Today is Tuesday, February 7, 2012
Today is Tuesday, February 7, 2012
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.
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’ve never had real ramen before. When my mom went to China for a month, all she left was a huge box of convenience store ramen packages and Quaker oatmeal. (To her credit, she only did so because she knew I couldn’t handle anything other than adding water.)
So imagine my surprise when I learned that ramen was not just something haggard college students ate and was actually a delicacy. To celebrate my newfound love for ramen, I decided to christen the top ramen shops in the Bay Area with Talon’s ramen expert Jasmine Xu.
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?