By Nick Reed Arts Editor The idea of video games being an artistic medium to be taken seriously by major news outlets has not always been widely accepted. Since the days of “Pong” and Italian plumbers jumping, video games have more often than not been seen as unimportant brain candy, a filler to keep you entertained but not to be
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By Nick Reed Arts Editor Let me start by saying I am the furthest thing from a fan of Lana Del Rey. To me, she encapsulates the worst of the wave of millennial ‘conscious’ pop and hip hop stars. Although there are obviously worse examples for this (J. Cole I’m looking at you), her approach to pop music has always
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By Nick Reed Staff Editor Advanced Multimedia Political Journalism is an independent study journalism class run by students who produce written articles, videos and podcasts. The class is run like a newsroom with several Editors-in-Chief, a Webmaster and several Staff Writers churning out all different forms of content. There have been troubles, trials and tribulations. Sometimes things have been difficult,
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By Nick Reed Arts Editor Billie Eilish, to me, has always seemed somewhat of a boring, non-offensive indie singer. She writes songs for a demographic that I’m not in, and, thusly, is someone I’ve never taken particularly seriously. Leaving the “Don’t Smile At Me” era of her career, I wasn’t particularly interested in what she would do next. That was
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By Nick Reed Staff Editor City of Caterpillar is a Richmond, Va. post-hardcore band that formed in 2000. Coming to be later than most of their contemporaries, City of Caterpillar stood out in the post-hardcore scene for their raw, passionate, screamed vocal deliveries, but at the same time they craft a clean-cut, well-produced overall sound. The group recorded their only
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By Marcelo Espinoza, Raul Martinez, Nicholas Reed and Armando Sanchez Staff Writers We wanted to know more about how our school develops community, so we turned to something exclusive to Summit Preparatory Charter High School and its Summit Public Schools affiliates: the mentor group program. The program has been revered for building close bonds between students and their teachers by
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By Nick Reed and Armando Sanchez Staff Editors Tangled Headphones Podcast #1 is now live! The official podcast for the Summit News team features sophomores Nick Reed and Armando Sanchez, as well as David Tellez, a Summit Prep History teacher. On Tangled Headphones, we will discuss everything from the local community to larger scale topics. We decided to start this podcast
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