Life Through A Lens Blog: Facial Recognition
BY ALEXANDRA LEVINSON With  college deadlines looming, I’ve been scrambling to take the best possible photographs to complete my portfolio. This has prompted me to set up many photo-shoots, one of which was with my friend G as the model. With the backdrop of a park called The Ridge, I was... Read more
BY KAYLA LOKEINSKY During a time when seniors should be focused on the daunting task of preparing for their lives after high school, most were waiting with bated breath for an answer to the most vital, life-changing, groundbreaking question of their high school career: Who, among their class, will... Read more
Life Through A Lens Blog: Empire State Of Mind
BY ALEXANDRA MADAR I was in the fashion capital of the world, New York City, this summer in preparation for Fashion Week. I stayed in a models apartment with the most spectacular view of the concrete jungle. After a busy day of castings, meetings, and jumping in and out... Read more
  BY DESIREE DEMOLINA With recent online mediums, such as Twitter and Facebook, generating pages that allow verbal slaughter to the city of Cooper City, we have to ask ourselves: Is there something wrong with our corner of suburbia or are we simply instilling the idea through our complaints? ... Read more

To Be Or Not To Be A Hipster

Blogs September 15, 2011

  BY JEREMY HAAS It’s a word most high school students have heard by now.  It’s derogatory, and it’s mysterious.  “Hipster” is a phrase used to describe a large group of kids, but its true meaning is unknown.   This word, with no official definition, is normally used to describe... Read more
Life Through A Lens Blog: Remembering 9-11
BY KAYLEE OBERFIELD The Tuesday before 9-11 in Mrs. Sharp’s class AP Art, students gathered around a scrap of the steel structure salvaged from the World Trade Center after the attack. Mrs. Sharp was lent the piece, which is now in an installation at the Fire Museum in Ft. Lauderdale, in... Read more
Life Through A Lens Blog: If I Only Had A Brain
BY ALEXANDRA LEVINSON This past summer, I interned at the epilepsy center of Kansas University’s Hospital. Epilepsy is neurological disease that causes chronic seizures, so I spent a sizable amount of time looking at brains. During an autopsy of a man who had died of multiple sclerosis, I had... Read more
Musical Chairs Blog: We Are Warped – A Warped Tour Retrospective
BY MICHAEL LLERENA 1994. A truly pivotal year in the history of punk rock. Green Day releases their Grammy award-winning opus Dookie. The Offspring release the equally pivotal album Smash. Coincidentally, this was also the year that Lollapalooza veteran Kevin Lyman created his own tour to showcase his favorite... Read more
  BY ALYSSA FISHER I have no excuse to miss a deadline ever again. In less than three days, I wrote three articles, shot a video and edited it. I’m so pumped right now. Let me back up. It is Web Week here at the cherub program, meaning that... Read more
  BY KAYLA LOKEINSKY AND SARAH ROUSSELL We are blogging together from the University of Miami summer journalism program. As we begin to put together our video stories let’s recap our second week at the Miami Montage We recently completed all of the articles that are going into the... Read more