Trader Joe’s Must Haves | Angela Zhang
Joe might be one of the most average guy names in the English language, but when you put “Trader” before it, it becomes the beloved national grocery chain store that boasts not-so-average products....
View ArticleNCAA Women’s Soccer Championships: Santa Clara vs. Florida State | Ellie Ballard
This year’s tournament saw unexpected early losses for the usually-dominant PAC-12 conference teams. USC and UCLA were knocked out in the second and third rounds, and Stanford didn’t even qualify....
View ArticleNBA Play-In Lowdown | Ryan Bridges
Typically in an NBA season some of the biggest moments in the regular season are opening night, Christmas Day, and a few primetime match-ups mixed in here and there. The NBA has decided those few...
View ArticleBreak Up with the Board| Frances Chai
Too many AP tests and hundreds of dollars later, College Board and I have finally put an end to our tumultuous relationship. As soon as I hit submit on the AP Lit exam, I felt an overwhelming sense of...
View ArticleNo One Wants to Work Anymore | Carolyn Cui
Lately, a sign has been popping up in front of stores around the country. A jab to the government and to the unemployed, it reads: “We are short staffed. Please be patient with the staff that did show...
View ArticleThoughts from a Second Semester Senior | Cami Dominguez
With precisely three weeks left, my senior year will be coming to an end, marking four years at CCA. Every year I hear people give out some words of advice and encouragement for those who still have...
View ArticleAnd Off They Go | Aerin Flaharty
If you’re anything like me, you’ve been dreading the day of June 11, 2021 since the start of this school year. Not because you’re a senior or because you’re really going to miss online school (two...
View ArticleMy Top Ten | Aimee Han
The arising enthusiasm I have for the upcoming summer breeze is absolutely unmatched. Yet with those feelings of excitement, as always in life, goes hand in hand with the nostalgia I feel approaching...
View ArticleBrooklyn Fine-Line | Kyle Kim
With the announcement of its eighth and final season just days prior, “Brooklyn 99” has found itself back in the spotlight. The sitcom, which focuses on a police precinct in New York, is set to...
View ArticleA Forgotten Norm | Margaret Le
As states begin to reopen, many are excited at reaching a sense of normalcy. However, after a year of quarantine, we have seemed to forget that mass shootings, unfortunately, are typical in the U.S....
View ArticleButter. | Maxine Mah
When I was in eighth grade, I went on a business trip with my dad to Canada. There, I met another girl my age who I quickly became friends with. After one of our daily adventures, she asked me if I...
View ArticleAn Unsolicited Summer Reading List | Izzy Ster
I can feel it in the air, can’t you? The warm breeze beginning to move in San Diego, frightening away the May Gray. A greater number of surfers beginning to dot the deepest blue areas of the ocean....
View ArticleOn Israel & Palestine | Alex Reinsch-Goldstein
The founders of Zionism — the ideology which proclaims that Jews have a right to settle and control the area which is now Israel — were rather honest about the nature of their project. For them,...
View ArticleMy Culture and My Homeland | Liam Rosenberg
In the Jewish tradition, the bar or bat mitzvah, also known as the b’not or b’nai mitzvah for twins or triplets, is the culmination of the five years spent studying the Torah. It celebrates the...
View ArticleTwitter’s Veto| Ariana Thompson
I saw a Facebook representative defend Trump’s ban off of Twitter and it made me think, since the time Trump has been banned off of Twitter what has changed? What stayed the same? And what kind of...
View ArticleGod, It’s Brutal Out Here | Daniel Yachi
She’s the Disney channel actor turned music super star everyone is raving about — Olivia Rodrigo has taken the music industry by storm with her recent release of SOUR, an eleven track album. With two...
View Article[as] | Angela Zhang
A new TikTok trend has creators leaning into late-night good vibes by paying homage to the “bumps” on Adult Swim, Cartoon Network’s overnight programming block that airs shows geared towards an older...
View ArticleNothing’s Normal | Kyle Kim
The idea of “normal” has always confused me. As an Asian-American, is it normal to eat culturally-diverse foods for lunch? As a CCA student, is it normal to take multiple AP classes? The term seems to...
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