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Photo Essays from 7th graders
Limmericks from 6th graders
There once was a man named Bob
who was a big slob
He went down town
To rent a huge clown
And that became his very first job
There once was a girl named Sally
Who had a best friend named Ally
They sang all the time
They bet for a dime
Who could kiss Mr.McNally.
-Skye P.
There once was a girl named Jordan
She hated her basketball warden
She made a plan
Involving a clam
Then her disgust towards him shortened.
-Alanis A.
There once was a guy named Dan
Who jumped hard on a can
He then hit his head
And placed himself in a bed
Poor Dan had a short life span
-Stefania S.There once was a girl named Mary
Who was always very scary
People ran away
She just wanted to play
Now she lives in a cemetery
-Angelica G.
There once was a boy named Joe
Who really liked to bite his toe
He went to the lagoon
With a walking balloon
And ended some kind of show.
-Aime H.
There once was a young fellow named Hall
Who often would fall
He hated to trip
But always would flip
Then hit himself on the brickwall.
-Emmanuel G.
There once was a guy named Chase
Who had a big blue case
He found it in March
On his way to the Arch
It was thrown from a bike race.
-Edwin H.
There once was a person named Mike
Who loved to ride his bike
One day he rode into a mat
with socks on his hat
and he now prefers to hike.
~Ernest R.
There once was a girl named Dora
Who loved her crazy friend Nora
They gossiped all day
Till the sky was gray
Racing home and rocking to Pandora.
~Dania C.
There once was a girl named Sandy
who ate some strange candy
some made out of toe nails
some made of lizard’s scales
when she was hungry they came in handy
There once was a girl named Jenny
Who was looking for a penny
She found a log
that contained a dog
So then she named her dog Lenny -Jenny F.There once was a girl named May
Who had an exceptionally crappy day
She slugged to her house
Then wailed to her spouse
“Why does it have to be this way?”
Onomatopeia from 6th Graders
Found Poems from 6th Graders
Flowers for Algernon from the 8th graders
Wedge in My World
I want to be smart
I have nuthing more
Dumbness is my curse
Intelligence was my stregth
The operashun was a success
I became smart
But with a price
Genius put a wedge in my life
Inkblots change me
Every blot is a mark of
My ignorance
I don’t care if it hurts
But the pain is great
I am alone
Algernon and I are pressured
To be examples of innovation
We are detorating
I must go away
Life is amazed now
I am now
LOST
BY: IRIS
"SOME LIKE IT HOT" at HistoryMiami
“We’re proud to be the first Miami museum to present the work of these incredible local artists and the street art movement, both pieces of South Florida’s history,” says Stuart Chase, Museum Director and Chief Operating Officer. “Aside from a few pieces sitting in private collections, art of this kind has been conspicuously absent from museums in Miami until now.”
Curated by Brandon Opalka, HistoryMiami presents “Some Like it Hot,” an exhibition highlighting Miami graffiti artists and muralists. Recently, street art has experienced a surge of popularity in Miami and has moved into the realm of fine art.
The work displays the vast variety and the scope of local street art, inspired by the city of Miami and its diverse, complex, and rich cultural landscape.
Artists like Abstrk, Astre 74, Atomik, Bhakti Baxter, Brandon Opalka, Erin Odea, George Sanchez-Calderon, Gustavo Oviedo, Hox, Jeffrey Noble, Luis Berros, Pucho, Tatiana Suarez, and Victor Muniz interpret their city and present who they are as artists within that context.
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DORIT CHRYSLER INTERVIEW
When did you discover the Theremin and what made you gravitate toward it?
About ten years ago a friend had a theremin for repair at his house, he demonstrated it to me and I was intrigued!
Rather than the austere approach some theremin players have, you seem to utilise it in a professional yet playful way , sometimes paying homage to sci-fi kitsch, a style more akin to its famous usage in 1950's sci-fi movies, where do you draw you inspiration from for your style?
I appreciate the emotional expressiveness a theremin brings to the
table, I like its humour too, it's drama and its eeriness, mostly the
unique way of laying several layers on top of it, when it creates a
weaving effect that taps into the subconscious.
But yes, I grew up being a huge star trek fan, so I could easily relate to the theremin from its sci-fi angle, it just doesn't stop there, for me the theremin is a serious instrument, even when also used in a light and playful way - different styles, bring it on!
