Author: Coby Wooten, Staff Writer
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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 up with the idea for Paulfest with his band,…
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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 a period of reflection, to look back with nostalgia…
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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 Hotel at North Hills on Sunday, May 16. Kendra…
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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 TV, Alley’s struggle to slim down to her formerly…
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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 meaningful connection during a decade of decadence and decline…
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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 act will allow individuals over 21 to legally purchase,…
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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 it surgically adhered to his forearm for added convenience—I…
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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 his opinions in regards to any given topic—and he…
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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 establishing their own tiny businesses. The prevalence of these…
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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, a legendary spring that is said to mystically restore…
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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 possibly the most fantastically tragic yet unbelievably lucky person…
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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 discharged from inpatient services at the Pine Grove treatment…
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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 Pole on Christmas Eve while all the other kids…
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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 Stroll interviewed eager Palin supporters to find out what…
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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 or situational humor would have developed in quite the…
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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 of boredom. –Situationist graffiti Paris 1968 Not too long…