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Culture Fair Assembly

Culture Fair Assembly

Brynlee Tucker, Photographer May 3, 2023

Diversity Club sponsored a Culture Fair Assembly on the afternoon of Friday, April 28. Students represented their cultures, countries and diversity through dress, dance and more.                            

Junior Brynlee Tucker at Chiefs stadium.

Reflections of a Chiefs Super Fan

Brynlee Tucker, Photographer March 31, 2023

I consider myself a Kansas City Chiefs fanatic. My football season starts in about mid-July, when training camp kicks off. This past season I attended five days of training camp allowing me to create endless...

graphic by Bela Parrett

Follow-Up: Oscars Results

Bela Parrett, writer March 31, 2023

I predicted the Oscar winners just weeks ago, and now I can review the results. Some of the results were easily guessed, but many were a total surprise, such as “All Quiet On The Western Front” winning...

The Chosen Series Review

‘The Chosen’ Series Review

Lily House, writer March 19, 2023

‘The Chosen’, a faith-based streaming series, displays Jesus’s life and historical events of the Bible in a captivating and ingenious way. When I started this series myself, I was immediately...

The 95th Oscars: Wholl Win?

The 95th Oscars: Who’ll Win?

Bela Parrett, Staffer March 8, 2023

The 95th  Oscars is only days away, Sunday, March 12. With the Golden Globes and SAG Awards already behind us, it’s interesting to hypothesize the outcome of The Oscars - the most prestigious, culturally...

Michael Douglas, Michelle Pfeiffer, Paul Rudd, Kathryn Newton,  and Jonathan Majors in Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania (2023). All photos courtesy of IMDB

Ant-Man and the Wasp: ‘Quantumania’ Shrinks Under Expectations

Ben Place, Staffer March 7, 2023

Ant-Man and Wasp's "Quantamania," the latest installment in the Marvel Cinematic Universe was an enjoyable but slightly disappointing romp through the quantum realm featuring the latest multiversal baddie,...

Snow Day Activities

Snow Day Activities

Brynlee Tucker, photographer February 21, 2023

With March creeping in closer and closer the question the rest of the minds of hundreds of Oak Park students is, will we have any more snow days? Missouri weather is often unpredictable and snow could...

How Do Music Tastes Change?

How Do Music Tastes Change?

Bela Parrett, Staffer January 8, 2023

Looking around the classroom during worktime, it’s noticeable that the majority of people have some sort of music playing in their ears. whether it be headphones, Airpods or earbuds, many students listen...

‘Midnights’ by Taylor Swift Offers Extra Tracks

Brynlee Tucker, photographer December 22, 2022

Taylor Swift released her highly anticipated 10th studio album “Midnights” on Friday, Oct. 21. "Midnights" is Swift's fifth album in just two and a half years following “Folklore” and “Evermore,”...

Worlds of Fun has been open for nearly 50 years. Halloween Haunt opened in 2006.

Flood the Haunt

Rachel Prate, writer/photographer November 2, 2022

Did someone say there was "blood on the Bayou"? The Halloween Haunt is the biggest event of the Worlds of Fun season. However, it hasn’t been in full action until this year due to the pandemic. But...

‘Anne with an E’: Netflix Series Review

‘Anne with an E’: Netflix Series Review

Lily House, Journalism 1 reporter April 20, 2022

Reimagined as the 1908 classic book series and 1985 film “Anne of Green Gables” “Anne with an E”, a newly released series aired for the first time on Netflix in 2017. Through this retold story,...

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