Does Léon Theremin's life interest you - the eccentricity and
innovation? As with Nikola Tesla his life was permeated with a
strangeness and otherness - does the alluring arcane romanticism of this period in scientific discovery permeate your attitude and
approach toward the Theremin? Are there any areas of science that really interest you?
Obviously I want to know what makes things work and the innovative
lives of both Theremin and Tesla are fascinating and inspiring. I
ventured to Belgrade to play right next to a Tesla coil and Tesla's
ashes in a museum carrying his name -I also traced back Theremin's
early life when i was in St. Petersburg, the big question beckons if
those two ever met during their time in NY, the city has many traces
of both of them. To be honest, my strength lies more in history than
physics, but i do like to take a screwdriver in my hand and fix things.
Are there any tweaks or adjustments that you have implemented to a Theremin ,or inventive ways you have discovered of manipulating the Theremin's sound and capability?
It seems to be a big job already to get the intonation right, so i am a
bit conservative when it comes to that, I do enjoy sending the theremin
through different effect boxes though to influence its voicing, some old
guitar effect box that I customized, a line 6 pedal and some
moogerfoogers, then some looping to turn the phonophonic instrument
polyphonic.
Moog music is working on a new Theremin based prototype and i am working with the engineers to customize some of its settings, so that is a big thrill to actually be able to influence the design of an instrument. The
outcome remains to be seen!
What's the most fun or innovative project you have been involved with Theremin wise?
Hard to tell, there have been so many different angles, playing along
and being attacked by dancers, but my favourite was a production by
Philippe Quesne, a big bus filled with an innocent audience drove into a
big hall filled with smoke, as people stumble out of the bus,
disoriented by the fog, the headlights of the bus hit the Thereminist
and the music starts, a setting like swamps in a horror movie, a
Thereminist's wet dream!!
Your collaborations have been excitingly diverse, and as well as
lending melodies and atmosphere to peoples work ,you have also guested with artists with a very abrasive sound - what was it like collaborating with J G Thirwell, and how did that come about?
JG Thirlwell and myself go a while back, we dated for some years and
ave been best friends ever since. One of my first big tours was opening
for foetus, and it influenced me very much, I think, mostly in terms of
showmanship. I know his, as you call it, abrasive sound but I also know
other musical sides of his very eclectic tastes, in general I like the
challenge of finding a way to collaborate even if it does not seem
obvious at first sight, either you like it or not, the theremin has many
faces. I like to rock it and I think it important to involve this
instrument in contemporary sound.
Are you interested in scoring soundtracks for movies and if so
what type of movie would be ideal for you to compose a soundtrack to?
So far I have done music for short movies or licensed songs for
different scenes in tv and movies, but obviously, of course, my
phantasy soundtrack would be for a scary spooky & seductive mad b-movie!
Last year you expanded your sound into seductive electronic pop by collaborating with Anders Trentemøller on the fantastic Avalanche EP, was this a liberating genre for you to work in?
It was a good angle to take, he told me to sing low and his support
gave me the confidence to try some different things. it has been a
great experience and beckons to be followed by an LP.
What's the music scene in New York like now, what places/scenes
can you recommend? How has New York changed over the years since you relocated there?
New York is in constant flux and I don't even know where to begin,
definitely check out concerts at the new rough trade store in
Brooklyn, my personal discovery has been Pioneer works
(pioneerworks.org) in Red Hook Brooklyn, a place for art and
innovation, and i discovered some great things there.
Are there any stories, funny ,bizarre or otherwise you would care
to share with us from all your time as a performer?
About to play a synagogue in Serbia, when the organizers refused the
concert as they had discovered a picture of me with Marilyn Mansion,
the devil as they called him, but my favourite incident is when,
playing in a small eastern European town, an orthodox priest held his
cross not against me but against the theremin as to protect the
audience from its evil, something like this just doesn't happen when
you are a trombonist..
What does 2014 hold for Dorit Chrysler?
Conducting a theremin orchestra, a commission for a soundtrack by MoMA, creating a song each for 10 photographs in an exhibition, working and hopefully finishing my new record and, ideally, being challenged and
surprised along the way.
Theremin: Ether Music and Espionage
Jeffrey Noble
Interview by Heike & Robert Dempster
Photos of Jeffrey Noble by Robert Dempster
Photos of the art provided by Jeffrey Noble
Technically, how would you describe your work?
