Unoriginality is Hollywood’s New Reality
November 12, 2019
Looking at a list of “movies coming soon to theaters near you,” one message becomes quite clear: Movie remakes are inescapable. In recent years, the number of remakes has multiplied at an alarming rate, so much so that checking movie theaters’ showtimes is now impossible without stumbling upon...
Netflix: The Great Exodus
November 12, 2019
The hearty thump of your backpack echoes through your house as you return home from a long day of school. Exhausted, you throw your limp body onto your couch and pick up the TV remote. As you sluggishly scroll through Netflix’s homepage, it seems as though you’ve seen everything good it has to offer....
Pali’s Student Unions Work to Preserve Cultural Identities
October 4, 2019
A melting pot, a land of opportunity and a land of the free are all terms used to describe the United States of America. It earned these names for its diverse population and extensive civil rights. Pali, with 46 percent of the student body composed of racial minority students, is especially representative...
Taylor Swift: Lover or Hater?
October 4, 2019
“I’d be a fearless leader / I’d be an alpha type / When everyone believes ya / What’s that like?” In “The Man,” the fourth track on Taylor Swift’s new album, Lover, Swift compares male and female experiences in the music industry and points out the sexist double standards to which...
Why Frank Ocean is the greatest artist of this generation
Lulit Abdissa
April 3, 2019
“Up above the birds, I saw the sky like I never seen before." In late January 2019, news broke that artist Frank Ocean's video album, Endless, was set to arrive on multiple streaming services after only being available on Apple Music in video form since its release in 2016. However, much to the...
Hollywood Whitewashing
Joey Chae, Staff Writer
February 27, 2019
Hollywood is great. It produces countless movies and TV shows that make us laugh and cry and love again, but not everyone is featured on the big screen. Why was “Crazy Rich Asians” the first U.S. blockbuster with a primarily Asian cast in a quarter of a century? As a Korean-American, my mom made ...
Don’t Move On From the #MeToo Movement
February 27, 2019
Last year, the red carpets of Hollywood saw a change: a sea of stars, clad in black, Time’s Up pins fastened to their lapels, treating the word solidarity as a solution. This year, Hollywood continued with its empty promises of change, awarding accused sexual abusers, pedophiles, and rapists with Golden Gl...
CupcakKe needs to be protected at all costs
February 4, 2019
CupcakKe is a national treasure, and we need to protect her. Chicago rapper Elizabeth Eden Harris, known professionally as “CupcakKe,” has surged into the spotlight in recent years, using clever wordplay and an almost cartoonishly erotic public image to captivate and sometimes shock audiences. It is ...
November 12, 2019
Pali’s Campus Unification Day focuses on mental health
November 12, 2019
Anime Club quickly gains popularity at Pali
November 12, 2019
Punk and Metal Club Rocks Pali
November 12, 2019
November 12, 2019
For the last 15 years, Caroline Bremner has dedicated her life to soccer. She spent her early years playing on AYSO travel teams, and for the last seven years, she has...
For These Fans, it’s More than a Game
October 17, 2019
September 17, 2019
Captains Lead Teams to Succeed
August 27, 2019