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The Californian

The Official Student-Run Newspaper of California High School

The Californian

The Official Student-Run Newspaper of California High School

The Californian

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Jasmine Young elegantly poses in a photo for Look Model Agency located in San Francisco.

Cal model featured in magazine

Gayatri Nair and Daniela Noubleau March 21, 2025

Jasmine Young is a dedicated and passionate Cal High senior, making her mark in the modeling world. She first stepped into modeling at 16 when her grandmother took vacation pictures from her Instagram...

Drake and PartyNextDoor released last month their new album, “$ome $exy $ongs 4 U”, featuring the hit “NOKIA”.

Drake and PartyNextDoor album is pretty mid

Sherlyn Hernandez, Staff Writer March 21, 2025

Drake is back, and the internet is losing its mind. The Toronto rap icon just dropped his latest album, “$ome $exy $ongs 4 U” featuring singer-songwriter, PartyNextDoor on Feb. 14. As expected its...

From left to right, Zach Kuruvilla, Sibesh Sankaranarayanan, Angad Gahra, Aiden Berry, Jake Westfall, and Adam Carter come together to perform at Cal High’s lip sync.

Lip sync hits the stage

Christian Jung, Staff Writer March 21, 2025

Prior to Cal High’s annual lip sync competition, the excitement was building for junior Elise Matek. As one of the key performers for the junior class, Matek put in countless hours to perfect the juniors’...

No prince charming can save this movie

Anistyn Lum, Staff Writer March 21, 2025

Mirror, mirror, on the wall, how many more remakes until Disney falls? Well, actually it looks like it shouldn’t take long because from the looks of it, this year does not seem promising for the company. Disney...

A nearly empty movie theater room playing “Joker” symbolizes the dying popularity of watching movies in theaters.

Are movie theaters a dying business?

Livi Jung, Staff Writer March 21, 2025

Movie theaters first started as storefronts before growing to become grand exhibitions for motion pictures. Two guys, William Rock and Walter Wainwright, had the original idea to let the public see films...

Lady Gaga emerges from an artistic grave with her many music awards, representing the revival of 2010 pop stars.

2010 pop artists are coming back

Landon Olberg, Staff Writer March 21, 2025

Everyone can agree that the 2010s had some of the best music albums of all time. Some of the popular artists include Lady Gaga, A$AP Rocky, Bruno Mars and Beyoncé. These artists peaked in the 2010s,...

Players from “Squid Game Season 2” compete in one of the many perilous challenges to win the $30 million in prize money.

‘Squid Game’ returns with Season 2

KK DeMello, Staff Writer February 12, 2025

“Squid Game” was a global phenomenon and a cultural classic overnight when it aired in 2021 because of its deadly games and Netflix’s massive promotional campaign. Since that inaugural season was...

From left to right, seniors Manya Singh, Paloma Jackson Kimball, Elizabeth Spencer, and junior Annalise Wedewer act out an emotional scene in “Women of Troy”, where they say their last goodbyes to the queen’s grandson.

‘Women of Troy’ opens Thursday night

Aditi Mandale, Staff Writer February 12, 2025

A heartbreaking and emotional story, “Women of Troy”, will be performed this week in the Cal High theater. “Women of Troy,” also known as “Trojan Women,” takes center stage on Thursday and...

TikTok’s brief ban in the United States effected millions of users all over the country. The app can no longer be downloaded from the App Store.

TikTok ban shocks users

Korn Ravipaty, Staff Writer February 12, 2025

American TikTok users were left in suspense as the frozen ban of the popular social media app was announced to last for another 90 days. Due to parent company ByteDance refusing to sell TikTok to an American...

It ends with a lawsuit

Anistyn Lum, Staff Writer February 12, 2025

“It Ends With Us” is a story about two strangers, Lily Blooms and Lyle Kincaid, blooming into lovers. But Lily starts to figure out that Lyle is abusive. She has to break the cycle of abuse soon enough...

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