June 14, 2009 @ 10:59 pm
Photo by Ed Clark
Newsweek just published their list of top 1500 high schools in the United States and LaGuardia High School of Music and Art & Performing Arts is ranked #767.
The #1 high school in the US is called Talented and Gifted. I wonder where those students are headed.
April 20, 2009 @ 4:23 pm
It was 10 years ago today that the high school massacre at Columbine occurred, and not surprisingly, there’s a new younger generation who know nothing about it or that it even happened.
Last week, USAToday published an article that effectively laid to rest many of the assumptions that the public was led to believe immediately following the massacre. The killers were not bullied (in fact, they were the bullies themselves), they weren’t part of the so-called “Trenchcoat Mafia”, and it wasn’t violent video games that caused them to shoot up their school.
Here’s a rather chilling detail from the article:
What’s now beyond dispute — largely from the killers’ journals, which have been released over the past few years, is this: Harris and Klebold killed 13 and wounded 24, but they had hoped to kill thousands.
The pair planned the attacks for more than a year, building 100 bombs and persuading friends to buy them guns. Just after 11 a.m. on April 20, they lugged a pair of duffel bags containing propane-tank bombs into Columbine’s crowded cafeteria and another into the kitchen, then stepped outside and waited.
Had the bombs exploded, they’d have killed virtually everyone eating lunch and brought the school’s second-story library down atop the cafeteria, police say. Armed with a pistol, a rifle and two sawed-off shotguns, the pair planned to pick off survivors fleeing the carnage.
As a last terrorist act, a pair of gasoline bombs planted in Harris’ Honda and Klebold’s BMW had been rigged apparently to kill police, rescue teams, journalists and parents who rushed to the school — long after the pair expected they would be dead.
The pair had parked the cars about 100 yards apart in the student lot. The bombs didn’t go off.
Oh, and that story of a girl getting shot point-blank in the head after responding ‘yes’ to whether or not she was a Christian…yeah, that never happened according to the FBI.
April 2, 2009 @ 8:23 pm
A new theatrical release of Fame is set to come out this September and the trailer for the film just went live.
While it isn’t explicitly said on the website anywhere, the new Fame uses the same logo that came with the original 1980 version of the film by the same name, which leads me to believe that the new film is, at least in some way, still about The New York High School of Performing Arts (which later merged with The High School of Music and Art to become LaGuardia High School).
Having seen the original Fame more times than I’d like, I’m curious as to whether or not this new version will be any good. I think a part of me wants to see it because it’s loosely based on the high school I went to. Thanks for the heads up, G!
December 27, 2008 @ 3:39 am
Photo from wallyg on Flickr
Gothamist pointed to a very sad story from The New York Times about how LaGuardia High School might need to cancel their Fall musical because of budget cuts.
What I didn’t know was that the fall musical — which I’ve been a part of in some form or another for 4 years straight — can cost anywhere between $45,000 and $70,000 just to produce.
School officials are considering replacing the fall musical with “Rising Stars” (the LaGuardia HS annual talent show) instead and say that if parents and students can raise enough money, they will try and put on a Spring musical. This is a major blow to LaGuardia school spirit and I imagine that the school will likely lose some sort of reputation as a result of it.
October 3, 2008 @ 1:29 pm
The Triboro from Waldom Pictures on Vimeo.
My friend Matthew McGorry is in this short TV series pilot for a 1-hour show called “The Triboro” (he’s the one shown in the still image above before the video starts loading). The short film is written by Chuck Prorock and directed by Jon Pivko.
The wonderful thing about going to a performing arts high school is that you see a lot of your peers in the entertainment industry (mostly music and film). Every time I come across one of my friends, I always think about how neat it is that I can say that I knew them and worked with them before, even if it was several years ago.
Anyway, enjoy the short film above.
