Today is Wednesday, February 22, 2012
Today is Wednesday, February 22, 2012
There’s no doubt that even the most loyal pearl milk tea (PMT) lovers among us have floundered in the sea of choices offered in the Mountain View area. The Talon breaks down the top four places to get your PMT fix.
It’s Super Sunday, the one time where the altar becomes the TV, the holy water becomes a bowl of guacamole and the pews become couches. This Sunday is a religious day—except people don’t pray to God, but to Tom Brady.
“I’m not a mathematician, but I know this,” 16-year-old Hazel Grace Lancaster states. “There are infinite numbers between 0 and 1… Of course, there is a bigger infinite set of numbers between 0 and 2.”
Nearly 1,500,000 people visit Alcatraz Island on a yearly basis, and they are all taught the same thing: Alcatraz was used as a lighthouse, a military fortification, a military prison and finally a federal prison, before closing in 1963 due to high costs and weather damage. The new show “Alcatraz” takes an entirely different spin on the infamous prison.
After a disappointing movie year in 2011, when the best action film might have been (gasp) “Harry Potter,” the trailer for “Man on a Ledge” led many to believe that the action-movie drought was about to end.
Five years ago, “Fear Factor” showed us that eating buffalo testicles, African cave-dwelling spiders and hissing cockroaches can be mindlessly entertaining. This past December, “Fear Factor” returned to prime time television and it is crazier than ever.
The NFL’s marketing of the Super Bowl has been phenomenal, as the game has gone from simply honoring football’s elite to becoming a national holiday. Every year, landmark ads for the Super Bowl seem to draw as much interest as the game itself, bringing in millions of viewers. In recent years, signature ads like the E-trade baby or the Dorito’s kids seemed to enthrall the audience, but which ads marked this year’s Super Bowl?
The Broken Box Theatre Company opened with another exceptional production on Thursday, February 3 in the Eagle Theatre. Through the actors’ and actresses’ remarkable performances in “Never Mind What Happened, How Did It End?,” Broken Box members took the audience back in time to the Roaring Twenties, the Ravaging Fifties and the Groovy Seventies.
“Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close,” starring Sandra Bullock, Tom Hanks and Thomas Horn, is the story of a young boy with psychological obstacles attempting to heal after the death of his father on 9/11.
While the story of a betrayed spy seeking revenge has been done many times before, director Steven Soderbergh’s recent action film, “Haywire,” stunned audiences with an impressive array of fight scenes during its theatrical release today, January 20.