I watched the Cum Laude induction ceremony a week and a half ago. I had a lot of friends being honored and I wanted to be there for them. However, I still ended up watching from the tech booth, removed...
Max Baril '06 spoke to two cinema studies classes Friday about the ways villains have been portrayed in superhero movies after the attacks on 9/11.
Baril has a bachelors degree in Film Critical Studies...
Max Baril '06 spoke to two cinema studies classes about depictions of villains in superhero movies after the attacks on 9/11 Friday. Baril has a bachelors degree from USC and a masters from NYU both in...
Upper School Dean Sharon Cuseo found a gift from a student sitting on her desk. It was a beautiful textile with an intricate pattern made from gorgeous materials. Cuseo wrapped it around herself like a...
HW Works will host its third annual internship workshop with various speakers instructing students on how to write resumes, succeed in interviews and find internships. The workshop will be held after school...
With a $36.4 billion endowment, Harvard University is so rich that it doesn’t need to consider applicants’ financial situations when admitting them. The university promises to meet 100 percent of any...
Puppies helped midterm assessment test-takers alleviate stress again Thursday, courtesy of the Prefect Council.
The puppies were brought through a company called "Puppies and Reptiles for Parties" that...
Seven hours. That’s all. After 17 hours of rehearsal per week for two months, that’s all you have to show what you’ve done: three performances totaling a little more than seven hours.
Auditions began...
Last year, University of Michigan freshman Jonathan Felker ’14 changed his Facebook name to "nutsackface.’’ It was part of a tradition where seniors change their Facebook names to a pun or a joke...
There is too much advice in my life right now. And it’s all about college. My dean, parents, friends, other deans, admissions officers, are endless supplies of application edits, acceptance percentages,...
The Class of 2014 graduated Friday, June 6 on Ted Slavin Field in Rick Commons’s first commencement ceremony as President. The event was streamed live online for the first time this year.
The procession...
Students had a second opportunity Tuesday to take pictures with personal message boards for the Justin Carr Wants World Peace Foundation for the foundation’s website.
The messages will be used as print...
Emma,
You have a birthday on Aug. 5, and you are from Zhanjiang in the Guangdong Province of China.
While we don’t know for sure what happened, I believe that your birth mother must have cared about...
I personally think Jef Mallett is the unsung genius of this generation. He’s the illustrator and writer of the comic strip "Frazz," and before I continue, yes, I do read the comic section of the Los...
Artwork by photography students will be featured in a show entitled "What Remains" at the dnj Gallery at Bergamot Station in Santa Monica June 7 through 21.
This will be the second time artwork by Harvard-Westlake...
To help graduating seniors learn what to expect during their first year of college, Harvard-Westlake will host a mandatory senior transition day Thursday May 22.
The program will last from 9:15 a.m to...
Harvard-Westlake student Improv groups, the Jackanapes and the Scene Monkeys, will perform in Rugby Theater May 9 and 16 respectively. Both groups will have two performances at 4 p.m. and 7 p.m.
This...
Tickets for Prom May 17 at the Loews Hollywood Hotel are now available for sale, Prefect Council announced in an email to seniors May 6. Before purchasing tickets, students and their parents must sign...
Students attending this years Senior prom can now purchase tickets for the event on May 17th at the Loews Hollywood Hotel. Before purchasing tickets, students and their parents must sign the Prom pledge,...
Max Cho '15, Danielle Stolz '15 and Marianne Verrone '15 will serve as the student directors of the Harvard-Westlake Film Festival next year, visual arts department head Cheri Gaulke announced in an email...
Rising seniors Max Cho '15, Danielle Stolz '15 and Marianne Verrone '15 will serve as the student directors of the Harvard Westlake Film Festival next year.
The three were chosen by visual arts department...
I’m stressed and blah blah blah blah blah. If you’re a senior or junior you already know what I’m talking about: sophomores, just wait a few months and you’ll know too. I don’t think further...
Last spring break, Sara Shakliyan sat to the left of choir teacher Roger Guerrero translating questions from Bulgarian into English.
The interview, which was being filmed for the Bulgarian National television,...
Applications to be the student directors of next year's Harvard-Westlake Film Festival are now available to all rising seniors. The application consists of five questions and should be emailed to visual...
Deans and directors of admissions representing 41 different colleges led mock admissions meetings for current juniors and their parents at the annual college night Thursday, April 24.
Juniors from Campbell...
Forty-one deans and directors of admission will hold mock admissions meetings for current juniors and their parents at college night on thursday April 24. The event is open to all current juniors.
In...
Jensen McRae ’15 produced, hosted and performed at a benefit concert featuring 11 Harvard-Westlake students for Big Brothers Big Sisters of Greater Los Angeles. The concert was held at the Complete Actors...
The Righteous Conversations Project of the Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust will screen 12 PSA’s from its summer workshops Tuesday, March 18 at the Moss Theater at New Roads School.
