Category: Media, Sports, Entertainment, and Food

The Santa Clarita Special Olympics held its annual Holiday Party for both the volunteers and intellectually disabled athletes at Valencia High School on Tuesday, December 10th. This day was filled with music, food, and excitement. Athletes and volunteers alike decked out in holiday gear from holiday-themed headbands to spirited christmas sweaters. Special Olympics clubs within…

2016 has been an open door for many new fashion trends, and it seems like history has repeated itself with many new fashion items from the 90s making a comeback. From chokers to bomber jackets, here are some of the biggest fashion trends of 2016. Starting off with the chokers, this accessory was trendy back…

English may not be the most spoken language in the world, but it is the official language in more than 50 countries. Since English will maintain and grow its dominance as a lingua franca, some students in Crescenta Valley High School dedicate their time to providing continuous, high quality English and other educational services to…

Human trafficking involves controlling a person through force, fraud, or coercion to exploit the victim for forced labor, sexual exploitation, or both. Human trafficking is also the recruitment, harboring, transportation, or provision of a person for labor or services through the use of force, fraud, or coercion for the purpose of peonage or slavery. Generating…

Sizzling hot sun glaring at the stadium; elaborate water taxis entering from shore; flickering night lights and extravagant buildings. When FIFA announced in 2010 that the 2022 World Cup would be held at Qatar, representatives of Qatar were enthralled. They finally had the opportunity to open up a seemingly desolate place to the world, which…

Football is one of the most popular sports in the United States. There is something about well built, masculine men running around and tackling each other that attracts millions of Americans. An American football game is played by two teams, and each team can only put eleven players on the field at a time. The…

When the US is busy preparing to have the spookiest Halloween celebration, their neighboring country, Mexico, is working extremely hard to have the brightest yet most exotic Halloween-like and traditional celebration for themselves. Termed El Dia de los Muertos (The Day of the Dead), this Mexican festival in the memorial of the dead is celebrated…

Oktoberfest is a festival that many cities and towns, including La Crescenta, hold annually in the month of October. Since 1977, La Crescenta residents have been organizing and attending Oktoberfest. Every year, students from ASB (student body) and AFJROTC (Air Force Junior Reserve Officers’ Training Corp) volunteer to help set up booths the morning of…

Thanks to social media, the conspiracy theory of the Mandela Effect has recently gone viral. Throughout the world, those who are aware are either spooked by or firmly believe in this theory, which suggests that our world may have “slid” past a parallel universe. Regardless of the different views surrounding the highly controversial topic, however,…

Unlike at Seoul Foreign School, many schools around the world – typically in the United States – hold something called “preseason,” a period of time that takes place before the regular season of a sport begins. It consists of a series of games that do not count towards the win-loss records of the team, but…