Thursday, June 20, 2013
Arts & Entertainment
Art building construction Site (Photo: Ian Fyfield)

By now, everyone has seen the big construction site behind the Dant House for the new arts building. The building [...]

Iron Man 3, directed by Shane Black Midway through The Avengers, Captain America and Tony Stark have an argument. Cap [...]

From shoes created from a single thread and shirts made from bacteria-killing fabric to handmade sandals created using all recycled [...]

First Graders perform the Maypole dance at spring festival. (Photo: Karen Katz)

From the Beginning School to the Upper School Catlin Gabel upholds its image as a tightly knit community with many [...]

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In science-fiction blockbusters, world-building is where the real meat is. Usually in the first act of a good futuristic science [...]

News
The gun debate in Oregon is just as prevalent as it is in the rest of the country. (Source: Simon McMurchie)

 Despite a fairly significant gap in voter numbers between Democrats and Republicans in past elections, Oregon has representation from both [...]

Kiruna, a former Catlin Gabel student, runs class as project manager for client-based work with TriMet in the Urban Studies course. (Photo: Catlin Gabel)

As an independent K-12 school that encourages individual, inspired learning and strong student-teacher relationships, Catlin Gabel strives towards seemingly progressive [...]

Caption: Students of the Student Union marched on November 3 to protest budget cuts.

On November 3, 2012, Portland Public Schools (PPS) students joined an anti-austerity protest in the Lloyd district and were confronted [...]

Explaining the uses of ser and estar to a class. Sobel taught Spanish to seventh  through twelfth graders.

 After a chance meeting in 1971, Ron Sobel took a job at Catlin Gabel as a middle and high school [...]

The ancient city of Pompeii (Photo: New York Times)

Pompeii, an ancient city in western Italy buried in the seventeenth century by an eruption of Mount Vesuvius, contains the [...]

Op-Ed
Hannah, Audrey and Fiona at the 2012 mayoral debate. (Photo: Deborah Naugler)

Let’s be honest: we had no idea what we were doing when we became the editors of CatlinSpeak at the [...]

Nicolas Batum (88), an integral part of the leadership in Portland. (Photo: New York Times)

You’d be hard-pressed to find a Blazer fan who saw this season as a success. A historically inept bench, a [...]

Jeremy Lin during his tenure with the New York Knicks. (Photo: New York Times)

In an April 7, 2013, interview with Charlie Rose on CBS’s “60 Minutes”, NBA star Jeremy Lin explained that race [...]

In 2010, two Catlin Gabel students, Yale Fan and Kevin Ellis, earned two of the top three prizes at the [...]

Students at Oaks Park on last year's Kidnap Day.

Here comes April, a month full of strange events and mysterious rumors that might leave you asking, “What?” April at [...]

Sports
Field view of a Timbers game in the Jeld Wen Field (Photo: Kate Ellis)

For many soccer enthusiasts the renovation of Jeld-Wen Field and Portland’s first Major League Soccer team, the Timbers, have been [...]

The Portland Thorns (Photo: Ian Fyfield)

Despite two failed women’s soccer leagues in the past decade, the new NWSL, or National Women’s Soccer League, seems to [...]

Nicolas Batum (88), an integral part of the leadership in Portland. (Photo: New York Times)

You’d be hard-pressed to find a Blazer fan who saw this season as a success. A historically inept bench, a [...]

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Catlin Gabel soccer has a rich and storied history, and has boasted one of the most successful 3A programs over [...]

Layla prepares to putt at Catlin Gabel's home course, Quail Valley. (Photo: Kathleen McCarron)

With nice weather and ambitious newcomers, the Catlin Gabel girl’s golf team is faring well. They beat the Oregon Episcopal [...]