Author Archives: Hannah Callahan

May 2010

CHS students’ summer plans by Hannah Callahan

Summer Plans—Hannah Callahan Rectangles of sunlight seep in through classroom blinds. Summer waits just out of reach. You can see it in CHS students’ faces, lost in golden-glazed daydreams, or expressions of sleepless anguish, awaiting graduation and the end of APs. The future hangs over our heads, heavy like our backpacks. This summer many CHS [...]

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Jan 2010

Peppers Dance coming Feb. 6

The CHS Peppers dance will take place on Feb. 6  from 8 – 11 p.m. in Stuber Gym. This year’s theme is Vegas. “We have an excellent DJ,” Activities Director Mike Nelke said, “in addition to a photo booth where students can take pictures and print out unlimited copies. It adds something unique.” Performing Arts [...]

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Nov 2009

“Rocky Horror Picture Show” uses dark humor, sinful implications to entice all movie-goers

“I like your shoes,” a man wearing so much makeup it seemed as though you could break it off in pieces told my friend on the crosswalk in front of the Tivoli. “Thanks,” she replied, smiling at her four-inch black, strappy platforms. We watched him walk away, his limbs like stretched-out paper clips, barely concealed [...]

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Oct 2009

Reporter reflects over commercial stores and thrifting

With that condescending scowl he often wears, arms crossed, my brother barked, “Urban Outfitters is the devil.” It was two days before Christmas, and I had foolishly dragged him to the mall to help me pick out a hat for my mother. At the time, I dismissed his words as an arrogant exaggeration, said to [...]

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Aug 2009

Orchestrating Diversity plays to fight prejudice

“Diversity in this town is a sick joke. You can quote me on that,” Mark Sarich, founder of the Lemp Neighborhood Arts Center, tells me. “And the butt of the joke is the minorities.” Thirteen years ago Sarich founded the Lemp Neighborhood Arts Center, an experimental music venue in South City. This summer, he and [...]

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