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Yeezus for 2020

October 6, 2015

Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, and Tumblr were plastered with posters of Kanye West from the VMA Awards on August 30 after his acceptance speech left viewers in either complete hysteria, awe or something...

New hosts take stage at night

October 2, 2015

Steven Colbert is back on late night television, this time off of cable and on network television. He has retained his witty and sarcastic style, as can be seen in his monologue from September 21, where...

Snapchat update adds new features

Snapchat update adds new features

September 27, 2015

Snapchat is one of the most popular forms of social media at McLean--48 percent of students at McLean use it.* On September 15, these Snapchat enthusiasts updated their app to find plenty of new features,...

FCPS Budget Proposal Tool Review

FCPS Budget Proposal Tool Review

September 18, 2015

There’s an old saying, “desperate times call for desperate measures.”  FCPS is faced with a budget deficit of around $100 million for the 2015 fiscal year (for more about that check out  FCPS’s...

Long Live A$AP

June 19, 2015

On May 26, A$AP Rocky released his sophomore album called At. Long. Last ASAP. With receiving nothing but positive feedback, it raised its way up to the top. With not producing an album in two years, this...

(Official movie poster obtained via Google Images)

Jurassic World lacks originality but is still fun for the family.

June 14, 2015

The infamous Jurassic Park franchise returns with a fourth installment in their film series, Jurassic World. Taking it one step further with a new and fully functioning dinosaur theme park, the film...

Orange is the New Black features Taylor Schilling as Piper Chapman,  the shows main character. It will return for a third season on June 12th and has already been renewed for a fourth.

Don’t let Piper Chapman ruin your final grades

June 11, 2015

Attention, non-senior Highlanders! The third season of Netflix's hit original series, Orange is the New Black, is being released on June 12th. In keeping with most Netflix shows, every episode of...

Calvin Harris concludes the Sweetlife festival with a beautiful lights show

Sweet Sweetlife

June 11, 2015

The Sweetlife Festival hosted by Sweet Green is always a highly anticipated event every year that it comes to Merriweather Post Pavillion. This year, the festival fell on Saturday, May 29 and Sunday, May...

Twenty One Pilotss Blurryface experiments, semi-successfully

Twenty One Pilots’s Blurryface experiments, semi-successfully

June 11, 2015

In mid-May, Columbus-based duo Twenty One Pilots released their highly anticipated fourth studio album, Blurryface. It diverges in sound and message from 2013’s Vessel, which marked the pair’s...

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Six summer blockbusters to look out for

June 9, 2015

Summer is arguable the best season to watch movies, especially from major film studios. But this summer looks to be the most fun yet. Here are six upcoming blockbuster films to look out for the upcoming...

Big Fish is the “hero of the story” with 21 cappie nominations

June 7, 2015

The McLean Theatre company’s production of “Big Fish” is nominated for a total of 21 Cappies this year. The cast and crew has worked tirelessly on the production of “Big Fish”, beginning at...

Aloha fails abysmally

June 7, 2015

“Aloha” is used to say goodbye and hello in Hawaii. Sadly the only good part of this movie was saying goodbye to it. Bradley Cooper, Emma Stone, Rachel McAdams and John Krasinski are stars who rarely...

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