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From comedies to thrillers, the acting alone does not singlehandedly make a movie great. The soundtrack of a film or series can either turn it into an award winner or an atrocity. Some of the world’s greatest works of musical art have become famous due to the film industry. With the Grammy’s just passed [...]
What does gum on sidewalks have to do with nanotechnology? Or what about pastry design versus architectural design? In Arboretum, David Byrne tells us, maybe a lot more than one would think at first glance. The delightful thing about this book is that it isn’t, in the traditional sense, a book. Instead of constructing chapters [...]
The enthralling cover and title of Lawrence Ferlinghetti’s A Coney Island of the Mind were what initially drew me to it. Even though I’ve never been there, I love Coney Island for its whimsy and for how it is a place both lost in time and timeless. Reading these poems gave me the same [...]
The political season is here again–for UHS, that is. It is once again time for the senior debates. Being only a freshman and never having heard of this UHS tradition before, things were apt to get a little confusing for me at times, what with all the hubbub and hype of the mock elections. However, [...]
I Hope Some Things Never Change: Senior Debates from a Junior’s Perspective Karen Wang The senior debates are a UHS tradition that never ceases to excite and amuse… at least when you’re a junior and all you have to do is sit back and languish in your power as a voter (yes, yes, please vote [...]
Inaugural Ball is right around the corner and I know that everyone is extremely excited. This article is for all you ladies who are looking for a dress or looking for accessories or shoes to go with your dress. Finding a good dress can be hard. Sometimes you have to hunt around for a [...]
This issue I decided to take The Nerd Wears Prada in a new direction. Beauty. I decided to do a homemade beauty product article. This article has some great tips and directions for making your own mask/exfoliant with things you already have at home. Exfoliating is very important. When you exfoliate you remove all [...]
Man Walks Into a Room by Nicole Krauss What makes you, you? There’s your personality, your interests, your goals, your relationships with the people who surround you…yet there’s also your memory. Your history and the experiences that have shaped how you view the world are an essential part of understanding the present and orienting yourself [...]
It seems that author, and star of the YouTube Vlogbrothers channel, John Green is quite popular within the UHS community. I’ve seen many a t-shirt and many a book around our wonderful campus. I, myself, am quite a fan. That’s why, when Green’s new and much anticipated novel, The Fault In Our Stars, was released, [...]
We’ve all heard of the ongoing Occupy Movement, a widespread social rebellion inspired by the uprisings in Egypt and Tunisia that call for much needed and long-awaited justice. It began not four months ago in Liberty Square as a protest of the skewed distribution of wealth (and the benefits attached to said wealth) in [...]