Category: Features

NCHS grad making original music, finds Spotify success

February 12, 2019

Cooper Smith has been hard at work since walking across the stage at Grossinger Arena, receiving his diploma in the spring of 2017. Since leaving Normal, Smith has set his sights on other stages - as he ...

InkSpotify Playlist: Mr. Kelly Keogh’s top 8 Springsteen songs

Tommy Olsson, Staff Reporter

February 1, 2019

Filed under Arts & Entertainment, Features, Music

InkSpotify Playlist: Mr. Matt Chapman’s top 15 Pearl Jam songs

January 30, 2019

In the February Inkspot print edition, we profiled Mr. Matt Chapman's love of Pearl Jam. Take a listen to Chapman's top 15 Pearl Jam songs. ...

300 Words: ‘Na wè pita’

January 8, 2019

Sweat streams down her face. The humidity so extreme that the only outfit she owns is glued to her body. She cringes as she steps with bare feet on a sharp rock. She stands in front of a stick hut that...

Obama’s ‘Becoming’ book tour

January 8, 2019

Positivity. Encouragement. Empowerment. These were the emotions in the air as a once in a lifetime event at the United Center was about to begin. Audience anticipation was high as former First Lady...

Ways to make winter fun

December 21, 2018

The Inkspot staff has put together some ways to make winter break enjoyable. If this doesn't help check out our winter dessert recipes and photo gallery walkthrough....

Watch ‘The Office’ Christmas episodes

December 21, 2018

Will Dowell ranks The Office Christmas movies just in time for the holiday season.

Easy to make winter desserts recipes

December 17, 2018

The Inkspot staff tried out some winter dessert recipes - here are the step-by-step instructions for our favorites. Our criteria for choosing recipes to test were that: a. the ingredients for each recipe...

FBLA returns with ‘Dancing with the Staff’ event

December 14, 2018

After being canceled last year, the Future Business Leaders of America returned to hosting its annual Dancing with the Staff event on Thursday, November 14, to raise money for their national business part...

300 Words: Car keys

December 12, 2018

Anna leaves Community just like every other student hurrying to get home. She jumps into her teal Chevy Aveo racing to get out of the student parking lot and start her 17-minute drive home to begin the rest of...

Inkspotify: Winter & Holiday Playlists

December 6, 2018

The Inkspot staff has curated playlists for the winter and holiday seasons. Jolly Holiday Winter ...

InkSpotify

December 6, 2018

The Inkspot staff has collaborated to curated a variety of playlists for students to help them discover new artists and songs. Acoustic EDM Common Covers Throwbacks...

Tees to success: Enchelmayer more than a golfer

November 28, 2018

While sports and sound are often linked: players listening to their headphones to get "in the zone", music blasting out of speakers at athletic events, the crowd cheering wildly... Golf and sound are no...

A traveling journey

November 20, 2018

For Dr. Valentine Walker life has been a journey. The journey started when he “met a beautiful peace corp volunteer” and moved from his homeland in Jamaica to the United States where he became a du...

Meme-morialized

November 10, 2018

The quantity of empty lockers around NCHS has resulted in students using them to make mock shrines of actors who are not dead. Prior to the start of each school year, the school administration surveys th...