It is very figurative. It is pluralist, in a way. I identify with things that Donald Judd was doing and even though I don’t work minimalist at all, I sample . Perfect. Because I am part of this generation that has the internet and has access to all this information on all these different art periods I can just go research at the click of a button. I am able to sample whatever I want from whatever period of time. I almost think of myself as a DJ sometimes, flipping through albums, sampling and doing these weird match ups. Lately I have been looking at a lot of Francis Bacon because he had the figurative element as well as that gestural, very abstract expressionistic approach.
How does your process work? How much of the finished piece do you see before you put brush to canvas?
I’d have to say it’s 50/50 for the most part. Sometimes I can visualize a piece and it comes out almost exactly how I had planned. Not even almost exactly but it comes out close. And sometimes works really go off on another tangent and divert from my original idea. For the most part I would say about 50/50. I specifically have been working with referential material. The references that I am using have poor quality or have been run through several filters, like a screenshot taken from a conspiracy video that had sampled a movie clip. I take that and do a photo collage in Photoshop and then I use that as my reference. If it is just a really old, poor quality photograph or something like that, I like using that as a source of reference, because it allows me a lot of opportunity to implement my own artistic vision.
You say 50/50. Do you have a preference for either the ones that you didn’t plan that way or the ones that came out exactly as you had envisioned?
It is kind of just like a case by case basis. I would like them to come out but I do like a certain amount of surprises to happen in the work. If it comes out less like what I have planned, I am totally fine with that. I almost prefer that. I can see that as I grow as an artist I start to allow more and more of that to happen. More chance to be involved in the process. Right now, there is still a pretty good amount of control exercising over the works I think.
You have been traveling a lot since graduation from New World School of the Arts. How did that affect your work? What did you take away from it?
I went to several different places. First, I went off to Texas with the Chinati Foundation, which is a foundation that was set up by Donald Judd, the minimal sculptor. Marfa, Texas. It is in the middle of the desert. It is three hours from anywhere. Being out there in that landscape was very, very different. A very different environment. It was inspiring in a lot of ways. I am really into these mid-century artists like Donald Judd and the minimal sculptors. Especially the work I am working on now doesn’t really have much in common with them. There is something maybe about what they were interested in. Their fascinations. Reading about them. Reading some of Donald Judd’s writings, I could really relate to some of the things that he says. That was just a brief trip. After that I followed by going to Europe and I went through Italy and did Venice, Florence and Rome with my graduating class. Then, I went off on my own afterwards to Berlin, Amsterdam and Vienna, Austria. I have to say, Italy definitely impacted me the most because I was seeing all the historical paintings, sculptures, architecture. All the work of the masters. It is all within the Western canon of art making. It has always been something that I wanted to see in person and I had the chance to. There were some things that I saw and I thought, oh, that’s not as impressive as it is made out to be, and then there were some things I had never even heard of before, that I was completely floored by.
You have to give us examples. What did you see that you expected to be great and it was not and what were you amazed by that you had never heard of?
I gotta say the Sistine Chapel. So much hype around it. The fact that it is a fresco is amazing. He was painting it on his back onto the ceiling, but it is not as impressive. The anatomy is not that tight. A lot of the figures are kind of disproportioned and whatnot. Maybe it has to do with the context in which you are viewing it. It was kind of dark in the room, looking up, and crowded with a lot of people. You kind of have been walking through the entire Vatican already and it is kind of one of the last things you get to. You are crammed in there with a bunch of people like sardines so that doesn’t make it quite as enjoyable, I think. As far as something that I did not know much about that turned out, was the Tintoretto paintings. He has a lot of ceiling pieces in Venice in the Doge’s Palace and whatnot. His paintings are oil paintings so they are done on canvas and then installed on the ceilings so he wasn’t painting them on his back or anything like that, but they are still amazing. I think he was very much ahead of his time and set a precedence for how the work is painted. So much of what he was doing was so gestural. Very implied. I could really take apart the layers of how he was creating these paintings and that’s something I was really, really into viewing as a painter.
What are you currently working on?
