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Author: Julia Hardy
App of the week: Spending Tracker
Julia Hardy Arts, Entertainment & Technology Editor After an entire year of dreading May, AP testing is finally over! So de-stress, and enjoy the fact
The Great Gatsby Movie
Julia Hardy
Arts, Entertainment & Technology Editor
Get ready, old sport, because the movie “The Great Gatsby” opens May 10 after almost a year of build-up. While the movie follows the story line from the novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald, director Baz Luhrmann has made The Great Gatsby modern and unique. From changes in the music and fashion to more drama in the party scenes, modernizing the world of Gatsby could as easily be called a path to inaccuracy as a fresh outlook. So do these updates help Luhrmann’s vision or destroy Fitzgerald’s?
App of the week: Vine
Julia Hardy
Arts, Entertainment & Technology
If you’ve ever felt like that photo you posted on Instagram of your dog playing fetch didn’t fully show how cute it is, now there’s an app for that. Vine is sweeping the school and the app store as the latest social media app by sharing short video clips to stay connected.
Trey Oehmler: a self-taught technology mastermind
Julia Hardy
Arts, Entertainment & Technology
While New Canaan has its share of lacrosse stars and ivy-bound scholars, the role of the technology guru is less commonly found. Yet, freshman Trey Oehmler is more than able to fill this role. Among his many accomplishments, the website, complex.com named him one of the youngest tech prodigies in the nation for work he completed at age 12.