Best Buddies has big hopes for 2010
September 10, 2010 • Anthony Scianna, Content Editor
Best Buddies is starting up again this year after a successful 2009-2010, with the biggest moment being winning the award for the Most Outstanding Chapter of the Year at the Leadership Conference over the summer. It’s the fourth year in a row the Best Buddies chapter from RB walked away with the award.... Read more »
Boys and Girls Track have success at State
June 4, 2010 • Anthony Scianna, Entertainment Manager
Boys and girls track is wrapping up the 2010 season. Both have been successful so far this year with qualifiers to state for both girls and boys track. The girls finished 1st in the Metro Suburban Conference Meet on both the Freshman/Sophomore level and the Varsity level. Nine girls also qualified for... Read more »
RBTV successful at CTEC
May 14, 2010 • Anthony Scianna, Entertainment Manager
On May 1st RBTV attended the Chicagoland Television Educators Council (CTEC) Video Festival and walked away with some hardware. Eight of their original programs won an award with the big award going to Sophomores George Suchy and Colton Arnold’s “Late Hour” taking 1st place in the talk show category.... Read more »
Play N’ trade: Good Games, Great Times
April 26, 2010 • Anthony Scianna, Entertainment Manager
“Play N’ Trade” is a unique video game store that opened a few months ago but hasn’t gathered the interest and popularity it deserves. The Hodgkin located store is one of only sixteen in Illinois. The store’s focus is on everything video game related. The store sells videogames, game systems,... Read more »
Wrestlers finish with solid season
March 10, 2010 • Anthony Scianna, Entertainment Manager
The 2009-2010 Wrestling season has come to a close, but not before experiencing a huge amount of success. RB wrestlers finished with a dual meet record of 11-4 and completely dominated their conference with a record of 4-0. One of the high points of the season was when the team beat powerhouse Fenton... Read more »
REVIEW: Raditude (Weezer)
December 3, 2009 • Anthony Scianna, Entertainment Manager
On November 3, 2009 the Alternative Rock band Weezer released their seventh studio album “Raditude”. A follow up to their 2008 album “Weezer (The Red Album)”, “Raditude” follows Weezer’s usual style of Alternative Rock with some pop melodies thrown in. Lead singer Rivers Cuomo does all... Read more »
Wrestling expecting success this year
November 18, 2009 • Anthony Scianna, Entertainment Manager
Wrestling is about ready to pick up where they left off after a very successful season last year. Although many of the state qualifiers have graduated, there are still a handful of wrestlers who have a chance to make this year a successful one. Of the four state qualifiers last year, only Chris Russel... Read more »
First Beatles Rock Band DLC Arrives
October 26, 2009 • Anthony Scianna, Entertainment Manager
On October 20th and 22nd the first batch of downloadable content for The Beatles: Rock Band was released. The rest of the songs from the album “Abbey Road” that aren’t already in the game will be available for download. Although Xbox 360 players have had “All You Need is Love” since the game... Read more »
Best Buddies matching party a success
October 19, 2009 • Anthony Scianna, Entertainment Manager
Best Buddies kicked off the 2009-2010 school year on Tuesday with their Matching Party. It took place in the faculty cafeteria from 6-8. Both the kids with special needs (and their parents) and the peer buddies attended the event to find out who exactly is their buddy this year. The function began in... Read more »
Beatlemania back again
October 5, 2009 • Anthony Scianna, Entertainment Manager
What happens when you take the most popular band in the world and one of the most popular video games in the world? You get The Beatles: Rock Band. And it doesn’t disappoint. Back in late 2006, Dhani Harrison, son of late Beatles Guitarist George Harrison, suggested to MTV President Van Toffler a Rock... Read more »
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