 Ever find yourself bored in the summer with seemingly nothing to do? Here’s a list of 15 things you can add to your bucket list for a fun summer!
 Hello! recently I did a survey asking people one question, what's one song you’ll be playing a lot this summer. I compiled the responses I got into a Spotify playlist that is linked below. Thank you to everyone who responded and I hope you enjoy the LRHS summer music playlist.
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/39c0F99vz6oSTMT2RSdMlo?si=0b81f6f010274546 - Greg Friday Spring Fling Activities and Times
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The following are the dress up days for this years spring fling week
 Very soon the LRHS drama club will be doing the yearly spring musical. This year they will be performing the classic story of Cinderella. Specifically they will be performing the 1957 stage musical version by Richard Rodger and Oscar Hammerstein II. The play follows a young girl named Cinderella who dreams of a better life away from her cruel stepfamily. With a little magical help, her dreams are able to become reality. The director of the play is Brian Tingdhal with music direction by Saphrona Stetson and Choreography by Ciera Harriman. The costumes are by Emily St John and the set is constructed by Chris Madura. The play's many characters will be performed by two different casts. The glass slipper cast will be performing on March 31st at 7 pm, April 2nd at 7 pm, and April 7th at 2 pm. The golden carriage cast will be performing on April 1st at 7pm, April 7th at 7pm, and April 9th at 2pm. Listed below are all the students in the play along with the character they will be playing:  Tickets will be 12$ for adults and 8$ for students and senior citizens. There will also be concessions sold during the show's two intermissions.
The drama club has been working very hard to put this together so definitely come out and watch it if you’re able! - Greg  Lake Region High School’s newspaper team of 1986 focused on a lot of topics that are still relevant today, one of them being stealing in the junior varsity locker rooms. Avern Burnell wrote about this in their monthly issue and it’s very interesting to see the problem continuing 38 years into the future. There were many varying opinions on the subject, but something that struck me as interesting was that Burnell wrote this: “Even though theft continues, some people have been caught. All that they get, from what I’ve heard, is suspension. They should also be forced to pay back money stolen." This clearly indicates that the author was not happy with the current punishments that students were facing and they thought some form of payback on the thief's end was necessary.
Personally, I feel as though putting locks on the lockers is definitely an effective way to prevent stealing, but the fear of your items being stolen shouldn’t be as prominent as it is. I agree with the author in the sense that the theft should be punished and more action should be taken to reduce theft in the first place. To see where we stand as a class, I sent a google form out to the juniors. Of the 22 respondents, 17 students said their belongings or someone they know belongings were stolen. 18 of the respondents said that they believe despite the 35 year change, locker room theft is still an issue. The main resolution most respondents had was to actually use locks on the lockers. It’s crazy how some things never change. -Susie A couple days ago I sent out a Google Forms survey asking people about their favorite music related things. In this article I will be using this data to finally conclude if LRHS has good music taste. Before I get to that I want to thank everyone who responded to this survey. I didn’t expect very many responses but ended up getting 85. That’s crazy considering I couldn’t name 85 people if I tried. Without further ado let’s see if LRHS has good taste in music. The first question I asked was how you primarily listen to music. As I expected most people at LRHS use a streaming service to listen to music. 76% of respondents said they listened to music through a streaming service. If you combine that with the 17 percent of people that said they listened to music through YouTube, that means 94 percent of respondents use an online resource to listen to music. 2 people said CD’s and 1 person said Vinyl records. Also shoutout to the 1 person who apparently has a personal choir sing to them. Very cool.  The next question I asked was about genre. This one had a lot of different answers so I decided to do some combining. Out of eight “main” genres, I put each sub genre into the one that represented it the most. In this chart rap is in the lead with 25% followed by Pop and rock which are tied for second. Metal is 3rd followed by country, jazz, anything and Indie.  The next question I asked was about my favorite musical artist. Like the genre question this one also had a lot of different answers so I decided to break the artists down by genre. Rap artists were represented the most, with 26. Indie artists followed close behind 19. Pop artists came in third with 15. Rock and metal both had 14, which makes them tied for 4th. 5 people answered that they didn’t have a favorite musical artist, followed by 3 people who said R&B artists and the 1 person who said a classical artist. The final thing I want to note is that no one in this or the next question said a jazz artist. The description of the band Dazey and the Scouts said they were a “microtonal jazz trio,” but I think they were joking.  The final question I asked in this survey was about favorite song. Like with favorite artists, I broke this one down by genre. Comparing this chart to the artists chart you can find a lot of overlap. Rap is the lead with 24 followed by indie with 16 and rock with 8. 7 people said a pop song, 6 people said a metal song, 3 people said a country song, 4 people didn’t have a favorite song and 1 person said a classical song.  In conclusion it appears that LRHS enjoys rap and indie. I would also conclude that LRHS has a pretty good and diverse taste in music. I said this in the intro but thanks again to everyone who responded. That’s all for this article, thanks for reading!
