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According to Rolling Stone, Fine Line has over 52 million streams, including more than 38,000 album sales.

Harry Styles’ New Album is ‘Golden’

Ava Caleca | January 29, 2020

Harry Styles has finally released his highly-anticipated second album. With a new tour in 2020 and his heavily-marketed pop-up shops around the world, “Fine Line” has been a global success. According...

Social studies teacher Heidi Martasian, Natasha Schottland, Emily Sheridan Visual and Performing Arts Teacher Desmond Stevens, [and Martasian’s and Schottland’s spouses] backpacked together at Cucamonga Peak in March of 2017; the three couples are avid fans of the outdoors, and often spend time with each other traveling along with their families. In addition to traveling, the time spent together at work has forged lifelong bonds, as Martasian, math teacher Eric Graham and principal John Pehrson were some of the teachers invited to Stevens’ and Sheridan’s wedding in 2018.

Ace-ing Your Morning: Teacher Edition

Annie Qiao and Julia Kim | January 27, 2020

While the rest of the campus is silent, the faint beat of 80s pop music, laughter and the occasional squeak of sneakers on the gym floor echoes through the walls early Wednesday and Friday mornings before...

IGNITING PASSION. Sophomore Maya Vanek, senior Maddy Noh, sophomore Sophia Steinert, seniors Kaitlyn Nguyen-Pham and Grace Tu, junior Haley Hosokawa and sophomore Safah Faraz represented the yearbook staff at the annual IGNITE yearbook camp held at Pepperdine University. While they have won gold in the past, they were only one of four programs to win a gold award this year.

Art Groups Bond Students of All Ages

Helena Hu and Tiffany Wu | January 27, 2020

Whether slurping steaming hot ramen noodles on chilly All-State orchestra nights, staring into the bright lights of center stage or finally feeling the glossy finished product of a year’s hard work in...

Stocks and Sugita both value the flexibility and advantages of speaking a second language due to their multicultural households. Stocks speaks Spanish, while Sugita speaks Japanese.

Learning to See Two Backgrounds As One

Tiffany Wu, Co-News Editor | January 23, 2020

Hearing the last names of Japanese-American and Vietnamese senior Kyle Sugita and Peruvian and Caucasian sophomore Chris Stocks yields a stark contrast in reaction from the frequent “Kims” and “Zhangs”...

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