Across 1. Larp 4. Elevator club 5. IB Program 7. Big 9. Cosmos 14. Field Day Down 2. Capricorn 3. Eye Contact 6. Grinding 8. Newspaper Club 9. Class Color…

  I have a confession that very well may jeopardize my status as a loyal Southwest student. During finals week, I stayed at school all day every day to make…

A quick glance at the state of American media—and the popularity of “Mad Men” in particular—denotes an immense fascination with fifties and sixties glamour. It is not unlikely that student…

Southwest High School is viewed traditionally as a bastion of liberalism, where Republican students are oddities, impassioned classroom debates are encouraged, and discrimination is simply not a problem. In my…

Listen up conservatories, suburban schools, and private institutions—the following statement might just knock you off your fancy theater high horse.  It doesn’t take the most funding or the most training…

Our generation is largely defined by how it appears to colleges on a sheet of paper.  We live in an age when to be young means to be on the…

Death and religion have never been laughing matters—at least until now.  ”The Actor’s Nightmare” and “Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All for You,” two one-acts written by Christopher Durang and…

“I Hate Hamlet,” which ran in the Southwest Black Box from October 5-8, was more or less what it sounds like—a fluffy, snarky comedy brimming with witty theater jokes and…