Today is Tuesday, February 7, 2012
Today is Tuesday, February 7, 2012
The Super Bowl, featuring the Giants versus the Patriots, had more individual match-ups than one could possibly count. But the most interesting and seemingly lopsided match-up was between the coaches: Tom Coughlin versus Bill Belichick.
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.
After an Internet blackout protest over two controversial pieces of legislation, Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and Protect IP Act (PIPA), garnered the participation of over 100 thousand websites, including Reddit and Wikipedia, Congress has officially put an indefinite hold on SOPA/PIPA.
As an American teenager, I find myself knowing embarrassingly little about Margret Thatcher, or British politics in general. Despite this, however, I didn’t find myself particularly hindered by my lack of knowledge while watching a movie marketed as the story of a important political figure.
Recently, the Blockbuster on El Monte closed permanently. The news didn’t seem to shock me–I hadn’t stepped into the store in over a year. The only memory I retained was when I had come to rent a last-minute movie for a friend’s birthday party.
I have always prided myself for having a superb memory. Always. It hardly ever fails me, except–of course–when I’m taking a test and need the exact formula that I happen to have forgotten at the time. There is one other case in which it malfunctions: I remember almost nothing of 9/11.
Today, I spent three hours at a graduation cap decorating party amidst cardinal red and golden glitter paints. Yesterday, I spent all day at the senior picnic squelched onto rollercoasters and watching giddy friends bury unfortunate friends in the sand.
Assistant Principal Perla Pasallo was honored as Educator of the Year by the Association of Mexican American Educators (AMAE) Silicon Valley Chapter at their first annual Dia del Maestro on Friday, May 20.