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The Highlander

Winter has come and gone

AnnaGrace Hopkins and Emma Johnson May 5, 2019

With only two episodes left in the final season of HBO hit show, Game of Thrones, fans are craving some closure for this epic tale spanning nine years. The entirety of the series has been built on the...

Taylor Swift rises from the dead: a fresh start with a new single “ME!”

Haine Jung, Reporter May 5, 2019

From mid-April, Taylor Swift has been completely changing up her Instagram feed from dark themed pictures which are the motifs of her last album, Reputation, to a mysterious set of pastel colors. She has...

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Avengers: Endgame is a fitting end of an era for Marvel

Sabrina Vazquez, Features Editor April 28, 2019

In 2008 Marvel released Iron Man and began what is now know as the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Eleven years and 21 movies later the MCU culminates in Avengers: Endgame, a cinematic feat unlike anything...

Rapper YNW Melly faces death penalty

Rapper YNW Melly faces death penalty

Elizabeth Humphreys, Reporter April 25, 2019

Being prosecuted and put in front of the death row, 19-year-old rapper YNW Melly is being charged for the double homicide of two men. The murders occurring in Vero Beach, Florida last year on Oct. 26,...

Shazam! (Image obtained from Warner Bros.)

Shazam! A bang to the DCU

Charley Roth-Douquet, Reporter April 23, 2019

Warner Bros offered Shazam in an attempt to transform DC Films from a gloomy and dark tone into a more fun, light-hearted Marvel-like tone. To their credit, Shazam is a fun and light film that did well...

21-year-old Khalid released his second studio album on April 5. (Photo courtesy of Creative Commons)

Khalid releases his Free Spirit

Maria McHugo, Editor-in-Chief April 9, 2019

Young artist Khalid released his second studio album on April 5, Free Spirit, through RCA Records. Known best for his 2017 anthems "Location" and "Young, Dumb & Broke," the 21-year-old sensation...

Dating Around shows dating for what it is todays multicultural world (photo courtesy of Netflix)

“Dating Around” is amazingly awkward

Alex Mandanas, Managing Editor April 9, 2019

Enter one vanilla white guy. He’s wearing a too-tight suit. He’s “in real estate” and his hair shows it. Next come his dates--five different girls, varying by degrees of annoyingness. That’s...

Lil Skies second studio album, Shelby

Lil Skies’ second studio album, Shelby

Elizabeth Humphreys, Reporter April 8, 2019

Shelby, Iowa? Peru? An odd title at first, rather, Shelby is the name of Lil Skies’ second studio album released on Mar. 1. Competing only with Skies’ first album, Life of a Dark Rose, both can be...

Its Show Time- The audience comes in, getting their first glance at the stage. The screen on the left had an equivalent on the right. Each of these enhanced the staging as pictures and location cards described where the characters were. (Photo taken by Cordelia Lawton)

Peter and the Starcatcher leaves audience star struck

Cordelia Lawton, Reporter April 6, 2019

Lively. Innovative. Fun. Peter and the Starcatcher, which opened on April 4 and is running through the 7th, was clearly a fun play for the cast to perform as each performer's face was full of passion and...

Dumbo flies low in theatres

Emma Johnson, Reporter April 2, 2019

Disney’s new movie Dumbo stars Danny DeVito, Colin Farrell, Michael Keaton and Eva Green in Tim Burton ‘s remake of the 1941 animated classic.In this live action version, Burton creates a more familial...

Prepare for the upcoming season of McLeans favorite show

Prepare for the upcoming season of McLean’s favorite show

Alex Mandanas, Managing Editor April 1, 2019

As Colton Underwood’s season came to a close, many dedicated fans in “Bachelor Nation,” the cringe-y conglomeration of fans of The Bachelor, began to wonder: who is our next Bachelorette? I consider...

Top 5 Rage Against The Machine Songs

Top 5 Rage Against The Machine Songs

Nick Boyer, Reporter March 31, 2019

“Take The Power Back” One of the most powerful Rage songs ever and the best message for kids in school. This song is about how the schools and teachers are lying to us about the things that they teach...

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