Top Movies Coming Out in Summer 2019

Isabella Gonzalez

1. Toy Story 4– Hitting the theaters June 24th after fans waited for almost 10 years, the sequel to Toy Story 3 finally has come.
2. Annabelle Comes Home – Coming out June 24th as well, this exciting horror story will be a thrill to watch.
3. Spider-Man: Far From Home – Available July 2nd yet another Spider-man movie takes the theaters.
4. The Lion King – July 19th it hits the big screen, everyone is very excited to see this amazing story be re-told with modern animation.
5. Fast and Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw – This movie comes out on August 2nd starring Dwayne Johnson and Jason Statham.
6. Dora and The Lost City of Gold– This is available August 9th and it is based on the hit Nickelodeon show, Dora the Explorer.
7. The Angry Birds Movie 2 – Coming to theaters August 16th this Angry Birds sequel takes birds and pigs on an adventure to an arctic island.
8. Good Boys– On August 16th the producers of Superbad will release this movie about three 6th grade boys and telling their story.
9. My Spy– This is available on August 23rd and it is starring Dave Bautista as a CIA operative.
10. ‘It: Chapter Two– At the very end of summer, on September 6th it will end people’s summer with a scream with the sequel of the hit movie It.

Knott’s Field Trip Guide; Making Sure That You Don’t Wait In Lines

Gavin Mercado

NAVIGATION:

Introduction

Knott’s History

Part 1: Getting There

Part 2: Being Prepared for Knott’s

Part 3: Dining At Knott’s

Part 4: Attractions and Beating the Lines

Part 5: Final Thoughts

Conclusion

Introduction:

Hello students, are you in eighth grade this year? If so, buckle uptight because you’re about to take on one of the best field trips you will ever experience.

Remember, to go on this field trip you must be in eighth grade, you must have finished all three of your service hours, you must maintain a 2.0 GPA, and you have to turn in a TBD amount of money to Mr. Yohn.

2019 Billboard Music Awards: Who Won and Who Didn’t

Ashley Wolf and Gwyn Kent

For the second year in a row, the well known Kelly Clarkson host the Billboard music awards. That’s right, on May 1 the 2019 Billboard music awards took place at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas.

Featuring performances from artist like the Jonas Brothers, who performed two of the brother’s hits and the band’s newest song “Sucker”, Kelly Clarkson who performed a medley of 13 popular songs, Taylor Swift performing her new hit single for the first time, and so many more. This year’s awards ceremony was a blast to watch. Not only were there outstanding performances, but there were also over 50 awards given out.

Now here is a list all to do with the nominees and winners.

Nominees & Winners:

Top artist

 

• Drake

 

• Ariana Grande
• Cardi B
• Post Malone
• Travis Scott

Avengers: End Game Review, Non-Spoiler Review

Gavin Lopez

Avengers: Endgame, is the 4th installment of the Avenger Movies and the 22nd Film in the MCU ( Marvel Cinematic Universe).

The film released on April 22nd, 2019 making an estimated $1.2 billion at the worldwide box office for its debut. It is currently the only film ever to cross the $1 billion mark for its debut. It is also the runner up of being the biggest film ever next to Avatar.

Endgame is also the longest Marvel movie ever coming in at 3 hours and 2 minutes, making it hard for many people who may need to use the restroom during the movie. `

Endgame: Breaking Records

Kirra Kirby

Marvel’s new movie Endgame which came out on April 22nd is now breaking worldwide records. The current top holder for the box office records is Avatar from 2009 with 2.789 billion dollars. The new movie already beat Titanic, Star Wars: The Force Awakens, Jurassic World, and Marvel’s past movie Avengers: Infinity War.

Seussical Cast List

Gwyndalynn Kent

As most know, if you read the previous Seussical article, Stacey’s West arts productions is doing Seussical the Musical as there spring show, and just a few weeks ago the cast list was announced.

