By Cyrus Shakeri Staff Writer At my house, I have a GX1000 skateboard with the name Pablo on it. I recently purchased this as a tribute to Pablo “Psplifff” Ramirez, a skateboarder whose life ended April 23, 2019 after a collision with a dump truck on Seventh Street. I was saddened and surprised at the news of Ramirez’s death, and
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By Dania Zamudio Staff Writer The movie “Veronica” is really good. It’s a horror film, and it’s actually pretty scary. It is in Spanish and takes place in Madrid, Spain because it’s based on a true story. The director of the movie is Paco Plaza. The movie came out in 2017. The movie “Veronica” is entirely in Spanish. During an
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By Hannah Murrieta Staff Writer “The Hate U Give” was a movie made in 2017 trying to show a purpose to people following the deaths of people of color because of white cops. In one of the scenes, a young black teenager was killed because the white cop thought he had a gun and his family wanted justice for him
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By Maddie Knight Staff Writer Tahoma Video Production students are currently hard at work in preparation for upcoming contests in the spring. Video Production teacher Vincent Nelson said contests “offer opportunity for students to put their filming skills to the test.” Mr. Nelson continued, “Some of these kids, the advanced students, TA’s, I’ve had for two to three years now,
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By Henry Pierce Staff Writer WARNING: SPOILERS AHEAD — YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED! As the first order is taking the final steps to crush the Resistance, a message is intercepted by a Resistance spy telling that the long-dead Palpatine is alive and ready to take over once again. The Resistance decides that it needs to stop Palpatine, and they go
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By Henry Pierce Staff Writer “ARK: Survival Evolved” is a video game available for PC/Mac, Xbox 1, PS 4, Android/IOS, and Nintendo Switch. In “ARK: Survival Evolved,” you are the main character in the game. You explore a strange island filled with prehistoric animals and plants from different prehistoric time periods, and you recover artifacts from other explorers who have
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By Polina Runova Staff Editor Although she lives in San Francisco, Mung Lar Lam commutes to San Jose three times a week to make her art. She is currently an artist in residence at the San Jose Museum of Quilts and Textiles, where she is developing a new medium of fabric art. “It’s kind of a cross between drawing, painting,
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By Jae-Lyn Miranda Staff Writer This anime/manga series has everybody’s mouth watering. “Food wars!: Shokugeki No Soma” is a Japanese shōnen manga series made by Yuto Tsukuda and illustrated by Shun Saeki. This anime was produced and directed by J.C. Staff and Yoshitomo Yonetani to become a Japanese television series (anime). [SPOILERS AHEAD] This show takes place in Japan featuring
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By Yasmeen Ali Staff Writer “Demon Slayer” has been on the top of everyone’s anime watchlist for a while now. Ever since the anime came out, many were captivated by the beautiful animation Ufotable is creating with Koyoharu Gotouge’s work. Gotouge is the author of the manga better known in Japan as “Kimetsu No Yaiba.” In the past Gotouge has
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By Yasmeen Ali Staff Writer Makoto Shinkai has held himself to a higher standard of story writing after the success of his first movie, “Kimi no Nawa.” On Jan. 17, 2020, Shinkai’s second movie, “Tenki no Ko” (known in America as “Weathering With You”), was released, and many fans took the theaters by storm. The movie was highly anticipated after
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