I never thought I would work for a newspaper again after my freshman year of high school. Back then, I was put off as soon as the adviser told me that yearning was too sexual of a word to use in my article.  Besides,...

Almost every college student can relate to cramming for an exam late at night. However, imagine cramming all night long only to fall asleep – and stay snoozing through all your final exams. According...

The College of DuPage esports team is taking off after winning first place at last week’s Grand Finals national tournament.  Just like other sports teams at the college, the eSports team battled...

Jane Marczewski may have died of cancer, but she fought it with all she had, and cancer couldn’t beat the memory of her fight. So the fight lives on.  Marczewski, stage name Nightbirde, shot to stardom...

Most of the books students are forced to read for school are resented or forgotten, replaced in our minds by the next meme that pops up on our phones. However, after discussing the novel “Ethan Frome”...

Scrolling through my Google feed earlier this year, I stumbled across an article announcing the posthumous release of Nightbirde’s debut album, “It’s OK.” I had been a fan of hers ever since I...

Editor's note: This article has been edited to remove a name from one of the interviewees. The individual will now be treated as an anonymous source named John Smith. This change has been made at the request...

Detectives are known for their characteristic ability to use clues to solve their cases. In a similar manner, journalists piece together various bits of information to form a story. And just like detectives...

Young artists making music about mental health is becoming more and more common. Emerging artist BLÜ EYES is no exception. In her newest album, “healing hurts,” released Nov. 11, she sings about mental...

The pop singer P!NK stands alongside a young woman as they stand at the edge of a cliff, looking out at the ocean. The woman had just left a house party where she had been too afraid to talk to a man who...

A gifted high school student named Light Yagami sits in his room, scribbling names into a black notebook. In his universe, these names are not fictional, nor are they randomly chosen. They belong to criminals...

He wants to tell her he likes her, but in English class they always say, “Show, don’t tell.” She’s an English major, so she definitely would know that. So, maybe he’ll take her out to dinner....

When I was fourteen, every day after coming home from school, I would visit the wrought-iron baker’s rack next to the doorway. There, all eight of my bettas awaited me in their eight separate one-gallon...

Imagine yourself, as a college student, driving to school on your first day of the second week of classes. You arrive on campus and see faculty, bundled up in their winter coats, scarves and gloves, swarming...

Every year brings different challenges, but with them comes new music to help us get through tough times. 2022 was full of an entirely new genre for me as I listened to more country music than ever before...

Normally, a single gunshot would send most people screaming and running for their lives. Yet, with bullets flying around him in every imaginable direction, one man with spiky black hair and an oversized...

My mother and I answered the door to see Clavell, the director of Naranja Academy. He had come bearing Sprigatito, the Grass Cat; Quaxly, the Water-type Duckling; and Fuecoco, the Fire Croc. Only in the...

Right after Chris Miller got out of the Marine Corps and began attending Scottsdale Community College, he was featured in the college’s newspaper. As the days led up to him standing onstage at the Veterans...

Hopefully, the sun will shine on the sugar skulls and the photographs, together around the papel picado (decorative tissue paper with cut-out shapes) of all colors on the altars. Unfortunately, sometimes,...

Con suerte, el sol brillará sobre las calaveras de azúcar y las fotografías, juntas alrededor del papel picado de todos los colores en las ofrendas. Desafortunadamente, a veces, ha llovido. Dependiendo...

Walking towards the checkout lane of Walgreens in the beginning of September, I spotted a display of bulk packages of Pokemon cards. Upon closer inspection, I realized that the Pokemon cards were for...

When my friend said she wanted to see Thomas Rhett’s concert Oct. 13 for his Bring the Bar to You tour, I automatically raised an eyebrow. I had never heard of Rhett. However, she really wanted to go,...

A nurse staggers through the double doors of the hospital he works at. He glances at the clock– 7:04 a.m. 4 minutes late already, yet he couldn’t have arrived any earlier. He has been up until after...

When someone hears country music, they most likely think of the household name, Keith Urban. With his decades of musical experience, Urban was a former judge on American Idol and is currently a judge on...

In June, I was listening to a country music station on the radio, something I never choose to do. That fateful day was the first time I heard Ernest and Morgan Wallen sing "Flower Shops" together. I vividly...

Luke Bryan’s songs have been blasting on country music radio stations for as long as I can remember. I used to speed-skate to his songs at the roller skating rink near my house all the time. So when...