Cat in the Hat: Avalyn Walton and Alexa Hartenberg

Jojo: Joshua Chang and Brandon Reyes

Horton: Nate Powell and Jacob Lesser

Cindy Lou Who: Aria M. and Cicily Tompson

Gertrude: Isabel Lesser and Sarah Davis

Mayzie: Alison Davis and Gwyn Kent

The ACM Awards in Case You Missed It

Ashley Wolfl

For all you country fans out there, you probably already knew about the ACM Awards. They were held on Sunday, April 7th at 8pm PDT. This was the 54th annual Academy of Country Music Awards. They were hosted by Reba McEntire for the 16th time. The event was held at the beautiful Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas

Reba is a wonderful host and had a lot of jokes to tell. She brought up the fact that it had recently snowed in Las Vegas saying “ It was so cold it froze us women out of entertainer of the year”. Later in the show, McEntire joked about some of the interesting duets in music now, many between country and hip-hop/pop artists. She joked that she and Cardi B would be making a song titled, “There’s No ‘U’ in Oklahoma and That’s Okuurrrtt with Me,” playing with Cardi’s infamous catchphrase.

The show opened with a performance by Florida Georgia Line and Jason Aldean, who preformed their hit “Can’t Hide Red”.

What Is This Rotten Tomatometer?

Annabelle Lona

When it comes to movies, there is always that rotten Tomatometer percentage on it. Some might be thinking, “What is this rotten Tomatometer?” Well, here’s what this really means.

How about the origin of this meter? Rotten Tomatoes was supposed to launch on August 12th, 1998. However, Rotten Tomatoes officially launched April 1st, 2000, by 3 undergraduate students named Senh Duong, Patrick Y. Lee, and Stephen Wang. Duong’s goal was to “create a site where people can get access to reviews from a variety of critics in the U.S.”

This was originally made to be a spare time project. The meaning of a rotten tomato is to show a review of how much a person likes a certain movie. Rotten Tomatoes has been owned by Flixster since 2010. It was acquired by Warner Bros. in 2011, but in February of 2016, Rotten Tomatoes and its parent site Flixster were purchased by Comcast’s Fandango. Warner Bros. retained a minority stake in the merged entities, including Fandango.

Does the Genie Fit?

Savannah McVey

Disney’s first look at the new Aladdin movie, being released in May 2019 has shocked many of the viewers. It has been announced that Will Smith will be playing the genie. Viewers have been heated about this recent news. Many have been bashing the idea of the genie being misportrayed.

Social media is buzzing with the backlash on the first look. Many do not believe that Smith will portray the genie correctly. Stated on the BBC NEWS, Disney fans mock Will Smith’s Genie in Aladdin, fans have been tweeting statements like, “I’ll never sleep again and it’s all Will Smith’s fault.” Fans are hysterical that they would dare to make the genie Will Smith. Showing their disagreement, viewers are “making fun” with comments like, “It turns out that Will Smith’s Aladdin Genie will haunt my nightmares.”

Luke Perry’s Unexpected Death

Isabella Gonzalez

Luke Perry was an American actor who was known for acting in Riverdale, Beverly Hills 90210, Buffy the vampire slayer, Jeremiah, and many more amazing shows and movies. He sadly passed on March 4th, 2019 from an unexpected stroke.

His most recent TV show that he was working on before he passed, was a very popular show called Riverdale. He played the role Fred Andrews as the father of Archie, one of the main characters. He got even more known after playing this role, and this devastated many fans of him when he passed.

He was at Saint Joseph Medical Center Burbank, Burbank, CA when he died. He was surrounded by his children, Jack and Sophie, fiance; Wendy Madison Bauer, ex-wife; Minnie Sharp; mother; Ane Bennet, step-father; Steve Bennet, brother; Tom Perry, sister; Amy Coder, and many other close family and friends.

Everyone in the acting world, as well as everyone else, was very devastated to hear what had happened. Luke was one of the best and most iconic actors of all time, he will forever be missed by many.