Portola Pilot swept the competition, winning first place in Best of Show for Newspaper in Division 1, Website, Podcast and overall Sweepstakes at the Orange County Journalism Education Write-Offs hosted...
Three members of Portola High's Distributive Education Clubs of America chapter qualified for the International Career Development Conference. This conference had the most number of Portola High qualifiers...
No matter where you come from, art and culture can be a powerful way to learn about and connect to your heritage and identity. For sophomore Nithila Francis, music can combine many different historical...
***Content Warning: This article discusses topics of drug use.
***Spoiler Warning: This article contains spoilers for seasons one and two of “Euphoria.”
Trauma and healing. Love and heartbreak....
The excruciating feeling of a cinematic experience ruined by the chatter of other theatergoers. The grating sound of fingernails slowly being dragged down a chalkboard, sending shivers up your spine. The...
A new mentor steps onto the lacrosse field — a former three-year high school varsity lacrosse player who led his team to championships as the team captain.
Matthew McCarthy was one of...
When Audrey Hsieh entered Portola High in 2018, she made a pact with herself: she would stop pursuing acting at the end of high school if she did not land a significant role. Nine years of fruitless effort,...
ASB celebrated a plethora of diverse cultures by hosting various lunchtime activities for Intercultural Week from Feb. 14-17.
Student activities commissioner and senior Stella Jung led the event,...
Dastārs, religious head coverings that symbolize humility, are worn by many practicers of the Sikh faith – the world’s fifth-largest religion with over 25 million followers – and are just one of...
A couple hundred snapshots of sunsets and beaches fill senior Jun Yu’s Instagram page, @through_yu; it’s become his habit to travel out to Laguna Beach or the Santa Monica Pier every few weeks. Though...
Elise Ngo, Contributing Writer
| February 28, 2022
Girls’ soccer (13-3-6) won 7-0 at its final league game against Beckman High in the home stadium on Feb. 4, securing their title as Pacific Coast League Champions.
The Bulldogs also won 2-1 and...
![Levinson needed to cast an actress who could portray the emotional volatility of an adolescent drug addict, in tandem with Rue’s mental health diagnoses — among them, ADHD, bipolar disorder, anxiety and depression — and shifting relationships with friends, family and lovers. “I think that the toughest part of writing [Zendaya’s] character and sort of portraying a character that’s dealing with addiction is understanding the root causes of it and the sensitivity behind it,” Sam Levinson said.](https://portolapilot.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/draft-2euphoria-graphic-1-900x682.png)
