Tippy Balady doesn’t cuss. “I’ve never had a place for it in my vocabulary,” she says, the “it” referring to the four-letter words others might employ with ease. “Even in high school, when your ...

While some teenagers might feel lucky to make it out to concerts every weekend, for Tippy Balady it’s slowly becoming her career. The student at Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and ...