Take a second and imagine a plastic tarp large enough to nearly cover the entire floor of the large gym. Now take a second and consider how long it might take you to fold up the tarp and return it to its...
While teacher recommendation and student choice previously decided math placement for incoming freshmen, new administrative regulations passed by the MVLA School Board on February 8 created a framework...
Just a few months ago, senior Bianca Champenois was one of the few people at the school who even knew what pétanque (pay-TAHNK’) was. She fondly remembers learning the game from her grandmother at an...
Long known for their effective peer tutoring system, the Advancement Via Individual Determination (AVID) classes have recently branched out, effectively expanding their roles and becoming tutors for students...
During the summers, I intern in a necropsy lab performing autopsies. Death is so often viewed with intense sadness and pessimism, however, dealing with death on a daily basis has taught me to do the opposite....
My aunt was shot by her husband when I was 9 years old. He shot her twice, once in the chest and once in the head, and then once in his own hand; he told the police he was shielding himself and my aunt...
I remember learning about it when I was a kid. I remember when the existence of death was bad news. I think it was in Sunday School that I was told Moses had bitten the fertile dust of the Promised Land,...
The binary quality of death, like the binary quality of a light switch, isn’t too difficult to understand. The implication of the dark, though, is more layered, as is the absence of the only-recently-alive....
Teenagers don’t usually spend very much time contemplating death. We are dealing with the trials and stresses of growing up and becoming adults, so much so that our own mortalities are too far off in...
St. Patrick’s Day is coming up on Thursday, March 17, so The Talon is here to sweeten up your St. Patty’s day with a quick, easy and bright green recipe for matcha green tea latte. You can find matcha...
“Hail, Caesar!”
Feb. 5 2016 (PG-13)
Directed by the Coen Brothers
Starring George Clooney
★★★★☆
“Hail, Caesar!” is the latest and greatest from the Coen brothers, and is...
By Cole Hanson, Copy/Content Editor
| March 9, 2016
“Deadpool”
Feb. 12 2016 (R)
Directed by Tim Miller
Starring Ryan Reynolds
★★★★☆
Viewers be warned, this is not your typical superhero movie. The explicit, fourth-wall breaking...
