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Holding Space for Wicked : Did it Defy Gravity?

Holding Space for Wicked : Did it Defy Gravity?

Ira Gandhi, School News Correspondent January 29, 2025

  The movie that we’ve all been “holding space” for, John M. Chu’s take on the Tony award-winning musical “Wicked”, recently broke the box office. The characters weren’t the only...

Full of Sound and Fury, signifying nothing

Full of Sound and Fury, signifying nothing

Lara Phul, International Correspondent January 28, 2025

Society should crumble. Our leaders must be put to the sword. This is the start of every modern online manifesto. Whether it is the CEO assassin heartthrob Luigi Mangione or the Columbine shootings,...

Cookie Clicker and the Absurd

Cookie Clicker and the Absurd

Neel Tripathi, Existential Columnist January 26, 2025

“Polytheism is the belief in multiple deities; monotheism in just one. Atheism is a belief in no deity whatsoever. Through logical succession, it follows that this remains true when going into negative...

Beyond the Spotlight: What is Really Remembered?

Beyond the Spotlight: What is Really Remembered?

Akshat Ambekar January 26, 2025

Why do we perform? It is a simple question, yet one that never occurred to me, nor to many of the multitudes whom I consider to be good musicians, good people, egotistical and self-absorbed, like me! While...

My house smells like curry. Why is that a bad thing?

My house smells like curry. Why is that a bad thing?

Lara Phul November 28, 2024

My house smells like curry. As an Indian-American who grew up in New Jersey, I am painfully aware of the stereotypes many Americans hold about Indians. Laura Loomer, a far-right figure and Trump supporter,...

Subject Selection for 8th Graders: With great power comes great responsibility

Subject Selection for 8th Graders: With great power comes great responsibility

Mira Gupta September 17, 2024

The 8th Grade students have recently been introduced to the subject selections for their E-assessment, which occur at the end of 10th grade. This is a great opportunity for them as they are given a wider...

Cilian Murphy collects his Oscar for best actor in a leading role

Oppenheimer wins big, but at what cost?

Arjun Mehrotra, Editor September 11, 2024

The Oscars have long masqueraded as the most prestigious event in Hollywood, awards handed to the best, only the best films of the year. But uh... not really. Everybody knows by now that the movies that...

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