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The Garfield Messenger

The student news source of Garfield High School

The Garfield Messenger

The student news source of Garfield High School

The Garfield Messenger

Better than the Met Gala

Sonia Kuykendall, Staff June 11, 2026

Every year, an event is held where some of the world’s most innovative fashion designers get to dress celebrities in outfits that showcase unique designs and pioneer new creative ideas. This is not the...

Graphic by Miel Duryee and Jasper Lee-Meyers

Stunt Casting on Broadway

Mona Bezzaz, Staff May 22, 2026

Peyton List’s Off-Broadway debut in the revival of Heathers: The Musical sparked new conversation about the phenomenon of celebrity stunt casting. List, who plays a lead, admitted to having no musical...

Changes Facing SIFF

Lusa Wilder (she/her), Staff May 22, 2026

The Seattle International Film Festival (aka SIFF) was founded in 1976 at the Moore-Egyptian Theatre downtown. Its founder, Dan Ireland, started it as a two-week event before it expanded into a month-long...

60 Dollar Story

Zach Dvorkin May 22, 2026

What can you get for sixty dollars? That’s over seventy dinner rolls at Ezell’s, almost half a year of Netflix, or even an air fryer. Some Garfield students, however, spend their sixty dollars on prom...

Project Extrasolar

Ava Stewart (she/her), Staff May 8, 2026

Completely isolated in deep space, stars glow bleakly off the metal hull of an international spaceship. This space ship is humanity’s last-ditch effort for a solution to save the planet from a global...

A WTI Student speaks with another person. Credit Watch Technology Institute.

Tick Tock

Nathaniel Myers, Staff May 1, 2026

Every day, Rolex sells 38 million dollars of new mechanical watches, but there are less than half a dozen schools left in the United States that train people in watch repair. One of these few remaining...

Coachella Highlights

Sonia Kuykendall and Kiran Dhamdhere May 1, 2026

Sabrina Carpenter    During Sabrina Carpenter's set at Coachella, she mistook a zaghrouta, an arabic celebrating call, for yodeling. She said, “I think I just heard someone yodel, is that...

Cinema Struggle

Tavi Fetz Stallings May 1, 2026

This January, the Varsity Theater on The Ave in the U District permanently closed. First opened in 1940, the Varsity was a locally run theater with a quaint and friendly vibe. It had nice workers, reasonably...

It's Not Rocket Science...

It’s Not Rocket Science…

Elijah King, Staff May 1, 2026

On March 30th, through the low hum of midday traffic on 116th Street, the piercing roar of a rocket could be heard throughout the fields of 60 Acres Park in Renton. As a group of students admired their...

Nobody Cares About This Anymore

Nobody Cares About This Anymore

Saumya Prakash, Staff March 20, 2026

“I don’t wanna be working in ballet or opera or things where it’s like, ‘hey, keep this thing alive’ even though nobody cares about it anymore” - Timothee Chalamet’s famous last words that...

How to Get a Prom Date in 10 Days

Lusa Wilder (she/her), Staff March 20, 2026

Prom season is approaching and with that the task of  finding the prom date. People are panicked, confused, and, most of all, dateless. But fear not, the ultimate guide to finding your date in only 10...

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