Artist: Playboi Carti Rating: 8/10 Review by: Raghav Raj In many ways, Playboi Carti’s latest album, Whole Lotta Red, is unlike anything else happening in mainstream hip-hop right now. Despite its affinity for sticky melodies and even stickier hooks, it has no obligations towards any of the viral trends that artists have latched on to. It barely has anything that […]
Read moreLet’s admit it. As much as we love to say that we love this time of year, it’s also one of the more stressful times of the year — especially for those struggling with their looks and body image. We feel vulnerable to judgement. As much as we probably hate to say it, we really do care about what others […]
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Meghan Dincler | Online Editor Art has the ability to inspire– to teach people something about themselves and about those around them. Now, that art is beginning to make its way into Mason through an up-and-coming student-run project. A Presentation of Minds is a project led by Audrey Galloway, a junior who started it as a way to raise awareness […]
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Della Johnson | Staff Writer 17-year-old Olivia Rodrigo has become an overnight sensation. It’s not that she wasn’t already famous. From her starring role as Nini on Disney+ original High School Musical: The Musical: The Series and Paige on Bizaardvark, she has gained quite a following. Even still, no one could’ve predicted the sort of response that her newest song, […]
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Abby Waechter | Staff Writer Living miles away from the nearest hospital during a pandemic, rural villagers in India have limited access to crucial medical care. Students 8,300 miles away at Mason High School, however, are doing their part to help despite the distance. Juniors Vamshi Singidi, Vignesh Gogineli, Vida Vedati, Niraj Koneru, and Rajeev Kunaparaju — creators of the […]
Read moreAlly Guo | Staff Writer Teaching and Learning Dr. Robyn Jordan, Mason formed several focus groups in order to hear feedback from “every type of family” and “every type of learner.” Each focus group was asked the same questions, centering around what has gone well this year and what needs to change. However, one particularly important question asked to families […]
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Ally Guo | Staff Writer Language barriers are being broken thanks to Mason High School’s (MHS) Global Language Initiative. Spanish, French, German, Chinese, and American Sign Language are offered during the school day as classes to Mason students. However, the Global Language Initiative (GLI) was established two years ago so that students could learn an even wider array of languages. […]
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Della Johnson | Staff Writer Real-time broadcasting has found its way into the daily routine of high schoolers. Live streaming – -specifically video game streaming — has quickly become the entertainment of choice among teenagers. Platforms such as YouTube Live and Amazon’s Twitch provide extensive spaces for creators to cast video directly to their audience at the exact time they […]
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Director: Patty Jenkins Rating: 2/10 Review by: Raghav Raj After the rousing success of Patty Jenkins’ 2017 reboot of Wonder Woman, the idea of a sequel held the sort of promise that DC hadn’t honestly seen since Christopher Nolan’s Dark Knight trilogy warped the superhero film into something far more morose and brooding. In the face of films that followed […]
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Lexi Brown | Staff Writer and Designer City of Mason police officer Karli Dyer is moving up the ladder from officer to sergeant after 10 long and rewarding years as the Resource Officer at Mason High School. Starting Tuesday, January 19 Sergeant Dyer will be in charge of her own crew of officers and move to third shift for the […]
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Meghan Dincler | Online Editor Two hundred and seventy six days since March 13. 276 days since the announcement of the first quarantine. Now, Mason High School is slowly becoming more and more equipped to combat the Coronavirus. As the country receives more information on COVID, the quarantine options fluctuate. Now, Mason City Schools is giving students three different quarantine […]
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Braden Osborn | Staff Writer & Chronicle Sports Staff Mason High School has finally pinned down equal opportunity on the wrestling mat. This winter marks the first year that MHS will field an entire girls’ wrestling team. Not only is this a year of firsts for the Mason program it is the first time wrestling for several young women who […]
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Divy Bose | Staff Writer Fresh off a convincing win over Moeller earlier in the week, the Mason Comets wrestling team came out firing on all cylinders Saturday, December 12 against Western Brown. The Comets won 64 to 10 over the visiting Broncos. Mason, the defending Greater Miami Conference (GMC) champions and owners of 10 of the last 11 GMC […]
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Meghan Dincler | Online Editor Internet culture has seen many trends come and go, and many teenagers today are expressing themselves through a rising form of fashion: alternative. As trends have changed, many styles of alternative fashion have become more prominent. Often, alternative fashion means dark makeup, fishnets, and piercings, but in its most broad definition, it is fashion that […]
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Interview by Shravani Page Page Design by Aadrija Biswas Preston Meyer – Junior Tell me about yourself! What kinds of things do you like to do, Hobbies, Fun Facts, Etc.? I’m a junior. I’ve always had a big passion for the environment and just nature in general. I grew up in a remote part of Mason and was used to […]
Read moreMeghan Dincler | Online Editor 2020 came with a historic edition of the fashion magazine Vogue: the first edition with a man as the sole focus of the cover. That man was British singer and actor Harry Styles, posed on the front of the magazine with ring-clad hands blowing up a light blue balloon, looking stunning as ever in a […]
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Raghav Raj | Staff Writer Earlier this month, Warner Media announced that their entire 2021 slate — 17 feature films, including big-name releases like Dennis Villanueve’s ‘Dune’ remake and the fourth installment of The Matrix — would be released on HBO Max concurrently with its theatrical release. This stunning announcement effectively puts an end to the theatrical window before a […]
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Ally Guo | Staff Writer No matter the distance between them and their audience, the music of the students at Mason High School (MHS) will be heard. Music is an art, and with any form of art, creativity is vital. This year, the music department at MHS had to think creatively in a different direction when developing new ways to […]
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