The James Logan Courier

By Carmen Shiu, Courier Special Correspondent

Three decades ago, popular singers Janet Jackson and Madonna stepped into the music industry. Two decades ago, pop songstress Mariah Carey also stepped in. Combined, each artist averaged about ten albums over the years.

Together, they are known as the pop divas of today and have all returned this year with brand new albums.

Jackson released her 10th album, Discipline, on Feb. 22. Working with the likes of mega-hit songwriter and singer Ne-Yo and longtime hip-hop producers Jermaine Dupri and Rodney Jerkins, it is hard to be unsuccessful.

Discipline shows that Jackson is capable of sticking to her own style, but still keeps up with the ever-changing music. The debut single, "Feedback," charted at No. 19 on the Billboard Hot 100, making her best single since 2001 with "Someone to Call My Lover."

For whatever reason, Jackson released "Rock with U" and "LUV" as singles just one week after another. She needs to be careful in deciding which songs to release as singles and devote time into promoting each one.

By Krystal Henderson, Courier News Editor

We've heard her soulful "No One" and "Like You'll Never See Me Again" on almost every radio station. In June, Alicia Keys will release yet another hit single from her November 2007 album As I Am. The song "Teenage Love Affair" is sweet and delightful, recounting the emotional pleasure of puppy love.

The opening lyrics "Can't wait to get home/ Baby, dial your number/ Can you pick up the phone/ Cause I wanna have ya..." bring to mind the giddy hopeful feeling many of us experience when first experimenting with a romantic relationship.

By Karen Mui, Courier Staff Writer
Pictures by Jennifer Torres, Courier Staff Writer


Both employers and job seekers came out to Logan with high expectations for the recent Job-O Expo.

For the organizations that set up their booths in Colt court last Thursday, associates hoped to find interested and eligible students for open job positions. This created a very effective event, as many Logan students were equally optimistic, hoping to find suitable jobs for the approaching summer.

Circulating through the rows of tables, including ones set up by associations such as the Courtyard Residence Inn, Union City Leisure Services, Great America, 1st United Services, Union City Library, Dry‑wall Apprenticeship, many were not surprised to find the miscellaneous knick‑knacks being distributed to charm the likes of students. The Army was a crowd favorite with their pull‑up bar, enticing students to compete for various prizes. Though many people found the free food and items more pleasing than the actual purpose of the employers, the appeal was able to lead some students to actually sign‑up and receive information from the employers.

By Debbie Ly, Courier Staff Writer

April is National Autism Awareness Month and a toy drive is currently being held at Logan by
Asian American Studies teacher, Tina Bobadilla, through affiliation with her nephew, Mario Bobadilla, who is currently attending Irvington High School.

As a part of his year‑long community service project called QUEST, Mario is presently holding a toy drive benefiting the Autism programs and classes in the New Haven Unified School District. His group has chosen “the education of children with autism during the elementary stages of their school career” as their area of interest.

By Jamie Maxfield, Courier Staff Writer

Ludo, the new hit band is prepared to take over you radios and fill your ears with some more great sounds. Their most recent album, You’re Awful, I Love You, was released in February of 2008.

Ludo is a band composed of five members: lead vocalist and guitarist Andrew Volpe, guitarist Tim Ferrell, bassist Marshall Fanciullo, drummer Matt Palermo, and Tim Convy on moog, which is a music synthesizer. They started out in St. Louis, Missouri as a two-man acoustic band and their name is based off of a character from the movie Labyrinth. Later Volpe and Ferrell (the original two members) moved to Tulsa where they were determined to become big.

Visit Ludo's webpage.

By Rick La Plante, New Haven Schools Public Information Officer

To give parents an opportunity to ask questions and receive information about the changes coming to the District’s middle schools in 2008-09, this month's New Haven Community Forum is being integrated into the annual Open House evenings at each middle school. The Forum will come to Alvarado Middle School this Thursday (April 24), from 5:30 to 7 p.m.; and to Cesar Chavez Middle School next Thursday (May 1), also from 5:30 to 7 p.m. The Forum met at Barnard-White Middle School last week.

By Rick La Plante, New Haven Schools Public Information Officer

Drama students at Barnard-White and Cesar Chavez middle schools will present a combined production of Disney’s "Sleeping Beauty," starting Thursday night.

Under the direction of teachers Denise McGinnis and Doris Gallagher, 15 BWMS and 15 CCMS students are working together to present the musical. Performances are at 7 p.m. Thursday and Friday (April 24-25) at CCMS and at 7 p.m. next Thursday (May 1) at BWMS. Tickets are $5.

The combined musical is among the initial activities designed to bring together students from the two schools before Barnard-White loses at the end of the school year.

MENU: Fajita Chicken and Veggie Pizza, Milk, Fresh Fruit, and “Fun” Chips

ACTIVITIES:
Seniors! If you didn’t pick up your cap & gown, Jostens will be here at lunch Thursday in Colt Court.

CLUBS:
Day of Silence is coming May 2. We’re making t-shirts tomorrow after school in Room 451. Bring a t-shirt or a dollar.

From wikipedia:
Edward (Edmund) Cartwright (April 24, 1743 – October 30, 1823) was an English clergyman and inventor of the power loom, a poet and writer.

Born in Marham, Norfolk, he was a clergyman of the Church of England. He was educated at University College, Oxford.

More fortunate than his predecessors, he attacked the problem of mechanical weaving after much initial work had been done, especially that relating to mechanical spinning and the factory system, for without these no power loom could succeed. He designed the first power loom in 1784 patented it in 1785, but it proved to be valueless. In the following year, however, he patented another loom which has served as the model for later inventors to work upon. He was conscious that for a mechanically driven loom to become a commercial success, either one person would have to attend several machines, or each machine must have a greater productive capacity than one manually controlled.

Read Armine and Elvira: A Legendary Tale. In Two Parts. By Edmund Cartwright, free from Google books.