Competing at the national level for a sport requires years of dedication and training, and it’s no different for table tennis. Senior Muskan Gupta and senior Arnav Khinvasara have both been playing table tennis for many years and are currently competing at the national level, according to usatt.org. Gupta startedContinue Reading
Junior Jacob Wrencher began his basketball journey when he first learned to walk and how tosteal basketballs from other kids on the playground, Jacob Wrencher’s father and varsity basketball coach Champ Wrencher said. Now, Jacob Wrencher stands at number 35 on the top 100 list of California recruits to playContinue Reading
“Next Goal Wins” is a movie that was released on Nov. 17 about the struggling American Samoa men’s soccer team and its journey towards getting its first win with the help of a foreign coach from the UnitedStates. Thomas Rongen (Michael Fassbender), a Dutch-American coach, faces the option of eitherContinue Reading
Set as a prequel to the “The Hunger Games” franchise movies, “The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes” shows the backstory of popular villain Coriolanus Snow (Tom Blyth). Directed by Francis Lawrence, who directed all previous “Hunger Games” movies, the film showcases the youngSnow and his transition fromContinue Reading
The psychedelic genre has consistently been one of the hardest genres to operatewithin for filmmakers. There are greats in the genre such as “Get Out” and “Shutter Island,”and then there are disasters. “Saltburn,” released on Nov.17, crashed, burned, and solidified itself, in my eyes, as one of the worst filmsContinue Reading
Growing pop sensation Sabrina Carpenter released her new Christmas extended play (EP) with “fruitcake” on November 17th with seven riveting songs. The EP covers all ranges of holiday music, fromjolly Christmas jingles to sad snowy day songs to lovesick romantic music. Carpenter takes listeners through a rollercoaster of emotions, asContinue Reading
Disney’s “Wish,” released on November 22, is set in the Kingdom of Rosas ruled by the sorcerer, King Magnifico, where all citizens are required to give up and forget a memory of their greatestwish. It follows the protagonist, Asha, who hopes to apprentice for the King; however, after discovering hisContinue Reading
Napoleon. The name is instantly recognizable to anyone with an inkling of knowledge aboutEuropean history. A name that invokes images of famous paintings, the great number of victories in battle, and perhaps endless paragraphs in history textbooks. Now, “Napoleon” is also the name of a film directed by Ridley Scott,Continue Reading
Shortly after Oct. 7, the Starbucks Workers United union tweeted, “Solidarity with Palestine” along with a picture of a bulldozer tearing down a border fence during Hamas’s attack on Israel on X, according to the New York Post. In a statement on Starbucks’ website on Oct. 17, a representative ofContinue Reading
Terra Nova High School on Oct. 27, the girls’ locker rooms were left in a mess, with trash left all over the floor and the bathrooms being left in a dirty condition, physical education (PE) teacher Celina Reyes said. Although there have been messes left behind after certain matches, theContinue Reading
Popular video chat website Omegle shut down on Nov. 8 after a young woman filed a lawsuit against them, according to the article “Video chat site Omegle shuts down after 14 years — and an abuse victim’s lawsuit” by National Public Radio. Unsolicited exposure to other users was a commonContinue Reading
Whenever I used to think of crocheting, I always viewed it slightly negatively, calling it a “grandma hobby” and things of that sort. However, I never realized how useful it could be. Like many others in 2020, I foundmyself lazing around to find new hobbies and stumbled upon crocheting onContinue Reading