Chris Loustaunau, Staff Reporter Would you go to an all you can eat seafood festival? Would you go even if our own Mayor says he loves it? Well, the annual Paella Festival is a perfect opportunity to try other people’s paella and even for restaurant owners to test their skills and see how their skills match up to the […]
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Miriam Barba, Staff Reporter I found I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter while wandering around a Barnes and Noble a few years ago. I was like “Woah, an accurate portal of how I actually feel about being young and hispanic. I gotta read this!” It ended up sitting in my room for years until recently. I typically read more […]
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Chris Loustaunau, Staff Reporter On Jan. 31 Sony announced that they will be buying out Bungie Inc. Now that Sony has Bungie, they finally have a competition with other flagship games, while Microsoft has Minecraft and Halo. Sony just bought the company of the game that made worldwide sales and put Microsoft Xbox on the board. Sony believes that […]
Read moreMadison Munoz, Staff Reporter On Saturday, October 9, NESA’s Creative Writing majors put on their first show of the year. The show, Lore, featured poems, scripts, and musicals, written by Creative Writing majors. Lore was a cross major production, meaning the Creative Writing department got to collaborate with other NESA majors. Instrumental Music students played alongside the reading of […]
Read moreKaitlin Arocho, Editor-in-Chief On Thursday, Sept. 30, NESA’s Instrumental Music majors had their first concert of the year. The concert consisted of twelve songs, ranging from classical “Sonata No. 8, Op. 13” by Beethoven to the more mainstream classic “Isn’t She Lovely” by Stevie Wonder. The concert had five piano solos, five collective orchestra pieces, one acoustic guitar solo, and […]
Read moreCJ Fisher, Staff Reporter Mr. Daniel Everidge may be a first year teacher, but it is not his first year on the LEE campus. He graduated from NESA in 2002 before pursuing a career as a successful actor in the performing arts. But luckily for the aspiring performers in the Musical Theater department, Mr. Everidge has decided to step off […]
Read moreKaitlin Arocho, Staff Reporter On Friday, September 3, the newest Marvel Studios movie, Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, premiered. It broke the Labor Day box office record of $30.6 million, that was previously held by Halloween (2007), with $71.4 million. In the film there were creatures known from Chinese culture, like the nine-tailed fox Huli Jing (also […]
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Kaitlin Arocho, Staff Reporter On Friday, August 20, in room M212, the Tabletop Game Club had their first meeting of the year, and their first in-person meeting in over 18 months. The turnout was fantastic, with 24 students showing up to battle it out in their favorite board, card, and RPG games. Last year there was an attempt to continue […]
Read moreXander Stout, Staff Reporter The UIL Region 12 Solo and Ensemble competition was held on Wednesday, Feb. 4, 2021, where a total of thirteen students from LEE and ISA participated in the audition process. When the students entered the audition room they had the opportunity to earn a rating of 1-5, with one being the highest. The rating system does […]
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Joselyn Hofer & Porter Rice, Contributors Despite being closed for many long months due to the pandemic, the Volunteer Kitchen is now open. Advanced Culinary Arts students will now be preparing menu items from scratch to be served to teachers and staff on Thursday of each week for the remainder of the spring semester. “It was important to reopen our […]
Read moreLesly Rodriguez, Contributor Enola Holmes, a Netflix Original film starring Millie Bobby Brown and Louis Partridge, came out on September 23, 2020 and was directed by Harry Barbeer. The movie takes place in 1884 London and follows the protagonist, Enola, as she tries to find her mother who has gone missing without the help of her older brother, Sherlock Holmes. […]
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Joselyn Hofer, Contributor Detective Cassie Maddox is trying to piece her life back together after a particularly horrifying undercover case she experienced six months earlier. It looks like she’ll never return to the Dublin Murder Squad until she gets a call informing her about a murder. Cassie walks into the crime scene expecting any normal murder case but is surprised […]
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