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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Robin Hood: The Story of the Legend

By Briana Nickol, Staff Writer “I declare him…. an outlaw!” Those were the fateful words that transformed the trouble-free archer Robin Longstride the legendary Robin [of the] Hood. Stealing from the rich and giving to the poor, and who could forget his band of merry men in tights? But how did he become the legend, [...]

She & Him: Volume Two Review

By Monica Nguyen, Staff Writer She & Him return with their sophomore album, Volume Two,  released on March 23, 2010. The duo, consisting of the gorgeous, vintage-chic, and stylish actress Zooey Deschanel and indie musician rocker M. Ward, bring back their compositions filled with harmonious tunes intertwined with seraphic vocals in this new collaboration. This [...]

“The Dark of The Moon” Play Review

By Thomas Warloe, Staff Writer The Dark of the Moon, produced by HB APA, was overall a mediocre play, with realistic props, somewhat enthusiastic actors, and a relatively monotonous story line.  While the props were likely some of the better ones that I have seen in plays produced by HB APA, they only slightly improved [...]

The Blind Side Review

By Perry Meas, Staff Writer John Lee Hancock\’s Oscar winning motion picture may come across to many as a conventional story about overcoming the odds of athletic life, but its apparent social and spiritual message remains a keynote of this part-sports drama part-biographical film centered on the journey of real-life professional football start Michael Oher [...]

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