Setting Stone Coffee House is Approaching
On Friday, May 10, at 7:00 p.m., the Setting Stone Coffee House will return for the second time to the new Talawanda High School. “The last one–the first one at the new building–was amazing, and we expect it to be just as positive of an experience this time around, if not better,” Clare Squance, one […]
Oxford Kinetics Festival
The Oxford Kinetics Festival, an event started by art teacher Jim McWilliams, is held every year here in our small town of Oxford, Ohio. “I wanted to make Oxford a little weird,” said McWilliams. In this festival, part race, part parade and part obstacle course, anything goes. Art students here at Talawanda turn old bikes […]
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, […]
Stoker’s Vision On Two Screens: Nosferatu and Dracula
Good Evening, stay for the night as both the 1929 silent Nosferatu is examined side by side with Bela Lugosi’s audible 1931 Dracula. Who can forget the classic horror movies forever emulated by modern-day hopefuls? These two classics films have the same origin: Bram Stoker’s 1897 novel, Dracula. They share a story to the detail, […]
New Classes at Talawanda Offer a Digital Experience
With today moving quickly towards a new era with advanced technology, THS wants to engage students in what is happening in today’s society and is moving away from what many find as a normal school system. Two new classes are being added to next year’s scheduling, both technology-based and taught by Andy Zimmerman. “This is […]
New Television Show Bates Motel Premieres
The T.V. station that brought Duck Dynasty and Storage Wars has come up with another series. However this one is not reality. Bates Motel is a physiological thriller series that will premiere on A&E. The show is a prequel to the events of Robert Bloch’s novel, “Psycho”, which was famously portrayed in Alfred Hitchcock’s film […]
Duck Dynasty Makes its Way into America’s Hearts in Their Third Season
The third season of “Duck Dynasty” premiered on February 27, 2013. This was A&E’s number one telecast ever and racked up 8.6 million viewers. Topping all other TV broadcasts for the night, “Duck Dynasty” is the most popular unscripted show on television. The Robertsons, who live in the bayous of Louisiana, became wealthy from their […]