So, you’re sitting at home, feeling sorry for yourself. Cheer up! The quarantine won’t last forever. In the meantime, I find that sometimes you need to watch some comedy just to cheer yourself up. So, here are a few YouTube ...
“A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic.”
Nowhere is this famous quote (often misattributed to Joseph Stalin, though no one knows its author) better personified than in the world of historical fiction...
Why do we read? Well, there’s a lot of reasons. To gain empathy, to learn, to see things from a different point of view, to know we’re not alone, to gain a better understanding of the world around us. One of the most impo...
In your time in high school, there’s a handful of Shakespeare plays you might read: Romeo and Juliet freshman year, Macbeth and Julius Caesar your sophomore year, and possibly even Hamlet your senior year. However, Shakespeare...
I feel as if, nowadays, not enough teenagers are exposed to comic strips.
It’s hardly surprising. With declining newspaper circulation, as well as a large number of people getting their news online, the once popula...
The Internet loves inspirational quotes. You know the kind: a picture of some famous politician/writer/celebrity, and then right next to it, some words of wisdom, meant to inspire and embolden. Of course, it’s very easy to ...
The other day, I was sitting in French class, and we had to copy and paste something from an article into a Google Doc. “Just use Ctrl+Shift+V,” I told someone. They had no idea what I was talking about, which was surprising to ...
English is filled with expressions and idioms that we use every day without even thinking about it. But sometimes, when you pause to consider the things we say, there are some turns-of-phrase that just don’t add up. With that ...
This past Thursday an unexpected bee was found in Room 49 at Verona High School. The suspected bee, age unknown, had reportedly been in the room for over five minutes before being noticed. The suspect has been known to have entered ...
Frank Anthony’s
Everyone who's anyone in Verona has been to Frank Anthony’s, more commonly called Frank Ant’s. People flock to Frank Ant’s for their iconic Fortunato sandwich which is comprised of a chicken cutlet, arug...
