Instead of traveling to New York this fall to start at Cornell University, Eojin Choi ’14 will travel to Nepal to start her gap year.
Choi, who is one of the winners of this year’s Brownstein Fellowship,...
To my future self,
This is the fourth one of these that I’ve written (the first ones were in sixth, eighth and 10th grade), and the first one that other people will read. I think that’s better, though,...
When Amelia Miller ’15 got home one day last week, she found a group of people admiring temporary tattoos that said “Matt Miller for Congress, Endorsed by the Los Angeles Times.”
Miller’s father,...
After 23 years at Harvard-Westlake, science teacher David Hinden will be retiring at the end of this school year.
When Hinden first arrived at the school, he only taught Biology and Biology Honors. However,...
The second overnight read-aloud of “Moby Dick” by Herman Melville hosted by the English department is set for April 17.
Instead of spanning a weekend as it did last year, the reading will begin Thursday...
While stuck in a wheelchair after a swimming accident two summers ago, Dora Palmer ’15 entertained herself by sitting on her porch and drawing the people who walked by.
After encouragement from her mother,...
The Get Lit Players, a performance poetry group of Los Angeles high school students is performing this week at sophomore and junior class meetings as part of Poetry Week, hosted by the English and Visual...
Had Lucas Hernandez ’14 stayed in public school after graduating from middle school, he would have attended Leuzinger High School or Lawndale High School, the two high schools in the Centinela Valley...
On the first day of rehearsal, performing arts department head Rees Pugh waited for silence before addressing the 50-person cast of “Hairspray,” this year’s fall musical.
“I hope that this show...
Teachers attended a seminar last Friday titled "Vertical Teaming and Scaffolding of Instruction" given by Laura Zanke, the College Board’s co-chair of AP Spanish Language and Culture development. Due...
After six months of lengthy rehearsals, Amita Pentakota ’14 stepped on stage to perform in “MARA” at the Ford Amphitheatre in Hollywood Sept. 21. In preparation for the show, a classical Indian dance...
Students will have the opportunity to go on a two-week tour of Spain during spring break.
The trip, chaperoned by Spanish teacher Javier Zaragoza, will be from March 21 to April 6.
Students are scheduled...
The Actor and the Stage classes were taught by a guest teacher last week, and are being taught by another artist who is visiting the class this week.
Last week, each section of The Actor and the Stage...
Although the English department added two new courses to the senior year curriculum, the vast majority of seniors still elected to take the AP courses. Only eight seniors signed up for the year long Shakespeare...
When the performing arts faculty discusses what show they want for the fall musical each year, they try to choose a show with a large cast, a large musical value and lots of roles for girls.
Performing...
Although there were two microphones situated at the front of the stage, the poets didn’t use them at all after the end of their first poem in order to move around the stage and have a more active performance.
National...
As junior year comes to an end, I find my friends saying, “I’m so done with school – I just want to go to college already,” even though a year still remains before we will begin college.
The more...
The three upper school choirs, the Harvard-Westlake Jazz Singers, and the Trebletones performed in the Upper School Spring Choral Concert, “In Good Conscience,” dedicated to Harvard-Westlake President...
National Poetry Slam champions Sekou Andrews (also known as Sekou tha misfit) and Steve Connell performed a free show for students today at 1 p.m. in Rugby Auditorium.
Andrews and Connell performed spoken...
The upper school spring choral concert will be dedicated to Harvard-Westlake President Thomas Hudnut, who will perform a song of his choice with the choirs.
The first half of the show will be classical...
By Morganne Ramsey
Wearing “Justin Carr Wants World-Peace” shirts, the Chamber Singers and Wolverine Chorus landed in Budapest after an airplane ride that was more than 12 hours long for their tour...
When Katie Jung ’14 is stressed, she practices the stress and insomnia relief poses that her yoga teacher Katie Lowry-Chang taught her.
Jung has found her junior year to be especially stressful, when...
The choral department hosted a festival in Rugby Auditorium for the Southern California Vocal Association at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday.
Bel Canto and Chamber Singers performed with choirs from four other...
All three upper school choirs and Symphony performed in choir teacher Rodger Guerrero’s doctoral recital at the First Presbyterian Church of Santa Monica on Sunday.
As part of Guerrero’s coursework...
Tate Castro ’13 sat at her kitchen table one summer afternoon, pen in hand, pad of paper at the ready. She was brainstorming, admittedly a little early, for a very big gift that she’d been waiting...
The first show in the Feldman-Horn Gallery featured a "mixed bag" of photography and paintings, many created during the summer. The show opened on Sept. 14 and was the backdrop for the Alumni Reception,...
From new sophomores unfamiliar with improvisation, to experienced seniors, 50 people danced, yelled, and acted at the Scene Monkeys worksop Oct. 5. Two more workshops were scheduled for Oct. 9 and today.
Performing...
Students in Sculpture II and their instructor, art teacher Dylan Palmer, viewed the limited-time exhibition "Ken Price Sculpture: a Retrospective," on Oct. 9.
The exhibition includes some of contemporary...
