If it was a normal day and you were driving through the streets of Millvale, you would never notice anything different about an old church a couple blocks up from the center of town. For anyone who doesn’t usually go to concerts in Pittsburgh, that old church is now a club, and Friday, October 21,…
Avonworth Girls Soccer Wins Playoff Game Against Derry
The Monday night lights lit up the sky at Franklin Regional High School soccer field as Avonworth and Derry High School got ready to face off on October 24, 2016. The girl’s soccer team, who ranks eighth in the region, had their first playoff game against Derry, who holds the ninth seed, was a nearly even match. Derry’s…
Ryan’s Metal Reviews: Children of the Korn: The Serenity of Suffering
The alternative metal band, Children of the Korn is back in the music game as they released their 12th album, The Serenity of Suffering on October 21, 2016. The album, according to guitarist Brian Welch, “is heavier than anyone’s heard in a long time” and it contains their most intense music vocally they have been in a…
Scream Queens Review
“Over my rich, hot, dead body” is one of the many infamous quotes from Chanel Oberlin, ex- president of the sorority house Kappa Kappa Tau. Chanel, being the main character of the TV show Scream Queens on FOX, has the audience engaged in her ridiculous and over the top personality. The show first aired last…
Pirates Fan Perspective on the World Series
Now that Pirate fans are watching two other teams in the World Series, most fans are rooting for the underdog Cleveland Indians. Because even though Pittsburgh as a whole doesn’t like Cleveland, the Chicago Cubs are one of the Pirates biggest rivals. The Cubs batters 1-9 have a loaded lineup but the Indians have one…
Avonews Board Under Construction ~ What is to Come?
Few of Avonworth students know this board even exists, let alone how it can effect them. And as of now, it seems to be under construction. Rather than sporting the usual red background filled with copies of the popular newspapers from either past or current years, it has been cut to large letters reading…
Cupcake Fridays!
If it’s a Friday in the fall, it’s gameday and cupcake day for the Avonworth football team. It’s been a recent tradition for cheerleaders make cupcakes every Friday for the boys. Junior Kemmer Ifft usually is the one in charge of the cupcakes this year and explained how this started.”Nicole Costa’s sisters started the tradition way back in 2007,…
Avenged Sevenfold’s New Single to Give a Little Taste of Upcoming Album
Avenged Sevenfold returns!! Starting with advertising their upcoming 2016 album, rumored to be called Voltaic Oceans to be released as of right now on December 9th, by showing off their signature logo, the Death Bat, in many popular cities around the world. (Avenged Sevenfold’s signature visual, The Death Bat) This new album is gonna…
PSAT Testing For Half The School
On October 19th, 2016, over 200 Avonworth students in grades 10-11 took a mandatory standardized test during 1st through 4th period–the PSAT. This test provides students with practice that is similar in formatting and question types of the SAT, which students take during Junior and Senior year. Class schedules were altered and over 20 staff…
Don’t Open, Reviews Inside #1: Image Comics
Don’t Open, Reviews Inside Image Comics & Review of Walking dead vol 1 Image comics is a lesser known comic publishing company. Founded in 1992 by seven disgruntled former employees of Marvel comics, it was formed as the anti-Marvel, in the sense that it would not have unfair policies regarding the creative licenses of characters and…