It’s March Madness time again in America. March Madness, for all you athletically disinclined, is the bracket-guessing battlefront for college basketball teams. For sports fanatics, that means checking scores, watching games on their computers and devices during the day, and having the TV on at night to make sure their brackets hold up....
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After spending a weekend of watching game upon game of professional divisional playoff football, I asked myself this one simple question: why watch? Why watch 200 or 300 pound grown men hit each other for three hours? This question has come up many times, and I am going to take the best stab...
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On March 1st through March 3rd, some four hundred high school students from across Massachusetts flocked to Boston’s Seaport and Renaissance Hotels for the 2012 MMEA All State Festival. The festival offers the top student musicians in Massachusetts an unique opportunity to perform with each other under seasoned conductors who have experience playing in and conducting professional ensembles....
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The MMEA Eastern Senior District Festival is a highly selective band, orchestral, and choral festival featuring the top musicians in our region, and it took place on January 7 this year. Students begin practicing their audition pieces as early as June, and auditions take place in late November every year. Instrumentalists and vocalists alike perform scales, sight-reading,...
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I used to think that nonfiction books were just a banal version of movie documentaries. I used to think that I could get the same depth of information from both mediums. Just recently, I read Eric Scholloser’s book Fast Food Nation and watched the documentary he produced, Food, Inc. I was shocked to find...
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