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What Do We think About Stranger Things 2?

Audrey Weigel, highlights contributor • Nov 15, 2017

Stranger Things has been the subject of an internet frenzy since release the weekend before Halloween. Its teasers and trailers, the first of them which had been released during the Super Bowl Halftime,...

Swift rises from the ashes with “reputation”

Vanessa Vazquez, highlights contributor • Nov 11, 2017

Taylor Swift sings of the intimacies of romance with new album "reputation".

Have You Heard About Zoé Somersall?

Savannah Payne, highlights contributor • Nov 9, 2017

Since four weeks old, senior Zoé Somersall has been working in the modeling industry. With modeling been a trend in her nuclear family, she became fascinated by the stories of traveling the world...

Barrow Goes Cherry Picking

Makayla Bell, highlights contributor • Oct 18, 2017

This year, a playwright’s festival in New York City was held, bringing about an ambience of creativity, inspiration and opportunity to the Big Apple. This is a reality that has happened to a selected...

Let’s Talk About… DACA

Arianna Peña, highlights contributor • Oct 15, 2017

A few weeks ago President Trump had Attorney General Jeff Sessions reveal to the public that the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, also known as DACA, would be repealed. This affects dreamers, adults and children who came to the United States as children illegally. Highlights got students’ opinions about the DACA repeal.

Album Review: Lorde’s Resurrection in Melodrama

Tatiana Campos, highlights contributor • Aug 30, 2017

Four years after her debut album, Pure Heroine, Ella Marija Lani Yelich-O'Connor— better known by her stage name, Lorde— has grown beyond belief. In her second studio album, Melodrama, she opens up...

Spotlight: McCluskey takes on The Performing Arts Project

Savannah Payne, highlights contributor • Aug 29, 2017

An average hallway on the Wake Forest University Campus sets the stage for an original performance from the research and development portion of The Performing Arts Project (TRAP). Senior and newly appointed...

A Party You Do Not Want to Miss

Mariam Vela, highlights contributor • Aug 17, 2017

Based on the 1928 poem by Joseph Moncure March, Area Stage Company’s “Wild Party” delivers on every single mark. From one flashy musical number to the next, scorewriter Andrew Lippa evokes sounds...

Back to the 80s

Luis Toruno, highlights contributor • Dec 12, 2016

Last month marked the 30th anniversary of one of the most memorable buddy-cop shows that has ever graced our television sets: “Miami Vice.” And odds are, if you look hard enough in the back of your...

Katherine Leiva: Advisor to the Alliance

Natalie Viglucci, highlights contributor • Feb 24, 2016

Katherine Leiva, who as a teen joined her own high school Gay Straight Alliance (GSA) club as an ally for her best friend, is now advancing her commitment to tolerance among peers by becoming the advisor...

Full-time Worker, Part-time Programmer

Sarah Galt, highlights contributor • Feb 18, 2016

Making money is a difficult task, and being a junior in IB, like George Poincot, doesn’t make it any easier. Unlike many others though, Poincot has managed to find a balance between his schoolwork and...

Ms. Furnari: Classroom to Courtside

Amanda Pallas, highlights contributor • Feb 11, 2016

Known as a math teacher here at Gables, Ms. Furnari is known as a Miami Heat statistic person when she steps onto the court at the American Airlines Arena. Here, Furnari shares her dedication to math...