Paulfest gains popularity
Channeling the bygone days of abrasive music and heat prostration—days which are dusted over with glinted glory in our culture’s eyes—Leesville sophomore Trevor Simpson came…
Articles by Coby Wooten, Staff Writer
Leesville Band holds banquet
As the 2009-2010 school year comes to a close—and high school comes to an end for senior students—many students spend these few remaining days as…
Banana Republic hosts fashion show benefit
The Banana Republic Summer Charity Fashion Show is an annual event that benefits the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society. The event was held at the Renaissance…
Kirstie Alley’s Big Life
Ever since Kirstie Alley gained lots of weight after quitting smoking and cleansing her palate of cocaine, we have seen, in gossip magazines and on…
Blue Man Group
When they formed the Blue Man Group and started performing in small venues around Manhattan in 1987, Phil Stanton, Chris Wink, and Matt Goldman sought…
California: Legalizing Marijuana Will Appear on November Ballot
Election officials have confirmed that California’s Regulate, Control and Tax Cannabis Act of 2010 will appear on the November mid-term election ballot. If approved, the…
Exploring the Etiquette of Texting
As someone who is forever reaching for his cell phone—someone who is, in fact, so attached to the device that he might as well have…
Stern, Sidibe and rhetorical promiscuity
Need some advice? In need an unsolicited opinion? Look to the internet, the television, any magazine of your choosing. It seems as though everybody has…
India Evans: teen entrepreneur
While the vast majority of Generation Y spends its time anesthetized under an unyielding blanket of high-technology, a smaller portion of precocious teenagers are already…
The hurried teen
According to an apocryphal story, Ponce de Leon trekked to Florida from Spain in the early 1500s with intentions of discovering the Fountain of Youth,…
Girls debut album impressive
Christopher Owens, the crooning, brooding, and delightfully disheveled and drug-addled frontman of Girls—a band whose four members are all men, naturally and ironically (naturally ironic?)—is…
For Stars, Rehab Now the Preferred Apology
Before making a televised public apology for all of his indiscriminate extramarital debauchery on February 19, and following months of public perturbation, Tiger Woods was…
Coming-of-Age Books Destined to Seem Irrelevant
In the movie The Polar Express—in which Tom Hanks lends his voice to every major role—a group of children become friends while touring the North…
Sarah Palin will Fall Victim to Herself
At a November book signing at Borders bookstore in Columbus, Ohio for Sarah Palin’s first memoir, Going Rogue, liberal media bloggers Chase Whitestead and Erick…
Latest Season of Family Guy “Atrociously Awful”
Before I begin I must first make it known that I have always been a fan of Family Guy—I don’t believe my sense of camp…
Modern, Isolationist Attitude to Blame for Decline
Down with a world in which the guarantee that we Will not die of starvation has been purchased with The guarantee that we will die…