BY ROSA PRESTON On Tuesday of August 30th, I started getting a cough and my throat started to get scratchy. My aunt and cousin had come over to celebrate Labor Day with us, and my dad seemed to be focused on cleaning the house. But by Friday, my […]
BY KAYA DWYER The 2022-2023 Truman school year has already started off with all kinds of excitement. As the rivalry with Chrisman persists and students strap in for a lot more homework, there is also something new to Truman that has surprised many of its students: Hats Are […]
BY THOMAS WOOD The Bob’s Burgers Movie is a movie that stems from the popular adult animated TV show Bob’s Burgers. The show and movie star the titular Bob and his family, struggling to make ends meet as they run a hole-in-the-wall burger restaurant placed somewhere on the […]
BY ADAM PRESTON The Junior Reserve Officers Training Corps (JROTC) is a program that has existed since 1916 with the passage of the National Defense Act in response to WW1 and has continued here at Truman for quite a few years now. For as long as JROTC has […]
BY KAINE ENE I was sitting around and doing homework while listening to City Pop on YouTube on my TV—mainly from the 80’s—and as I was scrolling through the mix of songs that were on autoplay, I came across one that caught my eye by the thumbnail. It […]
BY ALEXIS HOSTETTER Recently Netflix released a show based on a graphic novel by Alice Oseman, titled “Heartstopper”. The story follows two young boys in high school as they navigate through their friendship, discovering it could be something so much more special. Many streaming services don’t necessarily have […]
BY KYLE LESNAK The Breakfast Club, released back in 1985, is a teen drama following the lives of 5 high school students forced to spend their Saturday stuck at school. Saturday, March 24, 1984, five students of Shermer High School showed up at 7:00 a.m. for all-day detention. […]
BY KYLE LESNAK The popular superhero Spider-Man has had a very up and down history at the cinema. With 5 movies in total, two different Spider-Men, and mixed reviews for the last 3 movies, Spider-Man’s future in cinema was very foggy due to Sony having the movie license […]
BY KAINE ENE When I saw the trailers and promos for Pixar’s latest Disney+ feature film, Turning Red, I always suspected that this would be a Pixar film with an at least slightly different animation style, and I was looking forward to that. Although the moment I really […]
BY KYLE LESNAK Home Alone, produced by John Hughes, is the first in the long-running Home Alone series, laying the foundation that every film in the franchise would follow. The McCallister family is getting ready to spend Christmas in Paris, with all of them meeting at Peter and […]