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Junior Olivia Lim practices the piano on the keyboard in the Orchestra classroom. Lim said, "Seeing how musicians convey certain messages to the audience through their playing can shape one's own artistry in many ways."

Star pianist Lang Lang to perform at the Palladium on March 28

Wynne BruBaker March 27, 2025

World-renowned pianist Lang Lang will play at the Palladium on March 28 at 8 p.m. According to Allied Solutions Center for the Performing Arts, he is one of the leading ambassadors in music in the 21st...

Sophomore Yoon Lee writes down a message in Korean on a piece of paper on Mar 12. Lee said that even though most students don’t necessarily understand Korean culture they still try to take in parts of it.

Immigrant students work to assimilate into American culture, still retain sense of cultural identity

Riva Jain March 25, 2025

Sophomore Yoon Lee has never felt more alone than when she first immigrated to America. For Lee, the distance from her home country, family and friends, coupled with the seemingly insurmountable language...

Club Spotlight: French Club

Club Spotlight: French Club

Jenny Li March 17, 2025

Gaia Shields, president of French Club and junior What is French Club? (French Club) is just a fun culture club, (and) I think a misconception of the club is that (students who are in the club) have...

Celebrities deserve our grace too

Celebrities deserve our grace too

Emma Hu March 5, 2025

Celebrity culture is weird. The relationship that the internet has developed with celebrity culture is weirder. These days, the second a celebrity moves, breathes, posts, speaks—does anything—on social...

Asini Jayarapu and Emma Hu

Culture influences continue to modernize ballet

Riva Jain and Ryan Sharp December 11, 2024

Ballet is an artform that has been around for centuries. It began during the Italian Renaissance, and with funding from Catherine de Medici, an Italian noblewoman, and King Henry II, ballet became a widely...

Senior Kaden Rush practices a piece on the violin during the Cultural Exchange Project’s performance rehearsal at CHS on Dec. 9, 2024. As the president of CEP, Rush handled scheduling meetings throughout the year.

Club Spotlight: Cultural Exchange Project

Lucy Han December 11, 2024

Kaden Rush, president of Cultural Exchange Project (CEP) and senior Why did you become an officer for CEP? I started CEP because there were lots of things I wanted to do at the school, like in arts...

Sophomore Ellen Rozmaryn volunteers at a small museum in Christkindlmarkt. Rozmaryn said this experience strengthened her connections to the community.

Christkindlmarkt volunteers build personal cultural awareness

Riva Jain December 11, 2024

As sophomore Ellen Rozmaryn stands in the crowded Kulturecke, a small museum sponsored by the Indiana German Heritage Society, she talks to visitors in German, guides them around the market and talks about...

Freshman Sofia Ludington-Barquet rides atop a camel on her way to the Great Pyramids at Giza on Monday, May 29, 2023. “To touch, feel, smell---and just be there---was so much better than looking at the magazine that I had looked at all my life. It truly was incredible,” said Ludington-Barquet. (Submitted Photo: Sofia Ludington Barquet)

International travel provides students, teachers diverse views and experiences

Shawn Feng September 20, 2024

Freshman Sofia Ludington-Barquet had always been interested in different parts of the world, but her fascination with travel began in earnest after graduating kindergarten, when her parents gifted her...

Chinese teacher Tungfen Lee prepares her students for the AP Chinese exam on May 9.

Chinese language day April 20: Bilingual students, Chinese teacher discuss importance of retaining fluency in native languages

Aidah Brown April 23, 2024

Many people in the United States speak another language at home. According to WordsRated, 3.40 million people in the United States spoke Chinese at home as of 2024. This significant number allows for ties...

Pageant titleholder, model, teacher, postdoctoral fellow reflect on Black is Beautiful movement, beauty standards, culture

Pageant titleholder, model, teacher, postdoctoral fellow reflect on Black is Beautiful movement, beauty standards, culture

Grace Guo March 31, 2024

Black is Beautiful In 1962, in Harlem, New York, brothers Kwame Brathwaite and Elombe Brath hosted a fashion show with their artist collective, the African Jazz Art Society and Studios (AJASS)....

Two students celebrate St. Patrick's Day at Shamrock the District on March 16. Beth Hohlier, the owner of Muldoon's, said, "We have bagpipers, bands, karaoke and more...We have Irish bingo that's new this year inside the tent."

Shamrock the District at Muldoon’s highlights Irish culture, St. Patrick’s Day

Anthony Pho March 16, 2024

The annual Shamrock the District event will occur for the sixth time on March 15 to 17 at the Muldoon’s restaurant in Carmel’s Arts and Design District. First hosted in 2018, the three-day event on...

In light of National Languages Week, students, language instructor discuss effects of learning one’s mother tongue

In light of National Languages Week, students, language instructor discuss effects of learning one’s mother tongue

Ayaan Nadeem and Salima Sher March 1, 2024

Throughout his childhood, sophomore Rafan Tajwer said his earliest memories were in his mother tongue of Urdu. “So by technical standards, my first language is English, though my earliest memories...

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