Stories by Ava Hansen

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Ozempic and the Media

In recent years, GLP-1 blockers like Ozempic have become more frequent in Western culture through a spike in social media fame, often straying away from the real purpose of medications like these. Anyone on social media is aware of the trend cycle that seems to come and go faster than…

by Ava Hansen  •  Dec 16, 2024
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Fall Play: Radium Girls

Northwest students are currently preparing for their 2024 Fall Play Radium Girls, which will be performed for audiences November 1-3 to enjoy. 1926 is a big year for radium in all of its innovative endeavors. From watch painting to supposedly curing any disease, — arthritis to cancer — it is…

by Ava Hansen  •  Dec 2, 2024
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2024 All-State Music Festival

The 2024 Allstate Music Festival celebrated excellence in musicianship from Thursday, November 21 to Saturday, November 23, at the Hilton Coliseum in Ames with 16 Northwest students for the band and orchestra and 15 for the choir attending. Drive is a common idea that many struggle to find. Not only…

by Ava Hansen  •  Nov 27, 2024
Culture

Behind the Scenes of Iowa Dance Theater’s “The Nutcracker”

Opening on December 13th to the public, The Iowa Dance Theater’s production of The Nutcracker has been a holiday tradition in the Des Moines Metro thanks to endless work and effort put in behind the scenes by dancers, staff and theater crew. First performed in 1892 in St. Petersburg, Russia,…

by Ava Hansen  •  Nov 26, 2024