Steve Dvorkin
The Arab Spring (as the wave of middle-eastern revolutions are called) reached Syria in March of 2011. Citizens of a small city in the south of Syria took to the streets to protest the torture of students who had out up anti-government graffiti. The government responded brutally, and the protests quickly spread across the nation. Syria’s leader, Bashar...
Alice Kesler
Since Invisible Children, Inc. uploaded “Kony 2012” to YouTube on March 5, it has received both good and bad criticism. Over one week, the video has raised over 80 million views. The film shows Jason Russell, the creator of the video, making efforts to educate people about the Lords’s Resistance Army (LRA) and what Joseph Kony, the head of the...
Larson Holt
A whale breaching in Laguna San Ignacio, Baja California When we think of a biodiverse region of the world, our first instinct is to say somewhere the likes of Madagascar. or Borneo. The African Savanna. The Amazon. Really, anywhere that shows up in the nature programs on the Discovery Channel and National Geographic. But one place you’re...
Larson Holt, Editor
A crowded plane, a common scene for today's airline traveler. On December 17, 1903, when brothers Wilbur and Orville Wright achieved the world’s first powered flight in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, they never could have imagined what their invention would lead to. Massive but cramped planes, hours of delays, despised customer service and super-high...
Larson Holt
The way I see it, every song has potential to be a great song when it’s first envisioned. The only way to make a bad song is to make a song not live up to its potential. Sadly, that’s exactly what British boyband The Wanted have done with their now-famous single, “Glad You Came”. If it didn’t try to overuse its potential and be both a hip-hop...
Daniel Bromfield, Music Journalist
Lana Del Rey Born To Die The reason Lana Del Rey is so inscrutable is because it is incredibly difficult to determine whether she is an indie pop singer or a straight-up pop star. If the former, Del Rey will surely be the latest spark in the debate over whether or not commercially successful, major-label “indie” music is still applicable for what...
Nick Thayer
With the One-Act play festival happening this week, we’re celebrating 30 years of Back À Dos, International’s amazing theater program. To find out about how it came to fruition, we interviewed Martha Stookey, the former Artistic Director of FAIS/IHS, and the one who essentially founded the program. Though she retired in 2006, Martha continues to...
Steve Dvorkin
The San Francisco City Hall was heavily damaged after the 1906 earthquake. 2011 was a year filled with earthquakes. All around the world, major quakes hit; Chile and Argentina received 7.0 earthquakes in the beginning of the year. Papa New Guinea was rocked by a magnitude 7.1 earthquake. A 9.0 earthquake, the biggest of the year, caused a large tsunami...
Felix Merk
The reason anyone should care about Europe is because if Europe falls – and with it the euro the U.S. might enter in a double-dip recession. A double-dip is when the economy collapses again after a crisis. If Greece defaults now on it’s debt, investors around the world will get out of anything European–causing a widespread...
Kelsey Boylan
About the Student-Directed One Act Play Festival The annual Student Directed One Act Play Festival showcases the work of a select group of seniors, who, with great independence, undertake all aspects of directing a one act play. They set up rehearsals, work with actors, oversee a design team and take a show from early conception through full performance....
updated January 27, 2012
Alice Kesler
A few weeks ago, I had a chance to interview a student at International, Nicole Kramer, who traveled to Kenya for a project she is working on with homeless children, which is Vijana...
updated March 23, 2012
Larson Holt, Editor
A crowded plane, a common scene for today's airline traveler. On December 17, 1903, when brothers Wilbur and Orville Wright achieved the world’s first powered flight in Kitty...
updated April 9, 2012
Daniel Bromfield, Music Journalist
Action Bronson Dr. Lecter Hop in the whip and go for breakfast Fried eggs and prime steak that’s straight from out of Texas Damn I’m living reckless, smoking all day just like the...
