Old Bag of Nails at Creekside location. Courtesy/columbuspartybuses.com With nine locations in the Central Ohio area, the closest The Old Bag of Nails to school is just 2.4 miles down the road at Creekside. One of the most interesting features of the restaurant’s inside is the ceiling: it is covered with signed playing cards. Every…

The entire show takes place in a courtroom. (Pixabay) Based on a 1957 movie,  Twelve Angry Men, this year’s fall play: Twelve Angry Jurors will have both male and female students in the cast. This drama centers upon an 11-1 vote in a murder trial, focusing on the jury of the case.  In the beginning,…

“Lilly Was Here” by Laurie Clements. (laurieclements.com)    Academy’s first art exhibit of the year is on display in the Morris Hall gallery, featuring paintings by local artist Laurie Clements P’02 and ’05. Former Middle School art teacher Scott Neal arranged the exhibit.   Art teacher Pedro Mena said, “We decided as a department that Ms.…

 Lead Actors Ben Kingsley and Oscar Isaac in Operation Finale. (wikimedia commons)   In the 73 years since World War II, there have been countless movies about the espionage, violence and heroics that transpired from 1939 to 1945. Now, there’s a new movie, released August 29th, that deals with the international repercussions and effects of…

A section of the mural in various stages of progress. (Grace Harrison’20/Staff) Beginning mid-May, a group of teens were hard at work painting four panels of a mural at the home of Laurie Van Balen, director of the Columbus Crossing Borders Project, the organization who featured an art exhibit at Academy last December. Van Balen…

Twelfth Night performers on Academy’s quad. (Courtesy/Dr. Morris) At 7:30 on Thursday, May 7, senior Anna Shuff ’s adaptation of Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night took place on the Quad and the library balcony. Audience members sat on lawn chairs or blankets spread on the ground.  Twelfth Night’s full script takes close to three hours to perform, so…

Peter DiMaggio’19 and senior Jack Reifeis perform “Apples and Oranges.” (Julia Gurevitz’19/Media staff) In what was one of the most memorable stage shows in Academy’s recent history, the cast and crew of this spring’s musical,The Theory of Relativity, presented stupendous performances on the evenings of April 19-21. In this non-traditional show, scenes didn’t follow a…

Juniors Aylah Mendenhall, Mira Bhasin, Maddie McAfee, and Sidney Edson clap their hands as they sing. (Courtesy/Cindy Wilson) On Friday evening, April 18th, Academy’s Upper School choirs put on their annual Cabaret concert. Performances included several group numbers, solos, and small group performances.  This performance is less formal than the groups’ concerts held in the…

Alyssa Batchelor ’21, Sidney Edson ’19, and Sanskruti Admane ’20 sing “Hallelujah.” Grace Harrison’20/Staff On Friday, February 25, ReVoice held its second annual showcase.  Founded last year by juniors Mira Bhasin and Aylah Mendenhall, ReVoice is the Upper School glee club.  The theme of the showcase was “Hallelujah! Somebody to Love.” Singers delivered an excellent…

Students take part in Indian Dance. Sarah Neltner’20/Media staff The Upper School held its biannual ArtsMania day on Wednesday, February 14, coordinated by the Upper School Art Department. Each student took part in three sessions: some taught by CA teachers and others by community artists. Across campus, upper school students and teachers created paintings, jewelry,…