ENTERTAINMENT
Star Wars: ‘The Rise of Skywalker’ Review: Not a good, but not a bad ending to the Skywalker saga
Zack Sawicki, Web Designer
January 27, 2020
The new installment to the Star Wars series, “Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker” really isn't much better than the past two movies in the new Disney trilogy. Director J.J. Abrams directed it along with the first episode of the new trilogy, “Star Wars: The Force Awakens,” both of which are at least better ...
‘Frozen 2’: awakening the spirits
Isabelle Bliss, Staff Reporter
January 9, 2020
The snow glows white on the mountain tonight as the sequel to the 2013 “Frozen” arrived in theaters on November 22. “Frozen 2” is worth seeing in theatres for the great storytelling, songs and details it evokes. The music in this cinema does not free away from the first “Frozen” so...
Marvel called, they want Spider-Man back
Samantha Stitt, Staff-Reporter
December 6, 2019
The year is 1998, Marvel had just offered every Marvel character on the roster to Sony. They decline most likely thinking Spider-Man was the only character that they would make a profit off. Boy were they wrong. Disney and Sony had become partners in February of 2015 leading to a new iteration of ...
‘IT Chapter Two’: AFRAID TO FACE REALITY
Sydney Switzenberg, Creative-Editor
November 15, 2019
“IT Chapter Two” surpasses every other horror movie by not resorting to cheap scare tactics like jump scares or including unnecessary scenes to make the movie longer. The sequel to “It” (2017), is worth being away from your phone for 3 hours. Cinematic parallels to the first movie is not the...
Jonas Brothers make copycat comeback
Amelia Pulley, Staff Reporter
June 3, 2019
The Jonas Brothers came back after 6 years of darkness with low expectations. The brothers last made music together back in 2013 with their last album, Live. This spring, “Suckers” and “Cool” were released as new songs hitting the Hot 100s. Fans of Portugal. The Man have realized too much of a similarity...
The Sun Is Also a Star (Review)
Morgan King, Content Editor
June 3, 2019
In this adventurous novel, readers travel along with the main characters in New York City. Feeling the lurches and thrills of the crazy rollercoaster ride that is, “The Sun Is Also a Star,” they experience a mix of emotions while reading. Yoon named the book, “The Sun Is Also a Star,” because she...
Cheap, fun and done
Abigail Douglas, Creative Editor
June 3, 2019
As summer approaches so do the fun activities that come with it like swimming, camping and walks to get ice cream. We all yearn for the warm temperatures, summer hangouts and iconic starry nights. If you are stuck on the idea that to have an epic summer you need to spend an epic amount of money, you don't have...
Sultans: A beautiful attempt to honor The Beatles
Logan Connolly, Editor-in-Chief
June 3, 2019
Bobby Long succeeds as a musician, mixing music types like paints and turning the microphone into a canvas. He mixes genres like English folk and Americana with country and tops it off with an authentic rustic sound. Long’s multiple works include “A Winter Tale,” “Ode To Thinking” and his newest ...
Blink and you’ll miss it
Mickenzi Merriweather, Staff Reporter
May 20, 2019
Blink 182 opened up a new world of creativity with more aggressive rhythms and ideas unlike anything they have ever done. In an interview with Billboard Magazine, Travis Barker, the drummer for Blink 182 explained that they are experimenting and trying to go for new sounds that people cannot compare to any of th...
Dumbo revisited: Comes to life to tell a different story
Samantha Stitt, Staff Reporter
May 20, 2019
We witnessed the Cinderella story. We lost ourselves in the Jungle Book. We fell in love with the with the Beauty and her beast. This spring, another legendary story was revived. Dumbo, the classic Disney film that came out October 23, 1941, was given another life and a whole new perspective. DUMBO GET...
Become a part of the movie industry
Mickenzi Merriweather, Staff Reporter
April 24, 2019
With the camcorder that he got for a present in hand, the young director-to-be traveled the beautiful roads of Italy, filming anything from soaring birds in the sky to the random faces around him. Learning every function on his new device and unlocking his natural talent as a movie producer, Massimiliano C...
Feminism at its finest
Bella Roberts, Staff Reporter
April 17, 2019
The notorious life of RBG Ruth Bader Ginsburg is a Justice on the Supreme Court, a Democrat and is 85 years old. She may not have been the first female Supreme Court justice, but she is an influential one. RBG, as she is known by most, has made a huge impact on the modern era of feminism. According t...
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July 2, 2020
Popping through a fence on North William Street, a Tiger lily signals the start of summer. Earning its name from an appearance like the skin of a tiger, the lily is easy to...
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