Two popular Youtubers, Logan Paul and KSI (Olajide Olatunji), are set to fight their rematch on November 9 at the Staples Centre in Los Angeles, California. The two YouTube stars meet in a rematch of their highly anticipated amateur bout, which ended in a controversial majority draw.
According to Eddie Hearn, a reporter from the Independent, the pay-per view cost will be around £9.95 on Sky Sports Box Office and will also stream on Youtube. With KSI and Paul possessing a combined subscriber count of over 40m on YouTube, it would make sense to put the fight exactly where the fans are.
The first fight generated about 1.3 million pay-per view buys, a number expected to increase, according to experts, due to the hype of seeing these two powerful influencers go head to head once more.
During the build up of KSI vs Logan Paul, they held two press conferences, one outside of the Staples Centre, and the other in the UK. They exchanged a few harsh words with one another in order to promote the fight.
It’s the nature of boxing, but the tension between these two seems real. In recently uploaded videos posted on their channel and based on the press conference they look like they are both determined to knock each other out.
Since it is a professional bout this could be the start of a new career for each of them. “If they’re a professional fighter and they go 1-0, who knows!?” Hearn said, “I’m not looking at it for the future of their careers, I’m looking at it as a one off.” The fight is set to take place on November 9th in the Staples Centre live on pay-per view.
Category: Arts & Culture
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Un”Boxing” The YouTube Match
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Library Renamed In Honor Of Poly Alumni
On September 21, the Long Beach Public Library reopened its doors with an improved and renamed library. The now Billie Jean King Library held an opening ceremony with guest speakers such as Mayor Robert Garcia, council member Jeanine Pierce, among others as well as the tennis player and women’s right activist herself, Billie Jean King. King was greeted by an uproar of applause and proceeded to tell the story of how she would sleep with her tennis racquet and library books at night. The Poly alumni is fiercely loyal to Long Beach and hopes this new addition will be a helpful resource to the community.
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Bye Bye Spidey: Spiderman Leaves The MCU
Spider-Man is a character that everyone in the world knows about. Fans enjoy him, people enjoy the movies, and kids demand his merchandise. But Sony wants to take the rights that Marvel owns from using Spider-Man in their movies. You might wonder why this is an issue, but when Sony wants to take away Spider-Man in the middle of his story being told, fans will get angry.
Back in February 2015, Disney, Marvel Studios and Sony announced a deal to share the Spider-Man film rights, leading to a new version of Spider-Man to be introduced and integrated for the Marvel cinematic universe. The deal allowed Sony to have final creative control over MCU films where Spider-Man is the main character, while Disney had full control over films with Spider-Man as a side character. It also stated that the character was allowed to be in five movies as part of the contract. I believe that Marvel misread the contract since they wanted to make five stand alone movies of Spider-Man, but Sony is including Spider-Man’s cameos for the Avengers as part of the five movie deal. Right now, Sony has offered to give Marvel 30% of Spider-Man rights and money that it makes from the films, but Venom from Sony’s Venom universe needs to be included in the MCU as well. It’s weird how Marvel owns this character, yet they’re fighting the rights to use it with another company. I believe that it shouldn’t even be an argument about who owns the character since Stan Lee of Marvel created him in the first place. But at the end of the day, we can say that money has a lot to do with it. It couldn’t be about anything else…that’s Hollywood baby.UPDATE:
Spider-Man is reportedly back in the MCU after the studios, Sony and Marvel, reached a new deal to continue their partnership. The new deal sees Marvel Studios producing the next installment of Spider-Man’s cinematic franchise, with Kevin Feige taking a lead role in the production once more. Spider-Man will also appear in other MCU movies going forward as he has previously done. -
Come One, Come All
On April 4, 2019 at Poly’s auditorium, Julia Gustafson’s period 4, Advanced Piano class, put on a recital of extraordinary ability. The pianist lineup began on the right foot with a rustic song titled “Arrival in the Country,” arranged by Weekly and Arganbright as performed by Gregory Chao, Justin Ramsical, Chan Thon, and Alexander Vega. This gave the audience a little taste as to what was to come. The pieces had so much variety. The songs played ranged from pieces like “Fantasy in A Minor” by Mary Leaf, and “Scherzo, Opus 129 No. 6” arranged by Phillip Keveren to pieces such as “Feelin’ Good” by Robert Vandall and “Beauty and the Beast” by Alan Menken. The recital also included a multiple instrument piece titled “Lindaraxa’s Balcony” by Walter and Carol Noona. The leader of it all, Mrs. Gustafson even joined in on the fun playing “Valse Noble” with students Abigail Menchaca and Samuel Santana. Within the mix were amazing solo performances such as the one from senior Lucia Sato, playing the classic “Deux Arabesque No.2” by Claude Debussy. She stated that she has “been lucky to be a part of the piano program for two out of the four years.” Ms. Sato also gave advice for upcoming piano students: “Keep practicing and have fun while playing piano. Also, try not to stress out during your performance because there will be many more.”
