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By Rebecca Soltau, Courier Entertainment Editor

Sitting in second period, students are forced to sit through cruel and unusual punishment. No, it’s not the lengthy lectures on the Dark Ages that bores them to tears, nor is it the dreaded realization that they didn’t finish the homework that’s due in five minutes.

It’s the horrible performances on Logan Live.

With a disregard for the quality of a performance evident in the majority of the cast, the EMP Academy has managed to destroy everything that the previous years of EMP classes have strived for. Fed up with students reporting the news with muttering tones and monotonous voices, students at Logan have finally decided that enough is enough.

From wikipedia:
James Thomas "Cool Papa" Bell (May 17, 1903 – March 7, 1991) was an American center fielder in Negro league baseball, considered by many baseball observers to have been the fastest man ever to play the game. He was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1974.

Born May 17th, 1903, in Starkville, Mississippi, Bell joined the St. Louis Stars of the Negro National League as a pitcher in 1922. By 1924, he had become their starting center fielder, and was known as an adept batter and fielder, and the "fastest man in the league". After leading the Stars to league titles in 1928, 1930, and 1931, he moved to the Detroit Wolves of the East-West League when the Negro National League disbanded. Detroit soon folded, leaving Bell to bounce to the Kansas City Monarchs and the Mexican winter leagues until finding a home with the Pittsburgh Crawfords in the reorganized NNL. In Pittsburgh, he played alongside Ted Page and Jimmie Crutchfield to form what is considered by many to have been the best outfield in the Negro Leagues.

Read an 1970 interview with Cool Papa Bell, free from the University of Missouri-St. Louis' Western Historical Manuscript Collection.

By Ashley Carter, Courier Staff Writer

James Logan held its Junior prom for the Class of 2009 earlier this month, and most attendees seemed to have fun.

The theme of the May 4 promenade was "A night on Cloud Nine".

By Samuel Jue, Courier Sports Editor

The James Logan Girls Softball team have lost only one League game all season long and they were not about to pick up loss number two when it counted most.

The Lady Colts, behind ace Stephanie Barnes, shutout Irvington 4‑0 Tuesday evening to advance to the MVAL Championship game.

Barnes was one runner allowed shy of a perfect game, as she gave up only one hit and no walks. Logan’s ace hurler also K‑ed half a dozen in the win.

By Samuel Jue, Courier Sports Editor

Logan fell to the Irvington Vikings 9‑2 Wednesday afternoon to see their season come to an end.

The Colts struggled miserably throughout the game in which shoddy defense was key.

The Vikings starter Mike Rogers pitched into the 7th inning, allowing only 4 hits and 2 runs while striking out five.

From wikipedia:
Tamara de Lempicka (May 16, 1898 - March 18, 1980), born Maria Górska in Warsaw, Poland, was a Polish Art Deco painter.

Born into a wealthy and prominent family, her father was a Polish lawyer, her mother, the former Malvina Decler, a Polish socialite. Maria was the middle child with two siblings. She attended boarding school in Lausanne, Switzerland, and spent the winter of 1911 with her grandmother in Italy and the French Riviera, where she was treated to her first taste of the Great Masters of Italian painting. In 1912, her parents divorced and Maria went to live with her wealthy Aunt Stefa in St. Petersberg, Russia. When her mother remarried, she became determined to break away to a life of her own. In 1913, at the age of fifteen, while attending the opera, Maria spotted the man she became determined to marry. She promoted her campaign through her well-connected uncle and in 1916 she married Tadeusz Łempicki in St. Petersburg; a well-known ladies man, gadabout, and lawyer by title, who was tempted by the significant dowry.

See examples of Tamara Lempicka's art, free from metarze.com.

By Sean Piccoli
South Florida Sun-Sentinel (MCT)

Has "reunion" become a dirty word in rock music? Stewart Copeland of the Police thinks not.

Weary critics might grouse about old rockers hogging the limelight, cashing out and repeating themselves for lack of fresh ideas. Nevertheless, Copeland's once-pioneering reggae-rock trio is on the road once more after last year's great reawakening. It's part two of a reunion run that the Police had successfully avoided for 23 years, and it's the latest in rock's sometimes exhausting string of comebacks, album tours and prolonged farewells.

In an April interview, Copeland defended doing it again. And his Exhibit A was another band's work.

See The Police live, with Elvis Costello and the Imposters, July 14 at the Shoreline Amphitheatre.

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