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From Kanchan, News Team Contributor Usha Akella tells no lies. The first time I met this poet, producer, and founder of South Asian poetry collective Matwaala was at a Desi poetry reading moderated by India Currents. It was a surreal moment for a South Asian American teenage girl who grew up on a diet of Mahabharata reruns and idolized authors Read more...

written by Kanchan Naik, a News Team Contributor Henri Rousseau, one of the most influential artists in the 19th century, displays his enigmatic style in his oil painting, The Sleeping Gypsy. He was a Frenchman and a Post-Impressionist painter, who lived from 1844 to 1910. Created in 1897, which was the time when Rousseau created his best art, The Sleeping Read more...

article by news team contributor, Margaret Lucie is a sophomore at Amador Valley High School in Pleasanton, California and one of our very own Ptown News Team writers. She is the president and founder of a successful organization about string music named Bow Buddies. Bow Buddies is dedicated to offering free workshops for string musicians and access to career advice Read more...

article written by Ananya, a news team contributor This week, I interviewed my very good friend and extremely talented musician, Andrea W.  Andrea is a high school junior at Tilden Preparatory School in Walnut Creek. 1) If you weren’t playing your current instrument(s), which one(s) would you play? Or would you even play at all? I would be playing the Read more...

On September 12th, 1940, a boy named Marcel Ravidat lost his dog, Robot, to a hole. He returned three days later to get his dog with three friends, and they entered down into the cave through a shaft. They had thought that the shaft was a secret entrance to a nearby mansion. It was not. However, they did end up Read more...

Article Written By Kanchan, a News Team Contributor SAAC (South Asian Arts Council) board member Ravinder Reddy says his virtual study groups are educational — just not in the traditional sense. “We’re not discussing  art the way [one does] in college or an AP course, but teaching art so that when you go to a museum, you have the broader context of how Read more...

  An interview with a rising photography star By Lucie, News Team Contributor What if you were to stumble into the wrong orientation at a summer camp, for a subject that you know almost nothing about? What if while at that orientation, you discovered a passion you never knew you had? Meet Claudia O’Neill, a rising senior at Amador Valley Read more...

By Lucie, News Team Contributor   While most museums and art galleries are still closed, there is a wealth of public outdoor art and online galleries that can still be appreciated.   1. Public Art and Heritage Walk in Walnut Creek The five public art tours can be an entertaining activity for all ages, while also being a way to Read more...

By Margaret, News Team Contributor Nowadays, when you think of the epitome of intellectualism, you think of elitist colleges, renowned for everything from their excelling athletics teams to academic prestige that are insurance of a bright future. However, centuries before all the hype over the Ivy Leagues, who (or shall I say, which educational institute) dominated the scholastic field? The Read more...

        Untitled by Kanchan Naik, News Team Contributor   and only the dead can make promises with these streets; mouths parted from their final breaths cannot lie like the living. the brown body is a broken secret its reality exhaled into autopsies and caskets, a gasping america can breathe again. justice dances with the night, serenaded by Read more...