With April’s cinematic journey flying by and gradually coming to an end, the spotlight shifts towards May and what it will have to offer. I did not think there was anything special about any of the April 2024 movies so far, which is why I am especially excited about this next month. As we look…
Category: Arts
2023 Spotify Wrapped Top Podcast Topics: Could Artificial Intelligence Destroy Humanity?
The 2023 Spotify Wrapped was released last week, and alongside it, a collection of data from Spotify’s users has become available on the internet. As part of the collected information, the most streamed podcasts and their respective most listened-to episodes become valuable instruments to track trends and notorious topics across the web. As pointed out…
Spotify Wrapped 2023: Taylor Swift Dominates
J1 students paused at the end of November to find out about what AHS students listened to, how they felt about it, and their thoughts about students Spotify Wrapped for 2023 and the Spotify Artist of the Year, Taylor Swift. Attitudes ranged from full fandom to not that interested and over to angry. “I…
2023 Spotify Wrapped Top Podcast Topics: Taylor Swift- The Eras Tour
Taylor Swift just wrapped up her first year on her International World Eras Tour. Breaking countless attendance records in stadiums across the globe, Swift has single-handedly made history by touring in 2023. She started her tour on March 17th, 2023 in Glendale Arizona. From even before her first show, Swift was attracting extreme amounts of…
Emma’s Book Reviews: Little Woman Is the Highlight of Junior Year In Books (So Far)
As my junior year has long since begun with a bang and most adults have suddenly decided that I should be able to give a concrete and definite answer as to where I want to go to college, reading for pleasure has taken quite a backseat, often to the dreaded American Pageant. Amidst the chaos, I…
“The Curious Savage” Fall 2023 Play Review
After seeing Avonworth High School’s “The Curious Savage” three separate times I can surely say that as a performer myself, I am extremely impressed with the hard work, dedication, and talent my peers have presented us with this year. At the start of the performance, we are introduced to a display of mentally ill, committed…
“Curious Savage” Runs Two Casts for 2023 Fall Play
As the 2023 AHS fall plays season ends with their upcoming show “The Curious Savage”, Frau has posted new information regarding this year’s potential musical. With Thanksgiving break in between, the posted audition date is December 1st and the expected call-back date is the following day, December 2nd. All that is needed to audition is…
Emma’s Book Reviews: Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
“It is a truth universally acknowledged that a zombie in possession of brains must be in want of more brains” – Pride and Prejudice and Zombies I have never witnessed so strange of a crossover between genres as Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. Really, it shouldn’t work. Combining the light and comical social comedy…
AHS Theatre Begins Fall Play Preparations for November performances
Many of Avonworth’s theatrical enthusiasts are painstakingly waiting for the start of Mrs. Frauenholtz’s 2023 Fall Play. Students and teachers alike are asking what production will take the stage this year. Frau held an information meeting this past Monday, September 11th in the auditorium going over potential audition dates that would work best for those…
Spring Musical Earns Six Nominations in 2023 Gene Kelly Awards
If you missed the announcements, you might not have seen Avonworth Drama’s high number of nominations for the major high school theatre arts competition in Western PA: The Gene Kelly Awards. The AHS spring musical production of Grand Hotel has earned six Gene Kelly Awards nominations. “Sweeney Todd,” Avonworth’s 2012 musical, was the last production…