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The Highlander

Abby Covington , Erica Bass,Haley Rose, Benji Harris and Trevor Hazen (12)  perform one of the final scenes of 9 to 5 on April 29. The performance received a standing ovation. (Photo courtesy of Lindsay Benedict)

9 to 5 the Musical theater production comes to a close

Rohan Mani, Reporter May 3, 2018

9 to 5, the final production for TheatreMcLean ended in success as crowds rose for a standing ovations after its conclusion.  During April 26-29, 2018, the play packed theaters every night focusing on...

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Avengers: Infinity War stuns audiences

Sabrina Vazquez, Photography Editor April 28, 2018

A movie ten years in the making, Avengers: Infinity War had both comic book fanatics and average moviegoers anxiously counting down the days until its release. This movie is the culmination of almost 20...

Fortnite Season 3 Recap

Fortnite Season 3 Recap

Sean Senft, Reporter April 18, 2018

Fortnite players witnessed the most updates and changes this past season in season 3 with the additions of Supply llamas, vending machines, new skins and new weapons. With season 3 of Fortnite to end...

Silencing Critics: A Quiet Place

Ross Oliver, Reporter April 13, 2018

In the last decade the horror genre has been muddled with mediocre and terrible movies. Riddled with lame jump scares and poor main characters, the genre was seen as a joke. However, it seems to be coming...

The wrappers of change

Satire: McLean journalists help end childhood obesity

Ryan Dahlseid, Reporter April 11, 2018

On April Fourth, Two-Thousand Eighteen, two McLean High School journalism students  embarked on a mission of which the consequences were unknown. The students were juniors, Nick “Nickywings” Monroy,...

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Love, Simon really is lovable

Alex Mandanas, Opinions Editor April 4, 2018

What ever happened to the rom-com? Why hasn’t there been no good, light-hearted, adorable films about love to come out in the past five years? I used to ponder these questions. I love romantic comedies....

Huji added a unique filter, a cool light streak, and an analog date to a picture I took this summer at Wrigley Field.

Editing app Huji is a huge hit

Alex Mandanas, Opinions Editor April 4, 2018

Ask any Highlander what the most popular photo-editing trend on Instagram is right now, and chance are they’ll say it’s Huji. Huji is an app that makes photos taken on an iPhone look like they...

From Warner Bros., Amblin Entertainment, Village Entertainment, and Amblin Partners

Be ready to see Ready Player One

Jeremy Siegel, News Editor April 3, 2018

Based on the 2011 best-seller novel by Ernest Cline, Ready Player One is an intense movie, once again a masterful stroke from Stephen Spielberg, possibly the greatest American artist of these times. The...

Isle of Dogs - a canine film with political undertones

Isle of Dogs – a canine film with political undertones

Ed Walters, Sports Editor April 3, 2018

After years of speculation that director Wes Anderson secretly hated dogs, the auteur put these ideas to rest with his latest film where almost every character was a humanized version of man's best friend. In...

Annihilation Extended Review

Annihilation Extended Review

Justin Kim, A&E Editor March 17, 2018

WARNING: I DON'T RECOMMEND READING THIS IF YOU HAVEN'T SEEN THE MOVIE YET. Prepare for my terrible attempt in sounding intelligent. We humans are quite used to being top dog on this Earth by now. We...

Not Lost, Just... Wrinkled

Not Lost, Just… Wrinkled

March 13, 2018

Audiences have been enamored ever since 1962 when Madeleine L'Engle released the novel  A Wrinkle In Time. The coming of age science fiction story combines a sense of childlike wonderment with a heartfelt...

Memories Dont Die with Tory Lanez

Memories Don’t Die with Tory Lanez

Carla Ballard, Reporter March 13, 2018

To begin, I would be lying if I said I completely let rapper and singer Tory Lanez slip out of my mind due to his lack of music- up until now. Lanez released his latest album "MEMORIES DON'T DIE" on March...

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