Cassidy Levin is a first-year staffer. They are very excited to be joining the staff. Cassidy is interested in current events and likes to read. At McCallum, they are an orchestra major and play the bass.
Spring has sprung! Spring is my favorite season for one reason, reading in a sunny spot, listening to the birds, or grabbing a cup of tea while reading to the background sound of a rainstorm. With the...
“The geese don't care that I'm crying again. They're used to it.”
Fiction — five stars. 31-year-old Casey Peabody is a writer. Waiting tables to avoid being pulled under by her debt, recently...
“Childhood is a tissue of lies that endure in the past tense”
Fiction — four stars. After her mother’s suspicious death, Delia goes on a journey to uncover the mystery of her mother’s life....
“At the end as at the start, and through all the in-betweens, I love you.”
Science fiction — five stars. This Is How You Lose the Time War is about two time-travelers on opposite sides of an endless...
“Just because it is in Malibu's nature to burn, so was it in one particular person's nature to set fire and walk away.”
Fiction — four stars. In the third book of Taylor Jenkins Reid’s epic...
“I would be Medusa... if the gods held me accountable one day for the sins of someone else, if they came for me to punish a man’s actions, I would not hide away like Pasiphae. I would wear that coronet...
“Where is my f***ing sense of eventuality actually?”
Fiction — four stars. Pond is a 210-page book about a pond. The book is a collection of ramblings in the best way possible. Each story is from...
The girls varsity soccer team defeated the No.4 seed Pflugerville 3-0 last Friday night. After repeating as the No.1 seed and the district champs by defeating LASA in their last regular-season game, the...
This Black History Month at McCallum, events on campus presented opportunities of all kinds. For some, it was an opportunity for education. For others, it was a celebration of Black excellence and culture....
It’s not very often that you get to be the opening act and close the show, but that’s exactly what happened Saturday for the Blue Brigade at the Crowd Pleasers Hill Country MS/HS Showcase at Seguin...
Love was in the air on Feb. 14 during fourth period in the library—but so was heartbreak. And improv. And Irish drinking songs. As students gathered for Excalibur’s semiannual Coffee House, a tradition...
macshieldonline · Feedback Loop, Episode 6: Robin Kuhlhanek a.k.a. Spacedevil
To Robin Kulhanek, known as “Spacedevil” on Spotify, music is a tool to work through his emotions.
“Talking myself...
Last Thursday, MacTheatre opened Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat on the McCallum Arts Center stage.
“I feel like the show is going amazing,” junior Savanah Chavarria said. “I’m...
The McCallum Youth Dance Company broke ground on "Breaking Ground" Friday night with the first of two 7 p.m. winter concert performances at the Austin ISD Performing Arts Center. The second performance...
2021 is coming to an end, and I know how hard it can be to pick out your next read. This post is intended to help make it easier. Of the 110 books I have read this year, here are my nine favorites by genre.
“You are so loved!”
“It’s not your fault!”
“We believe you!”
Amidst a crowd of hundreds of participating students, shouts like these could be heard in response to victims of sexual...
The onset of cold weather just gives me one more reason to curl up with a good book. I can’t wait to read with a cup of tea while wrapped in a blanket because it’s getting cold. I might be getting...
The strum of an acoustic guitar, the sound of crisply-spoken poetry, the vibrations of Cello arpeggios — all could be heard from the library this Friday during Excalibur’s semi-annual coffeehouse.
Friday’s...
When senior Braden Roeder was a freshman, he sat on the floor in the hallway at lunchtime. He didn't like it.
Roeder has been part of the Boy Scouts for 12 years, and one of the requirements for Roeder...
If you look only at the bottom line, Pink Week 2021 was an unqualified success. The fundraiser for the Breast Cancer Resource Center of Austin raised more than $2,000, the highest total since Cowles brought...
After advancing to the finals of the Capital City Marching Festival on Saturday with the highest overall preliminary score, the band outdid itself and the competition in the finals, by beating the nine...
Hi! My name's Cassidy and I love reading. I want to share my thoughts on the books I read, so welcome to my book blog. I’ll be regularly sharing my opinions here and mostly ranting about how much I loved...
“Harrow said, with some difficulty: ‘I cannot conceive of a universe without you in it.’ ‘Yes you can, it's just less great and less hot,’ said Gideon. ‘F**k you, Nav—’”
Set in a dystopian...
“You’re overthinking it.’ ‘I have anxiety. I have no other type of thinking available.”
Nora Seed was 35 when she tried to kill herself. She discovers that between life and death, there is...
“Because time is cruel to all, and crueler still to artists. Because visions weakens, and voices wither, and talent fades.... Because happiness is brief, and history is lasting, and in the end... everyone...
“Beauty is terror. Whatever we call beautiful, we quiver before it.”
If there’s one thing you should know about me, it’s that this book is my favorite thing in the entire world. We follow Richard...
“Beauty is terror. Whatever we call beautiful, we quiver before it.”
If there’s one thing you should know about me, it’s that this book is my favorite thing in the entire world. We follow Richard...
“When I was born, the word for what I was did not exist.”
A retelling of Greek Mythology, this book follows Circe, the daughter of Helios, the god of the sun and most powerful Titan, as she is exiled...
For this week's Tuesday Top 10 photos essay, we took a photo walk through the neighborhoods of Austin and central Texas looking for original 2020 Election signs. This collection is bipartisan. We included...
![JUMPING AROUND : As sophomore Finn Griffith (Joseph) performs “Joseph’s Coat,” Marshall Clifton (front and center) plays Gad, one of Joseph’s brothers. who holds up the coat during the song. Clifton’s role as a swing was to step in to perform if any actors were missing. “Getting this opportunity to hop in and out of different roles was amazing,” Clifton said. Joseph was his third musical. “I’m pretty new to musical theatre,” they said. ”While this was definitely a lot of work, I am so glad I [had] this opportunity.” Reporting by Cassidy Levin.](https://macshieldonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/51849012688_e19245d93d_c.jpg)
