The Artist Notebook: Lexi Bodick

Logan Phillips & Sara Levine
Senior Editor & Reporter

When senior Lexi Bodick first began playing the bass in sixth grade with the dream of forming a family band, she could not have imagined she’d be jamming on a Broadway stage before graduating high school. Lexi, described by Orchestra teacher Leo Ficks as “one of the most improved players I’ve ever taught,” has already accumulated a resume that most aspiring musicians would envy. Not only is she second chair in the Western Regional Orchestra for the upright bass, but she was also the associate conductor and bass player in the Broadway show 13.

Carriage Barn exhibits student artwork

Giuliana Savini
Reporter

Located in Waveny Park, The Carriage Barn Arts Center is a a member-supported, non-profit organization that strives to present quality art to the community through a number of annual exhibitions. From March 13 to April 17, a collection of artwork from NCHS students will be displayed in their “Through Our Eyes” showcase. It features all types of media from the students of AP Photography, Advanced Digital Media, Studio Art, Documentary Photography and Photoshop Design.

‘Rango’ delivers a solid Western geared towards an older audience

Charlie Dorf
Arts and Entertainment Editor

I’m a sucker for Westerns. Be it a Sergio Leone spaghetti Western (The Good, The Bad and The Ugly) or a Joss Weadon space Western (Serenity), I have probably seen it multiple times. Going in to Rango, I was afraid that the film would turn my beloved genre into a hackneyed kids movie, making a mockery of everything Leone and Eastwood built to make the western what it is today. I was happily proven wrong.

Godfather, Jaws, Lassie? How to define a classic film

Charlie Dorf & Francesca DeRosa
Arts and Entertainment Editors

The art of painting has been around for thousands of years, and yet debate still rages over what is a truly “classic” piece. Some claim the works of El Greco or Raphael, while others counter with Picasso and Dali. Film, on the other hand, has been around scarcely a century, but debate over what defines a classic movie ranges just as widely as the debate over its artistic ancestors.

The Oscars: Who deserved them, and who got them

Charlie Dorf
Arts and Entertainment Editor

Best Picture/ Original Screenplay/ Best Director/ Best Actor: The King’s Speech

As The King’s Speech won all four of these categories, I figured I might as well roll them all into one. Before I saw this film, I was hoping, somewhat wistfully, that True Grit would sweep these awards, being the Coen brothers fan boy that I am. However, after seeing The King’s Speech, I knew this was not a Coen brothers year.

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