I’ve never been a terribly huge fan of Starbucks—first because I simply didn’t care for their offerings, then because of their prolific anti-union efforts—but recently, I’ve acquired yet another...

Recently, I read the book Interstellar Megachef by Lavanya Lakshminarayan after picking it up in my local library. I was drawn in by the wacky title, and after reading the synopsis, I checked it out under...

I’m sure many of you are already well-aware that the proposed designs for the new MMSD high school logos are far from pleasing to the eye. Heck, art professor and West alumni Jeff Butler—who designed...

There’s a lot of great reasons why we need to take action to halt the climate crisis—rising sea levels, endangered species, the growing number of climate refugees, the increasing prevalence and strength...

On January 23rd, 2025, the nominations for the 97th Academy Awards were announced to the world— an announcement which, in a typical year, I might cover in a ‘picks and predictions’ style article,...

With the first semester behind us and another Demonstration of Learning week under the collective belt, I feel confident in saying that the current system is, at best, a waste of all our time. While I...

It’s February, which, as a month, is singularly defined by Valentine’s Day—a celebration of love, the commodification of human connection, and chocolates. If I wrote an article about the latter two,...

Frostbite by Nicola Twilley embodies everything that makes a truly excellent work of nonfiction. It’s a wonderfully written and witty window into a well-known but ill-examined fragment of the modern...

Once again, VPM’s first semester is nearly coming to a close, which means that in keeping consistent with last year, it’s time to give my opinions on my classes. Unfortunately, all my fun electives...

The live-action remake of How To Train Your Dragon all but spits in the eye of the original, promising to replicate some scenes fully shot-for-shot in ghoulish mimicry. This may sound overdramatic, but...

There’s a lot of things that happen in January—the end of first semester, Martin Luther King Jr. Day, it starts getting really cold—but the one that weighs most on my mind is Inauguration Day, when...

& Juliet is a Broadway jukebox musical that recently made an appearance at the Overture Center, with a plot centered on one question—what if Juliet hadn’t killed herself at the end of Shakespeare’s...