The James Logan Courier

Turkey with Mashed Potatoes and Gravy,
Milk, Fresh Fruit, Fun Chips

Logan’s “Laughing All The Way”, Improv’s first show of the year is TONIGHT at 7 pm in the Little Theater. Doors open at 6:30.

Don’t be caught cold without a James Logan beanie on your head! Come to the Colt Necessities Store, located in the Career Center during both lunches.

By Rechie Cruz, Courier Staff Writer

As of this moment, there are 4036 students attending classes at Logan.

The result is crowding in the hallways and people bumping into one another.

There has been much controversy on whether James Logan should be the only high school in this area. Is it possible that Union City might need another high school? Can construction of another campus be a more effective way of making more room at Logan?

By Marijke Rowland
McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)

Not too many bands have hit singles before they have albums out.

And not too many hit singles break Billboard chart records before the bands behind them are even household names.

But that's the unusual road OneRepublic is on with the unexpected cart-before-the-horse success of its debut single, "Apologize." The Los Angeles-based band, formed in 2004, broke the one-week Top 40 airplay record with more than 10,600 spins (besting Nelly Furtado's previous record of 10,330). A remix of the sensitive single with hot producer/rapper Timbaland hit No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 and spent 16 weeks on the charts. The band's debut album, "Dreaming Out Loud," was released Nov. 20.

Apple Computer Inc. (MCT)


Top 10 albums on iTunes Music Store for Dec. 11:
1. "Noel," Josh Groban
2. "Let It Snow!" Michael Buble
3. "Christmas #1's," various artists
4. "Dreaming Out Loud," OneRepublic
5. "As I Am," Alicia Keys
6. "Audio Day Dream," Blake Lewis
7. "Christmas with the Rat Pack," Dean Martin, Frank Sinatra and Sammy Davis Jr.
8. "Carnival, Vol. 11: Memoirs of an Immigrant," Wyclef Jean
9. "A Charlie Brown Christmas," Vince Guaraldi Trio
10. "August Rush (Music from the Motion Picture)," various artists

For more information, please visit the iTunes Web site at www.apple.com/itunes/.
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From wikipedia:
Moss Hart (1904 – December 20, 1961) was an American playwright and director of plays and musical theater. Hart recalled his youth, early career and rise to fame in his autobiography, Act One, adapted to film in 1963, with George Hamilton portraying Hart.

Hart grew up at 74 East 105th Street in Manhattan, “a neighborhood not of carriages and hansom cabs, but of dray wagons, pushcarts, and immigrants” (Bach 1). Early on he had a strong relationship with his Aunt Kate, whom he later lost contact with because of a falling out between her and his parents, and her weakening mental state. She got him interested in the theater and took him to see performances often. Hart even went so far as to create an "alternate ending" to her life in his book Act One. He writes that she died while he was working on out-of-town tryouts for The Beloved Bandit. Later, Kate became quite eccentric, vandalizing Hart's home, writing threatening letters and setting fires backstage during rehearsals for Jubilee. But his relationship with Kate was life-forming. He understood that the theater made possible "the art of being somebody else… not a scrawny boy with bad teeth, a funny name… and a mother who was a distant drudge." (Bach 13).

Read more about Moss Hart and the stamp in his honor, free from the U.S. Postal Service.