Cappies review of “The Wizard of Oz” performed April 23 at St. Dominic High School.
by Brynne Frauenhoffer
Eureka High School
Who knew that a pair of shoes could start so much trouble? Dorothy found out that life over the rainbow might be just as difficult as farming on Kansas cornfields in St. Dominic’s rendition of “The Wizard of Oz.”
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Congratulations to Evan Loveless on becoming a Journal Opinion Shaper!
By Cynthia Zhang
Amp writer
Last Saturday, from 8:30-9:30, several million people turned off their lights. This was done for Earth Hour, a yearly event taking place on the last Saturday of March to promote environmental awareness. It was, as the dozen or so news stations covering it can attest, a Big Event, with monuments from the Eiffel Tower to the Empire State Building going dark for an hour. Doing this was very impressive, and so were the numbers: Toronto’s energy usage fell by nine percent, Bangkok saved 73 megawatts of energy, Ireland, 150 megawatts. For one hour, citizens from Australia to Africa sat in reverential darkness. Then, at nine-thirty, the lights came back on.
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Graceless Disparity performs at Fubar in St. Louis.
On Jan. 15, in front of a crowd of about 70, five high school freshmen stepped out on stage at the Fubar rock bar in St. Louis.
“The show was scary,” said Ryan Silver, 14, a Francis Howell Central student and bass guitarist for Graceless Disparity. “We had signed up for a heavy metal show, and the other bands had really heavy music and really old members. It went well once we started playing, but the beginning was awkward.”
And, adds singer Sean Gunderson, “Our parents stood out a lot.”
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Thanksgiving, for most, is an easy holiday. For those people, there are always plenty of things to be thankful about - first paychecks, new cars to go along with new licenses, Mom, Dad, Aunts, Uncles, yeah, yeah, and now that that’s over, I’d like to start being grateful for this pie over here, too. Those were most years, though. This year, with America still in the midst of a recession, there are going to be less paychecks to go around, less cars for newly minted eager drivers, a great deal less of many of the things we give thanks for. This Thanksgiving, what exactly are you supposed to say at the dinner table, “I’m grateful for being able to avoid the 6% chance of a crash that I would have risked had someone given in and lent me that two hundred for a truck?”
Well, maybe not. The Pilgrims celebrated Thanksgiving months after a brutal winter that killed almost half of their colony, and yet they still managed to enjoy the day. That was nearly four hundred years ago, but perhaps we will learn something besides not investing in General Motors from the current state of the economy. Not gratitude, merely something more, a little more emotion behind the words; a lesson not everyone needs to learn, but maybe for someone for whom new cars are par for the course, a sudden inability to roll at eyes at Hallmark sentiments of gratitude. Maybe. Who knows? Or maybe they will be inspired, will donate, help others…
Or maybe, we’ll be stuck with a bunch of people whining this Thanksgiving. Though even I’m not that pessimistic.
Amp’s Nikki McGee does a great job of representing herself and her Timberland High School newspaper staff in this Suburban Journals story by Kalen Ponche.
#High school censorship sparks debate#
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