(Wikimedia Commons) If you’ve ever been catfished, The Circle, hosted by Michelle Buteau, might be the show for you.   Eight competitors meet a hotel, are placed in separate rooms, and must interact through “the circle,” a voice-activated system in which they can set up their profiles and have private or group chats. No one…

(Wikimedia Commons) Warning: this review contains spoilers.  In the history of the Academy Awards, only one non-English language film has ever won Best Picture. That film is Parasite.  Parasite (or 기생충 in its original Korean), a South Korean thriller and dark comedy, directed by Bong Joon-ho, won the most awards of any movie at the…

Shaker Heights City Hall (Wikimedia Commons) A mother and daughter drive away in the middle of the night, a custody battle of a Chinese-American baby, and a beautiful house on fire. Welcome to Celese Ng’s Shaker Heights, which burns to the ground.  Set in utopian suburbia in the 1990s, the wealthy, white Richardson family represents…

(Wikimedia Commons) Since The Good Place‘s premiere in 2016, the characters, all of whom had died at the same time, believed that were all sent to the Good Place because of their admirable actions on earth, discover–in the January 2020 finale–they are in the bad place. The remainder of the show involves them searching for the real Good…

(Wikimedia Commons) On February 12, season 40 of Survivor premiered. This was no ordinary premiere, however. That day marked the beginning of Survivor: Winners at War, which has 20 of the greatest winners coming back to determine the ultimate Sole Survivor. This season also has the largest cash prize in reality show history, a whopping…

Scioto and Columbus. (Wikimedia Commons) The arts that are all around us. On Sunday, January 26, at 3:00 p.m., hundreds of young classical musicians from the Columbus Symphony’s Youth Orchestra performed for the public Vern Riffe Center’s JoAnn Davidson Theatre. For only a $5 ticket, one could attend the program’s annual Showcase Concert, a spectacular…

Of all my recipes, this chicken bowl dish is my favorite. With only a short preparation, this chicken and sweet vegetables will not disappoint.     Ingredients:   12 oz. chicken breast    2 teaspoons canola oil   1 clove minced garlic    2 medium sweet potatoes peeled and diced   2 cups chopped fresh kale  …

(Wikimedia Commons) With only a few ingredients, this recipe tastes better than Kraft’s Mac n Cheese and involves only a few more steps.    Ingredients: 1 cup macaroni elbow noodles1/8 cup shredded sharp cheddar cheese1/8 cup milk1/4 cup water1 teaspoon black pepper Steps: Mix water and macaroni into a bowlMicrowave for 2 minutes Add milk…

Organizing Japanese flower pots in the Flower Arrangements class during Arts Mania. (Sari Shocket’22/Media)  On Wednesday, February 5, the Columbus Academy Arts Department orchestrated the biennial event known as ArtsMania. With about 40 scheduled sessions, students were tasked with ranking 12 choices they would find interesting. The three-session format allowed participants to explore varied classes…

Alaina West’24 stars as Belle in Beauty and the Beast Jr. (Julia DeVore’22/Media) On January 31 and February 1, the Middle School presented its annual musical, this year featuring Disney’s Beauty and the Beast Jr., directed by Mrs. Whitney Eads and assistant director, Mrs. Stacey Nockowitz. Alaina West ‘24 and Matthew Fang ‘24 played Belle…