Nervous and shaking slightly, a young teen holds a folder of sheet music to her chest, raising her hand to knock on a plain office door. It opens to the sound of guitar strings, vocal chords,...
Arts Articles
Sharing art in new places
Upper School art teacher Nathan Stromberg was selected to display a collage at the 2015 Minnesota State Fair Fine Arts exhibit. The piece was "8 Wall Clocks," the second piece Stromberg has shown at...
Hungry for Healing
Art revealing the life behind eating disorders Photos and commentary by Maddie Binning Up to 30 million...
Contributing to a classic
It's 1957. An aspiring female author with boy-cut brown hair leans across a desk and offers a well-worked manuscript to Tay Hohoff, an editor at LB Lippencott. The editor fans through the...
Exposing the human condition through magic
With all the magic based stories around, what does your mind believe magic should be like? Open your mind and take a look into a medley of it with The Magicians Trilogy There's a schism in literary...
Shaping minds, changing lives
Reading children's books is worth more than just entertainment, as children learn and grow through simple children's tales When you talk about influencing people you're much better off influencing...
Hannibal Review
Fresh audience, same villain Past surgeon, current psychologist: new TV series gives viewers a glimpse of Hannibal...
The Meaning of Movies
The significance of movies Senior Anna Scholl expresses her love for movies, and explains that this art form is often...
The rediscovery of a once-forgotten genre
With Django: Unchained newly released on DVD westerns are beginning to return to the film radar Schizophrenic...
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest Review
A classic look inside the mind of a mental patient Rebellion is often depicted through this archetypal lens: a cabal...
Silver Linings Playbook Review
Finding the Silver Lining Director David O. Russel reveals "peace through insanity" within the romance of two mentally...
Springing into Shakespeare
Minnehaha Academy Players present a modern twist on Shakespeare's Twelfth Night As the ice melted outside, a group of...
Games & misfits (review)
Wreck-It-Ralph is stylish, witty & fun It's a film about retro video games mixed with modern-day technology...
Catch a Spielberg classic
Why young movie fans shouldn't think it's safe to go back in the water Jaws is more than entertainment; it's one of...
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (review)
An unexpected journey to an imaginative world In September 1937, Oxford professor J.R.R. Tolkien published his first...