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Postcards from the nation's capital

Postcards from the nation’s capital

Macjournalism DC crew
November 19, 2020

In the debut episode of MacJournalism's new podcast,

New podcast covers equity, the AP classroom and more

Theo Roe and Javier Vela
November 16, 2020

Coach Russell and the Knights celebrate after Jake Allison recovers a Marble Falls fumble. The Knight defense played a stout game, allowing no points and creating two fumble recoveries and one interception while holding the Mustangs' run-heavy offense to 281 total yards. “They had fumbled it earlier in the game, so the fact that we were able to get a forced fumble that we recovered set the tone for the game” Allison said.

Suffocating Knight defense wills Mac to signature win over new District 14-5A-2 rival, Marble Falls

Caleb Melville, staff reporter
November 10, 2020

Percussionists come together to go ‘Solo’

Alice Scott and Madelynn Niles
November 4, 2020

Elizabeth Miranda created these sketches of Supreme Court justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg as a weekly assignment in her art class.

Remembering RBG, honoring her legacy

October 20, 2020

During his in-depth interview on the Feedback Loop, senior Jay Mathis discusses the influences that together helped him create a new sound for his first EP Vampire. Photo by Brooke Ellisor. Graphic by Theo Roe.

Mathias’ new sound all about experimenting, having fun

Evelyn Griffin, Theo Roe, and Alysa Spiro
October 18, 2020

Bird Bird co-owner Brian Batch displays one of the restaurant’s many delicious biscuit sandwiches. Originally a Thunderbird Coffee barista, he and Thunderbird owner Ryan McElroy became close friends and decided to go into business together. I for one am very grateful for that decision. photo reposted from Bird Bird website with permission of McElroy

I give you permission to love Bird Bird Biscuits because you will

Evelyn Griffin, news editor
October 11, 2020

2020 election creates generational divide

Alice Scott, staff reporter
October 8, 2020

History teacher Greg Anderson and former Twisted Sister frontman Dee Snider smile for the camera at a VIP event during Snider’s solo show in Dallas. After Snider signed Anderson’s copies of the Twister Sister albums You Can’t Stop Rock ‘n’ Roll and Stay Hungry, Anderson told Snider how much he admired him for his role fighting censorship in the Parents Music Resource Center U.S. Senate hearings. “He made a joke about how funny it would have been if Bob Denver had been at the hearings instead of John Denver,” Anderson said. “He asked if I wanted to make tough guy faces in the picture, and I asked him if we could smile instead. He was very nice and everyone was walking away very happy from the experience.” Anderson also told MacJournalism that he first became a fan of Twisted Sister after seeing the band’s appearance in the final chase scene in the 1985 movie Pee Wee’s Big Adventure and that he caught a guitar pick during Snider’s show.

Greg Anderson’s musical anthology includes Green Day, the Foo Fighters, Devo and the Ramones

Marley Angle, Anna McClellan, Grace Nugent, and Theo Roe
October 7, 2020

Sophomore J.D. Jordan catches his first varsity touchdown and Mac's only trip to the end zone against the Anderson Trojans in the third quarter of the 19th annual Taco Shack Bowl.

Trojans withstand Knight comeback to claim COVID-19th Taco Shack, all-time series lead

Grace Nugent, sports editor
October 3, 2020

Anderson's Spotify metal playlist is 34 hours long, and his chart showing different metal genres and their relationship to each other looks like a constellation of stars.

Turns out you can judge a band by its album cover

Evelyn Griffin, Anna McClellan, Grace Nugent, and Theo Roe
September 28, 2020

In the third installment of

FISH No. 3: “Vape”

Kai Kirkham Macias, staff cartoonist
September 25, 2020

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