![Senior Jett Mckinney stores all the clothes in his own room, with half of it stored in his closet along with his personal clothes, and the rest taking up space in his room.
“There’s been times [when] there’s so much clothing stored here and it gets overwhelming, so I end up having to sleep somewhere else in the house,” Mckinney said.](https://cphswolfpack.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/DSC_0951-1200x800.jpg)
![Broadcast, yearbook and newspaper combined for 66 Interscholastic League Press Conference awards this year. Yearbook won 43, newspaper won 14 and broadcast took home nine. “I think [the ILPC awards] are a great way to give the kids some acknowledgement for all of their hard work,” newspaper and yearbook adviser Paige Hert said. “They typically spend the year covering everyone else’s big moments, so it’s really cool for them to be celebrated so many times and in so many different ways.”](https://cphswolfpack.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/edited-ILPC.jpg)
![Looking down at his racket, junior Hasun Nguyen hits the green tennis ball. Hasun has played tennis since he was 9 years old, and he is on the varsity team. "I feel like it’s not really appreciated in America as much, but [tennis] is a really competitive and mentally challenging sport,” Nguyen said. “I’m really level-headed and can keep my cool during a match, and that helps me play a bit better under pressure.” Photo by Kyra Cox](https://cphswolfpack.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/hasun.jpg)
![Bringing her arm over her head and taking a quick breath, junior Lauren Lucas swims the final laps of the 500 freestyle at the regionals swimming competition on date. Lucas broke the school’s 18-year-old record for the 500 freestyle at regionals and again at state with a time of 4:58.63. “I’d had my eye on that 500 record since my freshman year, so I was really excited to see if I could get it at regionals or districts,” Lucas said. “ State is always a really fun experience and medaling for the first time was really great. It was a very very tight race, [so] I was a bit surprised [that I medaled]. [There were] a lot of fast girls at the meet in general, [and] it was like a dogfight back and forth, back and forth.” Photo by Kaydence Wilkinson](https://cphswolfpack.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Kaydence-2.7-23-edit-2.jpg)
![As her hair blows in the wind, senior Brianna Grandow runs the varsity girls 5K at the cross country district meet last Thursday. Grandow finished fourth in the event and led the varsity girls to regionals with a third place placement as a team. “I’m very excited [to go to regionals],” Grandow said. “I’m excited to race in Corpus Christi, and we get to go to the beach, so that’s really awesome.” Photo by Addison Bruce](https://cphswolfpack.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/brianna.jpg)
American Horror Story captivating viewers
February 17, 2016
The show that has caused mixed opinions nation-wide, has finished their fifth season called “Hotel.” American Horror Story has outdone themselves, yet again. The new season brought about new characters that fans have grown to love and a new plot that was very exhilarating, to say the least.
“Hotel” featured new faces such as, Lady Gaga who played the Countess, Matt Bomer as Donovan, Cheyenne Jackson as Will Drake and many more. These new actor and actresses did cause me to be a little apprehensive at first, but once I had watched a couple of episodes, I was hooked.
The season was based off of true hotel horror stories, according to the directors, and they planned to make this fifth season one of darkest, and it was. Every episode kept me on edge, wanting more.
The show was placed in Los Angeles, California at the Hotel Cortez. The owner of this hotel was named James Patrick March, played by Evan Peters. March was a mastermind serial killer and created the hotel in order to hide his kills. At the opening of his hotel in the 1920s, he spotted The Countess and fell in love. With twists and turns of lovers and enemies, I was left sometimes angered and sometimes gleeful.
The acting was quite phenomenal. Gaga portrayed the Countess perfectly. Her acting was spot on, with dramatic dialogue and scenes full of emotion. I was taken aback by the emotion Gaga showed through her character.
One character that stood out the most to me was Sarah Paulson’s, who played Sally McKenna. I don’t believe Paulson got enough credit for her part in the show. Sally was confusing, mysterious and intriguing. She always had her signature smeared makeup and tears streaming down her face. Sally’s questionable sense of humor and haunting back story, made her my favorite character.
“Hotel” was by far my favorite season, but one thing I did catch was the incorporation of characters from past seasons. Some of these past characters are played by actors and actresses that already have a character in the season “Hotel.” So you see the same actor playing two different characters, and it gets a little confusing. Besides that slight hiccup and the fact that actress Jessica Lange wasn’t in this season, I am in love with “Hotel.”
I give the show 8 out of 10 stars only because of the confusing switch between characters and the same actor.
![Holding a microphone, baseball booster club president Chris Cuevas announces the beginning of the annual cornhole tournament. The event has been held for the past two years and is designed to raise money for the baseball program in a fun way. “We’re a baseball team, so people love to compete,” Cuevas said. “So we figured we better do something that gets [their] attention. They want to compete. It’s not a hard sport to do, and we have all different [skill] levels [of participants].” Photo by Henry Mueller](https://cphswolfpack.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/Henry-715-1200x900.jpg)
