Standing up to ICE, together
By the Smoke Signal Editorial Board Three gun shots. A car stopped. A woman dead. On January 7, 37-year-old US citizen Renee Good was fatally…
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Staff Column: The lives I’ve lived
By Staff Writer Jessica Cao The digital clock on my nightstand reads 3 a.m., and there is salt on my tongue from where it crept…
Never again, again: why genocide awareness still fails
By Staff Writers Hamnah Akhtar, Amy Han & Erika Liu Bodies lie unburied in the streets. Families flee burning buildings, deprived of all their belongings…
A Winning Rally — Marty Supreme Explores the Journey to Greatness
By Staff Writer Eleanor Chen In a rapid-fire motion, a ping-pong ball flings across the screen, breaking the audiences’ necks in record speed in an…
CSU Direct Admission Program launches under SB 640
By Staff Writers Amy Han & Matthew Zhang The California State University (CSU) Direct Admission Program took effect January 1 as a part of Senate Bill…
My Mission As: A Musical Storyteller
By Staff Writer Abigaile Lei Hunched over a laptop in the corner of his bedroom, a middle schooler opened FL Studio for the first time,…
YoungArts winner Sophia Xiao balances her dreams en pointe
By Web Editor Scarlett Huang & Staff Writer Cecilia Cheng It is under the harsh fluorescence of spotlights and isolation that dreams begin to take…
Resurrection is Beautiful, Baffling, and Brutally Slow
By Staff Writer Leland Yu Known for his surreal, dreamlike films that prioritize mood and imagination over conventional storytelling, Director Bi Gan continues that approach…
Avatar: Fire and Ash: Big on Visuals, Thin on Narrative Fire and Ash Burns Bright, but Not Always Clean
By Staff Writer Abigaile Lei Avatar: Fire and Ash takes everything that makes the renowned Avatar franchise unique and brings it to the next level,…
Heartbreak Turns To Reflection with BEFORE I FORGET
By Staff Writer Gaurasundara Amarnani Following a public breakup with Candian singer-songwriter Tate McCrae, Australian singer Kid LAROI released his second studio album, BEFORE I…