Matt Braly’s dream of becoming a professional artist began in high school when Pixar animator Bobby Podesta spoke to him during Career Day. Now 30, Braly is the creator and executive producer of Disney Channel’s original animation series, “Amphibia,” which debuts on...
Blue and white stage lights illuminate the stage as audio clips of media coverage on recent and famous shootings play in the background. Audience members watch with rapt attention as the cast of Spring Awakening reappears from backstage, now dressed in modern activist...
As a child, I grew up watching Hannah Montana religiously every Friday at 8 p.m. and practically lived for those 30 minutes each week. So, imagine my enthusiasm when I discovered that “Hannah Montana: The Movie” was set to arrive in theaters in April of 2009. It was...
“Democracy is a verb!” This is the motto that Action Civics Los Angeles lives by. On April 24, Action Civics LA hosted their 3rd annual Action Civics Showcase, an event in which students displayed projects they had created that provided their own take on solutions...
Senior Leon Tran is the first person from Gabrielino High School to ever to become the State Champion of United States Extemporaneous Speaking. Four years ago, this feat would have been unimaginable as Tran performed in Duo Interpretation, an event in which the...
Insiders travelled around The LA Times Festival of Books on April 21 with Tre’vell Anderson, a LA Times film reporter who specializes in black and queer coverage. Discussing queer representation at the festival and in modern art mediums, Anderson reflected on his...
Confident. Natural. Stunning. These are only some of the key characteristics attributed to freshmen Bianca Lua when she performs her speech “Prissy Thomas” during tournaments. Entered in Dramatic Interpretation, Lua captivates her audiences with her stage presence and...
In the seventh grade, Annabelle Cook followed her sister Caitlyn Cook’s footsteps when she joined the Speech and Debate team at Jefferson Middle School. Now a senior and the co-event leader of Original Prose and Poetry (OPP) of the Screamin’ Eagles Speech and Debate...
In 2012, Gabrielino High School's art teacher Kat Ross introduced her Art in Motion class to stop motion animation when she was inspired by Australian artist Benjamin Ducroz’s stop motion piece, the Möbius Strip. This year, her Art in Motion class continued with their...
Throughout his career, playwright August Wilson produced the “American Century Cycle,” a series of ten plays that depicted the comical, yet tragic, aspects of the African American lifestyle in the 20th century. This year, Wilson’s legacy lives on as the Center Theatre...
