McKenzie Feldman Staff Writer Welcome to Stars Hollow! Gilmore Girls fans and coffee addicts rejoiced Wednesday as more than two-hundred coffee shops transformed into Luke’s Diner to celebrate the anticipated revival of the hit series Gilmore Girls. Oct. 5, 2000 is when the show first premiered, and fans from North Carolina all the way to Wyoming got to taste what life in Stars Hollow looked like. Netflix was behind the brilliant transformation. They will be streaming the show’s four episode series revival, Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life. Those longing all things Gilmore were invited to a free cup of coffee in honor of Lorelai and Rory, the iconic mother-daughter duo from the show. Social media flooded with pictures of all things Luke. Employees and fans dressed in Luke’s signature flannel and hat, posting Luke’s famous “No cell phones” sign all around. Many fans even posted pictures with Luke cutouts and Luke’s coffee cups. Quotes from the show were also printed onto coffee sleeves, adding a nice touch to the atmosphere. Jessica Stiehm News Editor Fans of the iconic cult classic The Rocky Horror Picture Show will be happy to hear that the film is getting a long-awaited revival on Oct. 20. For the Rocky Horror virgins, the classic movie opens with two young lovers, Brad and Janet, who suffer a flat tire during a storm. Where else are they to go but up to the creepy castle in order to find a phone? As soon as they step into the mansion of Dr. Frank-N-Furter, their innocent night turns into a wild ride of shocking songs, creepy servants, a seductive mad scientist, and a muscular Frankenstein-man named Rocky. The new movie will feature the same story written by Richard O’Brien way back in 1975, with a whole new cast of characters and High School Musical’s Kenny Ortega directing. The Rocky Horror Picture Show: Let’s Do the Time Warp Again has former Nickelodeon star Victoria Justice as Janet Weiss, Disney star Ryan McCartan as Brad Majors, Reeve Carney as Riff Raff, Christina Milian as Magenta, Broadway veteran Annaleigh Ashford as Columbia, American Idol’s Adam Lambert as Eddie, Staz Nair as Rocky, Ben Vereen as Dr. Scott, Ivy Levan as the Usherette, and the renowned Orange Is the New Black’s Laverne Cox as Dr. Frank-N-Furter. Tim Curry, the original Frank-N-Furter, on stage and screen, will come back to play the film’s Narrator/Criminologist. Andrea Tyson Staff Writer 2016 has been a great year for recognition in beauty pageants. The winners this year have not fit into the “standard of beauty”, but these women are beautiful nonetheless. Women with tattoos, stretch marks, colored hair, and of different sexualities are gorgeous. This year we have seen the first openly gay Miss America contestant from Missouri, Erin O’Flaherty; Cierra Jackson, Miss DC, took the crown for the competitors’ Swimwear award in Miss America while wearing her natural hair; and now Bayleigh Dayton has been crowned Miss Missouri USA 2017 (a different pageant from Miss America), and she has made history in the process. Dayton is a twenty-three year old, 5’9, African-American flight attendant from Lee’s Summit, Missouri. She graduated from Baylor University in 2014 with a degree in business and administration, but she also does print modeling on the side. Dayton has done work with Sprint and Hallmark for print modeling (according to Blackgirllonghair.com). The girl has it all! She has the brains, the beauty, and the willingness to do it all, but there was still one thing she was working towards: becoming Missouri’s first African-American Miss USA, and she refused to let that dream go. Jessica Dorcelien Editor-in-Chief Each year, the American Language Association’s (ALA) Office of Intellectual Freedom collects information from newspapers and individually submitted reports to compose a list of the top ten most frequently challenged books. From 2000 to 2009, there were roughly 5,099 challenges reported to the Office of Intellectual Freedom. Majority of the challenges were due to their “sexually explicit” material and “offensive language.” Other reasons included violence, homosexuality, Satanic themes, and religious viewpoints. Surprisingly, 119 of these challenged books were due to their depiction of an “anti-family” theme. Madeline Rudd Staff Writer After attending the Givenchy Fashion Show reception in Paris, France, on Sunday, Oct. 3, Kim Kardashian West posed for some pictures and got into a “paparazzi proof” van. She traveled with her sister and her bodyguard back to her apartment inside a private exclusive mansion. About two and a half hours later, five men (allegedly) dressed as police entered the luxurious private mansion, at least one armed with a handgun. With low security around the mansion, the men were able to tie up the concierge’s hands and force their way into Kardashian West’s apartment. Held at gunpoint, Kardashian West was forced into the bathroom and was tied up with her mouth gagged. The men then searched around her apartment finding cellphones, a ring worth around $4.49 million, and a jewelry box with an overall worth of $5.6 million. Andrea Tyson Staff Writer Lupita Nyong’o has quickly become a recognizable person in the world of Hollywood. She has few films under her belt since she got her degree in film in 2003. Nyong’o’s fiery personality, bold fashion choices, and passion she puts into her work have given her a lot of attention. Nyong’o has quite a bit to show off in her resume, but everything was not always easy for her. Being the strong woman that she is, Lupita was able to overcome the struggles she faced in her childhood to be a great actress. It was inevitably her perseverance and passion that made her so successful. Here is all you need to know on the young star. Madeline Rudd Staff Writer Fall is a huge season for all the shows we love to start their new seasons. Based on popularity, I wanted to give a little insight on each show and my opinion on how they compare to last season or if it is new, how it starts. Almost every day from Tuesday the twentieth to Sunday the twenty-fifth multiple shows aired, these are just a few. Jacob Sosdian Staff Writer This weekend quite a few movies were playing in theaters and we are here to talk about which was the top five films at the box office. The number one highest box office this weekend was The Magnificent Seven with $35 million worth of movie tickets. The Magnificent Seven was a remake of the 1960s film which is, in my opinion, a classic western movie many people should watch before seeing the new one. It is about a large group of thieves who raid from a village once in a while and one of the villagers asks for help. Seven very different gunmen come and try to stop the thieves. Starring our magnificent seven heroes, Denzel Washington, Chris Pratt, Ethan Hawke, Vincent D’ Onofrio, Byung GarciaRulfo, and Martin Sensmeier. So if you are interested in seeing this action western movie, come see it in theaters while you can. Meenakshi Sathish Features Editor Amal Clooney is not just “George Clooney’s wife.” The Lebanese-British lawyer specializes in international law, extradition, human rights, and criminal law. One could go on talking about her accomplishments, but it is better to ask what she has not done if they are in a rush. Her involvement in high-profile, international cases, advisory roles in the United Nation, and contribution to Global Summit to End Sexual Violence in Conflict initiative is enough to say that Clooney is no idle celebrity figure. Her reign for helping others continues as she assists the human trafficking survivor Nadia Murad. Jacob Sosdian Staff Writer After two years of marriage, Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie are getting a divorce. In August 2014, the happy couple was officially married in a private ceremony at a French chateau. They were together since 2004 and were both in their first movie together Mr. and Mrs. Smith in 2007. The movie is about a happily-married couple who are both secretly rival assassins-now how about that as a couple? Later during the making of this film, there were speculations that Brad Pitt divorced Jennifer Aniston so he can be with Angelina Jolie. After their marriage in 2014, they both starred in a film called By the Sea, directed by Angelina Jolie. This is about a couple trying to repair their marriage while staying at a hotel in France during the 1970s, another Angelina and Pitt movie about marriage. Angelina said, "I'm counting on the audience to know that if it was close to us at all we could never make this film," Jolie said. “It’s because we are actually very, very stable and these aren't our issues.” But if they were happy in 2015, why did their relationship go bad this year? |
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