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  • August 23Nitro football team wins first game of the season against Don Bosco Tech, 38-0!
  • May 31The Black Team defeats the Pink Team, 41-7, in the 2024 Powderpuff Football Game!
  • May 24Senior Lilit Arakelyan wins the 2024 Pat Navalonic Memorial Award! Lilit will be attending UCLA in the fall!
  • May 1Senior Alexis Cabral wins the 2024 Lancaster Prize, for her article "A Day Without a Phone"!
  • November 18Girls varsity volleyball team defeats Marin Academy, 3-1, to win CIF Division IV State Championship!
  • November 2Girls varsity volleyball beats Moorpark, 3-0, to claim CIF SS Division 6 Championship!
  • September 13Dr. Lynette Ohanian named GHS Principal! Her previous AP position will be filled by Ms. Jessica De La O!
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Natalie Minkler on the Mound!
Natalie Minkler on the Mound!
Destiny Velina, Staff Writer • October 14, 2024
Adri Fenyes (left) poses with fellow senior, Talia Arotionians, who attends Clark Magnet High School
Adri Fenyes is Inspiring School and Team Spirit
Karla Ruiz, Staff Writer • September 30, 2024
Alex Shirvanian Is on the Defensive
Alex Shirvanian Is on the Defensive
Lily Bagdyan, Staff Writer • September 27, 2024
Danielle Ramos Is Flying that Flag
Danielle Ramos Is Flying that Flag
Aniella Pieprzyca-Mazadiego, Editor-in-Chief • September 25, 2024
Brandon Chase(s) for Victory
Brandon Chase(s) for Victory
Elina Arutunian, Staff Writer • May 2, 2024
Quan Tran Spikes His Way to Victory!
Quan Tran Spikes His Way to Victory!
Mariam Albanaa, Staff Writer • April 29, 2024
Grace Petrossians Scores Again!
Grace Petrossians Scores Again!
Suzie Tamrazyan, Staff Writer • March 29, 2024
Vedi Hadade Is Here to Defend
Vedi Hadade Is Here to Defend
Andrew Peralta, Spotlight Editor • March 15, 2024
Meet Your 2024 Homecoming Court!
Meet Your 2024 Homecoming Court!
October 23, 2024

Here are the sixteen members of our 2024 Glendale High School Homecoming Court! Don’t miss the Homecoming Game on Friday, November 1st, at 7pm at Moyse Stadium! Two seniors will be crowned as Homecoming High Royalty at halftime! Upper Court Khalisah Bello Khalisah transferred to GHS at the end of 2022, and she came from a little city in Maryland. When she arrived on campus, she decided to join the track team and started practicing with the volleyball team during their off season. She then...

GHS Marching Band Places Fifth at Competition
GHS Marching Band Places Fifth at Competition
Hasmik Tumasyan, Staff Writer • October 22, 2024

The Glendale High School Marching Band had its first competition on Saturday, October 19. The competition was held at Bellflower High School,...

The Fall 2024 Members of NHS
The Fall 2024 Members of NHS
October 11, 2024

Here are the newest additions to the Glendale High School National Honor Society, all of whom were inducted on the afternoon of October 10, 2024: Front...

When Hasmik isn't writing poetry, she is intrigued by statues.
Hasmik Tumasyan Wins Armenian Poetry Award
October 3, 2024

Glendale High School senior, and Explosion staff writer, Hasmik Tumasyan was selected as one of three winners of the 2024 Young Armenian Poets...

Photo by Emma Torosyan
Club Rush Was a Hit!
Emma Torosyan, Review Editor • September 17, 2024

The 2024 Club Rush took place in the Glendale High School quad on September 11th and 12th, during lunchtime. The area was filled with students...

Breanna Lee at the beach
Breanna Lee Is Coming Back for Round Two!
Kamilla Ponce, Staff Writer • November 6, 2024

Breanna Lee is a tenth-grader at Glendale High School and the current Sophomore Class President. She was born in Pasadena but raised in Glendale. In her free time, she likes to read, write, play piano, and hang out with her friends.  Breanna has been on student council since the fifth grade at Verdugo Woodlands Elementary, but since COVID-19 happened, she had to put a hold on this until she went to Woodrow Wilson Middle School. When she was in the seventh grade, once school was back in person,...

Yeraz Kassabian Is Committed to Community Service
Yeraz Kassabian Is Committed to Community Service
Meghri Kassabian, Staff Writer • November 4, 2024

Yeraz Kassabian was born to do good.  She is a junior at Glendale High School and plays on the girl's varsity soccer team. Yeraz is also...

Ellen Kalantaryan Is Really Digging In!
Ellen Kalantaryan Is Really Digging In!
Fatima Alanis, Staff Writer • November 1, 2024

Ellen Kalantaryan is a junior here at Glendale High School and the president of the Gardening Club. She enjoys going to the gym, hanging out...

Isabella Alvarez Is on the Move!
Isabella Alvarez Is on the Move!
Destiny Velina, Staff Writer • October 30, 2024

Isabella Alvarez is a senior at Glendale High School and the president of both the Drama Club and the Dungeons & Dragons Club on our campus....

Sofia Orellana Is Shaping the Future
Sofia Orellana Is Shaping the Future
Lily Bagdyan, Staff Writer • October 28, 2024

Sofia Orellana is a junior at Glendale High School, and the president of the Model United Nations Club. Sofia is our GHS cheer team co-captain...

