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 A Singular Sensation: Staples Players Performs A Chorus Line

A Singular Sensation: Staples Players Performs A Chorus Line

Rachel Labarre, Managing Editor March 26, 2013

I saw A Chorus Line on Broadway sometime before I was ten. All I can remember was that the girl that kept screaming “tits” had grown up in Westport, and that the production was pretty good. When...

A Different Kind of Closing Night: Staples Players to Perform on Broadway

A Different Kind of Closing Night: Staples Players to Perform on Broadway

Rachel Labarre, Managing Editor March 26, 2013

The cast of Staples Players’ “A Chorus Line” was not expecting their closing show to be anything more than a closing show. But when Terre Blair, widow of the composer of the original “A Chorus...

Dreams Become Reality: Coleytown Middle School Teacher Publishes Historical Fiction Novel

Dreams Become Reality: Coleytown Middle School Teacher Publishes Historical Fiction Novel

Amina Abdul-Kareem, Staff Writer March 15, 2013

After years of critiquing the written works of students, the tables have turned for Paul Ferrante, a Language Arts teacher at Coleytown Middle School: Now his work will be the one critiqued. Ferrante...

Daring to Dream: Student Follows in Mother’s Footsteps, Pursues Modeling and Acting Career

Daring to Dream: Student Follows in Mother’s Footsteps, Pursues Modeling and Acting Career

Sami Bautista, Web Sports Editor March 15, 2013

When Staples students tuned into the 2012 Summer Olympics, many were shocked and excited to see Knox McKay’14 on their TV screens. If a student didn’t know who she was before, they certainly did afterward....

The cast performs in the finale number, One.

Challenging Choreography & Complicated Content: Players’ ‘A Chorus Line’ Opens

Sarah Luttinger, A&E Editor March 15, 2013

Ever since its original 1975 Broadway opening, “A Chorus Line” has been widely celebrated, both for its taxing dance numbers and its racy topics—which range from first sexual experiences to STDs...

A Taste of Town: Buffalo Wings Edition

A Taste of Town: Buffalo Wings Edition

Brittany Healy, Staff Writer March 15, 2013

Since the creation of Buffalo wings in 1964, they’ve become a staple in our American society. Typically served at sporting events, these mouth-watering, deep-fried appetizers has become popular across...

Headshot of Adam Kaplan courtesy of adamkaplanonline.com

Extra! Extra! Former Staples Grad Cast in “Newsies” on Broadway

Molly Barreca, Sports Editor March 12, 2013

It started with just 16 bars of music. That 16 bars would lead to another set of auditions, which lead to another, then another, until Adam Kaplan ’08 finally landed a role in Disney’s “Newsies”...

Southland: Review

Joe Greenwald, Web Sports Editor March 7, 2013

In its fifth season running, the TNT cop drama Southland has its audience in a stranglehold, as gripping and suspenseful as ever. The characters are still as fresh and diverse as the crime they handle...

Five Stars for the Oscars

Five Stars for the Oscars

Cadence Neenan, Web Managing Editor February 15, 2013

Each year, I watch the awards for the comedy alone. Even though the people I watch with inevitably end up yelling at me for my running commentary and constant laughing, I simply can’t resist. The awards...

Tutus on Choo Choos

Tutus on Choo Choos

Andrea Frost, Breaking News Managing Editor February 15, 2013

Stepping off the train in Grand Central, Abby Merlis ’15 and Rachel DuVivier ’14 are dressed in jeans and sweaters, but pirouettes and piques are on their mind. With their hair bobby-pinned back into...

Two Thumbs Down

Two Thumbs Down

Nicole DeBlasi, Web Managing Editor February 15, 2013

At the Oscars, celebrities spend thousands of dollars on clothing and jewelry (and I mean thousands. Those Zuhair Murad gowns Jennifer Lopez loves so much start at $5,000.) Gossip magazines go crazy over...

And the Oscar Goes To…

And the Oscar Goes To…

Brittany Healy, Staff Writer February 15, 2013

When February rolls around every year, movie buffs all around Staples look forward to finding out what movies were nominated for the Oscars; however, most do not always find what they expect. “I think...

And Action: Westport Cinema Initiative Creates Movie Theater in Westport

And Action: Westport Cinema Initiative Creates Movie Theater in Westport

Haley Zeldes, Sports Editor February 15, 2013

It will take much more than just lights, camera, and action bring a movie theater back into downtown Westport. In fact it will take four million dollars, dozens of permits, and an overwhelming amount ...

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