I have got too much going on. Right now, I am working on a bunch of projects for a bunch of other people. That’s basically how it goes since graduating school and finishing my student life, for now at least. I have been lucky enough to be working around a lot of art and with other artists, whether that is working for the museums, collections or assisting people. I just came from assisting Typoe. He is one of my best friends and he introduces me to a lot of people. One of the reasons I moved here to Miami.
Where are you from?
I grew up in Melbourne, Florida. 321
Some of your new paintings have a dark aspect. What inspires that?
I am entertained by the fact that I lived through multiple manifestations of apocalyptic fear. We had Y2K where people thought the world was going to end cause the computers were going to crash. Now we have had 2012 where everyone thought the world was going to end because of the Mayan calendar. I love that we constantly think there is going to be an end to this shit. I don’t want to get into my religious or spiritual believes or anything like that but I think that that is a very, very fascinating aspect of life that we constantly have to search for I don’t know. We keep subscribing to this fear that we are going to stop and this is going to end and that something bad is going to happen. I just don’t think that that is something you should concern yourself with but I love concerning myself with the stories surrounding it. It is bizarre.
Could you tells us more about your new series of paintings please?
With these new paintings I am working towards an exhibition. I will have a show at Butter Gallery. We are shooting for mid-April. We have not set a date yet. It is still in the works. Paco of Butter Gallery has been great to work with. He is giving me the freedom of not having a deadline. Even though, most times I work better with a deadline. As I said before, I pick a lot of imagery that is based on poor quality photographs. It allows opportunity for me explore other things in paint. I don’t have to stick so closely to the referential image. The photos for this series are from the late 80s and early 90s. All the images I am choosing are kind of from that period. The images are from a friend of mine back in Melbourne. He is kind of a local legend where I am from. For various reasons. His name is Mike Webber. I used to see him driving around town all the time and you couldn’t miss him because he drives these old beat up trucks and he piles junk in the back of his trucks, taller than the cab. This stuff, you think it is a hazard when you see him driving around. He spray paints all over it and stuff. It is a real eyesore but I love it. I think it looks great. He has got a whole fleet of them. He is just known as the junkman in my town. One time I was painting a wall with Typoe and he pulls up in his truck and he asks is we want to paint his truck. We did some quick graffiti, like our names or something like that, and then he takes off. I bumped into him again after about a month or so and he hands me these photographs he took of the trucks and they had kind of this old quality and I actually held on to them for a couple of years. I was looking for something to work with in one of my painting classes and I found those photographs so I thought, why don’t I paint those trucks? I thought it was kind of interesting, like this inception thing, where I painted the truck and he took a photograph of it, giving it back to me and
then doing a painting of the photograph of what I painted on his truck. I kind of hope that these other references almost function in the same way because they are his photographs that he took in the late 80s and early 90s. It is basically just like the bar and club scene in my hometown of Melbourne. Growing up with older siblings and being around older people, you hear stories about these places like the old Mars Club or Coconuts. I was born in 1987, so I am interested in the climate of that time.
Do you know the people in the photographs?
Some of them yes and some of them no. Many of the people, I have no idea who they are, but some of them, every once in a while, I would be going through his photos and I would be able to recognize someone, like my friend’s dad. That’s kind of cool when that happens. It is funny that you bring that up. I have an image of Moby in 1993. He passed through central Florida and played a show. That was probably before he was big or well known.
Is central Florida in the 80s and 90s the theme for the exhibition?
I guess so. What interests me about this specific time period are the people and technology. My generation has been the first generation that has gown up with the internet. We have access to the web everywhere we go. We grew up with a lot of things, a lot of information, that wasn’t immediately available to generations that preceded us. Growing up in a globalized world. I think that something about that is the reason why I am painting these people from this time. There is a historical stamp that is going to be on that time right there.
Do you even remember a time without cell phones?
I do. I think my interest in this period, too, is because a lot of my peers don’t have the same sort of affinity and understanding for that period. I have siblings that are like 10 years older than me so they were influencing me, turning me on to punk when I was really young and exposing me to a lot of things. For various reasons my mom kind of kept things away from us for a while. I don’t think I got a cell phone until I was a senior in high school. We didn’t have cable TV. We were watching reruns from the antenna of Seinfeld or The Cosby Show. We didn’t have any video games. We were not allowed to play video games. I kind of feel more at home at that time. Am I confusing this with a sense of nostalgia that I might have? Cause that’s another thing I feel my generation is so hung up on, is this nostalgia for things before. Look at what Instagram is. It is a super technically advanced way of communicating and sharing but it is completely rooted in throwing a little filter on a photograph that makes it look old or trendy. We have this really deep nostalgia for things we did not really experience first hand. Look at music. Any music. All this really folky sounding independent stuff. I bet it has something to do with that as well. I paint pictures because I don’t know how to talk about it. But that’s what I was thinking about.
