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The Crucible transports audiences back to seventeenth-century Salem

The Crucible transports audiences back to seventeenth-century Salem

Sonya Belanga, Arts editor November 13, 2024

Theater Ink’s The Crucible brought Salem’s dark history to Lasker Auditorium Thursday, Oct. 31 to Saturday, Nov. 2. Directed by English teacher Valerie Young, the production simultaneously chilled...

Beetlejuice sequel brings classic story back to life

Beetlejuice sequel brings classic story back to life

Sonya Belanga, Arts editor September 21, 2024

More than 30 years after the original movie’s release, director Tim Burton revived the spooky yet hilarious world of Beetlejuice with an unexpected sequel. Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, which premiered in...

Mean Girls Adaptation Lacks Spark of Original Movie

Mean Girls Adaptation Lacks Spark of Original Movie

Sonya Belanga, Arts editor March 6, 2024

Mean Girls,  the highly anticipated adaptation of the beloved Broadway musical hit the big screen  Jan. 12, 2024. Directed by Arturo Perez Jr. and Samantha Jayne, the film left viewers with mixed reactions.  Mean...

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Squid Game Review

Zach Kwon February 12, 2022

Squid Game, a South Korean survival drama series written and directed by Hwong Dong-hyuk, explores morality and financial struggles through an intense medium.    Squid Game was released on...

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Inside Discusses Serious Topics Through Comedic Lense

Zach Kwon December 7, 2021

Inside, a 2021 comedy special created by American comedian and musician Bo Burnham, explores mental health, performing arts, and more through a series of varying mediums. Inside premiered on Netflix...

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Shows to watch this summer

The Newtonite June 24, 2021

Take a look at some of the excellent shows that you should add to your list for this summer. Yasuke By Zach Kwon Yasuke (2021), an animated Netflix show, narrates the life of an African Samurai...

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'Soul' blends fun, comical animation with important underlying message

Antonio Batista-Ciani May 5, 2021

Soul (2020) combines the fun, cartoonish style that previous Pixar movies encapsulate, coupled with a deeper message of accepting yourself, to create one of the best animated movies of the year. Directed...

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Nitrous Oxide amuses audience through humorous, relevant skits

Emma Brignall March 15, 2021

Nitrous Oxide supplied much-needed humor to the community through amusing yet truthful skits that emphasized the difficulties of the pandemic. Directed by seniors Mikayla Alford and Marley Craine, viewers...

“The Rest of Us Just Live Here” shows the other side of the dystopian story

“The Rest of Us Just Live Here” shows the other side of the dystopian story

The Newtonite December 10, 2017

by Zoe Goldstein, Maya Lobel, Carolyn McDonald, Sophia Zhou “What happens to you when you get older? Do you just forget everything from before you turned eighteen?” is a question the novel The Rest...

'Harvey' comments on mental illness, constructs of daily life

'Harvey' comments on mental illness, constructs of daily life

Zoe Goldstein June 13, 2017

The curtains opened on an idyllic scene. The bookshelves brimmed with books, a portrait stared serenely from the wall, the fire crackled gleefully, and an array of knickknacks were scattered about the...

Kanye and Friends: Kanye West's The Life of Pablo

Kanye and Friends: Kanye West's The Life of Pablo

Adam Clements April 8, 2016

by Adam Clements In the weeks surrounding the release of his seventh studio album The Life of Pablo, Kanye West has, more than ever before, behaved like a conflicted, hypocritical, arrogant misogynist...

The Bookshelf: "Maisie Dobbs" excites readers in post-WWI mystery

The Bookshelf: "Maisie Dobbs" excites readers in post-WWI mystery

The Newtonite November 3, 2015

by Isabel Joyce “Maisie Dobbs” by Jacqueline Winspear, the first novel of eleven in the series, unravels an intelligent post-WWI mystery alongside private investigator Maisie Dobbs. The book begins...

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