The Round Table

Review: Jack White takes progressive leap with ‘Boarding House Reach’

By Lucy Kiefert, Round Table entertainment managing editor • April 9, 2018

Jack White, former frontman of The White Stripes, current member of The Dead Weather and The Raconteurs, and founder of independent, Nashville-based record label Third Man Records, released his third...

Student walkout occurs at Middletown High School

By Lucy Kiefert, Round Table entertainment managing editor • March 16, 2018

A student-organized walkout at Middletown High School coincided with the nationwide school walkouts in response to the recent school shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. MHS's interpretation...

Middletown prepares for student walkouts

By Lucy Kiefert and Audrey Fisher • March 9, 2018

In response to the school shooting in Parkland, Florida on Feb. 14, students at Middletown High School have begun to organize their own walkouts that coincide with those planned on a national level, leading...

Behind the Earbuds

By Lucy Kiefert, Samantha Johnson, and Nancy Siguenza • January 23, 2018

Round Table reporters Lucy Kiefert, Samantha Johnson and Nancy Siguenza take to the halls of Middletown High School to gain insight on the effects of listening to music in school. For a playlist of all...

Reactions: Charles Manson dies in prison

By Lucy Kiefert, Round Table entertainment managing editor • December 6, 2017

On Nov. 19, cult leader Charles Manson, who rose to fame in 1969 when convicted of the Tate-Labianca murders, died of natural causes at the age of 83. Though Manson did not technically commit the crimes...

Review: Dua Lipa searches self in ‘New Rules’

By Lucy Kiefert, Round Table entertainment managing editor • December 5, 2017

Don’t pick up the phone. Don’t let him in. Don’t be his friend. These are the three rules Dua Lipa assigns herself in her newest single “New Rules” to prevent herself from returning to an...

Review: Marteen spices it up with ‘Sriracha’

By Lucy Kiefert, Round Table entertainment managing editor • October 30, 2017

With its bustling bravado, collected confidence and easy energy, Marteen’s debut single “Sriracha” is exemplary of the promising material that can be expected from the next generation of up-and-coming...

Review: Saving Forever’s ‘Million Ways’ shines with pop potential

By Lucy Kiefert, Round Table entertainment managing editor • October 26, 2017

The teen dream that is the boyband has existed and dominated culture for decades, and with new group Saving Forever on the music scene, two released singles under their belts, that fantasy is sure to have...

Vinyl makes a comeback among today’s youth

By Lucy Kiefert, Round Table entertainment editor • June 8, 2017

Though the average youth is satisfied with the convenient comfort of digital music, all beneath one screen and neatly packed into his virtual library, many teens and twenty-somethings long for something...