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Taylor Swift's 2024 post about voter registration.

Press, Publicity, and Pressure: Has the Age of Celebrity Activism Distorted Our Expectations of Our Favorite Stars?

Hannah Sheehy, Staff Writer November 4, 2024

School shootings, presidential elections, Middle Eastern missile wars — these constant events pervade the news and overwhelm our social media feeds in both the United States and across the globe. According...

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Missed Calls: Cell Phone Free Initiative Controversy at Wilton High School

Missed Calls: Cell Phone Free Initiative Controversy at Wilton High School

Lila Hidalgo, Staff Writer October 4, 2024

In May 2023, Florida became the first state to have its Governor, Ron DeSantis, sign a House bill that declared a state-wide phone ban in classrooms. The rationale was based on the expectation that removing...

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Asian Alliance hosted the first Asian Alliance Festival on May 19 last year. We seek to create a tradition by hosting one this year as well.

WHS Asian Alliance to host Annual Asian Alliance Festival

Saniya Shah and Sayuki Layne June 11, 2024

After a busy May, WHS Asian Alliance will host the second annual Asian Alliance Festival open to all town members from 3:30-4:30 at Comstock Community Center on June 13th.  Last year, the Asian Alliance...

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Where Magic Meets the Sea

Where Magic Meets the Sea

Harper Crawford, Staff Writer March 4, 2024

It feels like every day is a race to the finish line. With everything going on, having the time to do what you want is rare and must be taken advantage of. Instead of escaping it all via social media,...

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Anyone But You premiered in AMC Lincoln Square Theater on December 11, 2023, quickly becoming a fan-favorite.

Does Anyone But You Live Up to the Hype or (Belly) Flop?

Yana Giannoutsos, Editor-in-Chief March 4, 2024

The ‘90s and early 2000s marked the golden age for romantic comedies. Unrealistically heartwarming, low-stress movies, these “chick flicks” set the bar high for epic scenes of love declarations and...

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Fans of the written series have long awaited the release of the Percy Jackson TV Show. After an unfaithful movie adaption, they are hoping this will be their on-screen redemption.

Percy Jackson and the Olympians, the TV Show, Both Hits and Misses

Saniya Shah, Editor-in-Chief February 29, 2024

For Percy Jackson fans, a TV Show adaptation was a dream come true. After the badly adapted and badly rated film, featuring aged-up characters and inaccurate events, fans eagerly awaited the release of...

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Sophia, David Hanson’s humanoid robot.

Opinion: What Does It Mean to Be Human in the Twenty-First Century?

Anant Srinivasan, Managing Editor January 26, 2024

On Valentine’s Day of 2016, inventor and visionary David Hanson activated his robot “Sophia,” the most advanced humanoid robot the world had ever seen. Assembled in Hanson’s Hong Kong laboratory,...

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The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, prequel to the original Hunger Games series, pays homage to the original movies while offering newness, including a catchy soundtrack.

Battle of Songbirds and Snakes brings everything Hunger Games fandom hoped for, Even Without Original Cast

Yana Giannoutsos, Editor-in-Chief December 7, 2023

“What happens in there, fueled with the terror of becoming prey, see how quickly we become predator? See how quickly civilization disappears?” -Dr. Volumnia Gaul The Hunger Games: The Ballad of...

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“The New Colossus,” Emma Lazarus’s famous 1883 poem welcoming immigrants to America, is inscribed in the Statue of Liberty

Beyond the Golden Door: Reimagining “The New Colossus” in An Argument Against the United States Citizenship Test

Anant Srinivasan, Managing Editor December 7, 2023

In an interview conducted shortly after his 2020 election victory, Alabama Senator Tommy Tuberville misidentified the three branches of the United States government as “the House, the Senate, and the...

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Taylor Jenkins Reid’s embodiment of powerful female characters and pertinent commentary on the Hollywood ‘50s and rock ‘n roll ‘70s in her books The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo and Daisy Jones and The Six sum up what it is to read a good book.

Music and the Movies on the Summer Page

Saniya Shah, Editor-in-Chief September 29, 2023

There is nothing like Hollywood or Sunset Strip drama in a summer read. Taylor Jenkins Reid pulls it off in her remarkably similar yet still quite interesting books The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo and...

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