Short n’ Sweet, Sabrina Carpenter
Short n’ Sweet, Sabrina Carpenter
Aniella Pieprzyca-Mazadiego, Editor-in-Chief • October 29, 2024

Sabrina Carpenter is an American singer and actress, and she was first widely known as Maya Hart on the Disney Channel television series Girl Meets World. Soon after this show ended, Carpenter released her first studio album, Eyes Wide Open.  Fame for Sabrina Carpenter didn’t happen overnight. After Olivia Rodrigo came out with the song “Driver’s License”, people speculated that the “blonde girl” mentioned in the lyrics was Sabrina Carpenter, who later responded with her own album,...

The Tortured Poets Department, Taylor Swift
The Tortured Poets Department, Taylor Swift
Rebecca Perez, Staff Writer • October 22, 2024

The Tortured Poets Department is the eleventh studio album released by singer-songwriter Taylor Swift. Released on April 19, 2024 and consisting of sixteen tracks, this is Swift’s most recent declaration...

Descendants: The Rise of Red
Descendants: The Rise of Red
Diana Harutiunian, Staff Writer • October 17, 2024

The first three Descendants movies were directed by Kenny Ortega. However, with the latest movie in the series, Descendants: The Rise of Red, Ortega has stepped aside, and the new director is Jennifer...

17 Is Right Here, Seventeen
17 Is Right Here, Seventeen
Enrica Celesthea Briones, Staff Writer • October 9, 2024

17 Is Right Here, was released on April 29, 2024, by the K-pop group Seventeen, and produced by Woozi & Bumzu. It became a massive hit for fans, because it was such a huge album, and it achieved...

Brat, Charli XCX
Brat, Charli XCX
Valentina Sandoval, Staff Writer • October 7, 2024

Brat is the sixth studio album released by singer-songwriter Charli XCX. Her career started at the age of fourteen, when she posted demos of her music to her MySpace page. She was first discovered...

Donald Trump Should Not Be President
Donald Trump Should Not Be President
Rebecca Perez, Staff Writer • November 5, 2024

The 2024 Presidential Election is arguably the most important political event this year. The competition between Democratic candidate Kamala Harris and Republican candidate Donald Trump is becoming immensely fierce in this election’s final stages.  As their campaigns have both come to a close, and as we have rounded the corner to Election Day, it becomes increasingly important to recognize the differences in those running. Notably, here are the reasons why Harris is the better candidate. Firstly,...

Horrendous Harris
Horrendous Harris
Noah Adigozyan, Staff Writer • November 4, 2024

On July 21st, 2024, at 10:46 AM, President Joe Biden dropped out of the 2024 Presidential race in a post on X. This was expected to most, after...

The Greatest Formula 1 Team of All Time
The Greatest Formula 1 Team of All Time
Michael Ayvazyan, Staff Writer • October 31, 2024

Aston Martin Red Bull Racing is one of the most successful teams in Formula 1. Being recognized for its advanced engineering and strategic, aggressive...

We Deserve a Safer Community
We Deserve a Safer Community
Erica Hovanesian, Spotlight Editor • October 24, 2024

The City of Glendale, California is quite popular in the area of Los Angeles, with a population of 184,088. This city has a lot to offer to our...

Integrated Math Should Disintegrate
Integrated Math Should Disintegrate
Elayna Ovasapyan, Social Media Director • October 18, 2024

Whenever I tell anyone who isn’t currently in school, or who isn’t from California, that I’m in “Integrated Math III” or “Integrated...

Breanna Lee at the beach
Breanna Lee Is Coming Back for Round Two!
Kamilla Ponce, Staff Writer • November 6, 2024

Breanna Lee is a tenth-grader at Glendale High School and the current Sophomore Class President. She was born in Pasadena but raised in Glendale. In her free time, she likes to read, write, play piano, and hang out with her friends.  Breanna has been on student council since the fifth grade at Verdugo Woodlands Elementary, but since COVID-19 happened, she had to put a hold on this until she went to Woodrow Wilson Middle School. When she was in the seventh grade, once school was back in person,...

Yeraz Kassabian Is Committed to Community Service
Yeraz Kassabian Is Committed to Community Service
Meghri Kassabian, Staff Writer • November 4, 2024

Yeraz Kassabian was born to do good.  She is a junior at Glendale High School and plays on the girl's varsity soccer team. Yeraz is also...

Ellen Kalantaryan Is Really Digging In!
Ellen Kalantaryan Is Really Digging In!
Fatima Alanis, Staff Writer • November 1, 2024

Ellen Kalantaryan is a junior here at Glendale High School and the president of the Gardening Club. She enjoys going to the gym, hanging out...

Isabella Alvarez Is on the Move!
Isabella Alvarez Is on the Move!
Destiny Velina, Staff Writer • October 30, 2024

Isabella Alvarez is a senior at Glendale High School and the president of both the Drama Club and the Dungeons & Dragons Club on our campus....

Sofia Orellana Is Shaping the Future
Sofia Orellana Is Shaping the Future
Lily Bagdyan, Staff Writer • October 28, 2024

Sofia Orellana is a junior at Glendale High School, and the president of the Model United Nations Club. Sofia is our GHS cheer team co-captain...