Today is Friday, February 10, 2012
Today is Friday, February 10, 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.”
Lulu’s Authentic Mexican Food will open in downtown Los Altos in January 2012. It will be the latest tenant of 164 Main Street after the wine shop, Vino 100, closed. To get a taste of the new restaurant, The Talon went to the Town and Country Lulu’s for a bite.
As Thanksgiving quickly approaches, there’s no doubt many mouths will be watering in anticipation of savory turkey, mashed potatoes, buttered rolls, mouth-watering pumpkin pie and many more foods.
For this holiday, it’s common to have a lot of leftovers. Maybe your family is planning to cook more food than necessary or perhaps your family will overestimate the amount needed. Either way, there are enough leftovers for the next week or so.
However, instead of having to deal with the same food every day, there are many ways in which you can get creative with and put a new spin on your leftovers.
Skyrim is the latest installment of the Elder Scrolls, a series of immersive fantasy action roleplaying games made by Bethesda. The game doesn’t present a goal to accomplish so much as an enormous world to explore in complete freedom, though there is a primary plot line as well. So, after playing limbo with the graphics settings for about half an hour to accommodate my rusty old laptop, I began my epic adventure in the land of Skyrim—almost.
With first-person shooters (FPS) dominating the video game market, the months of October and November witnessed the releases of two of the most anticipated FPS’s: Infinity Ward’s Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 (MW3) and Electronic Art’s Battlefield 3 (BF3). With both games setting records in game sales for each respective company, which game offers gamers the best FPS experience?
Following the life of John Edgar Hoover, the longtime director of the FBI, “J. Edgar” tells the story of an ambitious man who pours his life into one organization. The film is simultaneously a story of the man and the bureau, which become so intertwined that it is nearly impossible to tell them apart.
The movie follows Hoover (Leonardo DiCaprio) from the time when he first joins the Bureau of Investigations. It then progresses through his appointment to director to the creation of the FBI as it is known today and his years as director of the organization. Hoover’s relationships with his protege and near-constant companion Clyde Tolson (Armie Hammer), his personal secretary Helen Gandy (Naomi Watts) and his demanding mother (Judi Dench) reveal the personal and lesser-known side of the powerful man.
In a way, web comics are the ultimate comic. Instead of waiting weeks for the next installment, readers wait for days to read a story one page at a time, and instead of costing a quarter they’re free. Because they’re online, web comics don’t have to appeal to anyone besides the artists, combining the freedom of the Internet with the creativity of comics. These are a few popular ongoing web comics.
Many high school students nowadays have iPhones. Everyone has different reasons for owning them, whether it’s for the Internet or the camera. The engaging applications that iPhone users have access to are one of the main features techies love about it. From utility apps to gaming apps, there really is an app for anything and for anyone. The Talon has compiled a list of some of today’s most popular apps.