-Greg  “Underneath the mainstream of music there is much music that no one has ever heard of”. Back in 2006 that is how former Lake Region student, Corburn Bubier, opened their article about underground musicians. 16 years later there are still a lot of great underground bands, so I decided to do a modern update. In this article, I’ll go over three of these underground bands.  "Turnstile SO36 2020-03-05" by Montecruz Foto is licensed by CC-BY-SA-4.0 Turnstile Let's start this article off by going into the punk world with one of the genres best new bands, Turnstile. After making albums in the hardcore scene for years the group blew up with their 2021 album GLOW ON. The genius of this album (and the band generally) is how they combine the fast riffs and aggressive vocals hardcore punk is known for mixed with more melodic elements. This makes the band easy to get into if (like me) you don’t generally listen to this style of music. I love the guitar riffs and frontman Brendan Yate’s passionate vocals on songs like “HOLIDAY”, “BLACKOUT” and “MYSTERY". I also enjoy the atmosphere of slower songs like “UNDERWATER BOI” and “ALIEN LOVE CALL”. This is definitely a band to put on your radar.  "Alvvays @ Wiltern 10/29/2022" by Justin Higuchi is licensed by CC BY 2.0 Alvvays If you like your rock with less screaming (which is fair) then a good band to check out would be Alvvays. I would recommend Alvvays (pronounced with a W) to anyone who likes indie pop rock. The best way I can think of describing this band's music is that it sounds like you're driving on a mountain highway at sunset. This feeling is given due to the shoegaze and dream pop elements that are mixed in with the catchy chorus the band writes. The songs are also sung beautifully by frontwoman Molly Rankin. Some of the band's best tracks include “After The Earthquake '', “Next of Kin”, “Belindia Says” and “In Undertow”. This band has very quickly become one of my favorites, so if they sound appealing to you definitely check them out.  "Spoon in Concert 2022" by Matthew Vetter is licensed under CC-BY-SA-4.0 Spoon
I don’t want this list to be too long, so I’ll end off with the indie rock band Spoon. This band is the oldest of the ones I’m mentioning in this article, as they have been releasing records since the mid 90s. Despite being over 25 years old, they are still criminally overlooked. I would recommend Spoon to people who enjoy bands like The Strokes or Arctic Monkeys. Frontman Britt Daniel’s delivery comes off as effortlessly cool and the music is played very well. All their albums are worth a listen but the ones I like the most are Kill The Moonlight, Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga and Lucifer On The Sofa. All three of these albums are packed with great songs including “The Hardest Cut”, “You Got Yr Cherry Bomb and “Small Stakes”. In my opinion this band is one of the coolest out there today so I would definitely recommend them. I hope at least one of the bands I mentioned piqued your interest. This was fun to write so I definitely plan to make more. Other members of the newspaper club will also be recreating old articles as well so make sure to check those out. That’s all I have to say so thanks for reading! - Greg Photo References Turnstile_SO36_2020-03-05 Alvvays @ Wiltern 10/29/2022 Spoon in Concert 2022  Recently, in my free time, I’ve been reading a book called The Empowered Empath by Kristen Schwartz. It’s all about highly emotional people, known as empaths. Being an empath is a phenomenon because the western world doesn’t recognize it.
According to Schwartz, two and three percent of the world’s population are empaths. This number may seem very small, but with the world population just recently hitting eight billion, two and three percent equates to one hundred sixty million and two hundred forty million. For reference, the United States population is about three hundred thirty-two million. So, that two to three percent, although seemingly insignificant, is quite a chunk out of the ever-growing sea full of people. Empaths are said to be rare. However, a step below being an empath is a highly sensitive person. These people represent about ten percent of the population, about eight hundred million. Something exciting is that you may never have heard of empaths and highly sensitive persons until this article. I had heard the words before but only knew what they meant once I read the book. A wide array of topics go untaught in schools, including mental health. Being an empath falls under this topic. The author explains that empaths feel everyone’s emotions, which can cause extreme anxiety in crowded spaces. In addition, it can cause depression when an individual is around someone suffering from depression. It is essentially a highly intuitive emotional state, but when this is not understood, being an empath can feel very heavy. Only when an empath learns to separate their emotions from someone else’s can they flourish. Overall, I highly recommend this book to anyone- whether you are an empath or not, it can be beneficial to read because it teaches you how to understand your emotions, which many individuals lack in the modern world of advanced technology. - Susie  If you’ve walked through the front entrance of the school in the last couple days you might have noticed a table set up in front of the office. This table has the signups for the spring musical! This spring the LRHS drama will be doing a performance of Cinderella. You can sign up at the aforementioned table near the front office of the school. Auditions will be held this Tuesday and Wednesday from 2:30 to 4:30, with callbacks being held on Thursday at the same time. Go to https://lrhsdrama.blogspot.com/ for information on things like show dates and character descriptions The drama club is a very fun experience so make sure to sign up if interested.
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