Avatar vs Teen Titans: The Better Anime-Inspired Powerhouse Cartoon of the 2000’s
By Matthew Hagan, Review Editor
September 16, 2020
I’ve spent the last summer, through the magic of streaming services, revisiting several shows I hadn’t watched for many years. One of the shows I revisited, as I imagine many other people did this summer, was “Avatar: The Last Airbender”. Breaking records to become one of Netflix’s most profita...
How to Stay Creative during Quarantine
By Olive Wheadon, Staff Writer
May 28, 2020
As we have now faced months of solitude, there has been a new time and space for creation, replacing the hours with friends, extracurriculars, and basically almost every activity SDA students indulge in before quarantine. Yes, this quarantine is a burden and overall unfortunate, yet there is something about it...
The Comforts of Childhood Cartoons
By Olivia Lyons, Business Manager
May 28, 2020
Now, it may just be me, but I have been feeling pretty stressed out lately. Maybe it’s the pandemic, maybe it's the AP tests handing over my head (good luck to everyone who needs it), or maybe it is being around my family 24/7. I don’t know, probably a combination of the three. But, the good new...
The Genius Of Pearl Jam’s “Do The Evolution”
By Matthew Hagan, Staff Writer
May 28, 2020
The ’90s was the era of music videos. With MTV as dominant as ever, and the alternative boom in full swing, artists often went out of their way to make music videos as over the top, creative, and elaborate as possible. So, when the question of what was the best music video of that era comes up, a lot ...
Eight Beautiful Coming of Age Movies that Correctly Portray Adolescence
By Gwen Nowlan, Staff Writer
May 26, 2020
Spirited Away Spirited Away is a masterpiece, as are most of Miyazaki's movies. Miyazaki often focuses on a young woman's potential to be independent and strong. Spirited Away is a beautiful rendition of this theme. Chihiro, a young girl, must navigate the spirit world in order to save her parents. In the ...
Where’s The Other Half?
By Lindsey Hollandsworth, Staff Writer
May 26, 2020
Yes, I’m back for yet another romantic comedy, but I’ll happily oblige. The newest addition to Netflix, The Half Of It, depicts the lives of Ellie Chu and her father in a small fictional Washington town called Squahamish. Ellie is a high school senior who earns money by writing her classmates’ es...
Never Have I Ever review
By Ella Murray, Staff Writer
May 22, 2020
Netflix recently released season one of it’s new series, Never Have I Ever. The story follows highschool sophomore Devi Vishwakumar and her friends, Fabiola and Elanor. At the beginning of the season, Devi puts together a plan for her and her friends to become more popular. The first step: get boyfriends....
Parks and Recreation special addresses current issues
By Emily Broyles, Staff Writer
May 14, 2020
So if you haven’t heard of it, Parks and Recreation is a great show. You can watch all 7 seasons on Netflix and Hulu. The show came out in 2015 and has grown in popularity over the years. Recently, on May 1, a new special was released on Youtube. The cast came together virtually to make this episode. This epis...
Interactive Specials: The Future of Entertainment
By Juan Aragon, Staff Writer
May 13, 2020
Make a decision: get married or rescue the girls held hostage in a bunker. This is one of the many choices you have to make while playing Netflix’s Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt: Kimmy vs The Reverend. The witty Netflix comedy show returned for an interactive special starring Ellie Kemper as the lea...
A ranking of books you should read in quarantine
By Georgia Villarreal, Staff Writer
May 3, 2020
I love books, you can immerse yourself in the book and use your own imagination. So I am going to rank the books I have read, best to worst. Now, you might have not read these books or don’t consider them in the top 5, but this is not your opinion. If you want you can rank your best books, it could ...
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