As a fellow piano student, this allowed me to see a performance from the audience’s perspective for the first time. I can simply say that what Mrs. Gustafson, along with the hard work of the students, put together a fantastic performance. I only have three words to use to describe the performances: Sophisticated. Fun. Brilliant.
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The Art of Shoe Selling
Shoe selling has been a hustlers job ever since the 1970s when notorious brands such as Nike and Adidas took off. With the worlds fashion evolving and sports such as the NBA where shoe game mattered, several people caught onto the trend of dressing, “bottom up.” The amount of payout especially now could be endless and could make millions of dollars. With brands dropping shoes on a limited basis and amount, the large consumer community can only acquire them one other way, the local shoe entrepreneur. This begs the question, how do they do it?
Although on paper shoe reselling is plainly buying shoes first hand for less and selling to a desired customer for more, this process take more energy than said. First, you have to understand the market, just like stocks there are shoes that are hot at the moment, but die down. It is best to start with something cheap to sell for more.
Unfortunately, the start is always luck based. Sometimes traveling to your local retailer (Marshalls, TJ Maxx, or Ross) and finding a pair of shoes that could sell for more is a steal! For example, after Marshalls restocked their shoe section I found SF Air Force 1s (size 11.5). These go for around $45.00 dollars on shoe selling websites like StockX which take a cut of the money (transaction and payment processing fee), but when selling on your own account these go for $55.00 dollars any day of the week. But STOP! Even though these shoes are relatively recent drops, you are better off finding a more reliable pair of shoes that will stay in, “the loop.” The most reliable pairs of shoes for resell to start with are Air Max 97s or Jordan 1s due to the prevalence in the fashion community.
Let’s say you find a reliable pair of shoes, take the Air Max 97 “South Beach,” which retail for $160.00, but resell for $200.00. How do we go about selling these beauts?
Start a shoe selling social media account. These blow up with a few shout outs or little advertising as consumers want to find different people with different stock. Best media accounts are the obvious Instagram, but places like reddit or Facebook are great for putting your shoes out there.
What now? Well it is an uphill battle from here. Now that you have profit here starts the endless process from buying recently dropped or cheap shoes and selling them. This process takes extreme patience as sometimes you will find a buyer the next day or next month. Some tips to stay in there is to set long term goals such as a shoe you want to work up to. From famous rapper Jay-Z, “Only two things can get you through this: that’s patience and persistence.”
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Get Out the U.S.
Jordan Peele’s movie Us came out March 22, 2019. Featuring stunning performances by the entire cast, Us is a great reflection on the idea of how society treats its less fortunate and the consequences of these actions.
That is one interpretation of the film, as there are many more. There are also many theories surrounding the events in the film.
Warning spoilers will be present from here on, so if you have not watched it then you should get to it. On with the theories: the most interesting being that Jason is a tethered, this theory claims that Jason was switched similar to the way Adelaide was. However there are holes in this theory, mainly the timing of these events, if you want more information you can search it up.
There is another interesting theory that encompasses Peele’s other movie Get Out with Us. This theory begs the question whether or not the movies are part of a shared universe.
There are already many movies that have a shared universe so would it be so far fetched as to think Peele could be trying to do the same? Anyway the theory suggests that there is a connection between the sciences that created the tethered in Us and the ability of putting two consciousnesses inside a single body in Get Out.
All we know of how the tethered in Us were created is when Red tells the family that they were created by a shadowy government organization and abandoned. This fits in with the explanation that Dean gives in Get Out when he explains the origins of his “practice.” The most fascinating theory however is that the tethered are better than “Us”.
Throughout the movie they are seen working together collectively to achieve the goal they worked for, however the “civilized” part of society is not able to defeat them.
The tethered were even able to accomplish the goal of Hands Across America, which famously was a failure when first conceived in 1986. This asks the question of whether or not the more civilized society deserves what they got, if they are so focused on themselves and not on the greater good of society.
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Ready, Set, Play!
On Thursday April 4, Friday April 5, and Saturday April 6 at 6:30 PM, the Poly Playhouse put on a play that students wrote where it brought them to life on stage.
On Thursday April 4 at 3:00PM, staged readings were read out loud.
This showing had 4 additional plays not included in the showings to give students the opportunity to read their plays out.
