Escape the Mysterious Room
Escape the Room
Real Escape Game San Jose
★★★★★
Panic. Yells diffuse through tense air, hands flail, feet shuffle nervously. Three, two, one… time’s up, and...
‘The Life of Pablo,’ Kanye West
Hip-Hop/Rap
Feb. 14 2016
★★★☆☆
Listen, I didn’t want to like this album.
Regardless of whether or not you subscribe to the metaphysical idea...
Nintendo is in a difficult position — it needs a new console to remedy its mistakes and get sales back on track. However, abandoning its current home console, the Wii U, risks upsetting loyal fans who...
“Super Smash Bros.” makes me yell at my best friend. And laugh at him, high five him, cheer with him and sulk with him. It brings eight people together in my family room, all engaged in the action...
Ask Darren Howze why he does what he does, and he points to a hand-painted sign over the store’s entrance. It says, “It’s a Beautiful Day to be Sweet.”
Howze, along with his wife Colleen, is...
By Alice Dai, Print Managing Editor
| March 8, 2016
30 years of Writer's Week
From March 14-17, Los Altos will host the 30th annual Writer’s Week, which brings poets, novelists, journalists and working writers into the classroom to speak to and work...
In an attempt to identify institutional academic barriers for minority students in MVLA, the district hired Principal’s Exchange, a nonprofit organization that analyzes schools to help underperforming...
By Jessica King, Entertainment Editor
| March 8, 2016
Starting this year, the speed limits around Los Altos schools are being lowered to 15 miles per hour within 500 feet of the schools during school hours. Outside of school hours, the speed limit will remain...
Marketing director senior Duncan Burridge stared intently at the white planning map covered in Lego blocks. An L-shaped high-rise hovered in his right hand. He rearranged the blocks once, twice, three...
By Alice Dai, Print Managing Editor
| March 8, 2016
Next year the school will offer another AP social studies class to sophomores, called Human Geography. The high school course is popular outside of California and is just beginning to gain popularity in...
As part of MVLA’s shift to cloud and digital learning this year, the school introduced Google Apps for Education, a suite of services that includes Google Classroom, Drive, Docs, Calendar, Spreadsheets...
Valentine's Day is almost here, and the 7th period Leadership class is here to help students with some relationship advice! The following advice column is part of an ongoing collaboration with The Talon...
