Seniors on their last day of Dialogue for Democracy, photo by Mrinalini Keskar.
“Don’t be afraid to throw Secretary Aidan Sheeran-Hahnel under the bus,” she laughed.
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In a world where recipes can span back thousands of years, the mug cake is a very recent invention. Mug cakes are, as the name suggests, miniature cakes constructed, cooked, and eaten from mugs. They first rose to prominence in 2009 in a popular YouTube video, although a recipe in a cooking magazine was already circulating in 2008.
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Our second episode of Artist’s of Catlin Gabel stars senior Zia Ma. She’s a talented cartoonist who often finds inspiration from Studio Ghibli. In this video we learn about how Ma transformed doodles in her notebook to a passion towards the abstract side of the artistic spectrum. The acompanian background music was Over the Rainbow played on the piano by Eva VuStern.
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In our third episode of Artist’s of Catlin Gabel, Teresa Walsh talks about her passion for performing arts. In particular she speaks to music and her past experiences with Pacific Youth Choir and current time with Catlin High school Choir. We also get to learn about how the people in her life have helped her reach her true talent. The accompanying background music is Over the Rainbow played on the piano by Eva VuStern.
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CatlinSpeak is starting a new column inspired by the New York City-based photojournalism project, Humans of New York. Humans of New York (HONY) began as an attempt to photograph 10,000 random people on the streets of New York to “create an exhaustive catalogue of the city’s inhabitants,” as the website says.
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Catlin Gabel School’s (CGS) theatre program has had a very unusual year, subject to both the restrictions of theatre spaces and to those of schools. While many mainstream theatre groups shut down entirely - Broadway isn’t set to reopen until August - CGS Upper School theatre was able to put on three performances this year. Of those three, two were completely virtual and the third, a mix of virtual, hybrid, and in person.
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After a long awaited announcement of Catlin Gabel School’s transition to hybrid learning, many students have been left with questions due to the sheer magnitude of new information that is being shared with families. We sat down with Aline Garcia-Rubio, head of the Upper School (US), to answer a few important questions.
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Less than a month and a half after the Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna vaccines were approved for emergency use by the FDA, 24.7 million doses have already been administered, with 3.8 million people fully vaccinated. Despite new, more infectious variants, depressing totals of 4,000 deaths on Jan. 26 alone and over 25 million reported cases and 425,000 deaths in the U.S, and a slower-than-expected rollout, the vaccine offers glimmers of hope for life after COVID-19.
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As we begin the holiday season, families seeking tradition and joy have been further thwarted by a worrying upward trend in cases, deaths, and hospitalizations associated with COVID-19
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The first presidential and vice presidential debates are long gone, and they left little impact on the polls and potentially even less of an impact on the election. FiveThirtyEight shows that the polls changed by less than half a percentage point in the days following the debates. In fact, the only impact that these debates may have had on voters was snappy quotations and humorous moments that stuck on the internet and spread across memes, t-shirts, stickers, and more.
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Young voters aged 18-24 make up about 12% of the voting-age population but much less of the vote. The cohort has the lowest voter turnout of all age groups. Only 43% of youth voters voted in the last presidential election, and past numbers are even lower.
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