There was a total of 7 plays performed. Your Turn, was a lighthearted comedy. Where the setting is Candyland and one of the pawns, Red, is tired of following the rules. The director/play writer for this play was Gabby Kaiser consisting of characters Richard Reed as Red and Mara Stanford as Yellow on stage.
Full Cup, had Mika Dyo as director.It starts off with a Barista, played by Angelina Taylor, as she observes the kind of people who come by her shop.
She seems to know what exactly is going on in her customers lives, new and old. And gives insight on the thoughts she has towards each of them, and their lives.
Cast members included in this play are Bella Morales as Everlee, Aasha Mclyn as Sabrina, Brian Aguilar as Vet Joe, Dane Camacho as Adam, and Kelvin Villegas as Tom.In the first half there was about 4 plays performed, after a 10 minute intermission, is where the plays started to get really serious. One of these plays being Happy, Kaelah Franklin was behind the script writing and directing it.
The play stars two cast members, Aasha McLyn as Emily and Josiah Hon as Julian.Two teens at age 19, living together. Julian experiences hard months with Emily, as she unravels down the spiral that is drug use.
Franklin has stated that her inspiration is actually based off of her mom and “her struggle that she went through addiction”.
Although the situation wasn’t exactly how it went down, it still was a bit similar as the one presented in the play.
Franklin also knew that she wanted a “simplistic kind of play” and at first was considering doing the play in silence. Instead she opted for it to have dialogue as it’s “more powerful with words”.An honorable mention of one the plays, with a lot of dark humor would be The Rope to Hell, directed by none other then our High Life Staff Writer, John Henry Dy.
Not only did he direct and write the play, but also played a part in it as well.
His play was based on a salesman making a business selling rope, who people later then brought from him to kill themselves.
They were pushed to the edge, by none other than the salesman himself.
The salesman, played by Vincent Lach, was convinced by the Devil on his shoulders to get rid of the jerks of the world “for the greater good”.The last play performed was The Interdimensionator, with Amanda Angeles being director and also being apart of the play as her character, Nora Webb. Recurring actors were Andy Martinez as Dr. Ed Edison, Gabe Burns as Homeless Dave, La Queen Malone as Little Girl, Ben Rifkin as Paraplegic Man, Deven Salinas as Billy Hill, Tristen Cousins as Mama, Mica Ramos as Carol.
The play consisted of Dr. Ed Edison and how he wants to make a big accomplishment for himself and the world. Dr. Ed Edison and Nora travel to different alternative universes through a portal, and each universe gets worse. In almost all the universes Dr. Ed Edison is a failure. Pretty soon he takes his normal life for granted and returns a changed man.
Andy Martinez said he had an “amazing time” and has a fun time making “new characters”. His inspiration for playing his character came from Doofenshmirtz and Flint Lockwood from Cloudy with a Chance of Meatball. Martinez also stated that everyone should have a chance to “experience a show”, whether it’s during their years in high school or outside of it.
Other plays that took place during the showing was You Too, directed by Hannah Gardiner, about a date gone horribly wrong. Wishing Possible, directed by Josalynn Bass, was about an organization in charge of wishes in the children’s department, and they have a mission involving both a child and a mom.
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I’ll Have a Grande
Ariana Grande’s signature drink at Starbucks debuted and will remain on the menu permanently. Ariana is a light bubbly, sweet and strong person so I expected her drink to represent that.
The Cloud Macchiato is everything but that. Taking into consideration her music, style, and past boyfriends, I assumed the girl had taste. This drink proved me wrong. Most of the media is complaining that her drink isn’t considered vegan, while Grande has claimed to be vegan herself. I couldn’t care less about it not being vegan. If it was vegan, that would at least be an excuse as to why it tastes so bad.
I do not consider myself to be a coffee person, so I brought along an expert, who was in agreement with me. That drink was gross, bitter, and if you enjoy the bitter taste of actual crap, consider drinking black coffee, It’s cheaper and there are no expectations.
3/10 will not drink again.
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Sing For Retired Teacher
The Poly Choir ensembles performed at two concerts on March 6 and 7 in the auditorium. The chorale, chamber, Cecilian, and the two jazz ensembles performed on Wednesday, and Inspirational Glee and Grace sang on Thursday. They were split up to avoid holding a two-hour long concert in one night, choir director Brian Dokko said.
The concert on Thursday was held to celebrate the retirement of Lori Grace, Poly’s chorale accompanist. Grace has been Dokko’s assistant director and teacher of both ensembles performing on Thursday for the past 10 years. She brought many Poly Choir alumni to the performance as well as a few former students from Jordan High School, where she started her career in the Long Beach district.
