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Fall in Love with These 12 Cheesy Rom-Coms

Fall in Love with These 12 Cheesy Rom-Coms

Iyla Hernden ’26, Arts and Culture Editor February 24, 2025

Although our beloved Valentine's day has come and gone, love is still in the air. Whether you celebrated last week with a special someone, or got yourself your own bouquet of roses, it is the perfect time...

GNX's album cover, picturing Kendrick Lamar leaning on a 1987 Buick Grand National Experimental (GNX), which he had announced buying earlier in 2024.

GNX: A Review

El Dumas ’29, Writer December 10, 2024

Kendrick Lamar: His name has been everywhere in the past year. On November 22nd, he dropped a surprise album, titled GNX. His whole discography has been deeply focused on how he was raised and how that...

The annual opportunity to peg one another with soft projectiles attracts both students and teachers!

Dodge!

Kaeli Kampschmidt ’23, School and Local Editor September 9, 2022

After an all-American lunch of hot dogs and fries, the annual faculty/student dodgeball game commenced promptly at 11:45 yesterday (9/9/2022) with teachers sitting on the West side of the gym and students...

CODA features an emotional plot, captivating cinematography, and a stunning soundtrack.

CODA Review: Oscar Winning Best Picture

Elias Arredondo ’23, Writer May 12, 2022

This year's Academy Awards hailed an unprecedented surprise to the forefront of modern media with CODA winning all three nominations: Best Picture, Best Supporting Actor, and Best adapted Screenplay. CODA...

The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel: A Review

The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel: A Review

Lily Ma’ayan ’24, 7th Grade Editor April 19, 2022

Amazon Prime’s The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel series, whose first episode came out in 2017, has stumbled its way through its fourth season this spring. The show follows Midge Maisel, a perky Jewish New York...

Despite being overshadowed by "the slap heard round the world" at the Oscars, the 2022 Grammy Awards offered up a mix of predictable and surprising results.  -- Original art by Ell Bueno '24

The 64th Annual Grammy Awards: Everything You Need to Know

William Weinstein ’23, Writer, Journalism Class 2022-2023 April 12, 2022

The 2022 Grammy Awards were well… a mixed bag. For the second year in a row, the awards themselves felt like an even distribution among the nominated artists, with no landslide in favor of one. Coming...

Don't Look Up?

Don’t Look Up?

Lily Ma’ayan ’24, 7th Grade Editor February 2, 2022

Don’t Look Up is a satirical social commentary surrounding the discovery of a giant asteroid headed to destroy earth and all its inhabitants. It is directed by Adam McKay, the genius behind Step Brothers,...

Essential Winter Albums

Essential Winter Albums

William Weinstein ’23, Writer, Journalism Class 2022-2023 January 26, 2022

Nebraska, Bruce Springsteen: This is the quintessential winter album. An anomaly for Springsteen, it is stripped-down, dark, and haunting. Originally recorded as demos to be later played with the E-Street...

Top 4 Shows Of the Summer

Top 4 Shows Of the Summer

Ella Markman ’22, 6th & 7th Grade Section Editor August 27, 2021

Too Hot To Handle: Season 2- The iconic hit romance show is back. The producers of the show take a bunch of hot singles and enforce a strict sex ban. This season, only one person wins the money. The...

Kid Cudi’s Gender Bending Performance

Kid Cudi’s Gender Bending Performance

Taya Demianova ’23, Arts and Culture Editor April 22, 2021

On April 10th, rapper, singer, and songwriter, Kid Cudi, a.k.a Scott Ramon Segura, made an appearance on “Saturday Night Live”. He paid tribute to Kurt Cobain, but it wasn’t the way people expected....

Judas and the Black Messiah Movie Review

Judas and the Black Messiah Movie Review

Arinjoy Das ’22 (AJ), Arts and Leisure Editor March 12, 2021

The movie Judas and the Black Messiah shines a spotlight on FBI informant William O’Neal, who infiltrates the Illinois Black Panthers in 1968 and betrays its leader, Fred Hampton, to the FBI, leading...

Awards season reflects shifting culture amid assault allegations

Awards season reflects shifting culture amid assault allegations

Kiki Gonglewski February 22, 2018

Awards season, with its glitterati sparkle, red carpets, flash bulbs, and golden statuettes, was, until now, one of the few great constants in the lives of Americans. This year, award season instead arrives...

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