Coffee, I love you, but I have not always loved you. We met at the supermarket, when I licked some grounds off a self-service bean grinder. Young and foolish, I had expected chocolate, but instead I...

The Tropical Smoothie Cafe in Harrisonburg sits on the edge of a shopping plaza, in a squat, un-tropical building of brick and concrete. Its menu consists largely of alliterative drinks that revolve around...

  Track and Field teams from across the nation converged on UVA’s Lannigan Field Saturday to compete in the 54th annual Dogwood Track Classic. Harrisonburg High School’s team competed against...

For high schoolers who find their employment options limited, due perhaps to academic or filial obligations, affording even the cheapest gourmet coffee can prove difficult. Just ask senior Corin Vogel,...

The third annual Empty Bowls fundraiser collected an estimated $15,000 in donations from local businesses and members of the community. All proceeds will go to the Nasaruni Academy, a girls school in Narok,...

The Trump administration announced it intends to repeal many Obama era climate regulations, chiefly restrictions on offshore gas and oil drilling imposed after the 2010 BP Deepwater Horizon Spill. Trump...

There’s a parking garage downtown with two levels, the upper of which overlooks a small shopping district. I often climb up there to watch the people walking around below, each unique, as they stroll...

Although her friends don’t know it, Senior Lauren Shank is mourning a death. One year ago this November, Jake Fielder, her longtime boyfriend, accidentally took a lethal combination of prescription painkillers...

The Harrisonburg School Board has voted unanimously to build a second high school, but that doesn’t mean anyone’s laying bricks just yet. The city council has yet to approve funding for the project,...

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It’s homecoming night, and Senior Daniel Heiser* doesn’t have a ticket. He sits at home in a leather swivel chair, stocking feet propped up on his computer desk, and texts his friends about the possibility...

Once again, HHS emerges with a victory. On Wednesday, April 29th, the boys and girls varsity outdoor track teams travelled to Spotswood High School to butt heads with other teams in the area: Spotswood...

People tend to plop C418 and Skrillex into the same musical vein, often without a second thought. To assume all Electronica is classified by a monotonous series of bleeps and bloops is, in my opinion,...

Before you call me a sadist, let’s get one thing out of the way: I still used Google Drive and Gmail (for school-related duties)... and YouTube. The extent of my abstinence was Google Search, and I must...

The HHS auditorium has seen lots of breeds: scientists, comedians, authors, and, on occasion, Kindergarteners. On March 24, 25, and 26 the Symphonic Band played their seventh annual Tiny Tots concerts....

The tech industry has a predilection for making anything and everything thin. Heck, “predilection” isn’t strong enough of a word – obsession! The marketability of tech today seems to be measured...

The HHS Concert and Symphonic bands participated in the regional band assessment on March 14 at Broadway High School. The assessment was conducted in front of a panel of VBODA (Virginia Band and Orchestra...

Doubtless you’ve heard of Birdman. It snagged multiple Academy Awards, including Best Director, Best Cinematography, Best Screenplay, and Best Picture. Come Oscar night, I had two picks for best picture....

Hands down, the best thing about writing this blog is translating wasted time on the Internet into something productive. I’m sure many of you can empathize with me on this account: One of my time wasters...

If you haven’t already, check out Evan Dotas’ thoughts on this issue. You won’t regret it. I promise. For those of you completely at a loss as to what issue I’m referring to, congratulations!...

The generation of students currently at HHS remained, for many years, nameless. Some branded them Generation Y. Some, Generation Us. Others, Generation We. Demographers, authors, and historians didn’t...

The browser wars are unique in that you can become a turncoat pretty easily. Changing sides isn’t a multi-hundred dollar affair like in the iPhone vs. Android debate. All that’s required is an Internet...

If you find yourself perpetually trapped in homework’s jaws, your life can start to feel like some cruel, vicious cycle of school-homework, school-homework, school-homework (immediately followed by school-homework,...

Adblock Plus is a lightweight extension that runs in the background of your preferred browser and, hence the name, blocks annoying ads on the Internet from being displayed. According to Adblock’s site,...

Drummer Robert Jospé visited HHS on Thursday, January 29th with his jazz band: Inner Rhythm. He spoke to ELT participants about the history of jazz and played multiple arrangements from Jazz legends,...

The tech world wanted an apology from Microsoft at last week’s Windows 10 event, but instead we got a virtual reality headset. We wanted everyone at Microsoft to say, “Look, Windows 8 was a flop. We...

We live in an age where the Internet provides us with bountiful free music, and it’s a mere Google search away. Owning physical music is a relic of the past, and owning digital music may follow suit,...

The freshman Fine Arts Academy class gathered on Monday, January 12th, to present their artistic works to the public. Each student gave a five minute presentation depending on the “strand” they are...

If you’re like me, your holiday reading haul is dwindling (fast!) and you are scrambling (hopelessly!) for your next book. My friends, now is the time to consult the presence that has all the answers:...

Before I delve in to my review of Interstellar, I think it’s best to look at the condition of 2014’s box office. Interstellar sits comfortably in the eighth slot of the “Top 10 Highest Grossing Films”...

Next school year, Harrisonburg High School will be at capacity. In other words, our school building will be sustaining the maximum number of bodies it was built to hold–that’s 1,547 individuals. From...

Jodi Meadows is a young adult science fiction and fantasy author with residence in the Shenandoah Valley. You may have seen her novels peppered atop shelves in the library or in the hands of students in...

The film opens with a black and white shot of a suburban town. Before any characters are even introduced, one thing struck me: the art direction is phenomenal in The Giver (based off of a 1993 novel)....

You are familiar with the fruitless class. Not that class where you already know the content, or the class that you curse under your breath, no. I’m talking about the first period class. With the...

Howard Stevens was reunited with his old high school on Wednesday, October 22nd, when he returned to HHS. Stevens spoke to students and their families about football recruiting and setting athletic and...

No better place affirms Apple’s influence over today’s society than an HHS hallway. iPhones are cradled in the hands of students like newborn children. Some slouch over their screens, swiping endlessly...

Upper and underclassmen alike flocked to the auditorium commons Thursday to glean information about college admissions. A panel of admissions counselors from multiple post-secondary institutions visited...

For the first time in all of history, the Internet is in danger. The bastion of free expression, instantaneous communication and cat videos hangs in the balance, and many of us don’t realize it. If we,...