Gotta love guitar
March 30, 2011 • Alexis Tebben
Playing guitar is one of the many hobbies I love. That is why I chose to take Robert Doole’s guitar class. In guitar class we learn many things such as learning how to tune by ear and by using the strings, strum different patterns, and play a variety of chords and notes. Doole claims he is going to... Read more »
Locally owned restaurants
March 29, 2011 • Kylie Emerson
Chain restaurants are very populous throughout the community of Topeka. Paisano’s is one of the few restaurants in town that is not a chain. Servers at Paisano’s are dressed in uniform. Their uniform consists of black slacks, a white collared shirt, and a black tie. Instantly upon entering this restaurant,... Read more »
Reed’s Lakeside Bar and Grill
March 29, 2011 • Rachel Anstaett
Reed’s Lakeside Bar and Grill is a restaurant everyone will want to check out. It has good food, quick service, and it’s a great place to watch a game. Reed’s has food that’ll make people come back again and again. They have a range of food from chicken wings to pizza. I usually get chicken and... Read more »
Roscoe Dash
March 29, 2011 • Ce-Ce McAferty
Roscoe Dash is a 21 year old who came to the music career when he was 17. Dash became a father at the age of 16, and he never gave up on his dream to become a hip-hop performer, rapping with the most intelligent and famous people. I like Roscoe Dash because he has come from a hard life dealing with school,... Read more »
Complete failure
March 29, 2011 • Chelsie Slaughter
Nicki Minaj is one of the worst female music artists. I would really like to know how she received a record deal. How does roaring and screaming count as being a rapper. It is hard enough to get into the music industry as it is, so with her limited amount of talent in this field, it interests me how... Read more »
A tale of unequal love
March 29, 2011 • Haley Padilla
“This is a story of boy meets girl,” so begins the romantic comedy, (500) Days of Summer. Tom Hansen (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) is a greeting card writer who falls for the new receptionist, Summer Finn (Zooey Deschanel). The two spend time together running through furniture departments and sorting through... Read more »
More action, please
March 29, 2011 • Bailee Myers
Directed by Phillip Noyce, Salt is, I think, one of 2010 better movies. Salt stars Angelina Jolie, Live Schreiber and Chiwetel Ejiofor. Evelyn Salt (Jolie) is a CIA agent that receives a visit from a Russian spy telling her that the Russian president is going to be shot. Soon I found out that Salt is... Read more »
Vinyl in a new age
March 29, 2011 • Giordan Lucas
For music lover and loner Allie, life is all about music, LP music that is, and working at the local Bob and Bobs records. Times have moved on to a new digital age where all people have to do is download and listen, but that’s not Allies style at all, she is a major LP collector. Allie often wonders... Read more »
Fly on the Wall
March 29, 2011 • Haley Padilla
Dreaming of being a super hero, Gretchen Yee gets a strange cosmetic change; she is turned into a fly. In E. Lockhart’s Fly on the Wall, Yee attends an art school, where she pursues drawing. She is a bit of an outcast. Her parents reveal that they are getting a divorce, which makes her upset. Besides... Read more »
Contest of the countries
March 29, 2011 • Lindsay Dahl
The Shawnee Heights Model UN group always has first-rate work for the annual competition, and it didn’t disappoint this year. Freshman Justin Loy, juniors Jackson Hermann, Alek Eskilson, and Courtney Pfluke, and seniors Rian Browne, Laurel Gardner, and Rachel Hagan all represented the first place delegation... Read more »