November 2024

Local & National News

Voter Apathy in MA: Why “My Vote Doesn’t Matter,” Doesn’t Matter.

If one more person during the election season told me they weren’t going to vote because their vote “didn’t matter,” I was going to throttle someone. The election just passed, and in the weeks and months leading up to it, I . . .

|  By Marina Eigenmann, Head of Graphic Design & Illustration

Opinion

Sick? Time To Mask Up

I’m sick of getting sick. At Natick High School, hardly a day goes by that I don’t hear sniffles, coughs, or declarations of sickness from my peers. I’ve heard it said that schools are germ factories, and I couldn’t agree more—students are in close quarters all the time, have less mature immune systems than adults, and are less likely to practice . . .

|  By Lili Temper, Media & Communications Manager

Entertainment & Media

Wait, what just happened? The fever dream that is Francis Ford Coppola’s ‘Megalopolis’

“Megalopolis is a lot of things, and one of them is like if Baz Luhrman[sic] made a Batman movie but lost the rights halfway through production.” That’s how X user @danielleradford describes . . .

|  By Hannah Mevorach, Business Manager, and Lili Temper, Media & Communications Manager

Entertainment & Media

Dancing With The Stars: A Younger Generation’s Revival

Dancing with the Stars is a reality style show merging celebrities and dancers. The premise of the show is to combine two different worlds: stardom and dancing. At the start of a season, one celebrity and one professional dancer are paired together for the remainder of the season. Each week, the professional dancer will choreograph a . . .

|  By Katie Rish

Science & Technology

Otherworldly Exoplanets

Believe it or not, the universe doesn’t revolve around Earth. Earth revolves around the Sun. Outside of the Milky Way there are many, many planets. They are called exoplanets and they can look very different from the planets here. These exoplanets can get quite odd. We are used to the nice land and water here on Earth. The average 59° . . .

|  By Eon Stern

Poetry

“Death is the Greatest Conductor”

Death is the greatest conductor
For he knows the show must go on
As he dances from nursing home to supportive clinic . . .

|  By Jack DeSesa