Sitting in on the Wednesday, November 7 after-school dress rehearsal of this year’s fall musical, ”Bye Bye Birdie,” you would think you were sitting in on opening night.
“Everything that should be finished is finished, all our costumes, everything.
Usually around this time before the fall musical I’m thinking, ‘How are we going to make this [...]
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The One-Acts Festival, which took place in the library on Tuesday, October 30 and Thursday, November 1, kicked off this year’s Stuyvesant theater season with much laughter. Produced by senior Maggie Margolis and sophomore Jenny Che, the annual festival of short plays offered comedic shows like “Group” by Ethan Silverman, “Brenda and Jerry” by [...]
Surf City Squeeze and Jamba Juice both specialize in offering a refreshing and healthy alternative: the smoothie. Surf City Squeeze, only a five-minute walk from Stuyvesant, shares its space with Samurai Sam’s, an Asian fast-food restaurant.
This smoothie place offers slushies, three flavors of lemonade and four types of smoothies: power, functional, sweet and traditional. [...]
The Stuyvesant Film Community (SFC), founded late last year, has had a rocky start.
Juniors and co-founders Jos Diaz and J.J. Russo wanted to create a community in which inspired students could find actors, equipment and camera crews.
“Though we did have three very successful interest meetings last year, […] we failed to capitalize on that [...]
For a band that has languished in relative obscurity since the ’80s, Defunkt, which has been active since 1978, gets a whole lot of recognition. The group has recently been called the Red Hot Chili Peppers’s biggest influence, in lead singer Anthony Kiedis’s biography.
Defunkt members are some of the most respected musicians in the [...]
How could Clark Kent be Superman without his disguise? Who would Danny Zuko, from “Grease,” be without his leather jacket? How would the Wicked Witch of the West be defeated if Dorothy never took the ruby red slippers? None of these storylines could exist without the role of costumes, which allows plots to be realized [...]
The administration’s decision last year to replace regular sophomore history classes with Advanced Placement (AP) classes has been in full swing since the beginning of this term. Prior to the change, students who chose not to take AP European History their sophomore year were enrolled in Global History.
This is the first time a department has [...]
On the weekend of October 27, computer technician Sydney Lindsay installed 10 new flat-screen computer monitors in the Dr. Ira Lewy Media Center as part of a plan to increase the number of library computers from 15 to 30 by Christmas break.
Fifteen new computers are set to be installed. In addition, the 15 computers [...]
It’s a quarter to four on a Friday afternoon, and the halls of Stuyvesant High School are silent. The few students left in the building are in the library.
These students are all waiting for the start of Open Mic, a monthly sharing of creative works that has long been a tradition at Stuyvesant.
“This is [...]
