SPORTS & ENTERTAINMENT
Superbowl 53: Will there be a SpongeBob Halftime?
by Ryan Picscatelli
November 26th 2018 was a rough day for SpongeBob fans, Stephen Hillenburg, the creator of a show you probably never heard of, SpongeBob, passed away. Hillenburg died at age 57 because of ALS. With this, fans wanted to find a way to remember the death of a legend, and then someone had a really bright idea.
Israel Colunga created a petition on change.org saying that “As a tribute to his legacy, his contributions to a generation of children, and to truly showcase the greatness of this song, we call for Sweet Victory to be performed at the Halftime Show.” The internet went crazy for a short period of time, you couldn’t go three minutes on Instagram without seeing something referencing this one day. As of right now, there is over 1.134 million signatures, but there is still hope for the dedicated fans. On December 12th, the Mercedes-Benz Stadium posted a GIF on twitter showing the SpongeBob crew getting ready to perform Sweet Victory. Then almost confirming it, Maroon 5, the band set to play at the halftime show, posted a short video clip setting up what they will be showing in the SuperBowl, and there was a few glitches with SpongeBob Squarepants, the main character of the show, in the clip.
What do you think of the whole situation? Do you think that SpongeBob will play in Atlanta? Or do you think the crew will not have a sweet victory?
Upcoming Marvel Movies in 2019
by Jordan Pierce
Captain Marvel
This will be Marvel’s first female-led superheroine film. This highly-anticipated film will be about the most powerful characters in the entire Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU).
Captain Marvel will be about Carol Danvers, which her powers are based from the cosmic realm. The film will take place in the 90s, the prequel to the MCU. Agent Coulson(he died in The Avengers) will make a great appearance in this film. He hasn’t appeared in the past couple MCU films. Captain Marvel is about a former U.S. Air Force fighter pilot, who turns into one of the galaxy's mightiest heroes and joins Starforce, an elite Kree military team, before returning home with questions about her past and identity when Earth is caught in the center of a galactic conflict between two alien worlds. It will be two hours and eight minutes long. This film will come out on March 9, 2019.
Avengers: Endgame
Avengers: Endgame might be the final film of the series. The series consist of “The Avengers”, “Avengers: Age of Ultron”, “Avengers: Infinity War”, and now “Avengers: Endgame”. This movie will star the leader of Tony Stark,”Robert Downey Jr.”. Tony Stark is lost in space alone. Tony sends a message to Pepper Potts(his wife) as his oxygen supply starts to dwindle. Meanwhile, the remaining Avengers Thor, Black Widow, Captain America and Bruce Banner must figure out a way to bring back their vanquished allies for an epic showdown with Thanos, the evil demigod who decimated the planet and the universe with the snap of his fingers. This film will be released April 26, 2019.
X-Men: Dark Phoenix
This will be the twelfth installment of the “X-Men” film franchise. This movie will star Sophie Turner, which is playing the role of Jean Grey/Phoenix. The “Phoenix’s” abilities are telepathic and telekinetic powers. This movie is about how the X-Men face their most formidable and powerful foe when one of their own, Jean Grey/Phoenix, starts to spiral out of control. During a rescue mission in outer space, Jean is nearly killed when she gets hit by a mysterious cosmic force. Once she returns home, this force not only makes her infinitely more powerful, but far more unstable. The X-Men must now band together to save her soul and battle aliens that want to use Grey's new abilities to rule the galaxy. This film will release on June 7th, 2019.
Spider-Man: Far From Home
“Spider-Man: Far From Home” is the sequel of “Spider-Man: Homecoming”. This movie stars Tom Holland as Spider-Man/Peter Parker. Spider-Man’s abilities are primarily superhuman strength, reflexes, and balance. His spider suit allows him to cling tenaciously to most surfaces. Spider-Man also has a subconscious ability to sense everything in his surroundings, which he called a "spider-sense". Peter Parker's relaxing European vacation takes an unexpected turn when Nick Fury suddenly shows up in his hotel room. Parker soon finds himself donning the Spider-Man suit to help Fury stop the evil villain Mysterio from wreaking havoc across the continent. This movie will release on July 5th, 2019.
Video-gaming: Forza Horizon 4
By Jancarlos Cruz
Forza Horizon 4 is an open world racing video game that is open to all people of any age. The game is more of a real life simulator that isn't on restricted to famous racing tracks like its other companion, Forza Motorsports 7. The two games are very different but have similarities. Horizon is more of an free roam game that lets the player explore a big map that has hundreds of races. Races are categorized by class of Street scene, Road racing series,
Cross country series, Dirt racing series, Drag strip, and Showcase events. These events are scattered throughout the map and as you complete more of them you can progress through the chapter that each specific event category gives you. There are over 500 cars that you can drive and upgrade and customize to your personality. There's also multiplayer where you can play with 1 or more friends in a private or public lobby.
The game is meant to be played at your own pace and you level up as you gain more experience in the game. You start of with a free house and as you play through the game you are unlocking more bigger and more expensive houses.
Although you can't actually interact with them you do get rewards for purchasing more expensive houses such as cars and wheelspins. Wheelspins are ways that your player can gain cash, cars, dances, clothes, and horns and also special horizon edition cars which grand you a special boosts that a regular car does not. There are two types a wheelspins, there's a regular wheelspin which will grant you one prize or a super wheelspin that grants you 3 prizes.
You can acquire wheelspins from skills, leveling up or from buying a house or completing a chapter in a racing series. Skills are points or tokens you receive from by doing thing on the map with your vehicle, like drifting, jumping, crashing into different obstacles or avoiding cars.
Only some cars have wheelspin skills. And the more skill points you get the more skill boosts you can unlock for your car. Forza Horizon 4 was developed by Playground Games and published by Microsoft Studios. It was released on 2 October 2018 on Xbox One and Microsoft Windows after being announced at Xbox E3 2018 conference. The game is set in a fictionalized representation of the United Kingdom. Forza horizon 4 is a great game and even have an expansion called Fortune Island which includes new cars a new map t explore and treasure to be found and more races and challenges that players can do. This expansion cost $24.99 but if you have the Ultimate Edition of Forza Horizon 4 its free. So altogether I think that Forza Horizon 4 is a fantastic car game and is cool to play with a friend or a group of friends. So for those car lovers out there, this is the game you want to satisfy that need for speed we all have.