Shouting the New Leaders: Trinity and Jonathan
Bella Andersen, Campus Life Editor
September 23, 2016
With the school year in full swing, the clubs at Ames High are welcoming new staff but also new leaders. More specifically there are new Shout leaders. Junior Trinity Jones and sophomore Jonathan Watt will be taking over the previous roles of graduates Jill Zmolek and Kub Stevens. Some students ...
A Fine Line
Skip Stevens, The Reporter
September 23, 2016
Over a month has passed since its release, and time has told that the supposed “blockbuster of the summer”, otherwise known as Suicide Squad, has successfully found the line between pure likability and utter entertainment catastrophe. With plot holes, lack of character development, and a stressed ...
Furi Review (Furiview?)
Dane Dorius, Designated Horse Whisperer
September 23, 2016
Furi is a stylish action game where you fight ten or so very difficult bosses. You’re an unnamed inmate in a prison made of eleven floating areas in space. You get broken out by a mysterious man with a giant rabbit’s head over his face, and you have to kill every jailor (each in charge of one area) to...
Ratchet and Clank movie
Skip Stevens, The Reporter
May 11, 2016
Everybody bolt up; or maybe just sit back and watch, because the new Ratchet and Clank movie, whilst charming and fun, is looks and not much more. The “movie based on the game” reinvents the popular game from 2002 in a stylish way but ultimately fails to recapture the humor, weaponry, and adventure tha...
Fuller house Revival
Queen Victoria, Reporter
May 9, 2016
One of the most highly anticipated shows a 2016 for warehouse a revival of the 80s sitcom. It began with a very misleading intro making it seem as though all of the characters still lived in that one house although you soon find out that they do not. As multiple characters are arriving into scene the en...
Untitled
Skip Stevens, The Reporter
May 9, 2016
As I plug the aux cord into the speaker, I listen to the demands of family member from behind me: “play number 2!” “No, play number 7!” “Scratch that, play number 1!”. And just like that, with no titles besides Untitled and the track number, Kendrick Lamar’s newest album, Untitled Unmastered, a...
Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt
Achala Thippeswamy, Reporter
May 9, 2016
If you’re looking for a hilarious, light show to leisurely watch, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt is your calling. The show has a unique storyline about mole women, women who have been trapped in a bunker for 15 years by a reverend claiming that the world has ended, have escaped and are now living in the real ...
The Hamilton Musical
McKenzie Reimer, Academics & Arts Editor
May 9, 2016
If you are the type of person that loves both history and musicals, but can’t possibly think they could be combined, then you are sadly mistaken. Hamilton by Lin-Manuel Miranda, does just that. Lin-Manuel Miranda came up with the extraordinary idea of turning one of our beloved founding fathers...
TJ cups
Lisa Cochran, Campus Life Editor
May 9, 2016
When I walked into TJ Cups on a Tuesday afternoon, among other brightly-colored baubles and asian goods, I saw an assortment of little bonsai trees resting on shelves. A menu on the wall featured an array of iced tea, milk tea, smoothie and “boba pearl” drinks. At TJ Cups, a San Francisco based ...
Four Reasons Why The War Of Sokovian Aggression Is Everything Batdude v Superguy Tried To Be
Dane Dorius, Reporter
May 9, 2016
Captain America: Civil War is the newest hotness by Marvel. It’s a really good Marvel movie, and it’s probably one of the better superhero movies in the genre. However, we still have the aftertaste of Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice in our collective consciousness, another impossibly large-b...