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Joseph and My-Tran vs. Houston Restaurants: Reviewing Xiao Long Dumpling

Joseph and My-Tran vs. Houston Restaurants: Reviewing Xiao Long Dumpling

By Joseph Mutagaya and My-Tran Vo April 21, 2024

Joseph and My-Tran are back with another food review. Close your eyes. Take a breath. Humor us, and let us pose a scenario for you. It’s a beautiful Friday afternoon and you’ve just gotten out of...

CVHS senior Anilah Bell with some of her beloved pupils (Joseph Mutagaya/Canva)

CVHS Super senior serves community by offering free driving lessons

By Joseph Mutagaya and My-Tran Vo April 1, 2024

Carnegie Vanguard High School senior Anilah Bell is making a huge impact on the kids, the curbs, and the cops of Downtown Houston with her free driving lessons. For a limited time, Bell, (who trained...

Barbers Hill junior Darryl George recently lost his case against Barbers Hill ISD after being suspended for the length of his hair, CVHS students respond.

CVHS students respond to Darryl George decision

By Joseph Mutagaya, Arts and Entertaiment Editor March 4, 2024

On Feb. 22, Barbers Hill High School Junior Darryl George lost a case against his former school district, Barbers Hill ISD, after being suspended for his hairstyle, known colloquially as barrel twists....

Sofia Vergara as the titular character of the Netflix miniseries, Griselda.

Griselda review: Netflix and Vergara take on La Dona Gris

By Joseph Mutagaya, Arts and Entertaiment Editor February 19, 2024

The story is all too familiar by now. The feared drug lord who came from rags and rose above even the farthest reaches of the American dream into the fabled one percent. Yet this story has become, (in...

As we move into the third month of the most recent Israel/Palestine conflict, social media is proving a potent proliferator of news and a battlefield.
(Justine Goode/NBC)

Op-Ed: The next world war will be fought with TikToks

By Joseph Mutagaya, Arts and Entertaiment Editor February 4, 2024

“When the Internet was born, we used it to escape the world. Now, we go to the real world to escape social media.” When the internet first came about in the 90s, it was undoubtedly a force for good....

Chalamet and Wilder as the illustrious Willy Wonka (Courtesy of The Ringer/Warner Bros./Paramount Pictures)

Review: Chalamet shines in his very own world of pure imagination

By Joseph Mutagaya, Arts and Entertaiment Editor January 24, 2024

Hello, my Letterboxd Lovelies! It’s your favorite and most bestest, amazing-est movie-sorry, film critic, IWuvMyPeachyWeachyTimmyKins4000 back and better than ever.  First of all, I’d like to...

Behind the Scenes: CVHS Counselors Chapman and Frau talk life and work

By Joseph Mutagaya and My-Tran Vo December 11, 2023

    Olympic runners spend months working closely with physical therapists, strength trainers, and even therapists to prepare for the race of their lives.  For many CVHS seniors,...

As CVHS students enter junior year, they have no choice but to be stuck between a rock and a hard place. (Joseph Mutagaya/Canva)

Op-Ed: The CVHS Junior’s Burden: Why TPSP and Research shouldn’t be required

By Joseph Mutagaya, Arts and Entertaiment Editor April 24, 2023

Sometime in the blur that was the online year, we had a conference with the administrators (one I certainly didn’t pay attention to) about course selection. At another time during that blur, I made a...

SAT near? Never fear, Broseph Testpassers is here!

SAT near? Never fear, Broseph Testpassers is here!

By Brooke Bushong and Joseph Mutagaya April 1, 2023

Losing hair, sleep and sanity over the good ol’ Standard Aptitude Test? You may (or may not) be entitled to advice from Broseph (pronounced Bro-sef) Testpassers Incorporated. Anyways, like most students...

Work can teach responsibility and give teens financial independence, but how do we decide what work kids should and shouldnt do? (Nicole Benevigno/New York Times)

CVHS students adjust to changing labor laws

By Joseph Mutagaya and My-Tran Vo March 10, 2023

Since the advent of the COVID-19 pandemic, nationwide job shortages have been a source of concern, with an estimated 6.8 million lost workers due to decreased productivity, layoffs, etc. But three years...

Joseph Mutagaya first photo, for a passport (Republic of Uganda)

Personal Column: Lugambo and the art of shutting up

By Joseph Mutagaya, Arts and Entertaiment Editor February 20, 2023

I’ve always had a big mouth. Scrawled tactically under glowing recommendations and smiley face stickers would be a small, tacit note: “Joseph is VERY… social.” Translation: teach your kid to shut...

The Banjo Lesson, by Henry O. Tanner, depicts a rare, intimate moment, an elder teaching a youth how to play the banjo.

Op-Ed: How “listening to everything BUT country music” is ignorant, at best

By Joseph Mutagaya, Arts and Entertaiment Editor December 13, 2022

"I listen to everything BUT country music." A sentiment far too common among basically anyone under the age of forty. A sentiment that I am not proud to admit I echoed not too long ago. But who can...

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