of murdering a cat or pedestrian. That said, I was...

The sun’s setting. This means bad lighting for graduate Elena Chudoba’s and senior Jessilee Shipman’s photo shoot at Rose Park. Standing on the edge of a cliff, looking down at a vacant river, a group of students twiddle their thumbs. They wait as Chudoba unwinds a bundle of white yarn and Shipman...

I like to say that at an early age, Myspace indirectly ruined my life. Myspace was the opening of floodgates that propelled a generation into a super-cyber culture. Technology in general has changed, possibly downgraded, the way I behave, where my priorities lie and why I still count on my fingers...

This past Thursday, Oct 18 marked the premier of LHS’s presentation of “Our Town,” a play set in 1901-1913 following the lives of two families and the changes their lives take. Aspects of love, youth, life and death are displayed in depth in a two hour time span separated into three parts by brief...

I’m not entirely sure why Halloween continues to top my list of favorite holidays, trumping Santa and the Easter Bunny.Every year goes off with multiple hitches. A few years ago, I had a broken ankle and spent my Halloween night watching Hocus Pocus and Halloweentown. I gorged on pumpkin pie before...

I have to begin this review of Chbosky’s brilliant The Perks of Being a Wallflower with this sentiment: I am a pop-culture snob. I’ll openly admit it. I was hesitant in watching the film adaptation of one of my favorite books, which I’ve read a good five times in middle school. The book carried...

Seated across from senior Tomine Vikre, looking through her sociology textbook for the answers to fill-in-the-blanks and gathering yesterday’s notes, one may not suspect anything especially unique about the redheaded, freckled teenage girl. Until she speaks. “Too-meen-e,” Tomine said, correcting...

Warming Up Chairs are lined across the front of the stage like plastic soldiers. The players gather, unpacking their scripts and conversing as they prepare for warm-ups lead by senior Christina Cranshaw. “Warm-ups,” someone calls. Everyone approaches the stage, forming a circle, and begin...

With an established record of sullen and morbid melodies under her belt, Lana Del Rey has begun production of a re-release of her album ‘Born to Die’ called the ‘The Paradise Edition’ set to come out November 12. Del Rey offers a spectrum of culture unseen in recent years. She combines elements...

Two years ago, I faithfully relied on the likes of Lizzy McGuire, Angela Chase, Daria Morgendorffer and Charlie (who questionably does not possess a last name in the novel The Perks of Being a Wallflower) to see me through what seemed to me its own entity, a universe in itself: high school. Not only...