Jordan Dearing-Harmen’19 receives the Louis Armstrong Jazz award and the John Phillip Souza award, the first student in Academy history to receive both. (Riley Hennessey’19/Media) Friday, May 3, marked Academy’s annual All That Jazz concert. The theme, “Jazz by Moonlight,” fit well with the mood of the night. Consisting of an array of pieces featuring…

(Wikimedia Commons) In its eleven years of existence, the Marvel Cinematic Universe (colloquially known as the MCU) has become a cultural experience of unprecedented magnitude.  To date, the MCU has released 22 movies, earned close to 19 billion dollars, and witnessed a generation of kids grow up alongside the country’s favorite superheros. It is an…

Supreme Court Judge, Ruth Bader Ginsburg. (Wikimedia Commons) Ruth Bader Ginsburg, at 85, is one of only four female Associate Justices to have served on the Supreme Court. She has held office since 1993 and is inarguably an exceptional woman. But her journey to becoming a Justice was not simple. On the Basis of Sex,…

Warning: This article contains spoilers for both Avengers: Infinity War and the trailer for Avengers: Endgame. (Wikimedia Commons) “Is this thing on?” These words, spoken by Tony Stark in what seems to be a final message to Pepper Potts, are accompanied by an image of a shattered Iron Man helmet. The cinematography is telling: what follows,…

(Wikimedia Commons) Outside of an AMC movie theater on a late Friday night, cars fill its parking lot as usual. Inside, the scene is close to chaotic. A line of anticipatory fans waits, situated in front of a larger-than-life multicolored poster. The line waits for about an hour, exchanging theories and anxiously checking watches, until…

In an effort to complement students’ learning, the sixth grade team has created a project to teach its students about business.  The project, dubbed the Business Fair, has been described as “an interdisciplinary language arts and mathematics project” by one of the leaders, Ms. Sonam Shahani.  Spanning the entire last quarter, students were given class…