By Julie Barzilay Jazz Ensemble, Studio Jazz Band and Jazz Band classes filled Rugby Auditorium with rhythm and blues on April 30 in a jazz concert that was the culmination of a full semester of rehearsal...

By Julie BarzilayPerforming arts teacher Mark Hilt was hospitalized for over three weeks last month for surgery related to a kidney ailment, performing arts department head Rees Pugh said. Hilt entered...

By Ester Khachatryan Two film festivals selected Harvard-Westlake student films for screenings at fall festivals. Video arts teacher Cheri Gaulke was given an award at the erkeley Film Festival, hich...

By Jordan Freisleben Visual Arts teacher Cheri Gaulke and Middle School Library and Technology Department Head Susan Kallok married their respective partners this summer after same-sex marriage was...

By Gene Lee Visual Arts teacher John Luebtow’s glass sculpture concept “Water, Glass, Sound, Light, Movement” was chosen from among four other competitors to be shown as public...

By Marni Barta Title:  “Love Potions and Crowns.”  Location:  the hair salon.  Song:  “Willow Tree.”  With these three seemingly unrelated pieces of information,...

By Annie Belfield The In-n-Out on Van Nuys was filled with laughing teenagers, as the cast and crew of this year’s upper school play gathered to celebrate their opening night on Friday. The American...

Auditions for the spring play, comedy “You Can’t Take It With You” by George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart, begin today at 3 p.m. in the Drama Lab, and will continue Wednesday and Thursday at...

By David A. Alpert A former flag football coach and alumnus died in Beijing after falling from a rock climbing wall in June and suffering a head injury. Mike Brownstein ’99 was the vice president...

By Adam Gold   Performing Arts teacher Ted Walch announced to his first period class last week that all he wanted for Christmas was, well, nothing. That is, not from any of his students. “If...

By Claire Lew A single, clear note hangs in the air, floating down the hall of first floor Chalmers as Danny Weber ’08 draws his bow over the strings of his violin. Suddenly, a deep voice cuts off...