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Graffiti at LCHS

For those of you who don’t know, La Cañada High School’s walls have recently served as the canvas to multiple works of…spontaneous paint smears. Beginning a few weeks ago, the word “PABST” was painted above the “Blue Ribbon National School” sign on the high school’s front stair wall, referencing the Pabst Blue Ribbon brand of [...]

The Social Bell Jar: Facebook

As we continue to complain about our excessive homework loads, our busy schedule of activities, and all our other teenage struggles, we seem to leave room for one thing each day: Facebook. Whether students use Facebook as a channel to complain about their homework or as a means to ‘stalk’ basically anyone, Facebook has incorporated [...]

My Top 10 Favorite Black & White Films

Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939) Frank Capra’s political classic follows the journey of idealist Jefferson Smith (Jimmy Stewart) to his junior Senate seat in D.C. Smith, an American patriot, goes to Washington only to realize that corruption rules the political scene. In his efforts to promote a lost cause, Smith shows himself to be [...]

Hot Spot: MONA

Enter a world of light and color by visiting the Museum of Neon Art in Downtown Los Angeles. This off-beat museum features art in a different form—not the paint, canvas, and sculpture you’d be expecting. Instead, this place exhibits vibrant lights in unusual ways. See Keith Herring-like people combined synergistically in motley illuminations. Flowers, geometric [...]

Maranatha Finds LC’s Achilles Heel 43-21

Spartan football faced its second defeat of the season last Friday on October 1st. LC football arrived ill equipped for Marantha’s strength and agility. “They were a bigger faster team than we anticipated, and we simply underestimated them,” team member Joe Torres remarked. Maranatha’s minutemen came prepared for victory just as the militias of the [...]