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The Cougar Chronicle

The independent student news site of San Marcos, California

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Arts & Entertainment

Season One and part of Season Two of The Mandalorian are now available on Disney+.

Season Two of The Mandalorian takes you on a new space journey

Angelica Cervantes, Staff Writer December 6, 2020

The second season of The Mandalorian dominates on Disney +.  No other film or show has matched up to how well perceived this show has been on Disney’s streaming service.  As we know from the first season, the show revolves around a mysterious Mandalorian who betrays his duties in order to save...

The Chronicle Entertainment Rundown

Jaelyn Decena, Kristie Castillo, and Yanely Gonzalez December 6, 2020

Podcast: “Just a Tip” YouTuber Megan Batoon’s self-help and advice-based podcast “Just a Tip” focuses on helping listeners with their problems. Featuring a new guest each episode, Batoon dives in-depth to a listener’s conflict. The podcast also features an array of skits such as the...

The Cougar Corner

November 21, 2020

  Dirty Converse By Lara Amin   I’m feeling a bit nostalgic for bike rides and dirty converse. And face-to-face hangouts when we laugh and converse.   About the present, future, and even the past. A time when time didn’t move so slow and fast. And I know...

The Chronicle Entertainment Rundown

Kristie Castillo and Jaelyn Decena November 21, 2020

  Song: “Therefore I Am” Up-and-coming pop artist Billie Eilish released a new song called “Therefore I Am,” a tune of caution to those who try and use her name for fame or clout, as well as a dismissal of her haters. The accompanying music video is filmed on an iPhone and features...

Over the Moon is available to stream on Netflix.

Over the Moon represents Chinese culture and realistically depicts childhood loss

Kat Parra, Staff Writer November 21, 2020

Netflix recently released Over the Moon, an animated film beautifully portraying Chinese culture as Fei Fei (Cathy Ang) goes on a lunar adventure to find the Goddess of the Moon, Chang’e (Phillipa Soo).  Many moons ago, Chang’e took both immortality pills causing her to be ripped away from her...

The Boys is now available to stream on Amazon Prime.

Twisted, bloody and thrilling, The Boys brings us to the edge of our seats

Kat Parra, Staff Writer November 21, 2020

Inspired by the comic book series of the same name, The Boys brings into reality a society where superheroes live among us like celebrities.  Protecting the city of New York is the Seven, a league of superheroes closely resembling the Justice League superheroes with their costumes and powers.  The...

CSUSM’s theatre department put on a virtual performance called “A Zoom of One’s Own” live from Nov. 19-21 and now available on their YouTube channel.

CSUSM theatre empowers women through “A Zoom of One’s Own” performance

Jaelyn Decena, A&E Editor November 21, 2020

The CSUSM Theatre Department livestreamed their second performance of the fall 2020 semester via YouTube, “A Zoom of One’s Own,” on Nov. 19-21.  Written by Maria Patrice Amon and Sonia Desai, the play follows a Zoom call between multiple revolutionary women from history as they navigate between...

The CHABSS Deans Pick Faculty Winner was Cahuilla Bird Dancer, submitted by American Indian Studies Professor Eric Tippeconnic.

CHABSS Voices “Borders, Boundaries & Colonization” winners

November 20, 2020

CHABSS Voices is a monthly creative contest hosted by the College of Humanities, Arts, Behavioral and Social Sciences during the 2020-21 academic year. CHABSS faculty, CHABSS majors or minors and students enrolled in at least one CHABSS-focused course are eligible. Each monthly contest will have...

Simon Tam is an activist, author, and musician.

Artist and activist converses about struggles of Asian American identity

Jaelyn Decena, A&E Editor November 10, 2020

CSUSM’s Arts & Lectures Series hosted “Slanted: How an Asian American Troublemaker Took on the Supreme Court,” a webinar with Simon Tam, an Asian American author, musician and activist, on Oct. 28.  From a young age, Tam experienced bullying and teasing from his classmates for his Asian...

The Chronicle Entertainment Rundown

Web Series/Podcast: Critical Role Beginning as a web series on Twitch in 2015, Critical Role continues to provide laughs and thrills both on and offline today. Critical Role features a group of well-known voice actors within the video game and animation industries, such as Matthew Mercer (McCree...

Octavia Spencer and Anne Hathaway star in HBO Max’s rendition of Roald Dahl’s The Witches.

The Witches casts a spellbinding story with a sprinkle of wickedness

Diana Beas Soto, Staff Writer November 7, 2020

The new reboot of the beloved 1990 classic film based on Roald Dahl’s book The Witches stirs nostalgia and ups the creep factor from the original.   Directed by Robert Zemeckis, this bewitching film was recently released on HBO Max for the Halloween season.  The story follows a young boy named...

Cougar Corner

November 7, 2020

Election Day  By Madi Hart It was the shitty apocalypse show that told me disarming someone can be more deadly than being the one to actually draw the gun.  It taught me to quickly clasp your hand over your throat when you start leaking  blood.  There’s been a flood and a fire every...

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