Beauty as Criterion for Art
A sunrise. The end of a disney movie. The mountains. A towering chrome building. A painting. The face of your lover. A poem. Often, these sorts of things would be considered “beautiful,” possessing some sort of aesthetic pleasurability that almost implies or touches upon The Divine. Beauty, colloquially, is often considered a positive quality, desirable, […]
Andy Hofmann Reviews “The Lake House”
Imagine: It’s 2006. First off, I’m so sorry. Seriously, 2000-2009 was honestly just pretty horrible all the time. It’s like, it was 1999, and then Y2K happened, and instead of destroying humanity, it ended up ruining every film, book, and piece of music for the next ten years. So, you’re in the thick of that. […]
Opinion: Andy Hofmann on the Christmas Shopping Season
The Christmas Shopping season rolls around, and we’re inundated with ads. Holiday sales, Black Friday deals, time to buy presents, get the “best savings,” go to Walmart, buy the turkey, hang the lights: the ads. Santa and snow and smiling people and fireplaces and evergreen trees, we are swamped with a Commercial Christmas that cannibalises […]
THS’s New Media Center is an Astounding Facility, Has Spectacular Chairs
Talawanda High School’s new Media Center is a unique, comfortable space that helps students learn and promotes further acedemic achievement within THS’s halls–with style. “I really like the chairs,” said Vilppu Antilla, a senior at Talawanda High School, of the partial rocking chairs arranged around the Center’s eight main tables. Little touches like these help students feel comfortable as […]