After their performance on this year’s Vans Warped Tour stop in Massachusetts, Jet Lag Gemini sat down and spoke about touring and recording.

Jet Lag Gemini is a New Jersey based quartet with members hailing from Russia, Romania and the United States. They made a name for themselves by playing local shows.

Just yesterday Garrett Nickelsen, 19, felt as though he was trying to figure out how to get out of his classes in high school. Now all he has to worry about is playing in front of thousands of fans daily on this summer’s Vans Warped Tour.

Nickelsen, the bassist in The Maine, has had a whirlwind of a year with his band.

A visit to Howard Newman’s blue-shingled historic home is marked by a dismal, rainy Monday afternoon. A converted garage, steps from his kitchen, contains the studio where he creates the majority of his works. Drops of water sprinkle gently from the sky and the artist adjusts his navy beret over his gray mop of hair, to shield his eyes from the foul weather.

“Then all you do is take a chisel and chop it out.”

Those are the simple directions John Everett Benson, previous owner of The John Stevens Shop, gives to stone carving after the lettering is designed and traced and painted onto the stone. A person may think he or she is about to color in the lines of a child’s coloring book- that’s how nonchalantly and effortlessly Benson makes stone cutting to be.

What’s wrong with the kids today? How many times have you heard that question being asked when you see kids getting into trouble? Most of the time people say the solution is to get them into school and educate them. What if, however, the school was the problem? Many people are now questioning why their public schools are failing them and why is it such a problem for the government to fix it.