Sara Brownlee (12) is in her third year as a part of The Nexus. She plays lacrosse and rugby. She also enjoys hanging out with her friends and playing guitar during her free time. She loves listening to music and making necklaces as well.
Monsèrrat Margritz (12) anxiously navigated the Regis University campus as the wind whipped her face and the snow from the night before crunched underneath her feet, March 19. She left her tour group...
Pop music has undoubtedly been one of the most influential genres of the 2000s, giving rise to an endless number of subgenres. While many of the pop-genres stand out to me, nothing beats the simple,...
Funk is a musically complex masterpiece of a genre that has stayed timeless since its creation.
Starting in New Orleans during the 1940s, a certain style of R&B emerged amidst the city’s well-established...
Defensive midfielder Ale Pino (12) and defender Alyssa Leano (12) staggered to the center circle of the soccer field and stood facing each other. The starting whistle blew. Leano kicked the ball to...
With its introspective lyrics and captivating melodies, dream pop has consistently been among my favorite genres.
Also referred to as “shoegaze,” dream pop features layered and heavily reverbed...
I grew up going to music festivals with my parents where psychedelic rock was the main genre these concerts and festivals featured so when my peers tell me they are unfamiliar with it, I am shocked.
Most...
Piled in a tour van, towing their equipment in a trailer behind them, Marc Finn and his childhood friends set out in 2016 on their first national tour as the surf-punk band The Frights. The good,...
I walk out of my house at 7:35 a.m. and smell the crisp, cold air of the autumn morning. I shuffle my fall play-list and begin the 15-minute drive to work.
The sun has just begun to peak above the...
For a while, “alternative” was used as an umbrella term for underground music that rose to popularity under the influence of the punk rock genre in the 1980s. At the time, emerging artists were...
Max Walpole (12) blew out the candles on his 14th birthday cake and knew that his life would change forever.
“I got it in my head somewhere, because I was 14, that’s when I was supposed to do...
Advocates for a Better Environment (ABE) President Bella Santos (11) began her speech with discernible emotion in her voice.
“We need serious intersectional cli-mate action now,” Santos said....
Taking its name from the French New Wave of cinema that spanned the late 1950s, New Wave dominated the music industry throughout the end of the 1970s and into the 1980s.
The term “new...
When the mindfulness of folk music intersects with the instrumentation of rock, folk rock music is born.
Hinted at with its name, folk rock is the product of the fusion of folk music in America...
Album: Call Me If You Get Lost
“Call Me If You Get Lost” is by far one of Tyler, the Creator's best albums to date. I was skeptical about how this would measure up to his last album, “Igor,”...
British Invasion is arguably the most influential music genre of all time. The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, The Kinks, and many others gained popularity through British Invasion.
This genre...
My first analysis of my clothing habits happened in Spanish 3-4. Built into our curriculum, there was a concept called fast fashion, which is a relatively new strategy of mass production. Essentially,...
Baseball & Softball
Gerrit Erickson - California State University, Chico
Gerrit Erickson (12) will extend his baseball career at California State University, Chico this fall where he will be a...
Madi Letztring (12) scored the game-winning goal through a wall of defense in the last few minutes securing a 13-12 win against Canyon Crest Academy. The two schools have always played neck-and-neck,...
My alarm woke me up an hour earlier than it had on every other school day. Until this day, I could wait five minutes before my class would start to get out of bed. But today was different, today I...
Westview Theatre Company hosted its first improv show of the year Feb. 26, with a Dungeons & Dragons theme in front of a live audience on Zoom. Two teams faced off in multiple competitions...
Art by Grace Tseng
Whether to escape, better understand or cope with our chaotic reality, books are especially necessary in 2021. For our first issue of the year, The...
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AC/DC is Back in Black with Power Up, their 17th studio album, released Nov. 13. The music industry has missed the iconic Australian rock band since their last album came out in...
This year, as unprecedented events unfolded one after the other, the two presidential candidates have taken to Twitter to express their views and, in turn, their political opinions and plans for the future.
2020
January...
Stepping onto a stage for the first time in months, Mia Sunahara (11) and Jonathan Levine (11) see a very different crowd than what they are used to. Instead of packed venues, the band stands on an...
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After almost three years of silence, just when I thought my addiction to the band had calmed down, The Neighborhood pulled me back in. “Chip Chrome & the Mono-Tones”...
In this survey, staff members at The Nexus sought to evaluate the impacts that online school has had on students. The survey contained various questions on whether or not the increased screen-time has...
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Karen GaoWashington University in St. Louis- Tennis
Karen Gao’s (12) dedication to tennis began at the age of 9, ultimately leading to her committing to Washington University,...
Employees of grocery and convenience stores across the world are risking their health every day because their jobs have been deemed essential.
In the United States, many states have...
