Arts+and+Entertainment

= = =The Celebration of Cultures = By Colin

The Celebration of Cultures will take place at Merrill Middle School on May 6. “This is a very good way to express your culture through performance” according to some interviewees. “It is a great way to represent your culture” according other interviewees.

 There are many other meanings to this than just entertainment. The last time this school did the celebration people enjoyed it a lot. “I think this celebration could actually help people understand and learn about different cultures,” according to one of my classmates.

 There are many cultures performing but not just performing. There is also going to be artistic crafts and various cuisines. “It is a real-life portrait of Merrill,” says our principal. There is going to be a festival and food afterwards. Please go to this celebration of cultures. = =

= Drama = = =

by Mireya


Drama is an after school activity. There are not a lot of people in the drama there are only 6 people and they are….

1. Paradise (Eydie) 2. Alyssa (Lisa) 3. Shawna (Mary) 4. Anastasia (Rosy) 5. Jordan (assistant director) 6. Rebecca (Bette) 7. Mr.Erikkson (Director of play) They all have really important parts in the play because they all have to be doing some special part in the play or the play would not be complete. While Interviewing Mr. Erickson he said that it has been harder to teach the play this year than other years. Also he said that not everyone has learned the play parts because not everyone goes to the practices everyday. If not everyone goes to the practices; they have to cancel the practice for everyone. He has taught theatre for the past 12 years. He has thinks that other people can do it to but nobody has volunteered. He loves to teach theatre and loves to teach kids. He thinks that it can get frustrating to teach but for the first one or two tries it wasn’t frustrating but for the fifth and sixth time it was kind of frustrating. He does one play per year. I asked him if everyone puts effort to the play and he said that some people put more effort than others. I interviewed Paradise she is in the play and she plays the part of Eydie. She said that Mr. Erickson wrote the play and that it might have taken him some time to write. I asked her what does she do playing Eydie and she said that she is eating some food. She also said that Mr. Montano makes the props and sets but that Mr. Erickson already had some of the costumes and props. An average length of a school play is about an hour. She said that she joined drama because she thought that it would be fun but she said that she would not be in drama next year because she thinks that it’s a lot of work and she thinks that she will not be fully devoted into that next year.

= = = The Band Concert =

by David


The Band Concert was a hit! The band concert was April 5th, 2010. It was from 1:40 to 2:25 pm when everybody in the school went to see the show. Michael Quintana, the band teacher, thought the band concert went really well. In the evening, when all the parents of the kids came, the concert was 6:00 to 7:00. Everybody seemed excited to see it. Kids who did not have time to go home then come back could stay in the band room. They watched “Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs”, and after that was over, they watched the first part of “The Game Plan”. They could eat, and play with any electronic they brought. At 5:15, they had to get their instruments ready, and head to the auditorium for practice. At 6:00 the concert started. Everyone started out with “Linus and Lucy”, the Charlie Brown theme song. After that, the 7th and 8th graders played some songs, and then the 6th graders alone played “Sawmill Creek”. Then they played the “Spongebob Squarepants” theme song. Then, the 7th and 8th graders played the song “Frontier Suite”, and then the 6th graders played “Waltz of the Weiner Dogs”. Then the concert was over. It went really well.

Michael Jackson

by Andy
Now I’m sure that there are many people who are tired of hearing about how, before his death, he was such a pedophile, and then once he dies, he becomes the best person ever. Did he do something that I am unaware of? Didn’t he still touch those children? I simply do NOT understand why he became such a big hit after his death. Having said that, let’s have a look back on this man (note that I am just saying “man” not “incredible man”)’s life.

Michael Jackson was born on August 29th 1958 into a family with an abusive father. During rehearsals, he was abused when he didn’t do something right. Up until fifteen years of age, he was in the family band called “the Jackson five”. In 1975, the band changed their name to the Jacksons, and was given a record deal by Epic Records. Michael then proceeded to release the single best selling record of all time: Thriller. He then proceeded to make a commercial for Pepsi that would, indirectly, end up killing him. Oh yeah, and his hair caught on fire too. You see, he ended up taking pain medication to make the pain go away… forever, but he kept taking it, and then he died.>.

Now, during this period, there was much confusion about whether he was black or white. I’d like to clear things up for these people. He had a disease that was giving him blotches of white on his skin. He decided to bleach it so that it wouldn’t be noticeable. When the blotches started getting whiter than his skin, he bleached his skin AGAIN… at this point, I’m not willing to sympathize with him…

Terminator Salvation producers go down the drain!

By Joel
Derek Anderson and Victor Kibicek file for bankruptcy protection! A week after the film was released in theatres, which has made over $317 million in worldwide tickets. The film producers and maybe even the film itself are in danger. The two main producers are faced with over $20 million dollars. Yet they only have made $5 million from tickets. In addition to that they owe a large amount to the author of Terminator. Because they haven’t paid their debt before he deadline they now face several legal issues with an one that they owe money to.