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The Californian

The Official Student-Run Newspaper of California High School

The Californian

The Official Student-Run Newspaper of California High School

The Californian

The Californian ranks the Bay Area’s top 10 roller coasters to ride during summer

The Californian ranks the Bay Area’s top 10 roller coasters to ride during summer

Christian Jung and Caleb Yi June 2, 2025

From stomach-churning drops to high-speed twists through foggy hills, the Bay Area is home to some of the most thrilling roller coasters on the West Coast. With theme parks like Six Flags Discovery...

‘The Last of Us’ returns with style

KK DeMello, Staff Writer May 1, 2025

After more than two years since the season one finale, HBO’s hit series “The Last of Us” is back with the vengeance of an army of the infected. But only a few episodes in there’s already much...

Sophomore Rosie Andre won the Spanish Club’s comic competition with this comic that addresses environmental awareness. For those students who don’t speak Spanish, the comic titled “In this second” translates as follows starting with the panel under the arrow and then moving to the top right: “In the world, there are a lot of things that we can’t stop in a second. Like floods, And the forest fires...And the climate change in general. However, cleaning up trash? We could start with that.” This is the Spanish Club’s first comic competition.

Spanish Club creates comic competition

Mishti Ramachandra, Features Editor May 1, 2025

Cal High’s Spanish Club offers more than just a chance to practice a language. But this new idea comes with a creative twist, providing students with the opportunity to immerse themselves in the cultures...

About a dozen Cal High Art 2 and 3 students created drawings of children from Malawi in southeast Africa through their participation in the Memory Project.

Memory Project helps benefit children in need

Aditi Mandale, Staff Writer May 1, 2025

In Malawi, approximately two-thirds of children live in extreme poverty, and only one-third are able to attend high school. The Memory Project serves as a way to show appreciation for these children and...

Jasmine Young elegantly poses in a photo for Look Model Agency located in San Francisco.

Cal model featured in magazine

Gayatri Nair and Daniela Noubleau March 21, 2025

Jasmine Young is a dedicated and passionate Cal High senior, making her mark in the modeling world. She first stepped into modeling at 16 when her grandmother took vacation pictures from her Instagram...

Drake and PartyNextDoor released last month their new album, “$ome $exy $ongs 4 U”, featuring the hit “NOKIA”.

Drake and PartyNextDoor album is pretty mid

Sherlyn Hernandez, Staff Writer March 21, 2025

Drake is back, and the internet is losing its mind. The Toronto rap icon just dropped his latest album, “$ome $exy $ongs 4 U” featuring singer-songwriter, PartyNextDoor on Feb. 14. As expected its...

From left to right, Zach Kuruvilla, Sibesh Sankaranarayanan, Angad Gahra, Aiden Berry, Jake Westfall, and Adam Carter come together to perform at Cal High’s lip sync.

Lip sync hits the stage

Christian Jung, Staff Writer March 21, 2025

Prior to Cal High’s annual lip sync competition, the excitement was building for junior Elise Matek. As one of the key performers for the junior class, Matek put in countless hours to perfect the juniors’...

No prince charming can save this movie

Anistyn Lum, Staff Writer March 21, 2025

Mirror, mirror, on the wall, how many more remakes until Disney falls? Well, actually it looks like it shouldn’t take long because from the looks of it, this year does not seem promising for the company. Disney...

A nearly empty movie theater room playing “Joker” symbolizes the dying popularity of watching movies in theaters.

Are movie theaters a dying business?

Livi Jung, Staff Writer March 21, 2025

Movie theaters first started as storefronts before growing to become grand exhibitions for motion pictures. Two guys, William Rock and Walter Wainwright, had the original idea to let the public see films...

Lady Gaga emerges from an artistic grave with her many music awards, representing the revival of 2010 pop stars.

2010 pop artists are coming back

Landon Olberg, Staff Writer March 21, 2025

Everyone can agree that the 2010s had some of the best music albums of all time. Some of the popular artists include Lady Gaga, A$AP Rocky, Bruno Mars and Beyoncé. These artists peaked in the 2010s,...

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