Kollin’s Album Recommendation: “Utopia” by Travis Scott
By Kollin Dorsey ’27 After waiting 5 long years, Travis Scott released his 4th studio album, “Utopia”, this past July, and put simply, it was worth the wait. The album features many notable guest names, including Drake (“Meltdown”) , 21 Savage, (“Topia Twins) Playboy Carti(“Fe!n”), Bad Bunny (“K-Pop”) and Beyonce (“Delresto (Echoes)”). While all these…
Video Game Review: Retro Bowl
by LaMarc Hubbart ’26 Retro Bowl is an American football game made by New Star Games, which was released for mobile devices in January 2020 and was given a Nintendo Switch version a year later. It gained a huge following after people discovered it on Tiktok, and the nostalgic simplicity of the game has continued…
How it all fell down for Kanye West
by Ezequiel Serrano ’25 “Oh, when it all …..it all falls down.” This well known Kanye West lyric seems fitting for the trajectory of his life and reputation, but as implied, what falls far must have once been high. Kanye’s music pursuits began–as his first album famously makes clear–with dropping out of college after one…
Gaming Club Review: Sonic Frontiers
By Nathaniel Dennis ’23 Sonic Frontiers is the newest main series 3D Sonic game, available on PS4, PS5, Nintendo Switch, Xbox One, Xbox Series X and S, and PC. But it’s also the first open world (or open zone) Sonic game. After the last mainline Sonic game, 2017’s Sonic Forces, disappointed many people (especially Sonic…
Life after “Endgame”
by Payton Zohfeld ’23 Marvel is a hugely popular franchise, but many have questioned whether it would continue to be exciting after the events of The Avengers: Endgame, as the majority of the characters were left hurt, aging or even dead. However, Following the release of Endgame in 2019, a number of other films and…
Ten Reasons Why: Batman vs Ironman
By Armani Johnson ’23 Batman has 127 styles of martial arts under his belt and knows over 23 languages. Batman is extremely strong and can lift 800-1000 pounds unlike Ironman who needs his suit to do such. Batman has heavily armored bat vehicles such as the batwing, the batmobile, and a wider arsenal vehicle wise…
Let’s show some love to Home Run Inn Pizza
by Armani Johnson ’23 When people, particularly “outsiders”, talk about “Chicago style pizza” they more often than not are talking about the deep dish variety. However, with all due respect to my deep dish people out there, “real Chicagoans”, particularly us South Siders, know that deep dish is not the “best Chicago has to offer”.…
5 little known Serial Killers
by Jennifer Jimenez ’25 The series “Dahmer, Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story” has become one of Netflix’s most streamed shows ever, reflecting society’s fascination with crime and serial killers. With that in mind, there are many serial killers beyond Dahmer, Gacy, Bundy, etc. that “crime buff culture” often forget about, and although not the most…
Baez vs Serrano vs Walton: 22-23 NBA Preview
By Santos Baez ’25, Ezequiel Serrano ’25 and Lance Walton ’25 East Bucks 76ers Heat Nets Celtics Cavaliers Bulls Hawks Raptors Knicks West Warriors Clippers Grizzlies Suns Nuggets Mavericks TWolves Pelicans Lakers Trailblazers Eastern Conference Finals: Philadelphia 76ers vs Milwaukee Bucks (Philadelphia wins in 7) Western Conference Finals: Golden State Warriors vs Los Angeles Clippers…
Five Horror Movies to Watch This Halloween
By Jennifer Jimenez ’25 Everyone knows and loves to watch the classic Halloween horror movies, such as Friday the 13th, Nightmare on Elm Street, and of course Halloween. However, instead of giving Jason, Freddy and Michael another whirl, how about trying out these lesser known movies that are sure to actually provide some scares along…
Five Fun Things to do in Chicago this Halloween Season
by Armani Johnson ’23 Love Halloween but wanna do more than simply rewatch the same “scary” movies for the 47th time? Well “fear not”, and check out these fun Halloween attractions around Chicago.
Five best “treats” to receive on Halloween
By Ezequiel Serrano ’25 In no particular order, here’s 5 of the best treats to recieve when trick-or-treating. Feel free to comment with your personal favorites!
10 Reasons Why Series: MJ vs Lebron
In his 13 seasons with the Bulls he led them to the playoffs all 13 times, making it and winning the finals 6 times, 2 three-peats. LeBron in his 19 seasons in the NBA made it to the playoffs 15 times, and in those 15 times, he made it to the finals 10 times, but…
10 Places Everyone Should Visit
By Khriz Lopez ’25 They say life is short, but the world is wide, meaning while there’s an endless amount of places to visit and explore in the world, there’s unfortunately a limited amount of time to do so. That said, here’s 10 places all people should work towards visiting sooner rather than later!
Five and Five: What I liked and didn’t like about Cobra Kai Season 5
by Diana Meza ’25 SPOILERS BELOW Five things I liked Five things I didn’t like
Ten Reasons Why Series: DC vs Marvel
By Armani Johnson ’23 and Lance Walton ’25 Ten reasons why DC is better By Armani Johnson DC created the first superheroes! DC has better backstories on it’s characters. DC has better animated series. DC has better villains (I mean, the Joker, come on) and better female characters (Wonder Woman for example!) DC has better…
