News, Opinion, & Multimedia for Tamalpais High School

The Tam News

News, Opinion, & Multimedia for Tamalpais High School

The Tam News

News, Opinion, & Multimedia for Tamalpais High School

The Tam News

10 Things to Do While Staying Home Sick

10 Things to Do While Staying Home Sick

By Kate Luebkeman Mar 18, 2014

When you wake up to a blistering headache, a never-ending runny nose, and the feeling that your throat has swollen to three times its usual proportion, the proposition of staying home sick doesn’t exactly...

Photo by: Anna Vandergriff

Art Where You Least Expect It

By Anna Vandergriff Feb 13, 2014

When one enters a girls bathroom on campus, they enter an artistic haven with a plethora of insightful and inspirational messages, such as “Take a breathe [sic],”, alongside beautiful (phallic) drawings...

Battle of the Music Players

Battle of the Music Players

By Sammy Herdman Feb 13, 2014

Fifty years ago, records and live performances were the only way to listen to popular music. Today, with so many applications available to download and stream music, it can be hard to know which to use. The...

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Kanye: The Best of the West

By Daniel Carroll Feb 11, 2014

“I am a God,” raps Kanye West on a track titled “I am a God” that lists God as a featured artist. This track, off of his latest album “Yeezus,” is just another moment in the last five years...

Gourmet Club: Lapping up International Cuisine

Gourmet Club: Lapping up International Cuisine

By Anthony Mazzini Feb 11, 2014

An underground and exclusive society known as the Gourmet Club has been making quality and delectable food this year with little recognition. Students walking by David Lapp’s physics classroom can...

Art by Kate Schlough

Artists of the Issue: Student Journals

By Emma Talkoff Dec 21, 2013

Senior Grace Lightner keeps four sketchbooks, each for a minutely different purpose. “This one is more words and song lyrics,” Lightner said of the notebook pictured at right, which she uses mainly...

Eminems New Album Disappoints

“The Marshall Mathers LP 2”: A Disappointing Sequel

By Daniel Carroll Dec 20, 2013

In 2000, rapper Eminem released a CD filled with boasts about drugs, killing and hating gay people and women. This album, known as “The Marshall Mathers LP,” sold more than 21 million copies worldwide...

Graphic by: Dennis Lubensky

Step By Step: Lockdowns

By Sarah Asch Dec 20, 2013

After the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School last December, ABC News reported that there have been 31 school shootings in the U.S. since the Columbine shooting in Colorado in 1999. In response to...

Dallas Buyers Club Shines

“Dallas Buyers Club” Shines

By James Finn Dec 13, 2013

“Dallas Buyers’Club,” the brilliant new film from director Jean-Marc Vallee, is the story of Ron Woodruff, a rodeo cowboy living with AIDS in Dallas in the 1980s. The movie follows Woodruff (Matthew...

10 Things: Alternative Higher Learning Opportunities

10 Things: Alternative Higher Learning Opportunities

By Hannah Yerington & Kate Luebkeman and Kate Luebkeman Dec 13, 2013

1. I’m Ready to Go to College... NOW! If you are an underclassman and already feel ready for something more, look up for early colleges. These are schools that are specifically designed for teenagers...

Pearl Jam Review

Pearl Jam Still Jammin’ 22 Years Later

By Daniel Carroll Nov 23, 2013

Two decades after “Ten,” the album that boosted Pearl Jam to the level of Nirvana in the ‘90s world of grunge rock, Pearl Jam has released their 10th studio album, “Lightning Bolt.” As in the...

Graphic by: Cassie Jeong

“Bangerz” Brings Out Miley Cyrus’s New Identity

By Jasmine Caputo Nov 20, 2013

Media’s current “it girl” Miley Cyrus released her new album Bangerz on October 4, showing the world who the “new Miley” really is. With every song containing Cyrus’s country-rooted voice over...

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