Revolutionary Revolutionizes Broadway
Victoria David, Editor-in-Chief
January 25, 2017
Filed under ENTERTAINMENT, Featured A&E, OPINIONS, Reviews, Showcase
The musical, “Hamilton,” has been breaking barriers of traditional Broadway productions since its debut. It is a historically accurate, hip-hop, rap and R&B infused musical theater production that tells of founding father and first ever secretary of treasury Alexander Hamilton’s life. It was...
Local Natives Make Anthem for Today’s Generation
Graciela Martinez, Webmaster
November 11, 2016
Filed under ENTERTAINMENT, Featured A&E, Showcase
Local Natives’ third album, “Sunlit Youth,” is a great anthem for today’s generation. One song on the album, “Fountain of Youth,” says “I think we’d better listen to these kids.” which is the message of the entire album. The album suggests that a great future lies ahead for today’s...
Fairy Tales Can Come True
Kaylee Vickers, Staff Writer
June 10, 2015
Filed under ENTERTAINMENT, Featured A&E, Showcase
Lately, Hollywood has been remaking old movie classics and Disney is no exception. Disney Studios has remade the story “Cinderella” into a live-action film and have many other live action movies in production such as “Beauty and the Beast” and “The Jungle Book.” Although some may find...
Music festival mayhem
Larissa Torres, Opinions Editor
June 8, 2015
Filed under ENTERTAINMENT, Featured A&E
Music flows from every stage in the venue. Voices, rhythms and notes overlap to form a wall of noise that follows her wherever she goes. She has looked forward to this day for months now, and it is finally here. It is everything she has been dreaming of. Music festivals go back decades, from Woodstock...
No “Secrets” for Mary Lambert
Larissa Torres, Opinions Editor
January 8, 2015
Filed under ENTERTAINMENT
Vulnerable, powerful, upbeat and serious. These words come to mind when listening to Mary Lambert’s new single: “Secrets.” Starting off with an upbeat, airy tune reminiscent of innocence and childhood, Lambert starts off by singing, “I’ve got bipolar disorder.” The stigma surrounding mental...
Raving for Rixton
Karlie Rushing, Staff Writer
January 8, 2015
Filed under ENTERTAINMENT
What first started out as an unknown band on YouTube creating wonderful covers of popular hit songs, the United Kingdom-based band Rixton is now steadily increasing its presence in the music industry and building its’ fan base daily. The band contains lead singer/rhythm guitarist Jake Roche, bassist/keyboardist/vocalist...
Swift success
Noah Sanchez, Features Editor
January 8, 2015
Filed under ENTERTAINMENT, Showcase
Having released her album “1989” in October of 2014, Taylor Swift seems to have hit a turning point in her career—and a positive one at that. Now that her fans have gotten over the initial shock her genre change, it is now foreseeable that her past will be nothing like her future, music wise. Swif...
Swift to sell
Noah Sanchez, Features Editor
December 19, 2014
Filed under ENTERTAINMENT, Showcase
Releasing her first fully-fledged pop album, Taylor Swift has been sweeping the nation with her new sound. Having sold more albums in its opening week than any other in the past decade, “1989” has been turning heads and opening wallets all over the world. Swift’s well-anticipated new album does...
Not another book adaption
Kaylee Vickers, Staff Writer
October 24, 2014
Filed under ENTERTAINMENT, Showcase
It is heard over and over: the book was better than the movie. Hollywood has turned novels into movies for decades and continuously fails to exceed book fan’s expectations. When a book turns into a movie, major characters and details tend to be left out. There is little character development, if...
Jordan’s Top 10
Jordan Harley, Staff Writer
December 20, 2013
Filed under ENTERTAINMENT, Featured A&E, Showcase
1. Doctor Who – Awarded the title of longest-running sci-fi show in history, Doctor Who brings an exciting experience to every living room with a time traveling alien called "The Doctor" who journeys across all of space and time with many companions. It would be easier for most people to get into t...
Shield yourself from adorableness
Anna Ta, News Editor
November 23, 2013
Filed under ENTERTAINMENT, Featured A&E, Showcase
Following the success of Marvel’s The Avengers, director Joss Whedon returns with Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Phil Coulson, the beloved S.H.I.E.L.D. agent and Captain America fanboy from Marvel’s The Avengers, comes back to life to lead a new specialized team for the agency. The taskforce consists o...
‘Tangled’ will take you on a hairy adventure
Lauren Hernandez, Staff Writer
September 24, 2013
Filed under ENTERTAINMENT
The movie 'Tangled' was released in 2010 by Walt Disney Pictures. It is an animated version of the Brothers Grim 1812 tale of Rapunzel. In this version Rapunzel is kidnapped by a witch who then pretends to be her mother. In the movie she meets a guy named Flynn Ryder, and they go on her dream advent...
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