In Santa Barbara last week, a man committed mass murder in an attempt to rectify what he perceived as injustices done onto him by women. He uploaded YouTube videos with paleopatriarchal rants about how...
The return of the National Art Honors Society’s Soup Night was on May 1, which attracted a sizeable crowd of audience members and performers. Mimicking the format of the previous Soup Night, which took...
Practices for the Harrisonburg High School Men’s A Cappella group, affectionately nicknamed “Mancappella”, have begun. In preparation for this year’s Spring Arts Festival, the group sat down for...
The Harrisonburg High School electives fair was held March 18 in the auditorium side commons. Several teachers and students brought out large poster boards and TVs to advertise their elective options to...
Illogicism: The ideological form of idiocracy, except more personalized, and more dogmatic. Illogicism is becoming the only neologism I can think of that accurately describes some things I witness on a...
Imagine watching live TV in a Youtube format. Now imagine that offered as an app for your phone, then you have Twitch. Once a sister website to Justin.tv, Twitch has emerged as the forefront online video...
The internet has been set ablaze with the new phenomenon known as Twitch Plays Pokemon. Originally designed as a simple social experiment, the game blew up beyond the expectations of the creator. Based...
American Conservatism is its own shadow. While we are all cognizant of the underbelly of politics and political parties, the dark side of the GOP isn’t just corruption and deceit, it is itself.
The...
This year’s Super Bowl, as one of America’s primary cultural events, proved to be a shining example of the emerging state of American media. From the opening performance of the National Anthem to the...
The Newsstreak staff is a politically diverse community with many different opinions. As such, two staff members recently submitted the following two stories from directly oppositional viewpoints. For...
As Martin Luther King said, “The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice.” This past week, that narrative of progress has taken leaps forward: Mark Herring, Attorney General...
Bigots and defenders of bigotry have gone ablaze Thursday morning after hearing that their beloved messiah Phil Robertson, patriarch of the Duck Dynasty clan, was indefinitely suspended from the show for...
College application season is nearing its end, leaving seniors around the globe scrambling to finish their essays and supplements by the New Year’s deadline. At Harrisonburg, seniors are attempting to...
At this point, virtually everyone in the Western world has heard about and had a good laugh at the infamous Rob Ford. The Mayor of Toronto has been riddled with controversy since even before his election....
Hip hop and rap have been a revolutionary genre of music, without question. At a fundamental level, it infuses many aspects of black art and innovation into one truly interdisciplinary genre. Back in its...
Men in tights twirling swords was on the lesson plan for the AP English 12 class, who traveled to Staunton on Dec. 4 to visit the internationally accredited Blackfriars playhouse. The field trip consisted...
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Join Luke Gibson and Aubtin Heydari for a world first look at this week's HHS news....
Select members of the HHS Newsstreak staff attended a conference presented by the Virginia High School League and Jostens on Oct. 7. Held at the convention center in Fredericksburg, Virginia, the one day...
National Coming Out Day is Oct. 11, an internationally observed awareness day that commemorates individuals who publicly identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender. Its purpose day is to create...
The Junior and Seniors went head to head in the annual Powder Puff football showdown. It’s a time to subvert traditional gendered sports practices and combine men’s two favorite things: football...
