Johnny Colorado
This clever, upbeat folk/comedy band is, unfortunately, no longer together due to all the members going to different colleges this fall. However, if you long for (or have yet to hear)...
Ben Lougheed
Ben Lougheed multi-tasked with his right hand at Breakin' Curfew in May as two of his fingers kept a steady rhythmic note, and the other three picked the tune's melody. Lougheed, a classical...
Perception featuring Kevin Sherman
Masterfully structured, energetic, improvisational jazz with a hip-hop blast at the end describes Perception’s performance at the Power Center in May. With CHS...
This glimmering addition to the intimate concert venue was the work of Ingrid Michaelson and her band: “Dan and I went on a quest to find shiny things,” Michaelson laughed, referring to her band...
I’ve read a fair share of young-adult books about teenagers who face normal problems, such as parents, drugs, love, fitting in, and keeping up in school. They’ve all held my attention, but they all...
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Our award winning jazz band started the year off strong by diligently practicing and working on new pieces. This day was strange for them...
Vibrations fill the room as the band “Defly Sly” practices. A strong hit to the snare drum keeps everyone together.“I have a good sense of tempo, I think. I try to keep it consistent and I often...
Fedora hats are dumb. People look dumb in fedoras. This is a more or less unshakable rule of existence on planet Earth. I’m glad we got this out of the way.
I consider myself more attuned to the fedora...
She couldn’t play soccer. They wouldn’t let her. Lydia Cacho, a Mexican feminist and human rights activist, discovered sexism at a young age. “Girls shouldn’t play soccer in Mexico.”
Cacho,...
Heather Gudenkauf grew up with a unique "unilateral hearing impairment". It had lead her to find a retreat in the written word. The more she read, the more "voracious" of a reader she became, and "the...
When RJ Cutler set out to make his new documentary “The September Issue” his intentions were to reveal the story of Anna Wintour, the caricatured editor-in-chief of the veritable holy grail of...
