Prince of Persia – A Review

By Connie Nguyen, Staff Writer The video game movie curse. It’s as inevitable as taxes. The latest victim? Disney’s Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time. This action adventure movie centers around Dastan, the orphan turned prince, and his destiny to restore the sacred time dagger to its temple. One would assume that combining a [...]

School Supply Sharing

Instead of trashing those old school supplies and contributing to our growing landfills and dumps, try recycling, reusing or donating supplies in a resourceful way. Brie Roche Lilliott, staff writer So long, school days! Hello, summertime. We\’re all feeling it- that anxious excitement that shows itself during the last few weeks of the school year. [...]

Avi Buffalo: Self-Titled

By Monica Nguyen, Staff Writer “What\’s in it for/ Someone with nothing to do/ What\’s in it for me.” Released on April 27, 2010, Avi Buffalo released their first album, Avi Buffalo, one that will catch listeners off guard. Avi Buffalo was named after lead vocalist and guitarist Avi Zahner-Isenberg. He and his fellow band [...]

Physics Boats Day

Photos by John Severson and Jeffrey Nguyen

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A Lack of STARS: A Reflection on Senior Assemblies Part II

By Peter Tran, Staff Writer The second day of senior assemblies brought forth a new spin on the joyous occasion of senior assemblies.  The next day consisted of rotations of motivational speakers.  The first was a legless surfer that spoke of his trials and tribulations as a passionate surfer who lost a part of himself [...]

The Soft Pack: The Soft Pack

By: Mukta Mohan, Staff Writer To promote the release of their self titled album, The Soft Pack formerly known as The Muslims, embarked on a crazy endeavor – to play ten shows in a single day. They started at 10 am and traveled about 100 miles around Los Angeles. There day started off by playing [...]

Reading is So Last Year

By Marwa Aboubaker, Staff Writer Have you ever read a book and thought “This sounds familiar“? Chances are you\’re actually right. So many teen books nowadays tend to copy each other\’s story lines “coincidently”. It all started off half a decade ago with Twilight, or so everyone thought. Until the Age of Romantic Books came [...]

A Lack of STARs Part I: A Reflection on the Senior Assemblies

By Peter Tran, Staff Writer While our juniors and sophomores were hard at work STAR Testing, FVHS seniors were treated to two assemblies courtesy of our fellow brethren ASB and BBN.  The assemblies were split up to two days which were in turn split up to four sessions; the first day consisting of one long [...]

Miss USA killed Chivalry

By Jane Smith Everybody has heard of the Miss USA pageant show, many of us might also be great fans. But the truth is pageant or not, it makes no sense to me whatsoever. Somebody please explain to me how fifty young women getting judged by their looks all the while spitting out superficial and [...]

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