Rachel Papendick’s Column
I was tired
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Adam Gulick’s Column
He’s strapped to a wheelchair, IV pumping morphine into his leg, bald from the treatments and oh so thin. This is my neighbor’s father, a parking meter waiting to expire. Lung Cancer has consumed him.
He picks up another cigarette and puts it between his lips and [...]
Morgan Groulx’s Review
Phonenix ‘Walks The Line’
Photojournalists Worry About Future Careers
By Kathryn Watts, Seaholm High School
Ever since she was old enough to pick up a camera, 17-year-old Lindsay Boeckl said she has dreamed of photographing for National Geographic. An avid fan of the publication, she set her sights on becoming a photojournalist, with the goal of majoring in photography and minoring in journalism during college.
Now, [...]
Editor in chief unsure about taking paper to the web
By Natalie Melnick, Ferndale High School
Rokeyta Roberson nervously stares off in the distance and wonders about the future of her school’s newspaper, The Rising Phoenix. The editor in chief at Renaissance High School in Detroit said she knows her newspaper needs a change in order to gain more readers, but she doesn’t know how to [...]
Erin McClue Walk the Line Review
A Movie Well Worth the “Cash”
Erin McClue
Folsom Prison inmates’ feet pounding the beat of the classic song “Walk the Line” within their cement confines. And one man with a musical inspiration like no other. This it the opening scene of the Johnny Cash life and times production called Walk the Line. The use of time [...]
Arthur Lee’s Column
I have no soul.
The devil was simply too seductive. It presented itself in the irresistible forms of untalented pop musicians. These sexily unmusical figures like Rihanna were much more fascinating than unattractive men that were actually talented. That actually knew how to play instruments. That actually wrote their own [...]
Nitya Sreevalsan’s Column
As I was driving home from school one pleasant, sunny day, I happened to look out of a window into another car. At least five people were in the car, laughing their heads off, with the windows pulled down and the radio blaring. I peered closer. Two of the people [...]
Eric Alcott’s Movie Review
The story of Johnny Cash’s life is sometimes considered sad and depressing but also full of happiness. Director James Mangold captures these moments in the must see movie, Walk The Line.
Staring Joaquin Phoenix as Johnny Cash and he puts as much emotion into his character as his roll in Ladder 49. Reese Witherspoon steps away [...]
Mike Morelli
Mike Morelli of Biggest Loser spoke at the MIPA workshop at Michigan State University in front of a select group of journalism students. Mike, who is now 19, dropped out of his freshman year of college at MSU to take a chance to go on the Biggest Loser journey. At 18 years old, Mike became [...]
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