Irvine Unified School District’s COVID-19 dashboard has been updated accurately since its launch in October 2020 to its most recent update on Feb. 9. The dashboard’s purpose is to transparently communicate...

There are countless ways a theatrical production can come to fruition, but online musicals might be the new trend. In the last few months of 2020, TikTok creators, as well as professional actors and technicians,...

Users on the stock trading subreddit r/wallstreetbets sounded the alarm in late January that brick-and-mortar video game chain GameStop was being shorted past its number of publicly available shares, leading...

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In 1997, my Korean-born parents set off for the United States with a luggage carrier between them. They are now American citizens. My mom watches Hollywood movies without Korean subtitles to decode for...

ASB's first spirit week of spring semester, held across two weeks from Jan. 26 to Feb. 5, drew from such Pixar films as "Toy Story" (1995) and "The Incredibles" (2004) to inspire dress-up days, breaktime...

The Portola Pioneer is the official news and culture podcast of the Portola Pilot, aiming to foster a sense of community and provide a unique storytelling medium to its listeners.  In this episode,...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued the first emergency vaccine distribution on Dec. 11, 2020. As of Feb. 1, 26.5 million Americans have received one or both doses of the current vaccines,...

Whether she was surrounded by the medieval brick buildings and gothic 14th-century architecture of Italy or the modern skyscrapers and high-tech lifestyle of South Korea, literary and language arts teacher...

The school musical is the center of conversations among students in the spring, and creating it is no easy process. Producing a musical is a nearly yearlong development that starts immediately after the...

A passionate athlete and avid hobby-pursuer, Brendan Murphy joined the boys’ varsity lacrosse team as a coach and the junior varsity team as a temporary coach in December 2020. Since his move to California...