Poetry, rap and a scene from a play filled the top floor of Highline College’s library as the Public Speaking Center and Drama Club teamed up for “Fall into Creativity,” an open mic celebrating coming together and letting go.

On Nov. 10 at 2:30 p.m., if you took the elevator to the top floor and made a sharp right, you’d have found yourself at the center’s open mic. Inside the quaint little space, with its yoga-style mirrors and strings of fairy lights, the crowd sat practically shoulder to shoulder due to the good turnout.

Students, their families, and gathered friends speed-walked through the chilly nighttime weather to get to Building 8 where Homecoming: The Night of the Living Dance would be held.

Unlike a typical high school dance, Highline’s Homecoming, held on Oct. 29, was more interactive, with games, refreshments, and quieter spaces for those who needed it. Costumes were encouraged, and, near the end of the night, a costume contest with 15 participants took place.

Halloween season has come to an end but not before Highline’s Women’s Program was able to put on a trick-or-treating event called the “Halloween Hunt”.

Beginning in Building 6, students got to explore Highline’s campus under the cover of autumn leaves and light rain in search of stamps and candy.

The Running Start Department jumped into the Halloween spirit with a Fall Social event put on for the benefit of fresh Running Start students.

Everyone was invited to fall down the rabbit hole together and join in the festivities. Held on Oct. 28 in Building 8, this year’s theme: A Mad Hatter Tea Party.

The Thunderbirds prepare to face familiar rival Clark College on Friday as the defending champions continue their impressive unbeaten streak.

Highline College’s men’s soccer team is headed to the NWAC Final Four after defeating Peninsula College 2-0 in a hard-fought quarterfinal matchup Saturday, Nov. 7, at Starfire Sports Stadium in Tukwila.

Highline College athletics is heading into November with plenty to celebrate as the men’s and women’s soccer teams and the women’s volleyball team prepare to compete in the Northwest Athletic Conference (NWAC) playoffs following impressive regular-season performances.

Both soccer teams finished at the top of the West Region standings, earning first-round byes and home-area quarterfinal matchups on Nov. 7.

As 2026 comes to a close, people are beginning to look back on the music released throughout the year. The biggest song of the year was undeniably “Choosin’ Texas” by Ella Langley, a breakout country star from Alabama. It broke the record for longest running number one single of all time.

This record having been broken has caused a lot of online discourse because a lot of people feel like they don’t know “Choosin’ Texas” and wonder how a song they’re completely oblivious to is the biggest song of the year.

Nearly nine years after I first watched “Before Sunset”, I returned to it and found that the film had never really left me. Some films stay with us because of their dramatic stories or unforgettable images. Others linger for different reasons – they make us imagine the lives we might have lived, the beautiful dreams we have carried, the conversations we wish we had had, or the people we might still meet someday.

For me, “Before Sunset” has always belonged to the second category.

Netflix and Studio Trigger’s “Cyberpunk Edgerunners” season two debuted on Oct. 20, 2026, with mixed-to-positive reviews. The show takes place in 2078, one year after the events of the game. (Minor spoilers ahead.)

The world of “Cyberpunk” presents a dystopian vision of the future, one where technological advancements are so beyond that people replace limbs for cybernetic augmentation. Taking place in the fictional location of  “Night City” or in other words, a futuristic “Gotham City”.

Democrats gain control of Congress as technology stocks experience sharp declines following the midterm elections.

The midterm elections brought a major shift in political power, but the uncertainty extended beyond Washington. As Democrats gained control of Congress, technology stocks, including Nvidia, experienced sharp declines, leaving investors facing significant losses and raising questions about the future of the market.

For the first time in over a century, scientists have classified a new feline species: the tilcayo. Officially classified as Leopardus tilcayo, this newly discovered species is a small wild cat native to Bolivia’s Yungas cloud forest. While significantly smaller than the average housecat (weighing just four pounds with a body length of 18 inches), tilcayo was discovered to be a 10-year-old adult male. 

Scientists debuted this discovery in a study published on Sept. 17, 2026, in the journal “Current Biology”. However, this individual cat has been observed by researchers for almost a decade.

Early in the morning of Oct. 12, 2026, Congresswoman Ilhan Omar’s home was raided by Homeland Security Investigations (a branch of Immigrations and Customs Enforcement), with an authorized warrant from the Department of Justice. The reasons behind it were listed as conspiracy, false statements about immigration paperwork, and other potential crimes. 

Congresswoman Omar serves as the U.S. representative for Minnesota’s 5th congressional district, which has a large Somali population in the state. Ilhan Omar and her family immigrated from Somalia to the United States in the mid 1990s as refugees and gained citizenship in 2000. She has served as Minnesota’s 5th District congresswoman since 2019, with glowing reviews from her community.