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Careers in composing: Q&A with Caitlyn Smith, composer of the hit song “Like I’m Gonna Lose You”

by Kavya Ramakrishnan, Winged Post Managing Editor March 3, 2016

The Winged Post recently spoke to Caitlyn Smith, a Nashville-based songwriter and musical artist who has written hits for the likes of Meghan Trainor, Cassadee Pope, Dolly Parton, Garth Brooks and Lady...

How to dress for California weather

How to dress for California weather

by Maya Kumar, Winged Post Asst. Features Editor March 2, 2016

When you wake up and feel the frigid morning air, your first instinct is probably to bundle up as if it's snowing outside, in a turtleneck and a thick parka, but wait until 3 p.m. and you’ll be ready...

Presenter Priyanka Chopra arrives at the 88th Academy Awards in Hollywood, California Feb. 28, 2016.

Best and worst looks on the 2016 Oscars red carpet

by Ayushi Gautam, Managing Editor March 2, 2016

  Sunday night was one for the books, in Hollywood and possibly in your lives as well. You might have been weighing in on Chris Rock’s politicized spin on being an Oscars emcee or maybe you...

Haris Hosseini (9) and Vanessa Tyagi (10) pose for a picture with manicured eyebrows. Across social media, #OnFleek is a hashtag used commonly to describe eyebrows.

Eyebrows #OnFleek

by Jenna Sadhu, Social Media Reporter March 1, 2016

Eyebrows are the windows to the soul, the frame of the face. There are thin brows, bushy brows, unibrows and defined brows. Some groom them, some do not. The three most common methods of grooming eyebrows...

Guide to Super Tuesday

Guide to Super Tuesday

by Sharanya Balaji, Editor-In-Chief March 1, 2016

Seven Candidates. Thirteen States. Two Parties. Two Winners. One Super Tuesday. So what really is Super Tuesday? It is when thirteen states vote to hand out the most delegates awarded on any given...

Supervisor Scott Wiener of San Francisco’s District 8 in his office on the second floor of City Hall. Wingspan talked to him about San Francisco’s increasingly acute housing crisis for an upcoming long-form journalism exposé on the recent wave of gentrification in the city.

San Francisco Supervisor Scott Wiener on gentrification, the housing crisis and how he wants to manage it

by Shay Lari-Hosain, Wingspan Editor-in-Chief February 16, 2016

SAN FRANCISCO CITY HALL, August 10, 2015 — Wingspan staff sat down with Supervisor Scott Wiener of San Francisco’s Board of Supervisors in his City Hall office to talk about gentrification and displacement...

Saved by the (new) bell: pilot block schedule reduces workload, students' stress

Saved by the (new) bell: pilot block schedule reduces workload, students’ stress

by Kshithija Mulam, Kaitlin Hsu, and Maya Valluru February 4, 2016

Upper school students entered a month-long trial period in January for a new block bell schedule. The weekly block schedule consists A, B, C and D days in which class periods begin at 8 a.m. and end...

What defines the millennial generation

What defines the millennial generation

by Meilan Steimle, Meena Gudapati, and Alex Wang February 4, 2016

It's almost ironic that Millennials, the generation hailed as "digital natives," are reflected so poorly in Google instant search results. According to The Oxford Dictionary and dictionary.com, a "millennial"...

Q&A with Al Vernaccio, sex educator and speaker at TED 2012

Q&A with Al Vernaccio, sex educator and speaker at TED 2012

February 3, 2016

Every year, juniors watch Al Vernacchio’s TED Talk, “Sex needs a new metaphor. Here’s one…” The Winged Post reached out to Vernaccio to get his take on sex, sexuality, and sex education. Winged...

Gun culture: firearms in American society

Gun culture: firearms in American society

by Kavya Ramakrishnan, Vineet Kosaraju, and Michael Sikand February 3, 2016

With a loudspeaker blaring in the background, students swiftly gather construction paper and old newspapers to block out windows, using a combination of blue masking tape and paper to obstruct the view...

The new school: innovators pioneer experimental schools in the California Bay Area

The new school: innovators pioneer experimental schools in the California Bay Area

by Prameela Kottapalli and Jackie Gao February 3, 2016

In the past few years, various experimental schools have opened in California, from Khan Lab School in Mountain View to Brightworks and AltSchool, both in San Francisco. Experimental schools, or alternative...

Hoverboards hit the market with explosive effect

Hoverboards hit the market with explosive effect

by Ashley Jiang and Derek Yen January 29, 2016

The hoverboard glides smoothly down the sidewalk, its vibrant lights casting colorful rays onto the pallid pavement. As its user gently shifts their weight from side to side, the board makes graceful,...

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