RAMIREZ TRAN
Diamante from 7th graders
BROTHER
Annoying,Cute
Running,Crying,Laughing
Joseph,Baby,Kid,Monster
Loving,Playing,Cheering,
Loud,Sweet
JoJo
By: Josune C.
Friend
Loyal, Reliable
Amusing, Trusting, Caring
Argument, Company, Fan,Connection
Hating, Insulting, Competing
Backstabbing, Oppositional
Enemy
By: Daphne, D.Rhythmic, Harmonious
Motivating, Dancing, Singing
Peace, Vibration, Calm, Excitement
Performing, Connecting, Listening
Thunderous, Attractive
Harmony
-Janet C.
White, Fluffy
Flying, Soaring, Distering
Candy, Marshmallow, Fog, Cotton
Speeding, Slowing, Creating
Smooth, Filled
Clouds
-Michael P.
Freezing, Amusing
Falling, Skiing, Sledding
Swimming, Running, Sweating
Tropical, Undarkened
Summer
Hard, Bouncy
Shoot, Score, Pass
Gym, Court, Player, Basketball
Run, Jump, Sprint
Home, Guest
Stadium
Football
Amusing, Intense
Spinning, Juking, Inviting
Shorts, Padding, Helmets, Penalty
Pitching, Bouncing, Throwing
Aggressive, Engaging
Rugby
-Luis M.
Color
Graphic, Stale
Draw, Paint, Design
Nature, Books, Museums, Galleries
Glimpse, Sell, Buy
Interesting, Creative
Art
-Moises F.
Technology
Unique, Incredible
Runs, Works, Finds
Screen, Keypad, Mouse, Monitor
Searches, Heats, Lags
Slow, Mysterious
Electronics
-Carrey N.
voodooism
Dark, Dreadful
Tricking, Terrifying, Conjuring
Sorcery, Religion, Ritual,Ensorcellment
Dancing, Chanting, Manipulating
Mystifying, Forbidden,
Bewitchment
-Kandice C.
Wolves,
Frightening, Bold
Howling, Eating, Hunting
Coyotes, Foxes, Dogs, Jackals
Running, Attacking, Biting
Powerful, Active
Hunter
-Diana P.Soccer
Fast, Active
Diving, Kicking, Dribbling
Champion, Loser, Team, Corporate
Dunking, Passing, Shooting
Calm, Fit
Basketball
-Ignacio A.
Gym
Amusing, Exciting
Run, Jump, skip
park, bateman, outside, home
jog, walk, climb
crazy, Thrilling
PE
-Kieran M.
Winter
Slipping, Falling, Tripping
Snowman, Snowflake, Snowball, Ice
Throwing, Creating, Waddling
Dangerous, Freezing
Season
By: Coby S.
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By: Trace Knoerr
The Northlake Christian boy's soccer team had an outstanding season. Although they fell short in the state championship game 3-2 to Lusher Charter, they had many accomplishments. The boy's were the 2013-2014 Copa Acadia champions. They beat 5 top 10 teams in 4a throughout the tournament which was the first time Northlake's men's soccer team has ever done that. They had a season record of 21-3-3 including the playoffs and were ranked 5th in all classifications. Mason Morise, Weston Acosta, Max Miller, Timmy Lopez, Bj Blestel, and Blake Dufrene are the team's only seniors graduating this year. The soccer team is determined to make another appearance in the State Championship game next year.
Past
By: Ben Messina
Most people think of Saint Patrick as a little
leprechaun that wore green and drank beer on his special day. That is not who Saint Patrick was; Saint Patrick's real name was Patricius, and
he was a monk.
As a child, he was abducted from Great Britain
and taken to Ireland to tend sheep for six years. Though he left Ireland, he
eventually came back as a missionary.
Saint Patrick began to establish monasteries throughout Ireland. During his Christian life a a monk, He started a movement that established over 700 monasteries. In these Monasraries people were able to find sanctuary from the barbarians who ruled in the dark ages.
