The first annual spring fashion show featured outfits from a ‘road trip’ across the country: New York, Memphis, Miami, and LA.   Held during 7th period on May 20th, the show featured several models and two hosts who ‘took the audience across the country’ to fashion hubs: 5th Av, BealeContinue Reading

The summer blockbuster season kicked off with Avengers: Age of Ultron, the long awaited sequel to the 2012 movie The Avengers, and was  a great start for this summers slew of movies. The movie has its returning cast of Iron Man, Thor, Captain America, Hulk, Black Widow and Hawkeye, withContinue Reading

  Ignacio reflects on childhood, uses vibrant colors From paintings on newspapers to models sculpted from glue guns, the art sophomore David Ignacio dabbles in shape his identity. “Without art I can’t do anything, because even when I take notes, I just doodle around,” Ignacio said. The colors that IgnacioContinue Reading

On the last possible day to register a club, the school gained a new addition to its array of student-run organizations: the Electronic Dance Music club. The EDM club, founded by co-presidents Lawry Boyer and Bruce Stewart, was created as a way for people both to create original music andContinue Reading

Models are notorious for being much thinner than the average person, but even plus-size models are not representative of their intended consumers. Although businesses such as Lane Bryant have been taking steps to include more body types, there’s still a long way to go. Lane Bryant, a plus-size clothing line,Continue Reading

In a contentious school board meeting Thursday night, the phrase “gender identity” was added to FCPS’s nondiscrimination policy, which already included age, race, national origin, disability and religion. The board voted in favor of the new policy despite some opposition from the stand-only crowd. [tweetable message=”FCPS gender ID policy aims to treat every student/employee withContinue Reading

At eighteen, now in my final year of high school, I’ve found myself with no real applicable life skills. Sure, I’ve taken a personal finance class, but I couldn’t say with 100 percent certainty what a W-2 form is (or why it’s really necessary). I can’t cook, I can’t swim, I’mContinue Reading

Teachers are beginning to use Learn time more frequently as a means to finish lessons they didn’t complete in class. Unfortunately, this transformation of the Learn period into even more class time can have a negative impact on students who use the period to manage their schoolwork. Understandably, teachers areContinue Reading

This year’s fashion show, hosted by the marketing students, has been categorized into four different styles: Country, high fashion/glamour, beach and urban styles. The theme of the show, which will take place on Wednesday, is summer roadtrip. Within that theme, students are grouped and assigned to a location for inspiration.Continue Reading

Children’s television has always had Easter egg jokes geared toward adults, ranging from celebrity references to thinly veiled sex jokes. Nowadays, a common practice in animated children shows across networks like Disney and Cartoon Network is hiding a deeper theme within their plot. A major follower of this trend isContinue Reading

  Class: 2016 Years of experience: 7 Sport: ice hockey While several school sponsored sports take the spotlight, a community-sponsored ice hockey team that combines Marshall students with Lake Braddock provides hockey enthusiasts such as junior Stephen Arthur with the opportunity to play for their school. Arthur began playing iceContinue Reading

No matter how prestigious the institution or how photogenic the campus, when we consider the possibility of attending a university, the first question is always: “What is the cost?” As the price of attending college soars far beyond any previous records, there are still ways for someone to pay forContinue Reading

For those who enjoy spending excessive sums of money on marginally better sound quality, the new music streaming service Tidal, which is owned by Jay-Z, is perfect for you. For the rest of us, there’s a myriad of seemingly identical streaming services which do not cost an extra $120 aContinue Reading

When most people think of things the Northern Virginia community can improve, our commitment to stopping human sex trafficking generally is not at the top of the list. For those who don’t know what human trafficking is, it is the illegal movement of people for commercial sexual exploitation. Teenage sexContinue Reading