As the 2023 school year comes to a close, history teacher Mr. Jeffrey Feinstein has unfinished business outside of the teaching world. Feinstein has been known to be one of the most influential history teachers in West Po history and he is now retiring,...

Senior Antonio “Tony” Amaral, who starred as Professor Callahan in West Potomac’s Legally Blonde, was recently nominated for a prestigious Brandon Victor Dixon award, an honor given for “excellence in high school theater.” In a perfect world,...

Most of our senior sign-offs have a message to them, something to say about how they want the school to change or their concerns about the world they’re going into, but I want to take a different approach and just talk about what this paper had meant...

The recent April PTSA meeting drew crowds of Wolverines and was largely driven by students who were given an open forum to talk with Dr. Millard about issues occurring all around school. Dr. Millard made a number of announcements that will have huge ramifications...

After all these years, our chubby Italian boy finally made it to the big screen. The Super Mario Bros. Movie takes the world of the iconic turtle-stomping plumber and mixes it with a (Super) star studded cast. The result is 90 minutes that feel more like...

During September 2022, the new parking lot behind the new building and Gunston was finally finished. This new parking lot was designed for staff and faculty to have more space for teachers to park. However, students have taken advantage of this new parking...

 Akosua Adoma Owusu, a movie director from right here in Alexandria, dropped by West Po during yesterday’s advisory to do a Q&A about her short films. Owusu, who is a 1st-generation Ghanian-American, is known for incorporating themes of culture...

Meritfinalist Saira Nagda: Photo courtesy of Co-Editor In Chief Benjamin Price

 A huge number of hopeful athletes are currently trying out for teams as Winter sports have wrapped up. Student athletes prepare for the upcoming season. Hundreds of West Po Students have registered for spring sports. Athletics have drawn a huge number...

Numerous Northern Virginia schools, including West Po, Langley and Westfield in FCPS, along with schools from Loudon, Prince William and Stafford counties, neglected to inform PSAT National Merit Corporation (NMSC) commended students by email of their...

Glass Onion is a highly entertaining, star-studded return to the antics of master sleuth Benoit Blanc and the top-notch writing of Director and Screenwriter Rian Johnson as he delivers another murder mystery where no one is safe, both from the murderer...

Avatar: The Way of Water is an awe-inspiring spectacle for the ages. It is nearly as visually spellbinding (Dare I say groundbreaking) as its predecessor, but in moments, rises even above it in terms of the sheer number of staggering, titanic moments,...

At a recent PTSA meeting, the West Potomac community gathered to examine the Fentanyl Crisis that is gripping our community. A board of experts convened to provide insight into the situation, consisting of county representatives, officers from local police...

On Monday, Principal Millard invited all West Potomac advisory classes to join a Zoom meeting regarding the completion of the on-going construction. According to Millard, as of Nov. 28, West Potomac will be “Under One Roof.” This means that during...

In Ms. Dana Hubbard’s 14th year at West Potomac, teaching AP biology, human anatomy and physiology, as well as AVID, her favorite part of her job remains the same: getting to know her students every year and creating relationships with them, as well...

Two seniors, Fionn French and Saira Nagda, qualified as semifinalists for this year’s National Merit Scholarship (NMSC), a competitive program that grants scholarships to top performers on the PSAT. Less than 1 percent of high school students receive...

Marcel the Shell With Shoes On is a funny, thoughtful, little wonder, just like its lead character. This is a one part all-ages adventure, one part rumination on family, loss and how one shell understands and experiences our great, big world. Based...

West Potomac students have felt the rumble of construction vehicles under their feet, seen construction workers all over campus and even gotten to enjoy the new building. In the midst of all the changes spurred by the construction occurring throughout...

Local resident Supreme Court Justice Alito’s house has become the sight of spirited demonstrations in the wake of his leaked court opinion that would overturn Roe vs. Wade, the Supreme Court case which gave women the right to an abortion in 1973 and...

Morbius is crazy. Morbius is unlike just about any movie I’ve seen. Certain scenes just defy comprehension the way they’re put together. This is a disaster, but somewhere in this mess of a movie, deep, deep inside, there’s (barely) an interesting...

Until recently, even though it wasn’t explicitly authorized, West Po students had the luxury of calling delivery services for off-campus lunch choices from Chipotle to Chick Fil-A and everything in between. The start of the new year brought a ban of...

Last night marked the 94th Academy Awards Ceremony, which was held in the Dolby Theater in Los Angeles. While the event was branded as a celebration of film, the theme of the night being “Movie Lovers Unite”, the show was derailed towards the end....

Spider-Man: No Way Home is the 27th movie in the Marvel Cinematic Universe and the third film starring Tom Holland as Peter Parker, the titular webslinger. This movie has been heavily anticipated for months, not just as the return of Holland’s iteration...

The Batman opens aptly on Halloween night and sees a younger and slightly more naive Bruce Wayne in only his second year as Batman, played by Robert Pattinson. We learn from hearing Bruce’s diary entries–he started writing since he started patrolling...

Seven Virginia school districts, including Fairfax County Public Schools, have sued recently sworn-in Governor Glenn Youngkin to challenge his executive order banning mask mandates in schools. This order goes along with his plan to give parents freedom...

“Nightmare Alley” Release Date: December 17th [Trailer] Synopsis: When charismatic but down-on-his-luck Stanton Carlisle (Bradley Cooper) endears himself to clairvoyant Zeena (Toni Collette) and her has-been mentalist husband Pete (David...

Eternals is a grand swing in the right direction for the future of Marvel’s cinematic universe. The moment Avengers Endgame ended, it felt like Marvel was at an apparent crossroads. Bidding farewell to much of its main cast opened the door to the future...

Mr. Jeffrey Feinstein has been teaching AP US History and US VA History at West Po for 24 years. He was drawn to teaching history by an interest in studying the past: “I like the stories of the past. I like visiting places where important things [and]...