The Official Student News Site of Parkway West High

Pathfinder
The Official Student News Site of Parkway West High

Pathfinder
The Official Student News Site of Parkway West High

Pathfinder
Standing in front of a Buick Grand National Experimental, rapper Kendrick Lamar appears on the cover of his album “GNX.” The album references and builds upon Lamar’s spring 2024 rap battle against fellow rapper Drake and set the stage for Lamar’s performance at Super Bowl LIX.
The count of Compton
Will Gonsior, Opinions/A&E Editor • February 13, 2025

Reincarnated The story of titular protagonist Edmond Dantes in Alexander Dumas’ “The Count of Monte Cristo” may sound familiar. In Dumas’...

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Standing in front of a Buick Grand National Experimental, rapper Kendrick Lamar appears on the cover of his album “GNX.” The album references and builds upon Lamar’s spring 2024 rap battle against fellow rapper Drake and set the stage for Lamar’s performance at Super Bowl LIX.
The count of Compton
Will Gonsior, Opinions/A&E Editor • February 13, 2025

Reincarnated The story of titular protagonist Edmond Dantes in Alexander Dumas’ “The Count of Monte Cristo” may sound familiar. In Dumas’...

Sixpence None The Richer guitarist Matt Slocum met vocalist Leigh Nash in New Braunfels, Texas. Their new EP, “Rosemary Hill,” is named after the street Slocum grew up on and takes inspiration from his and Nash’s childhoods.
Return to roots
Will Gonsior, Opinions/A&E Editor • October 23, 2024

When guitarist and lyricist Matt Slocum, singer Leigh Nash, drummer Dale Baker and bassist Justin Cary named their Christian alt-rock band after...

On “The Joshua Tree,” U2 expressed their love for the ideals that founded the United States — and their disappointment with our country’s efforts to live up to those values. The album outlines the stark difference between America as popularly conceived and America in reality, reminding the country that we have a long way to go but delivering a hopeful message about our ability to get there.
The two Americas
Will Gonsior, Opinions/A&E Editor • September 24, 2024

Political. Religious. Activist. “The Two Americas” renamed as a National Park. U2’s career-defining album “The Joshua Tree” has a message...

Resting on a map of Gaza, surrounded by a littering of lyric cutouts from the recently released diss tracks from rappers Drake and Kendrick Lamar, sits a phone playing rapper Macklemore’s newest single “Hind’s Hall.” Dedicated to student protesters in the United States and current victims of the conflict in Gaza, the song addressed national leaders who ignore the current conflict as well as the public community in a message of resistance. “Art, in its purest form, is resistance. Art, in its purest form, is from the heart, and it connects with people. It brings people together. The day that I stop following my heart and talking about things in the world that matter is the day that I don’t need to be on stage anymore. Today is not that day,” Macklemore announced at a live concert in Wellington, New Zealand on March 13.
Music for a movement
Risa Cidoni, Editor-in-Chief • May 29, 2024

Disclaimer: Some links in this article contain explicit lyrics or profanity.  The age of peak modern hip-hop controversy has begun.  Arguably,...

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Behind the lens
Behind the lens
Esta Kamau, Features/Humans of West Editor • October 11, 2024

As the leaves turn orange, the weather gets colder and a vivid cinnamon and pumpkin scent wafts in the air, you know fall is approaching.
Fall favorites: Essentials for the perfect season
Niharika Vaidya, Staff Writer • October 10, 2024

Horns up West High!
Best of Homecoming spirit week 2024
Esta Kamau, Noor Hacking, and Yein Ahn • September 24, 2024

Spreading paw-sitivity
Spreading paw-sitivity
Samir Shaik, Multimedia Editor-in-Chief • September 16, 2024

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