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BLACKPINK member Jisoo's newly released album, "Amortage" is a combination of the Latin word for love, "amor," and "montage," symbolizing a montage of love.

A POP QUAKING START FOR ALL: Jisoo’s “Earthquake” leads trio of rising artists

Bradyn Chiang June 13, 2025

Jisoo’s K-pop solo album “Amortage” starts off like an explosion. It begins with an upbeat rhythm to draw the listener in, then slows down at the end with softer vocals and a slower beat. “Boy...

In their formal attire, the cast of “Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat” stands on the steps outside the Cerritos Performing Arts Center waiting for the awards ceremony to begin on Sunday, June 1.

BEHIND THE SEAMS: Revisiting world of “Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat” with encore

Serenity Li, Copy Editor June 3, 2025

Accolade co-copy editor junior Serenity Li auditioned in the first semester of the 2024-2025 school year to join the cast of the spring musical, “Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat,” and...

CW's new show, Sherlock and Daughter released Wednesday, April 16 featuring Amelia Rojas, played by Blu Hunt (Inadu, "The Originals") and Sherlock Holmes, played by David Thewlis (Remus Lupin, "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban").

Case closed for the CW’s ‘Sherlock & Daughter’

Esther Ahn June 2, 2025

The CW has recently decided to add to the Sherlock Holmes-verse with its own conjecture about the classic detective’s lineage. As the title suggests, “Sherlock & Daughter,” which as of the...

Haymitch Abernathy, main character of Suzanne Collins’ new book Sunrise on the Reaping scans his environment while awaiting the beginning of the 50th Hunger Games.

BOOK REVIEW: The sun shines favorably on newest Hunger Games novel

Serenity Li, Copy Editor May 13, 2025

Soon after the release of “Songbirds and Snakes,” a movie adaptation of the Hunger Games prequel of the same name, author Suzanne Collins announced, through Scholastic Press, she was making a fourth...

Abigail Veyna (left), who plays Charlotte Lucas — a friend of the female lead —  talks to senior Kathleen Handley, who plays one of the main characters, Elizabeth Bennet, during their fourth-period rehearsal of the stage version of Jane Austen’s classic novel, Pride and Prejudice on Friday, April 25, in the Performing Arts Center [PAC]. The two-hour-and-15-minute play consisting solely of theater students will debut tonight at 7 in the PAC.

SPRING PLAY PREVIEW: Theater students stage adaptation of Jane Austen’s classic novel, Pride and Prejudice, debuting tonight

Elise Pak, Staff Reporter May 1, 2025

For the first time under theater teacher Christian Penuelas’ guidance, a student has been tapped to direct tonight’s debut of the spring play, an adaptation of Jane Austen’s classic novel, Pride...

Party School by Jon Hart challenges the idea that success is tied to prestigious colleges, showing that growth and self-worth can be found in unexpected places. The novel critiques societal pressures and redefines success as personal development rather than external validation.

BOOK REVIEW: Coming-of-age novel flips the typical college narrative

Emily Lee, Social Media Team & Staff Reporter April 25, 2025

In his coming-of-age novel, Party School, Jon Hart reveals that growth does not always come with prestige. He explores the tension between self-perception and societal expectations. In a competitive...

Customers enter a Pop Mart store, the first U.S. establishment from the international Chinese toy company founded in 2010 by Wang Ning Sunday, March 9, at 1329 Harbor Boulevard in Costa Mesa.

STORE REVIEW: Pop Mart blind boxes open customers’ eyes

Kayden Kim, Opinion Editor April 21, 2025

Once a small art toy startup in Beijing, China, Pop Mart’s blind box strategy is not just selling toys but an exciting new ritual to its new American fanbase. The company, founded in 2010 by Wang...

Upon entering MINISO, located at 2899 El Camino Real, Tustin, customers are greeted with the popular character from Disney’s “Lilo & Stitch” on Saturday, March 15.

Tustin’s latest Asian variety store: Cutesy or costly?

Serenity Li, Copy Editor April 15, 2025

For the past decade, East Asia has planted trendy stores across the U.S. After Japan planted seeds with Daiso and Mitsuwa Marketplace, then Uniqlo and MUJI, China soon followed by sending MINISO to...

Author of Party School Jonathan Hart shares his experience writing and publishing the novel during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Q&A: Party School author reviews experience as a writer during COVID-19

Ashley Kang, Business Manager & Spotlight Team Reporter April 1, 2025

This is one of a series of five-year, COVID-19 pandemic anniversary articles The Accolade’s Spotlight team has expanded from its original print version that appeared in the Monday, March 24, issue. Co-business...

SERIES REVIEW: ‘Squid Game’ Season 2 lives up to its hype, captivating viewers with continued dark comedy and new characters

Christine Yoo, Managing Editor March 17, 2025

Despite being released three years after its first season, fans of Netflix’s “Squid Game” showed equal, if not increased, hype for the sequel, and after releasing all seven episodes on Thursday,...

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