Archive for December, 2010

GOT TALENT? Jeremy, ’12, shares his monologues from an independent study in theater – in three parts! PART I PART II PART III Full Article

GOT TALENT? Allysa, ’14, plays a few songs for us… you might recognize a few of them! Full Article

Happy Holidays Everyone! It’s winter break, and while everyone has been enjoying our all-too-brief relief from school, the snow has been piling up high here at UHSDA.com! Please enjoy, and share all of our winter and holiday articles, cheer, and snowy theming. We know that Christmas was a few days ago, but we couldn’t help Full Article

By Tierney H ’12 We know Christmas is right around the corner. The lights are strung, the halls are decked, and the tree already has a stock of crisply wrapped presents (which you may or may not have been counting every night when nobody’s looking) carefully stacked under its glistening branches, eagerly awaiting Christmas morning. Full Article

With winter break upon us, it’s time to get excited about the upcoming ski season. The snow began falling early this year, around Thanksgiving, and most Tahoe resorts opened around that weekend. Boreal, the first, opened in late October. And there’s reason to get pumped – a  winter weather forecast predicts we’ll get a lot Full Article

By Maddie Brown ’13, Molly F. ’12, and Marisa Lowe ’13 Peppermint hot chocolate in hand, you sit down and ponder what you can watch that will leave you tingling with holiday cheer. Sound familiar? If so, we thought we would give you a couple suggestions of our favorite holiday-themed TV episodes The OC: “The Full Article

By Molly F. ’12 PEPPERMINT ICE CREAM PIE Prep Time: 10 minutes 1-1/2 cups chocolate cookie crumbs* 6 Tbsp. butter, melts ¼ cup sugar 1 quart peppermint ice cream Chocolate Sauce (recipe follows) Stir cookie crumbs, butter and sugar in mixing bowl until thoroughly combined.  Press mixture into bottom and up sides of a glass Full Article

For many people, the best parts of the holiday season are not the presents, decorations, or even food, but rather the generous and thoughtful spirits the season provokes. With the tradition of giving gifts for any holiday, comes the idea of simply giving. Giving what you can, when you can, to whoever may be lucky Full Article

A momentous event has taken place since the publishing of the last Devil’s Advocate: Harry Potter 7 rocked theaters around the country and continued our generation’s cultural obsession. In case you need a brush-up on the main events in Harry’s life or a version of “Walking in a Winter Wonderland” more applicable to Full Article

By Colton Valentine ’12 and Natalie P. ’12 Been too stressed and time-pressured from the end of the semester to put together a holiday playlist? Worried that with how close the end of the semester was to Christmas (and next Chanukah is only a couple hundred days away) you won’t be able to get in Full Article