Arts and Entertainment

By: Anna Zeng On Saturday, May 25, MSJ’s Phoenix Art and Literary Magazine held its annual Spring Poetry Slam in the Little Theater. Along with the poetry reading, the three-hour event incorporated vocal and dance…

By: Tammy Tseng Sheryl Sandberg is most widely known for her role as Facebook’s highly successful Chief Operation Officer, but within the past month, she’s been generating buzz for another reason: her new book, Lean…

By: Grace Wu On February 1, Phoenix Art and Literary Magazine held their Winter Poetry Slam at Mission Coffee from 6-9 PM. Students from MSJ, parents, and people from around the Bay Area came together…

“FUSD: Excellence” is a CD comprised of FUSD’s vocal and instrumental artists. The profits made will be used to raise money for the school district. CDs can be ordered here for $10: http://tinyurl.com/OrderCDHere CDs will…

Check out the editors’ favorite holiday music!

By: Hairol Ma   With the frosty cold air wriggling its way into the coziest of cozy sweaters, fall is surely on its way. What better way to wage battle against numb fingers and slippery…

By: Anita Alem   We’ve all heard, learned, and memorized the story: Abraham Lincoln unified a broken nation with the passage of the Emancipation Proclamation. Yet, our history books cannot have the same impact that…

Listen to the editor’s choices of their favorite guilty pleasure songs.

Recently the Smoke Signal sat down with Kristin Lancione, co-producer and star of Beverly Hills Nannies. Beverly Hills Nannies is a docu-series on ABC Family which follows the lives of eight nannies in an agency…

By: Anjali Kanthilal and Arushi Atluri Movies Easy “I love how she makes me feel. Like anything’s possible, or like…I don’t know. Like life is worth it.” (500) Days of Summer “That’s why her hair…