The Urban Legend

Letter from the Editors

Zadie Winthrop, Mira Chandriani, and Maya Campbell, Editors in Chief • January 21, 2022

Dear Urban, Your Urban Legend Editors are thrilled to share the 12th edition of The Yeti magazine with you. Despite the challenges the pandemic presented this month, our staff continued to produce...

Get to know Jessica Yen

Maya Campbell and Mira Chandriani • October 16, 2021

After a one and a half year hiatus of fully in-person school, the Urban School that students deserted in March of 2020 was not the one they returned to this fall. Inevitably we said goodbye to many and...

A year in review: 2020-2021

Maya Campbell, Editor in Chief, Online • June 7, 2021

First Day of School August 31, 2020 The absence of the Senior Raid into the Salkind Center gym on August 31, 2020, marked an untraditional start to the 2020-2021 school year, yet other ASM traditions...

Legend Gratitudes

Lingerr Senghor, Sarah Levin, Maya Campbell, Mira Chandriani, Tulin Chang-Maltepe, Clementine Daniel, Sophia Gibson, Simon Hereford, Ben Katznelson, Ellie Lerner, Orla Meehan, Wes Peters, Sydney Riemer, Zoe Sokatch, Lochlain Steere, Zadie Winthrop, Callum Yeaman, and Delancey Gaito • November 22, 2020

Lingerr Senghor: I am grateful for my incredible colleagues, especially those in the English Department. And Liverpool F.C, the greatest team in the world. And my magnificent Nigerian Lit class :) Sarah...

Decline in San Francisco tourism hits small businesses hardest

Maya Campbell, Arts and Culture Editor • November 13, 2020

[slideshow_deploy id='12185'] The continual increase in visitors to San Francisco over the past 10 years has resulted in record-breaking growth in the city’s tourism. However, COVID-19 has brought the...

Urban students lead the charge in the Stop AAPI Hate Youth Campaign

Maya Campbell, Arts and Culture Editor • October 19, 2020

Activism is “acting on empathy...giving voice to those that are marginalized, those that are often disenfranchised,” says Cassie Eng, co-leader of the Asian/Pacific Islander (API) affinity space at...