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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 junior and third-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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Promotional picture of the movie. The children all run in this posture, which was featured heavily in both the movie and the marketing. Courtesy of: Warner Bros. Pictures.

“Weapons” wants viewers to laugh at its failures

Dominic Zdan, Copy Editor; Entertainment
August 27, 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, Copy Editor; Entertainment
April 7, 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, Copy Editor; Entertainment
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, Copy Editor; Entertainment
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, Copy Editor; Entertainment
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, Copy Editor; Entertainment
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, Copy Editor; Entertainment
September 18, 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, Copy Editor; Entertainment
February 22, 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, Copy Editor; Entertainment
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, Copy Editor; Entertainment
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, Copy Editor; Entertainment
November 28, 2023
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