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Food from Melrose Bite; burger with fries in forefront, mango habanero chicken wings and sauces in background

Sweet, crunchy and kosher, Melrose Bite finds a trendy combo

By Olivia Fishman, Arts & Culture Editor
January 4, 2022
RELEVANT: Contestants in ‘Squid Game’ wear green or pink uniforms, which South Korean demonstrators now wear to protest against low wages and other problems in their country’s economic system.

Squid Game, worldwide hit, raises radical questions about choice, death and squalor

By Elliot Serure, Staff Writer
December 6, 2021
The cover of the album ‘Flower Boy’ by Tyler the Creator.

MY LIFE IN A SONG: A friend in the wild

By Avi Litvak, Staff Writer
November 8, 2021
READY: Appearing finished on Sept. 13, the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures is at the northeast corner of Fairfax Avenue and Wilshire Boulevard, just two blocks north of school. Its eye-catching, multi-story sphere is just behind the main building, visible from Fairfax and also from LACMA to the east.

Vacation plan: How about a museum?

By Olivia Fishman, Arts & Culture Editor
September 17, 2021
REBIRTH: A screenshot of the music video for Kanye Wests song Come To Life, one of many songs on the theme of redemption in his new album, Donda.

Worth the wait, Kanye West’s Donda shares every sort of emotion

By Noah Masliah, 12th Grade
September 17, 2021
PROTAGONIST: Played by John David Washington, Tenet’s main character travels backwards and forwards through time trying to save the universe in Christopher Nolans latest film.

Despite faults, ‘Tenet’ is a time-bending thriller that will leave you thinking

By Elliot Serure, 10th Grade
May 21, 2021
RETROSPECT: In his 39th studio album, Dylan uses historical themes to show where we are now.

In ‘Rough and Rowdy Ways,’ Bob Dylan looks back to see the present

By Eli Weiss, Digital Media Editor
March 19, 2021
EVENT: The Oscars are hosted this year at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood

LIVE BLOG: The Oscars with Zach Helfand and Jacob Joseph Lefkowitz Brooks

By Jacob Joseph Lefkowitz Brooks and Zach Helfand
February 9, 2020
TOGETHER: These years Best Picture nominees are (left to right) Little Women, 1917, Ford v Ferrari, Joker, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, Parasite, The Irishman, Jojo Rabbit and Marriage Story

The Nine: Short reviews of the 2020 Best Picture nominees

By Jacob Joseph Lefkowitz Brooks, Molly Litvak, Zach Helfand, Nicholas Fields, and Jolie Wineburgh
February 9, 2020
DIFFERENT: Three decades after Rebecca arrives in the US, her friends and family from different backgrounds gather to light the menorah on the third night of Hanukkah in ‘Eight Nights,’ at the Antaeus Theater last month.

New play explores trauma’s impact across generations and cultures

By Jacob Joseph Lefkowitz Brooks, Editor-in-Chief
January 8, 2020
FRIEND: Waititi portrays Jojo’s imaginary version of Adolf Hitler, a father figure to Jojo, whose own father went missing.

Jojo Rabbit: Sparks of love in a world of hate

By Jacob Joseph Lefkowitz Brooks, Editor-in-Chief
December 15, 2019
REVIEW: Making violence funny in Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time in Hollywood

REVIEW: Making violence funny in Tarantino’s ‘Once Upon a Time in Hollywood’

By Molly Litvak, Community Editor
October 13, 2019
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