By: Tommy Sneider <tsneider@hilite.org> Senior Ana Dominguez What’s the best part about Zumba? The best part is, being Puerto Rican, it’s fun dancing to my own Latin music. It’s a great workout and I feel really great afterwards. What do the classes consist of? Our instructor choreographs playlists and songs of Latin music. It’s kind [...]
Continue reading …Hey Mambo: Practicing a turn, freshman Faridah “Faye” Dipatuan and dance instructor Brent Blackwell demonstrate a mambo routine in Ballroom Dancing Club. Club members meet every Wednesday after school in the Freshman Performing Arts Center to learn a variety of dances from different cultures, including the mambo, rumba, fox trot, samba, salsa, cha cha, waltz [...]
Continue reading …By: Cathy Chen <cchen@hilite.org> Senior Joshua Bird said he entered the annual Voice of Youth Advocates poetry contest through the Carmel Clay Public Library last year and ended up winning second place. He said he decided to submit a poem to the contest after receiving positive feedback from his mom, friends and teachers. According to [...]
Continue reading …By: Tim Chai <tchai@hilite.org> National Honor Society (NHS) will sell final exam survival kits again this year, according to NHS sponsor Deborah Haire. She said that the exam kits will sell for a few dollars. “There are order sheets in a lot of places. For one, we sent out order sheets in the last issue [...]
Continue reading …By: Reid Conner <rconner@hilite.org> Director Piyush Dinker Pandya’s first and only film, “American Desi”, tells the story of Krishna Reddy, a second generation Indian immigrant played by Deep Katdare. Being a lesser known, indie-type film, “American Desi” portrays culture identity issues very accurately. It manages to be hilarious and still maintains a seriousness about having [...]
Continue reading …By: Beverly Jenkins <bjenkins@hilite.org> Multi-award winning book Born Confused, from first-time author Tanuja Desai Hidier, is a book that deals with sensitive issues including racial, sexual and religious identity in the most elegant way. The novel, published in 2002, has already won several awards including the 2002 American Library Association (ALA) Best Book for Young [...]
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