Drama, Laughs and Kung Fu in One Acts Festival

On Wednesday, May 26, and Thursday, May 27, in the tenth floor black box theater, the One Acts Festival presented five great short plays. The festival, produced by junior Shelley Li, featured “Family 2.0” by Walter Wykes, “Transience” by senior Emma Dries, “Boom Boom Pow” by Wes Schierenbeck, “Words, Words, Words” by David Ives and “The Night Man Cometh” adapted from an …

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Rebecca Elliott: Stuyvesant Smithy

While buying a pair of earrings, most shoppers have never stopped to think about the time and artistry that went into that creation. Behind every piece of handmade jewelry, however, is the hard work of a jeweler, like senior Rebecca Elliott, to whom a plain sheet of metal has the potential to become a unique and beautiful piece of art.

Elliott began studying jewelry making in the fourth …

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All Angst With All My Sons

… in the Murray Kahn Theater on Thursday, January 14, and Friday, January 15. Directed by juniors Serena Berry and Abie Sidell, it explores the damaged Keller family, who are still haunted by the disappearance of their son Larry during World War II. They have spent three years maintaining the guise of a normal family, and have been somewhat successful. With the arrival of Larry’s sweetheart Anne (junior Willa Beckman), now the fiancé of his brother Chris (junior Matteo Singer), the family …

A&E Picks the Best Jams of the Decade

As we usher in the New Year with festivities, resolutions, and fancy party hats, we cannot help but look back on the past 10 with mixed feelings. The decade had its fair share of tragedy and political turmoil, but it also saw a great deal of progress. And through it all, there has been some excellent music produced. Here, we’ve picked the most memorable songs of the decade for you to …

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The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds

Family issues are infamous for being convoluted, amusing and extremely frustrating. Families experience moments of laughter and happiness, as well as many of misery and hardship. Stuyvesant’s most recent studio drama production, The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds , presented a gripping portrayal of one exceedingly dysfunctional family.

The show opens with …

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Stuy Alumni Pursue the Arts in College

As the alma mater of adult film director Cameron Lyndon Bennett, better known as Bud Lee, Stuyvesant High School has a reputation for producing unique artists.

Recent graduates pursuing artistic endeavors in college may not be directing adult films, but they are nonetheless involved in the arts. Many of these students have not enrolled in arts schools or conservatories but are taking arts …

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‘Jammin

… Game,” directed by seniors Hayward Leach and Ava Woychuk-Mlinac, assistant directed by junior Serena Berry and produced by sophomore Eli Rosenberg and junior Shelly Li, was a fluid and humorous show with only a few bumps.

The show, performed on Friday, November 20 and Saturday, November 21, began with a prolonged overture that could have been twice as appreciated if it were half the length. Once the band ended its lengthy overture, Hines (senior Tasso Bountouvas), the factory efficiency …

Opinions in A&E: Beyond the Hollywood Sign

The box office’s current leaders fall under the same genres as they do almost every other week. Among the leaders are two horror movies, or rather films almost entirely composed of special effects mixed with gallons of conspicuously fake blood. The other leaders include multiple chick flicks containing cheesy plots and just plain bad acting.

The highly anticipated movies of the year, …

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Isamu Fukui: Back in Enemy Territory

After leaving college, most students still have to plan their whole careers. For Isamu Fukui (’08), high school was the beginning of his career—his first novel was published while he was a senior at Stuyvesant. During the summer after his sophomore year, Fukui wrote “Truancy,” a dystopia novel about a group of students who plot to destroy a totalitarian school system. After a year away …

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A Vegetarian’s Food Festival

When the cafeteria serves “cultural” food, it usually comes in the form of “Asian Express” on Monday and “Jamaican Beef Turnovers” on Wednesday. While neither of these sounds very authentic, tasty, or vegetarian, the annual International Food Festival, organized by the Foreign Languages department, was able to provide delicious cultural food, along with many vegetarian options.

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