Friday Night Lights: A Town

One of the best places to go when your Friday night plans fall through is 600 Wellwood Ave, Lindenhurst, Long Island. When my friends and I arrive I can read “Applebee’s” in big, bold, red letters from across the parking lot. It’s like a ghost town until you reach the corner of the strip of businesses. Applebee’s brings the parking lot to life after 10 o’clock when you are eligible for half off apps. From the minute I walk in I see various high school sport teams covering the walls. Your first…

Growing up in the projects with a drug addicted mother and a father that was in and out of prison left Oher with very few opportunities. He spent time in foster care and, at times, was homeless. Tony Henderson, an auto mechanic in the town, took Oher in temporarily. Tony was enrolling his own son in Briarcrest Christian School and thought he’d enroll Oher also. But there were many obstacles with his acceptance to Briarcrest. Since Oher’s living conditions weren’t stable, his education…

Local Flavour. Exploring the changing face of Panmure’s Town Centre. As oversized malls alter our shopping habits and immigration and the housing boom change our suburbs, what 's going on in our town centres? At ten am the suburb that nearly became New Zealand’s capital is blearily rubbing the sleep from its eyes, shuffling from slippers to shoes and getting ready for a day of business. Panmure’s shabby shopping stretch contains a mish-mash of unlikely bedfellows; a seemingly awkward ménage à…

warning for the rest of the weekend. “Honey, it is going to be a cold one Friday and Saturday night! Don’t forget to turn the thermostat up a few degrees!” After they place their heads on the pillow and turn out the lights, their food coma takes over and sends them into a deep, dark sleep. While the Clarke’s are sleeping, a substation for the local power company all of a sudden goes dark. Then, another one in the nearby town of Gallatin goes dark. The people at the power company are…

RIKER OXFORD RAY felt the water rush in. Clear blue broke onto the beach, collecting sand over miles down the peninsula. He laughed. There was nothing to do in the night but watch the stars and ocean and laugh. So he stood on the edge of the pier, feeling the break of the water. His hair was dark, and it glistened in the lights. He was of average height, and gauntly featured. Another explosion of water spread before him, like a plain of crystal. He watched the violent swirls of the ocean, as…

Amanda Perring carefully stepped off the bright yellow school bus onto the clean, asphalt driveway leading to her parent’s garage. Her house was a classic, one story suburb on the outskirts of Los Angeles, located in middle class neighborhood where no one had to worry about money but there wasn't much extra to spend. Her mother and father were both respected doctors and were almost never home when Amanda was. Every day on the bus, she would sit at the very back with no one else, completely…

They call me Neil Ferris. Ever since I moved in to East Egg, this man called Gatsby has been the talk of the town. I moved here to be closer to my family. I grew up in California, but my father’s side all live out east. Now that I turned 18, my parents thought it’d be best for me to spend some time with the other side of my family and get to know some of my more distant relatives. For now, I’m living in a smaller secluded house next to my aunt and uncle’s. My cousin Mark got me work at a…

Throughout high school I had always had a fascination with live performances of any kind whether they be band performances, talent shows, karaoke nights as goofy as that sounds, and even plays. As such I thought seeing a live performance of Miss Julie at the Arkansas Tech Theatre would lighten my spirits and shine a light on some the young talent in the world that happens to live next door to myself. What was performed on that stage far passed any expectation, any standard, and definitely wiped…

Snuggled deep in the village of Raveloe, Silas Marner sits in front of a fire in his cottage. It is a cold winter night, but he is warm because he has a full and happy heart. He has spent his life dedicated to his daughter, Eppie, and her happiness. Soon he will marry her off to the man of her dreams and they will reside in a farm house on the Marner property. However, Silas never imagines that his dream come true could turn into a nightmare at a moment’s notice. The Marner household has…

little thought before action at the best of times. At the worst of times, he ruins his own relationships and hurts those dear to him. The book starts out light-hearted and fun, but gets darker the farther it goes. In the story, a man known as ‘Injun Joe’ murders a doctor whilst in a graveyard. Tom Sawyer sees the murder and later informs the town of the man’s crime. A few of the larger risks he takes during the novel are the decisions to confess to the court what he knows about Injun Joe, go…