The Express

“Surfing Strange” Album Review

Griffin Orlich, A&E Editor • November 22, 2013

Swearin’ is a new indie rock band from Philadelphia formed in 2011 that fans of Cloud Nothings, Yuck, and Girls will enjoy. The band is fronted by former P.S Eliot member Allison Crutchfield, who plays...

The Growlers Release Their Fourth Album “Gilded Pleasures”

Jenna Clemente, Staff Writer • November 15, 2013

The Growlers is a rockabilly surf band perfect for driving, laying, or just running around. Their morbid lyrics mixed with a psychedelic tune creates the perfect remedy of stylistic audacity. They created...

‘Altars’ Commemorate Ancestors and Icons in Library

Courtney Crane, Staff Writer • November 15, 2013

Sophomores Victor Rodriguez and Chris Gardea evaluate a Dia De Los Muertos project in the library. The project was a part of a Spanish class study of a holiday important to Latin American culture. Students...

Trapdoor Theatre Company Opens with ‘Trouble with Summer People’

Alexea Malaletkin, Editorial Editor • November 8, 2013

Trapdoor Theatre Company opened their production of The Trouble with Summer People in the Blackbox on Friday, November 8, starting the year off with a comedic mystery. A man (Nick Welter) is found...

Anatomy of a Single Girl

Alexea Malaletkin, Editorial Editor • October 28, 2013

Anxiety towards the future dominates Daria Snadowsky’s young adult novel, Anatomy of a Single Girl. The book conceptualizes growth and moving on through the fictitious experiences of Dominique as she...

Silence Your Cell Phones, It’s Time for Film Studies

Griffin Orlich, A&E Editor • October 18, 2013

It is fourth period and it’s time to watch another movie. It’s not a substitute teacher who doesn’t have a good lesson plan, but rather a class called Film Studies. The students roll in chairs from...

Match, Set, Laugh!

Chetana Piravi, Center Spread Editor • October 11, 2013

When you hear the word “team,” you probably think of a basketball or football team. Maybe even an academic decathlon team. Very few of you, however, associate the word team with comedy. But that’s...

STAN Club Kicks Off the Year with Holiday Grams

Courtney Crane, Staff Writer • October 9, 2013

STAN (Students Take Art to the Nation) club is beginning the year with a fundraiser for the art classes provided at SJHHS. Students involved will be making holiday grams to be sold during the last week...

Commercial Music Rocks the Schedule

Nikki Rastegar, Staff Writer • October 8, 2013

Commercial Music, the newest music class at SJHHS, has already created a bond among its students. “It has been a good opportunity to [get to] know other students in this school with musical abilities,”...

Stallions Exhibit Art

Jessica Skolnik, Staff Writer • June 3, 2013

Brush stroking and photo snapping their way to the San Juan Capistrano Library, the art and photography of San Juan Hills students was displayed in the art gallery through June 4th. In the Digital Photography...

New Fine Arts Courses Offered 2013-2014 School Year

Alexea Malaletkin, A&E Editor • May 31, 2013

San Juan Hills will be introducing four new Fine Arts courses to the campus in the 2013-2014 school year. Classes offered include Introduction to Fine Arts, Commercial Music, AP Music Theory, and AP Art...

Artist to Know-Wavves

Griffin Orlich, A&E Editor • May 1, 2013

Wavves, a surf punk from San Diego, was started when lead singer and guitarist Nathan Williams dropped out of college, quit his job and moved back in with his parents. Looking for something to do to...