Raghav Raj | Staff Writer With a lot of help from the community and a hefty contribution from State Farm, the Mason Challenger League is much closer to building its own field of dreams. For nearly a decade, the Mason Challenger League has been offering physically and developmentally challenged kids between the ages of 5 and 18 a way to […]
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Director: David Fincher Rating: 7/10 Review by: Raghav Raj Mank, David Fincher’s first feature film in six years, begins the same way a lot of his others do, by throwing the audience into the midst of chaos with very little to latch on to. Before, in films like Se7en and Fight Club, this overload of information felt tonally pitch-perfect, as […]
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Review by Raghav Raj Director: Sophia Coppola Rating: 6/10 Review: By the time Sofia Coppola’s latest film, On The Rocks, finds any sense of urgency, it’s approximately 10 minutes away from rolling the credits. Up until this point, the endeavor that Laura (Rashida Jones) and her mischievous bon-vivant father (the ever-affable Bill Murray) have embarked on — to find out […]
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Raghav Raj | Staff Writer On December 4th, with a bevy of COVID-19 precautions in place, the Mason High School Drama Club will return to theaters for their upcoming annual fall production. The show, an adaptation of Frank Capra’s timeless 1946 Christmas film ‘It’s A Wonderful Life’, has a decidedly unique twist: it’s being told in the format of an […]
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As 2020 finally nears its end, the Chronicle Staff is taking a look back at all of the truly fantastic music that was released over the past year. Without further ado, here are a few staff picks for the best songs of the year. “Key West (Philosopher’s Pirate)” by Bob Dylan By Raghav Raj The penultimate track from Bob Dylan’s […]
Read moreRaghav Raj | Staff Writer On November 7, right after the Associated Press called the 2020 Presidential Election in favor of Joe Biden, former Ohio Governor (and current Biden surrogate) John Kasich went on CNN for an extended tirade against the progressive wing of the Democratic party. Kasich, a Republican, didn’t mince words. Amidst the calling for “fiscally conservative” austerity […]
Read moreRaghav Raj | Staff Writer As the 2020 election cycle nears the end, local political parties are keeping their eyes on the prize. There’s less than a month to go until the polls close on November 3rd, and with a slate of vital races from White House down to the state House, both the Warren County Democratic and Republican party […]
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Raghav Raj | Staff Writer Artists: 21 Savage, Metro Boomin Rating: 6.6/10 Review: Savage Mode, the 2016 collaboration tape between Metro Boomin and 21 Savage, always stood apart from the other great Atlanta trap records that emerged throughout the mid-2010’s. Avoiding the opulence of a record like Young Thug’s daringly iconoclastic Jeffrey, and steering clear of the fully-formed pop instincts […]
Read moreRaghav Raj | Staff Writer In spite of the overwhelming whiteness that has historically dominated indie music, there’s been no shortage of absolutely fantastic music from independent Black artists this year. Below are a few of the best boundary-breaking, genre-bending releases from some truly fantastic Black artists not on a major record label. Live Forever by Bartees Strange The impeccable, […]
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Raghav Raj | Staff Writer When ‘The Social Network’ hit theaters in October of 2010, it felt like a provocation. It was daring enough to try elevating the origin story behind Facebook and its coldly brilliant founder Mark Zuckerberg into a biographical drama, especially while the company was still marching its way into internet ubiquity as the new decade dawned. […]
Read moreRaghav Raj | Staff Writer Director: Christopher Nolan Rating: 5/10 To put it quite simply: Tenet is a mess. The latest feature film from director Christopher Nolan could almost verge on self-parody if it wasn’t so insistent on taking itself seriously all the time. It takes a bevy of Nolan trademarks — the rumbling score, the intricate plot, the obsession […]
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Raghav Raj | Staff Writer The collaboration between rapper Travis Scott and fast food giant McDonalds asks a simple, terrifying question: what does a soul taste like? As I found out when I visited the McDonalds drive-through for the first time in maybe over a year, not very good. The burger that features Scott’s namesake — a quarter pounder with […]
Read moreRaghav Raj | Staff Writer At Mason City Schools, administrators are transforming the SafeSchools tip-line into more than just a way to report textbook threats throughout the school. For seven years, concerned Mason students have been utilizing the line to alert the school administration on safety issues. But in a moment where students are asking Mason’s administration to step up […]
Read moreDella Johnson and Raghav Raj | Staff Writers Breaking into the male dominated industry–or in this case, genre of music–has been a long time coming for female rappers. Within the past year, these women have accomplished a lot more within their style than ever before, with the help of four leading pioneers. Nicki Minaj arrived as part of a new […]
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Read moreChronicle Achievements 2022-2023 Ohio Scholastic Media Association All Ohio for Online News Site All Ohio for Overall Newspaper Megan Lee – Newswriting (Excellent) Tanya Keskar & Alisha Soni – In-Depth Team Reporting (Excellent) Divy Bose – In-Depth Individual Reporting (Excellent) Drew Hoffmaster – General Feature (Superior) Elina Bishoyi – General Feature (Superior) Drew Hoffmaster – Alternative Copy (Superior) Taylor Murray […]
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