Setting Stone Coffee House Raises Money for Literary Arts Magazine
The Coffee House is an event where THS students show their talents to an audience in order to raise money for the Setting Stone Liberal Arts Magazine. “The Setting Stone Magazine is mostly poetry, but it has short stories, photography, scanned artwork, pictures of sculptures, all of these things are created by students,” said Clare […]
Local Artist to Design Sculpture with Talawanda Art Students
This week a group of select art students from Talawanda will have the privilege to work with local artist Alysia Fischer to design and construct a new site-specific sculpture for the rotunda here at THS. A project Art teacher Jim McWilliams says he wishes to do every two years. “I want art to be a […]
Talawanda Teachers Provide Musical Interlude Between Exams
During the final week before Winter break, students gathered in the rotunda between exams to listen to some of their teachers sing and play guitar to some classic songs. “We thought it would be a good way to get students’ minds off of exams for a bit and just have fun,” said science teacher Ben […]
Hitman: Absolution.
If you aren’t familiar with the Hitman series, then you should highly consider picking up the first installment of the Hitman series, Hitman: Codename 47. (Released in 2000)Then proceed to buying Hitman 2: Silent Assassin, Hitman: Contracts, Hitman: Blood Money just so you can get the latest addition to the wonderful series, Hitman: Absolution. Hitman: […]
American Reunion Review
American Reunion is the best movie I’ve seen so far this year. No, seriously. It’s outright hilarious, as one would expect from a movie of the famed American Pie series. But it also succeeds where the previous three (we are not counting those horrendous spin-offs) movies have failed (or succeeded to a much lesser extent) – […]
Pioneer in Rock Music Dies at 88
On April 5th, 2012 Jim Marshall, the founder of Marshall Amplification, passed away at his home in Milton Keynes, England at age 88. Jim Marshall founded his music company in 1962 with the savings he had from years of music lessons. He initially sold mainly drum related equipment until he decided to make a cheaper version […]
Titanic: 100 Years Later
On April 10th, 1912 Titanic set sail on her maiden voyage from Southampton, England to New York City. The “floating palace” was supposed to reach NY within seven days, but it never reached the destination that held hopes and dreams to the passengers. The gigantic ship started being built March 31st, 1909 in Belfast, Ireland. Titanic was the […]
Hip-Hop Rivalries: East .vs. West
Throughout the 90’s hip-hop was engulfed in a territorial feud pitting rappers on the east coast against rappers on the west coast. I would to revisit this feud but instead of dwelling on the past I will pit each coast, based on the talent of it’s MC’s, against each other to once and for all […]
Fermata…Somewhere?
Raps, beat boxing and rhythms. No, this is not a Kayne West video. This is Talawanda High School’s a cappella choir, Fermata Nowhere. This 3-year-old choir is nothing but original. Mr. Pearson’s idea for this kind of choir came from experience as a director, and from wanting the very best for his very capable students. […]
A Conversation with Ryan Arvin
This is the first of what will be a weekly feature, in which various Talawanda students sit down with Ryan Arvin to pose a few questions about the essence of life. This week, questions are from seniors Ezra Saulnier and Jack Gillespie Ezra: Who is your role model? Ryan: That’s a tough one, but I’d […]