10 Essential Tracks
Joe Greenwald
April 13, 2013 • 274 views
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Destined for those “top-down 70-and-sunny days” as well as the outdoor night parties, where grooving on the patio is second nature. 1. Sweet Honey – Slightly Stoopid A fast-paced, catchy tune by this unique reggae-rock band. The two lead singers, one a fast-paced rapper and the other a harmonizer,... Read more »
The Era of the Girl Crush
Cadence Neenan, Staff Writer
April 12, 2013 • 247 views
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After The Hunger Games came out, women and girls obsessed over the adorable antics of Jennifer Lawrence. For Mila Kunis, it was Friends with Benefits. For those who seem love the never-changing half smile of Kristen Stewart, it was Twilight. As these young women forged their paths into the... Read more »
James Franco and a Couple of Flying Monkeys: A Review of Oz
Chris Ramey, Web Features Editor
April 11, 2013 • 795 views
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Oz: The Great and Powerful, is two hours of James Franco being James Franco in technicolor. I did not enjoy it. Because of Franco's dominating presence, a number of characters are woefully underdeveloped. Take Zach Braff's character, a flying monkey. He uttered a few campy, rim shot lines. That's the... Read more »
Coleytown Company’s Production of Peter Pan Flies High
Ellie Gavin , Staff Writer
April 9, 2013 • 266 views
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Before the curtain even rose for Coleytown Company’s production of Peter Pan, director Ben Frimmer found a way to impress the audience. Among the usual pre show banter -- such as scolding the audience about cell phones, fussy babies and flash photography -- Frimmer casually mentioned that two former... Read more »
Coleytown Middle School Presents ‘Peter Pan’
Sophie de Bruijn, Web Feature's Editor
April 4, 2013 • 186 views
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Coleytown Middle School’s acting group, Coleytown Company, will be opening this years high-flying musical, Peter Pan, on Friday April 5. This will actually be the second time Peter Pan takes the Coleytown stage, as it was the first show put on by current Artistic Director Ben Frimmer 17 years ago. Needless... Read more »
The Superintendent Soars
Sophie de Bruijn, Web Feature's Editor
April 1, 2013 • 165 views
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Westport superintendent Dr. Elliott Landon stopped by a rehearsal of Peter Pan at Coleytown Middle School this afternoon to test out the productions high tech flying equipment for himself. The flying for the show will be done by Zealous Flying Effects (ZFX), the company currently flying the cast of Wicked... Read more »
A Singular Sensation: Staples Players Performs A Chorus Line
Rachel Labarre
March 26, 2013 • 337 views
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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 watching the Staples Players production of A Chorus Line, I can honestly say that I felt as if I was... Read more »
A Different Kind of Closing Night: Staples Players to Perform on Broadway
Rachel Labarre
March 26, 2013 • 247 views
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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 Line,” Marvin Hamlisch, walked into the Staples auditorium to view the performance for the second... Read more »
Dreams Become Reality: Coleytown Middle School Teacher Publishes Historical Fiction Novel
Amina Abdul-Kareem, Staff Writer
March 15, 2013 • 301 views
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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 has written and published “Last Ghost at Gettysburg,” which will be released on March 25. The... Read more »
Daring to Dream: Student Follows in Mother’s Footsteps, Pursues Modeling and Acting Career
Sami Bautista, Web Sports Editor
March 15, 2013 • 308 views
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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. McKay starred in an AT&T Olympics commercial as a swimming athlete aspiring to get the... Read more »