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Tag: Arts

The New Nintendo Switch Proves to be Revolutionary

CategoryArtsPosted onApril 21, 2017Leave a comment

By Zachary Varela, Staff Writer    Any person who has a minimal understanding about gaming knows about Nintendo’s incredible ability to innovate. The Nintendo Wii introduced the motion sensor and the Wii U incorporated the idea of a gamepad. With every passing console, Nintendo looks Continue Reading

CategoriesArtsTagsArts, nintendo, nintendo switch

Student Filmmakers Producing Silent in the Moonlight

CategoryArtsPosted onApril 21, 2017Leave a comment

By Sasha Chernomorsky, Staff Writer    Acalanes student film Silent in the Moonlight directed by senior Matthew Magnus, set to come out in June of 2017, focuses on an aspiring high school filmmaker named Damien. While working on his biggest project yet, he falls in Continue Reading

CategoriesArtsTagsArts, Silent in the Moonlight, students

Get Out Breathes New Life Into the Horror Comedy Genre

CategoryArtsPosted onMarch 23, 2017Leave a comment

By Karl-Erik Mills, Staff Writer and Videographer    Coming off of five seasons of the hilarious Key and Peele and a starring role in Keanu, Jordan Peele has delivered his first feature directorial effort with the astonishingly impressive Get Out. The film follows an African-American Continue Reading

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Musical Review: Bye Bye Birdie Flies Audience Away

CategoryArtsPosted onMarch 23, 2017March 26, 2017Leave a comment

By Annika Walker, Online Editor-in-Chief    Who doesn’t love a hunk in a dazzling gold suit crooning to swooning masses of teenage girls?    Through pristinely sweet soprano lines and bass parts that caused the very stage to tremble, Bye Bye Birdie hit all the Continue Reading

CategoriesArtsTagsArts, bye bye birdie, musical

Movie Rewind: Drive Dazzles with Style and Intensity

CategoryArtsPosted onFebruary 21, 2017February 22, 2017Leave a comment

By Kahren Eloyan, Opinion Editor // Movie Rewind is a new feature at Blueprint where one of our writers uncovers and reviews a great film that either no one knows about or that everyone’s forgotten.    First up in this series is the film whose Continue Reading

CategoriesArtsTagsArts, drive, movie rewind

Top 10 Greatest Cinematic Hits of 2016-2017 Season

CategoryArtsPosted onFebruary 21, 2017February 22, 2017Leave a comment

By Karl-Erik Mills, Staff Writer and Videographer // The Oscars are coming around once again, and the time has come to examine the movies of 2016. A large portion of the year in film was very disappointing, with a summer movie season that flopped critically Continue Reading

CategoriesArtsTagsArts, best movies, cinema, oscars

New High School Shows Opening in the New Year

CategoryArtsPosted onJanuary 6, 2017January 6, 2017Leave a comment

By Fiona Burrows, Staff Writer    For the high school theatre scene, the new year means dozens of new shows. March is musical season in Lamorinda’s local high schools’ performing arts programs.    Acalanes will be putting on Bye Bye Birdie, a musical comedy set Continue Reading

CategoriesArtsTagsArts, new year

While the Beasts are Fantastic, the Movie is Not So

CategoryArtsPosted onJanuary 6, 2017January 6, 2017Leave a comment

By Karl-Erik Mills, Staff Writer and Videographer    Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 marked the end of the Harry Potter film franchise, which had spanned ten years and eight movies, and inspired a demographic of children and adults alike. The legacy of Continue Reading

CategoriesArtsTagsArts, fantastic beasts, movie

Marvel’s Doctor Strange Bends Audience’s Minds

CategoryArtsPosted onNovember 18, 2016November 29, 2016Leave a comment

By Karl-Erik Mills, Staff Writer and Videographer //Doctor Strange is the 14th installment into the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) and marks the second film of phase 3 of Marvel films, following May’s Captain America: Civil War. Phase 3 of MCU films marks a large turn Continue Reading

CategoriesArtsTagsAcalanes, Arts, Doctor Strange, Marvel

Cast of Radium Girls Delivers Glowing Performance

CategoryArtsPosted onNovember 18, 2016November 29, 2016Leave a comment

By Fiona Burrows and Clara Kobashigawa, Staff Writer and News Editor //With a only a year left to live and 250,000 dollars to spend, what would you do? In the 1920’s, factory workers named “the radium girls” are faced with this question as time slowly Continue Reading

CategoriesArtsTagsArts, radium girls

Maya Paul, senior
Winter Rivera (left) and Sofie Foster (right), seniors
Sophie Westen, senior
Ren Leanos, junior
Nicholas Pires, junior
Hailey Stripling, senior
David DePaepe, senior
Cameron Drew, senior
Brody Lim, senior
Back to School Fashion 2022 - Violet Hemmingsen-Smith
Back to School Rally 2022 - By Justin Rosenblatt
2022 Senior Awards - By Helen O'Neal
2022 Senior Sunset - By Helen O'Neal
Cultural Fair - By Arlyne Noguera
Student Art Exhibit in PAC - By Graham Klingler
Stress Busters 1/26 - By Melina Nath
Free COVID-19 Test Distribution 1/3 - By Arlyne Noguera
San Francisco Women's March 10/2 - By Graham Klingler
First Acalanes Pep Band Performance - By Graham Klingler
2021 Senior Sunrise - By Arlyne Noguera
2021 Club Day - By Arlyne Noguera
First 2021-2022 Football Home Game - By Graham Klingler
San Ramon BLM Protest - By Ella Alpert

Acalanes Standings

  • Men's Soccer: 9-5-1 Overall, 3-4 League
  • Women's Soccer: 6-1-5 Overall, 2-1-4 League
  • Men's Basketball: 11-8 Overall, 3-3 League
  • Women's Basketball: 14-6 Overall, 6-0 League
  • Wrestling: 1-4 Overall

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  1. Tomi Wall on Nature in Winter Photo CollageJanuary 2, 2023

    Beautiful! I would love to know who took these photos!

  2. Bella on Drag Queen Story Hour: Bella Aldama Performs at the Lafayette LibraryNovember 7, 2022

    Thank you for such an amazing article of this event 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🌈🌈🌈 Thank you for standing up for my community!

  3. Brady on Music Monday 11/7November 7, 2022

    Blueprint❤️Bruno

  4. Sam on Students Stay Active Over SummerOctober 16, 2022

    Excellent post noting the importance of physical activities and movement. Medical journals all point to exercise as key to disease…

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