by Kyle Melnick ’14 It is almost forgotten now, but during the 1970s and 80s D.C. sports were performing at their best. This was before the Bullets changed their name to the Wizards, before there was a baseball team in Washington and right when the Capitals were settling into their new home. Back then there really was something to root … Read More
by Marie Moeller ’15
by Dylan Craig ’16 “After Earth,” directed by M. Night Shyamalan and starring the Father-Son combo of Will and Jaden Smith, features impressive acting, but has a weak overall plot. “After Earth” is about an estranged father and his son trying to survive after crash landing on the remains of Earth, which is now inhabitable. Cypher Raige, played by Will … Read More
by Katie Mercogliano ’14 Nowadays, looking at the music in someone’s iPod can be as revealing as looking into their diary. What music one listens to is an immensely important facet of their identity. But can taste in music really predict someone’s entire personality? According to several recent studies, the answer is yes. From classical to electronic dance, music can … Read More
by Annie Augustine ‘14 and Whitney Marie Halllaby ‘14 One out of every 20 adolescents has a mental illness, which can range from anxiety disorders, eating disorders, depression, bipolar disorder and schizophrenia. An unfortunately prevalent assumption is that people who have these illnesses are too weak or incompetent to function normally in society. This is typically not the case. Mental … Read More
by Taylor Fernandes ’14 Behind the walls of Sherwood lie many different cliques, each holding its own required wardrobe. If you were to visit Sherwood and tried to figure out how to group students by their appearances, here’s is some of what you would see. Venturing into the school, you find a football player standing around. He’s sporting a skin … Read More
by Katie Mercogliano ’14 To tell which day of the week it is, one no longer needs a calendar; he/she can simply check the “hashtags” of Instagram, from #mirrorpicmonday to #throwbackthursday, and the most sacred of all days, #selfiesunday. Many see selfies, the act of taking a photograph of yourself most commonly with an iPhone, as a harmless and innocent … Read More
by Alec Perez ’14 On March 31, 2013, the University of Louisville played Duke University in the NCAA March Madness Men’s’ Basketball Tournament. About midway through the first half, Louisville’s player Kevin Ware sprung through the air and landed awkwardly, breaking his tibia in his left leg to the point where the bone was popping out of his knee. … Read More
by Hunter Moore ’15 Robert Van Winkle, also known as Vanilla Ice, is a multi-talented man who became a star rapper in the 90s and has desperately done all he can to not leave Hollywood since. A young man who grew up as an athlete, winning all types of awards for motocross racing, morphed into one of the most popular white … Read More
by Tom Lee ’14 From full-on stare downs to shy peeps, crushes to formal relationships, attraction is an omnipresent aspect of students’ lives and physical appeal plays a huge role in that attraction. Jena Prescott, author of the bestseller “The Love High Story,”noted that,”It may take as little as 13 milliseconds to be attracted to another person.” Contrastingly, it takes … Read More