By ABIGAIL KOERNER Alone on a dock in the middle of the night, an old man said to his young grandson, “Listen.” The boy turned his ears towards a smiling face which didn’t often smile. The old man held his body up with strain in every muscle. Sitting with legs dangling over the edge […]
The 25th Annual Putnam Spelling Bee offers new perspective, refusing to spell out Perfection. By MARISSA GARCIA Though the occasion is a competition of words, there first must be a celebration of numbers: 1 Night. 9 Freshman. 4 Reads. In preparation for what would come to be a one-night-only performance put on by nine […]
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Based on a true story. By ABIGAIL KOERNER Glimpses of the afterlife haunted her as she ran from her demise. Sweat dripped down her forehead and arms swung as she ran! Through darkness, through Harvard Yard, past the Science Center, and onward. Like the Devil himself, her face morphed to shades of red. Eyes squished […]
In light of Olive’s defining moment, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee accomplishes something “visionary.” By MARISSA GARCIA I suppose the old adage – the one any reviewer would wish to convey – would be something along the lines of, “It goes without saying that this musical left me breathless!” I consider it my humble duty to […]
By JASPER FU I always loved the best part of travelling to San Francisco of bouncing impatiently in a rattling SUV down a rattling highway a child eager and in search of the pastel houses and twisting streets are we there yet, Dad that mark the City. Perhaps it has not the cobblestone gravitas […]
A short feature on America’s first National Youth Poet Laureate and Harvard sophomore, Amanda Gorman. By CLAIRE PARK Speaking with exuberant energy and a measured musicality, Amanda Gorman rifles through her latest journal, a treasure trove of what she considers “delicious” words. It’s one among the others she has collected for each year since […]
By ABIGAIL KOERNER In my favorite room of every house My friend often stays Filling up empty cups on horrible empty days! He is so kind, my friend… His duty well known He brews and coos ‘til he isn’t needed any more Water flows into the perfect spot Where it bubbles and broils and trickles down into the pot Flip […]
By ABIGAIL KOERNER Thankful for the laughing, the smiling Making me crazy Setting me free A girl being a girl A girl being me Thankful for your smile How it makes me want to smile back How you grin from ear to ear Smiling worth a thousand words Words I seem to lack Thankful […]
Next Customer Please, a Harvard-Radcliffe Dramatic Club play, premieres and invites you to be a member of its first audience. By MARISSA GARCIA There is something inexplicable about witnessing a show that is on the precipice of premiere. There is no plot line with which we are familiar… no preconceived notions or expectations about when […]