The screening...
The Gender and Sexuality Awareness Club will host a screening of the film "GBF" followed by a Q & A with the film's director Darren Stein '89 Friday, April 11 in Ahmanson Lecture Hall.
"This is an...
Gay and lesbian members of the Harvard-Westlake faculty talked about their experiences growing up in the Gender and Sexuality Awareness Club’s “Ask a Queer Teacher” event on Feb. 24.
Visual arts...
A total of 15 students won gold and silver key awards and honorable mentions in the regional Scholastic Writing Awards competition. The gold key winners will go on to compete nationally.
Gold Key Recipients
Angela...
When it comes to making a mark on the world, who one chooses to fight for matters more than any transcript or diploma, author and Rhodes Scholar Wes Moore advised students and faculty Feb. 19.
Moore’s...
A 38-member selection committee, led by performing arts teacher and Playwrights Festival producer Chris Moore, announced today the 12 plays that have been selected for the 2014 Playwrights Festival. The...
Dave Bushnell runs through the do’s and don’t’s of improv. He throws out terms like "block" and "waffle" to the 13 students who make up the new student improv group, the newly-named Jackanapes.
Bushnell...
On a Friday evening in October, Dave Bushnell runs through the do’s and don’t’s of improv. He throws out terms like “block” and “waffle” to the 13 students who make up the new student improv...
Upper school performing arts teacher Ted Walch will show movies such as "Casablanca" and "Chinatown" during his "Sundays with Ted" film class series.
This is Walch’s second year teaching the class,...
Upper school performing arts teacher Ted Walch will show movies such as "Casablanca" and "Chinatown" during his "Sundays with Ted" film class series.
This is Walch’s second year teaching the class,...
Jazz classes performed in "An Evening of Big Band Jazz" Dec. 14, exploring both contemporary and classic jazz in Rugby auditorium. From 7-9 p.m., upper school performing arts teacher Shawn Constantino...
Daniel Faltus is employed for less than three months out of the year as the musical director of the fall musical and he’s not on annual payroll, but he has an Harvard-Westlake School ID card. He uses...
Writer, actor and director David Wain said he validated his comedic voice while working with the sketch comedy group The State when he spoke to Jason Reitman ’95 Oct. 9 in the sixth installment of Reitman’s...
One evening last January around dinnertime, upper school visual arts teacher Arthur Tobias and his wife noticed a group of local gang members spray-painting a wall near his West Adams home.
When Tobias...
Auditions for the Scene Monkeys, the upper school improv group, will be held Friday, Oct. 25. in the drama lab. Callbacks will be held the following week on Friday, Nov. 1.
Additionally, performing arts...
Comedy writer, actor, director and producer David Wain will answer questions in a Q&A session with director Jason Reitman ’95 in the sixth installment of “Speaking of Movies” Wednesday Oct....
Twelve student films will be screened at five film festivals across the country in October.
“Finding Erica Jones” directed by Natalie Markiles ’13, “Forest King” directed by Nikta Mansouri...
"Speaking of Movies," the Harvard-Westlake interview series that features director Jason Reitman ‘95, will have its sixth annual presentation Oct. 9. at 7 p.m in Ahmanson Lecture Hall with a guest who...
Visual Arts teacher Art Tobias completed work in June on a pair of plaster corbels, which are decorative features at the top of columns, for an old Wilshire house in the historic Los Angeles neighborhood...
For four days in July, self-proclaimed geeks, nerds, fangirls, celebrities and several Harvard Westlake students gathered in San Diego for the 44th annual Comic Con International: a mass of TV and film...
The Senior Art show was scheduled to take place in the Feldman-Horn gallery on Tuesday, May 28, exhibiting all the senior artists’ works from glass to painting.
The show comprising what seniors individually...
The Senior Art show was scheduled to take place in the Feldman-Horn gallery on Tuesday, May 28, exhibiting all the senior artists’ works from glass to painting.
The show comprising what seniors individually...
On the second night of the Jazz Combo concert, six student bands played a variety of musical genres, ranging from John Coltrane to Radiohead to Carlos Santana to several original pieces composed by members...
In support of Genocide Awareness Week, the Genocide Awareness and Activism Club hosted two representatives from human rights organization Jewish World Watch, who spoke Feb. 20 on their experiences with...
Thirteen students and five faculty members made phone calls at the Student Alumni Phonathon on Feb. 7. The SAA provided training for students new to the process before making phone calls to alumni asking...
The Model United Nations delegation attended a tournament where their members won six awards. The Harvard-Westlake team represented Germany on 15 different committees discussing various global issues.
Sara...
Although Alyssa Sherwood’s Photography I class’s film “The Darkroom” was not accepted to the Ottawa International Animation Film Festival, it will be screened at the Salon des Refuses or “exhibition...
