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Accomplished Artists

Accomplished Artists

Keira Perkin, Staff Writer June 3, 2024

Photos, sculptures, paintings, drawings, self portraits, prints, collages, and digital media are some of just a few ways people make art. In our San Marcos community, much of this art goes undetected making...

A Three-Peat Sounds Great: Royal Knights Win Music in the Parks Festival

A Three-Peat Sounds Great: Royal Knights Win Music in the Parks Festival

Benjamin Callanan, Staff Writer May 21, 2024

The Boston Celtics, New York Yankees, and now our very own Royal Knights. What these three groups now have in common is a 3-peat (getting first place three consecutive times). This feat was recently...

A United States map displaying the segregated factions of Alex Garland’s dystopian thriller.

Political Implications of Alex Garland’s “Civil War”

Roman Trovato, A&E Editor May 16, 2024

Alex Garland has written a tense, frightening, and raw look at what many believe a national conflict in the U.S. could look like. In the linear journey of the film's main characters, they come across,...

Album Cover

More Breakups and Boys: The Tortured Poets Department

Benjamin Callanan, Staff Writer April 26, 2024

On April 19, 2024, at around 2:00 am Taylor Swift would surprise her army of Swifties, releasing a 31-song “double album” that was originally supposed to contain just 16 tracks. Millions around...

Student costumers at work on garments for the show.

Sew Much to Do, Sew Little Time

Keira Perkin, Staff Writer April 26, 2024

For a character to truly come to life in a production such as Singin’ in the Rain, an actor works for months to learn their lines, rehearse their interactions with other characters, and to distinguish...

The cast of Singin’ in the Rain during a rehearsal.

Singers in the Rain

Noelle Cabrera, Editor-in-Chief April 24, 2024

During the school day, San Marcos High School is home to roughly 2,000 students. But once night falls and the stage curtain rises, a select few of these 2,000 Royals are able to convincingly transform...

The cast of Singin’ in the Rain dawns the musical’s signature yellow rain jackets.

Singin’ in the Rain Preview at the Granada

Roman Trovato, A&E Editor April 17, 2024

Since 1924, the Granada Theater has entertained the audiences of Santa Barbara with spectacular venues ranging from ballets and classical plays to “Weird Al” Yankovic and Blue Öyster Cult. To mark...

Jazz band and director Michael Kiyoi gather post-competition holding their well earned awards.

Jazz Band’s Big Win in Chicago

Roman Trovato, A&E Editor April 15, 2024

Jazz band and director Michael Kiyoi gather post-competition holding their well earned awards. When one walks inside of the band room on campus, it's hard not to notice the presence of awards. The overhanging...

Once Upon A Pop Show

Once Upon A Pop Show

Aurora Ivanova, Opinion Editor April 11, 2024

On April 12 San Marcos choir department is putting on their yearly Pop Song Marathon. This year the theme is ‘Fantasy,’ which is the inspiration for the name of the show this year, “Once Upon a Pop.” The...

Members of the SMHS Book Club poses for their yearbook photo

Book Club

Candice Cugnier, Lifestyle Editor March 7, 2024

Our school’s Book Club meets the first Thursday of every month, in room I-7. During these meetings, the members will discuss the past book that they read, debating their favorite parts and others...

Bassist Russell Manning-Huff and drummer Hunter Thomas practice for the Dos Pueblos Jazz Festival

Keeping up with the Cadence

Olivia Marceda, Editor-in-Chief March 1, 2024

Feel the rhythm as the Jazz Band is having their first performance of the year this Saturday, March 2, at the Dos Pueblos Jazz Fest. Hosted inside Dos Pueblos High School’s auditorium, jazz bands...

Contestants of the 2024 Poetry Slam: (left to right) Emily Mintz, Eric Rodriguez-Martinez, Olivia Miller, Keira Perkin, and Lesly Ricardez. (Kian Strenn not pictured.)

Thunderous Snaps for the 2024 Poetry Slam

Evelina Erickson, Editor-in-Chief March 1, 2024

For two days in a row, our library sounded like a microwave heating up a bag of popcorn. Snaps echoed against the books on the walls as students shared their poems in the 2024 Poetry Slam to an audience...

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