The James Logan Courier

By Alexa Ceja, Courier Staff Writer

James Logan Juniors who traveled to Nicaragua last July say they learned much during the trip, even while enduring challenging conditions.

Seventeen Logan students made the trip to the Central American country this summer as part of the Global Glimpse program, experiencing life from a different cultural perspective while earning community service credit toward graduation.

MISCELLANEOUS

Colt Necessities is now open Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays in the Career Center during 4th & 5th lunch. Come buy Logan merchandise and school supplies.

PACT tickets are on sale until Nov. 7th. Tickets cost $25 and can be purchased at the ticket window in the main office.

By Jack Bragg, Courier Entertainment Editor

Mark, Tom, and Travis are back and better than ever with their sixth studio album -and first since 2003’s self-titled album Blink-182- Neighborhoods. Long time fans of the band will be pleased with the new material as will fans of the many spin-off bands will find like +44, Angels and Airwaves, and Boxcar Racer will find these influences prevalent in the new album.

By Bettina Boxall
Los Angeles Times (MCT)

LOS ANGELES — The imperiled fish that has been at the center of California's water wars may be at its highest numbers in a decade, judging by the results of a recent survey.

Every month in the fall, state biologists tow nets in the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta, sampling for the threatened delta smelt to estimate the native fish's population. The September catch this year, though still small by historic standards, was the biggest since 2001, when the numbers of smelt and other delta fish started to plunge to dangerously low levels, triggering cutbacks to water customers in the Central Valley and Southern California.

By Patrick Hannigan,
Courier Advisor

After watching veteran rocker Nick Lowe stand alone with his guitar and a microphone for nearly all of his Monday night show at the Great American Music Hall, I've come to think that there are two main routes that aging rockers can take.

One seems to be that of the megahit group reformed to attempt to re-connect with their glory days. What they've lost in vocal range, range of motion, or range of creativity, they make up with bombast and production. Because a band like, say, Def Leppard relies so heavily on its past to draw an audience, they sometimes respond by attempting to recreate that past, which can't be done. To hedge their bets and ensure the big payday, they set off a few more explosive devices, or other such camouflage.

It can be entertaining, but, ultimately, empty of anything but cheap thrills and the regret that we all can't be young again.

Nick Lowe takes the other route. At his show on Monday, he stripped his music down to nothing but his acoustic guitar, his supple voice, and a bit of reverb. And he didn't rely on his past commercial successes for the bulk of his material. It definitely wasn't a trip down memory lane.

From wikipedia:
Mary Henrietta Kingsley (13 October 1862 – 3 June 1900) was an English writer and explorer who greatly influenced European ideas about Africa and African people.

Kingsley was born in Islington, London on 13 October 1862. She was the daughter and oldest child of traveller and writer George Kingsley and Mary Bailey, and was the niece of novelists Charles Kingsley and Henry Kingsley. The family moved to Highgate less than a year after her birth, the same home where her brother Charley was born in 1866. Her father was a doctor and worked for George Herbert, 13th Earl of Pembroke and other aristocrats, often away from home on his excursions. During these voyages he was able to collect information for his studies.

Read Travels in West Africa by Mary H. Kingsley, free from Project Gutenberg.