For local soccer fans, the 2026 FIFA World Cup is a once-in-a-lifetime athletic spectacle in their own backyard. The World Cup will host a record 48 teams this year, with matches located as close as Levi’s...
New Munch Madness eating competition at Lynbrook
Spicy buldak, blind soda taste testing, and rock-paper-scissors cookie-eating featured
Planned to come back in following years
Munch...
My grandmother used to embroider in the afternoons, with her pristine posture, a cup of tea next to her, always filled. When it cooled, I would replace it.
Filial piety was the first virtue my grandmother...
The popularity of music festivals grew in the 1960s, with events such as the Monterey International Pop festival in 1967 garnering an audience of 50,000.
Early music festivals created space...
Junior Mengdi Xiong leaps off the mat, extending into a perfect mid-air split. Illuminated under bright stage lights, Xiong turns her head to survey the crowd — her parents, teacher and hundreds of audience...
Whenever I am sick, my mother presses the soft cloth of stories in my mouth. She speaks about idioms or the origins of the moon — stories that can only exist between fevers, with both eyes closed, sleep...
“We are sorry to inform you” is a common email greeting that fills students’ inboxes in the spring. At Lynbrook, summer is often glorified as a period that should be filled with extracurriculars...
The start of senior Chelsea Guo’s writing journey can be defined by a collection of moments: being reprimanded by her elementary school teachers for reading too much, describing the scenery outside her...
With just a quick Google search, a student can find the top five easiest Advanced Placement exams to self-study for — packaged like shortcuts to boost a college application. On paper, self-studying APs...
Anshika:
Late at night, the glow of a laptop screen illuminates junior Anshika Gupta’s face as lines of code begin to take shape. What once began as simple Python exercises evolved into projects...
Smoke is the smell of nostalgia — so is bus exhaust and steaming, sun-baked concrete. The putrid perfume of garbage trucks could whip my feet off the sidewalk and plant them on the streets of Shanghai,...