Many of the students who sang at the concert said that they felt happy or nostalgic about the events. “This [was] one of my last concerts as a senior,” Poly senior Jovanni Pham said. “I had a lot of fun singing with my friends.” Sophomore Sophia King of the Cecilian ensemble said that while the choirs performing on Wednesday didn’t have a lot of time to rehearse, “We did a way better job than I thought we would.”
The Poly Choir ensembles will sing again at their spring concert in May of this year. Dokko says that it is expected to be a smaller event than the most recent one.
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Drama Gets Help in Screenwriting
Poly’s drama department has hired professional writer and actor Marcus Folmar to help students develop scripts for plays they will be performing April 4 – 6.
For two weeks, Folmar has been showing up to the 7th period Play Production class to instruct the drama students in the art of playwriting. He started by giving lessons on constructing the basics of a play: the plot, setting, and characters. Then the class started learning more about nuanced aspects of playwriting, such as the dialogue, giving characters the right voice, and conveying a theme, or some kind of deeper meaning.
After learning about what components make up a whole script, the students began actually putting together their own stories. They came up with their own original ideas and pitched them to the rest of the class. Folmar and the other students then gave each other feedback on what would be good to see in the play and how to make it work.
Folmar and Poly drama teacher, Linda Bon, helped guide the class through the creative process of writing plays. Finally, when the scripts had been completed, every student read theirs out loud to the class, and Folmar and Bon selected which ones would be performed in the show in April.
Marcus Folmar has acted in roles in popular TV shows such as Shameless, The Big Bang Theory, I’m Dying Up Here, and Modern Family. He also wrote ABC original movie, The List. The drama department will be putting on a show of a handful of their student-written plays in early April.
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Super Smash It UP, My Bros
Recently, from 5-8 March 2019, the Poly eSports Club hosted a Super Smash Bros. Ultimate tournament. A game widely loved over the generations from Super Smash Bros. 64 (1999) to present. The club’s leader, Gabriel Cortes, hosted the tournament using Computer teacher Jonathan Virak’s room (416) using his monitor and projector to host 2 Nintendo switch setups.
The prize pool was not money, but a Nintendo Switch GameCube Controller which is priced at $24.99. The tournament contained 30 people playing in a best two out of three match the first day, and best out of one the next two days.
The room was filled to the brim each day with spectators and players alike to watch the phenomenal event. This event was a first of its kind and players were hungry for the win. As the dust settled, each set ended with a fist bump or handshake to keep good sportsmanship, but at the end of it all, who was left?
It was semi-finals and the two giants of the tourney where Matthew “Matt” Mercado and Michael “MikeDuu” Duu. Michael Duu showed up to show out on the first two days with his Falco stringing together multiple hits and spikes to utterly destroy his opponent.
Players from the corner of the room witnessed how both prospects tore through their brackets, ending up in the semi-finals. Duu favoring to play King K. Rool for his super-armor and heavy punishes. While Mercado stuck to his trusty Donkey Kong for its punishes and spikes. And in the best of such a match, it is very hard to predict a winner.
In he end, it was Mercado who stood atop the mountain triumphant ending the last stock with a winded up super punch.
With the grand finals ahead it was Gabino “Gambino” Diaz with his Little Mac against Matthew “Matt” Mercado, a classic Donkey Kong v.s Little Mac matchup. In a surprising turn of events, Gambino turns the tides and takes a clean 2 stock upset. Gabino wins it all, the honor and the nifty controller at the end of the day.
We hope to see more come out of the eSports Club and their semi-annual Smash tournament. Join president Gabriel Cortes in the Jackrabbits eSports Club every other Wednesday in room 416 during lunch.
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Shop With Friends
Like every year, a plethora of high schoolers emerge with their own personal clothing brands. Here to set himself apart from the rest is senior Dakota Song, creator of the upcoming streetwear brand, Shop With Friends.
“Before, I used to overthink and complicate the concepts surrounding my past clothing brands. Shop With Friends presents itself naturally as it represents my personal creative outlet. It’s hard to put a definition of what Shop With Friends means, since I want to avoid putting restrictions on the brands potential and what it can be,” said Song when defining what his brand means to him. Song already has reputable experience in the streetwear industry as he’s worked with other local streetwear brands, being a photographer and media outputter as well as videographer. Song also trained as a creative director while being an intern.
“My brand is going to feature the essentialized hoodie and everyday T-shirt. Shop With Friends is definitely out-there in terms of color and style, so you have to be comfortable with dressing it,” said Song. Shop With Friends showcases bright and vivid color ways that’s going to revolutionize the way people think of dark and obscure winter clothing.
From genuine heat press to multi-stitched embroidery, Shop With Friends proves that high school streetwear brands can still exhibit quality. For more information and updates, follow the brand via Instagram @shopwfriends.
