It’s Thursday afternoon, and Steelers Nation should be excited about tonight’s anticipated game against the Baltimore Ravens. This game is going to let the fans see what the rest of the season is going to look like. The Ravens are coming into this game with a record of 0-3, in a way they have caught…
Blood Drive Helpful But Short of Goals
Most students view the blood drive as an opportunity to get out of class. Whether it’s that AP Calc test or notes you don’t want to sit through, the blood drive will help you get out of class…if that is your goal. You might have a different goal when you keep in mind just how…
Mac Miller Concert Review: Decently Good, But Far Too Sticky and Smoky
Walking through the Stage AE gates, Lauren and I prepared ourselves for the connotative stigma attached to Mac Miller that we would experience in the next couple of hours. Rap concerts, in general, have a stereotype of being rowdy, unkept concerts, filled to the brim with screaming fans… and this stereotype held up at Mac….
Alessia Cara – From One Teenage Girl to Another, Definitely Worth A Listen
Alessia Cara released her debut EP on August 28, 2015. Cara narrates five different scenarios of teenaged life in her EP, Four Pink Walls. Each track is entirely unique and is an accurate portrayal of the life of an average teenage girl. The title track “Four Pink Walls” is one of two tracks that reflects…
African Journalists Visit AHS to Discuss Reporting and Election Coverage
Beginning on Tuesday morning, September 16th, a little after 9 am, the video conference room packed with journalism students, Key Club members, administration, teachers, and their honored guests, professional journalists from several countries around Africa. They came to experience and witness the American presidential elections and how these elections are addressed in schools, due to…
Maddie and Tae – Ironically cliche country
Maddie and Tae are two young country music singers whose goals were to revolutionize the face of country music as most kids know it today with their new single “Girl in a Country Song”. It reached number one as a hit single off their first album “Start Here”and the country duo succeeded in making their…
Foo Fighters Concert Review – “Good, Old Fashioned Loud Rock N Roll Show” by Guest Writer Zac McDowell
Dave Grohl, the old powerhouse drummer for Nirvana, and now the frontman the alt rock band Foo Fighters, visited Pittsburgh on the night of Tuesday, August 25th. Bringing in a crowd of more than 17,000, the audience waited anxiously for the curtain to drop and reveal the band. As the pavilion went dark and the…
Downed Wire Causes 45 Minute AHS Blackout
Several classes clumped under emergency lights in the hallways, while others left the building and conducted class outside or in the courtyard after the Avonworth High and Middle School building experienced a power outage on Thursday morning, September 24th. Duquesne Light informed the school of the impending power outage approximately ten minutes beforehand. Mrs. Cheryl…
Guest Journalist Reflects on 9/11 and career
Journalist Jill Cueni-Cohen visited the video conference room in the collaboration center on Friday, September 18th, during 8th period to share her perspective on freelance writing, ghostwriting, and her recently published collection of reflections on the September 11th attacks entitled Like It Was Yesterday. “I’m only as good as my next article,” stated Cueni-Cohen about…
G.A.T.E. Over The Years
“G.A.T.E. meant that we always had an ally in the building, someone who would fight for your choices and help you understand life,” said senior Ryan Johnston, voicing an opinion quite popular among his fellow G.A.T.E. peers. “But now that comfort in the program doesn’t really exist anymore.” For many G.A.T.E. students, entering the high school…