Wooly Mammoths Still on Earth?
February 15, 2012 • Andrew K, Reporter
Filed under Arts and Entertainment, Fun Facts
A video has been recently posted on Youtube of a Wooly Mammoth crossing a river at the Chukotka Autonomous Okrug region of Siberia. The wooly mammoth is a colossal brown furred elephant like animal with two long curved tusks who lived during the ice age. Scientists think it became extinct thousands of... Read more »
Fashion Week
February 15, 2012
Filed under Arts and Entertainment, Fun Facts
On the second week of February, models will be showcasing the supposed “fashions of next year”. This event will take place in the Lincoln Center of Preforming Arts in New York. From January to April, designers will be showing their Autumn and Winter collections. From September to November... Read more »
PINK sheep?!!
February 8, 2012 • Kathy T., Reporter
Filed under Arts and Entertainment, Fun Facts
The flocks of sheep in Auckland’s SheepWorld are not normal muddy white colored. The flock of 60 sheep is not born with a pink coat,because the farm owners decide to give their sheep pink hairdos with food coloring to attract more visitors to the farm to provide an insight about sheep farming.... Read more »
Can you spell school correctly?
February 6, 2012 • Andrew K, Reporter
Filed under Fun Facts
Most people are able to spell school correctly with no problem. Apparently, it’s really hard for street workers in the Lower East Side New York. When painting a street sign on the road for Marta Valle High School, workers embarrassingly spelled school as S-H-C-O-O-L. To fix the mistake, workers... Read more »
February 2012… Pies and Leap Years?
February 4, 2012 • SarahK, reporter
Filed under Arts and Entertainment, Fun Facts
Right now, it’s February 2012. What’s so special about it? We all know about Valentine’s day. But did you know that it’s also National Pie Month? Yum. There’s all kinds of wacky holidays, including International Flirting Week. Plus, there’s an extra day this month:... Read more »
How much creativity do you have?
February 1, 2012 • Neel S
Filed under Arts and Entertainment, Fun Facts
I took a class with Jim Wilton (a famous cartoonist and author) about creativiy and cartooning, and he gave me a great idea to test your creativity and how to get lots of ideas. All you need is an object and a peice of paper and a pencil . It can be any object. For example you can use a pencil, computer,... Read more »
Fastest Super car in the World. (2011-2012)
January 25, 2012 • Neel S
Filed under Arts and Entertainment, Fun Facts
Do you like cars? I love cars. If you want simple updates from car companies check the website under fun facts or arts and entertainments. I get my info from car websites and magazines called MotorTrend and Road&Track. My favorite car video games are Forza Motorsport 4 and Dirt 2. Bugatti Veyron... Read more »
Cake Boss
April 15, 2011 • Liam B., Reporter
Filed under Arts and Entertainment, Fun Facts, Uncategorized
Have you ever seen the show Cake Boss? It’s a show about a very famous bakery in Hoboken, New Jersey called Carlos Bakery. It has been running for over 100 years now and is in it’s 3rd season on TLC and a new episode airs every Monday at 8:00 PM. It is an Italian Bakery run by Buddy Valestro.... Read more »
April Holidays!
April 8, 2011 • Arielle Z
Filed under Fun Facts, Uncategorized
Other than April Fools and Easter there are many holidays in April that you might not heard about. What else is special about April? Check these out. Why do we need a National Zipper Day? It makes me wonder, who is in charge of creating all these holidays? Autism Awareness Month International Guitar... Read more »
Chicago River on St. Patricks Day…
March 16, 2011
Filed under Fun Facts
This forty year old tradition is very weird, the Chicago River gets a dose of green dye every St. Patrick’s day. Really it doesn’t happen right on St. Patrick’s day, it happens on the Saturday before, and has turned into a crazy tradition, and creative idea! The administrator of Chicago’s... Read more »
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