After
many years of spreading the Gospel a violent culture became
civilized.
Present
By: Ruston West
St. Patricks' day is no longer celebrated for religious reasons. In places like New Orleans, it is another major party in the streets whre family and friends get together and have a good time wearing green and gold attending many parades.
According to csmonitor.com, the original color of St. Patrick's Day was blue. The color was then changed to green around the 17th century, because green is found in the country's flag. It has been used by many Irish revolutionary groups since St. Parick's Day was established in the early 1600's.
By: Landon Starkey
& Erika Jarlock
Northlake
Christian's junior class of 2015 will be organizing this year’s prom. The prom
committee is led by Ben Stogner, the dynasty, and other junior class
students. When asked about prom, Stogner
said, "We've got big hopes and expectations for prom this year. Things
seem to be coming along great, so it is just a matter of time before we get it
altogether." Other notable members assisting
with prom development are Isabel Herring and Mrs. Knox. They plan to sell tickets for $30, and the
prom t-shirt will be available for $15 dollars no later than Friday the 28th.
This year’s prom will be held at the
Tchefuncta Country Club inviting students in grades 11-12. The Valentine’s Day
product sales helped fund the prom project. With the money earned, the prom committee
has begun to setup. The theme of this year’s prom is "The City that Never
Sleeps." The committee plans on using some New York style objects to bring
this theme to life.
By: Erika Jarlock
Come along to the Mother Daughter tea on
Sunday, April 6th, 2014! All daughters in grades 4th-12th are invited to bring
their mothers for a delightful afternoon tea. Our guests will be treated with
words of knowledge from guest speaker Abby Shields of No Heart Left Behind
Ministries. There will also be a performance starring Gabby Soong and Erika
Jarlock. After all, what is tea without music? There is a small price of simply
$15.00 per guest to enjoy this wonderful afternoon of mother daughter bonding.
The theme this year revolves around Proverbs 20:15, "Gold there is and rubies in abundance, but lips that speak knowledge are a rare jewel."
By: Erika Jarlock & Austin Hynes
The wolverine boys’ varsity
basketball team completed another winning season with a record of 18-15. The
boys’ season ended with a first round playoff loss to Rosepine in a hard fought
battle at home.
The team was
led by seniors T.K. Keiffer, Matt Miller, Josh O’Rear, and Riley Risher.
Underclassmen Matt Whelan and Michael Piediscalzo were also large contributors
throughout the year.
Highlights
from the 2013-2014 season include a win on the road vs. 4A Lakeshore, two
victories over Hannan, and a second place finish in district 7-2A.
Coach Sean
Englert, in his second year with the wolverines, stated that he felt good about
the fact that his seniors were able to finish out
there b-ball career without losing to Hannan. Englert also stated that it will
be the team’s goal to continue to make progress next season and to establish
what it means to play basketball at Northlake Christian.
Praises
Of Heaven, Voices Of Men
By: Sarah Agresta
For those who do not know, the seniors of Northlake Christian have been putting on a variety show since 1991. The Variety Show is a very popular tradition at Northlake, which involves the performances of students who are "ham enough", or in this case, "Cajun enough", to show off their talent. It has consisted of singers, dancers, actors, musicians, comedians, and special performances by the current seniors and their parents. There is an elementary show and a high school show so that both the young and old can participate. Not only is the Variety Show an enjoyable experience, it is also an event in which the seniors are honored before they take their next steps into the future.
This year's variety show was titled "The Saturday Night Swamp Stomp" following a theme of Louisiana's finest Cajun atmosphere. It was a stinkin' success. Hosted by the leaders of student council, Riley Risher and Kelsey Binder, the variety show contained many entertaining acts, and the commercials were a hit.
Third place went to the
following members of vocal ensemble: Dominick Vega, Hailey Chow, Anna Jones,
Gabbi Ball, and Lauren Stewart. Junior Elacia Powell was awarded second place
having sang Break Every Chain by
Tasha Cobbs. And last but not least, the winners were Rachel Nix singing The Scientist by Coldplay with Timmy
Lopez on the guitar. "The Saturday Night Swamp Stomp," was a production that will
forever be remembered in Northlake's history of variety shows as well as the
class of 2014.