Category: Features

By Gisselle Washington | Big Stick Editor | The audience leaned back into their seats in the darkened auditorium as they set their gaze to the performance drawn before them. A story of immense conflict between two rival gangs of different economic backgrounds. The play adaptation compelled the audience with emotional dialogues, violent fights, and devastating conclusions. The Roosevelt Theatre […]

By Gisselle Washington | Big Stick Editor | Art club has become a  melting pot of different various art forms and students. The club, an outlet for creative expression from arrays of vivid paints to dense slippery clay, is open to all students who’d either like to form art for themselves or use art for helping the community. “We just […]

By Cierra Cervantes | Staff Writer | Gilberto Hernandez, or as we all know him, Mr. Hernandez, is a Geometry teacher. He is a man who served for America and now works for NEISD. Hernandez grew up in Mexico and lived there for five years. “I grew up poor but I did not feel it,” Hernandez said. “We had enough […]

By Breana Bellinger | Staff writer | Erika Melero is an English III teacher who earned a B.A. English Language Arts from St. Mary’s University. She received her inspiration from her teachers when she was at university. “I wanted to give back and help and inspire students the way my teachers inspired me,”  Melero said. “I enjoy helping students a […]