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The Student News Site of Ocean Lakes High School

The Current
The Student News Site of Ocean Lakes High School

The Current
The Student News Site of Ocean Lakes High School

The Current
Dominic Zdan

Dominic Zdan, Copy Editor; Entertainment

Dominic Zdan is a sophomore and second-year journalism student. Outside of school he enjoys listening to music, specifically punk and older rock music, watching movies, reading classic literature and hanging out with friends.

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Sophomore Zaisha Ipac reads the two-page dedication to Shirley Hall in the yearbook. It appeared on page 222-223.

Ocean Lakes remembers cherished Latin teacher Shirley Hall

Dominic Zdan, Entertainment Editor
June 9, 2025
The Chicken Jockey from “A Minecraft Movie" prepares to fight. Jack Black’s reaction to the character has sparked a popular meme. Courtesy of: Warner Bros. Pictures.

“A Minecraft Movie” overindulges in nostalgia

Dominic Zdan, Entertainment Editor
May 2, 2025
Sophomore Ethan McConomy gives the new Playboi Carti Album a listen, on March 31, 2025. He is listening to “K POP,” the album's third song.

Playboi Carti delves further into abstraction

Dominic Zdan, Entertainment Editor
April 7, 2025
Ocean Lakes Indoor Percussion Ensemble plays at Landstown High School on Feb. 15, 2025. They placed second, losing to Hickory High School.

Indoor percussion marches through the competition season

Dominic Zdan, Entertainment Editor
March 21, 2025
Jose Arcadio Buendia (Diego Vasquez) is tied to a tree in the Buendia courtyard after going insane. In the series, fate leads each character to eventual solitude with Jose Arcadio Buendia as the first instance. Courtesy of Netflix.

Netflix gives stale adaptation of “One Hundred Years of Solitude”

Dominic Zdan, Entertainment Editor
February 20, 2025
Students in Fara Wiles English class in block 1 display their poems, on Oct. 15, 2024. The students wrote animal poems to better understand symbolism, and the illustrated them with watercolors.

Poetry deserves more attention

Dominic Zdan, Entertainment Editor
January 24, 2025
A voter, who must be over 18, votes in an election. There are 101 voting polling places in Virginia Beach. (A voter stands in a voter booth at Emily City Hall, Minnesota/Lorie Shaull/Flickr/CC BY-NC-SA 2.0)

Lower the voting age to preserve our changing democracy

Dominic Zdan, Entertainment Editor
December 18, 2024
Orchestra plays music from “The Pirates of the Caribbean,” on Oct. 24, 2024. Music from the movie was chosen to reflect the mood of fall.

Orchestra bows into fall season

Dominic Zdan, Entertainment Editor
October 28, 2024
Ocean Lakes Marching Band poses together at Princess Anne High School, on Sept. 21, 2024. They are awaiting their winning score. Photo used with permission from Cristin Pullman.

Marching band season approaches its finale

Dominic Zdan, Entertainment Editor
October 12, 2024
Gillian Gutierrez takes a headshot of Callie Harroun for fall play auditions on Sept. 11, 2024, outside the cafeteria at Ocean Lakes. The Ocean Lakes Theatre Company requires students to take headshots before their auditions. Photo: Dominic Zdan.

Theater debuts with fall auditions

Dominic Zdan, Entertainment Editor
September 18, 2024
The stars of “Unfrosted” stare with amazement into the distance. From left to right: Melissa McCarthy, Jerry Seinfleld and Jim Gaffigan. Courtesy of Netflix.

Jerry Seinfeld fails at pretty much everything in “Unfrosted”

Dominic Zdan, Entertainment Editor
June 6, 2024
An image from The Zone of Interest. Rudolf’s back is in center view as he overlooks his children in the small pool. Courtesy of: A24.

“The Zone of Interest” paints a psychological portrait of Nazism through nature and domestic life

Dominic Zdan, Entertainment Editor
May 10, 2024
A collection of student art submissions rests on a table for the Actions Through Art fundraiser on March 29, 2024. The fundraiser will raise funds to supply the underprivileged with necessary dermatology medication. Photo used with permission from Urvi Jain.

Student fundraises for expensive medication using art

Dominic Zdan, Entertainment Editor
April 14, 2024
The author of the classics “In Cold Blood” and “Breakfast at Tiffany’s” is the focus of the new season of “Feud” (Truman Capote Autographing His Book/Peggy O’Conner/Flickr/CC BY-NC-SA 2.0)

“Capote vs. the Swans” reveals the delicate nature of love through insidious gossip

Dominic Zdan, Entertainment Editor
March 6, 2024
Charlie Parker playing the saxophone. (Portrait of Charlie Parker, Three Deuces, New York/William Gottlieb/Flickr/CC BY-NC-SA 2.0)

Charlie Parker’s jazz revolution

Dominic Zdan, Entertainment Editor
February 22, 2024
A diverse array of classic literature, lays out on a counter on Jan. 24, 2024. Albert Camus and William Shakespeare are shown.

Educators need to teach literature for aesthetics, not for test taking

Dominic Zdan, Entertainment Editor
February 9, 2024
From left: Bebe Wood, Reneé Rapp, and Avantika Vandanapu portraying the "plastics" in the 2024 "Mean Girls" (Mean Girls 2024/Jojo Whilden/ © 2023 Paramount Picture)

New Mean Girls fails to live up to the original

Dominic Zdan, Entertainment Editor
January 18, 2024
Three $1 bills are displayed on a table on Dec. 10, 2023. In the past year, economic pressure upon Americans has increased.

An economy in flux means lifestyle changes for students

Dominic Zdan, Entertainment Editor
December 21, 2023
Freshman Tristan Meester scours the ATC pamphlet for course information in Room 127 during Honors English 9 on, Nov. 17, 2023. He is searching for courses to continue his ongoing ATC studies.

Advanced Technology Center electrifies future careers

Dominic Zdan, Staff Writer
November 28, 2023
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