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Music Post 11: Choirs for a Cause
Finally, we have come to the point in the show choir season where we are just on the brink of competition. The show choir season as a whole is lengthy, beginning with choreography camp in August and ending with auditions for next year in March. It’s a year-round extracurricular and many of the members spend […]
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Music Post 10: Favorite Song of the Week (1/2-8/23): “Water Under the Bridge” by Adele
Just like a lot of other Adele fans, I was over the moon when her newest album, 30, came out. There are some really good songs on that album too, and they’ll likely appear in this series as well. After reigniting my love for Adele with this new album, 2022 held a lot of rediscovering […]
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Music Post 9: Let me put you on: The Symphony of Science
Okay, this is going to be one of my stranger, more niche posts so far. The Symphony of Science (SoS) is a Washington-based electronic music project created by John D. Boswell. It’s a love child between dance pop/electropop and inspiring, informational lectures by famous scientific minds (from Bill Nye to Richard Feynman and others). The […]
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Music Post 8: The masterpiece that is the Game of Thrones theme song (this is basically just a fangirl post for Ramin Djawadi)
Game of Thrones is both my favorite and least favorite show of all time. Everyone knows that after the first few seasons, the show starts to decline which is both unfortunate and disappointing. It’s an absolutely excellent show with a terrible ending. Aside from the show and story itself though, the Game of Thrones opening […]
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Music Post 7: Favorite Hamilton Songs: Act 1
Hamilton is the biographical musical of Alexander Hamiton, a forgotten founding father, composed by Lin Manuel Miranda. It rocketed to popularity among theater nerds over several years after 2015, but I was late to the party, first listening to the musical in late 2019. I listened to the first and second CDs a day apart […]
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Food Post 7: Making Zoa’s Sheet Cake
This is by far the best sheet cake I have ever had, and I would bet money that you’d say the same thing after making this family recipe. It’s a traditional chocolate sheet cake, is super easy to make, and has a frosting that’ll keep you coming back for more. First, grease ad flour a […]
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Music Post 6: The Toxicity of Show Choir
I have been a member of the City High Show Choir family since my freshman year, first as a member of Charisma and later as a member of the varsity show choir, 4th Avenue Jazz Company. I was initially drawn to show choir during elementary school when each eastside elementary school would watch the City […]
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Food Post 6: The Best Desserts in Iowa City
This is likely not the last time I’ll discuss the topic of desserts, but for now, let’s rank some of the best in Iowa City: Cookies: Cupcakes: Ice Cream: Cakes:
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Tech Post 2: Is AI the real threat, or are we?
As a culture and society, we have been overwhelmed with all sorts of media that promulgate the concept of human extinction at the hands of artificial intelligence (Terminator, Ender’s Game, The Matrix, Minority Report, and Blade Runner just to name a few). It seems as though we as a species are obsessed with the idea […]
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Food Post 5: Why you should start growing your own food
Grocery shopping is a monthly (or in some cases weekly) task that nearly all Americans participate in. It’s the habit and practice that sustains us day-to-day and fuels us forward into the following weeks. But grocery shopping is not the only option when it comes to food. One old practice that is gaining more and […]
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