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The FAFSA application.

FAFSA fiasco causes unnecessary anxiety for students and staff

By Katheryn Consuegra, Kevin Pham, and Neela Ravi April 23, 2024

The delayed release of the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) application for the 2023-2024 school year has created more of a panic among high schoolers at CVHS and across the United States...

CVHS students hosting a baby shower for their food babies.

Texas Supreme Court rules that food babies are now real children

By Katheryn Consuegra and Natalia Nguyen April 1, 2024

The Texas Supreme Court issued a ruling on March 20 declaring that embryos created through noticeable over-mastication (NOM) should be considered children. As the designation applies to those only 13 years...

Emma and Dexter the morning after they first meet. July 16, 1988.

One Day Review: Maybe one day it will hurt less

DISCLAIMER: This review contains major spoilers for the Netflix series “One Day.”  They say time heals a broken heart, but every time we encounter a new adaptation of “One Day” we’re once...

Barbie and Ken getting arrested. Barbie.

Op-Ed: Women can only achieve everything in Barbie land

By Katheryn Consuegra, Arts and Entertainment Editor February 5, 2024

As an avid film geek, Oscars nominations day is my Super Bowl. On January 23rd, I joined the livestream to hear all of the new names. My face lit up during Best Picture with titles like "Anatomy of...

Still from the film Saltburn

Saltburn review: sometimes you have to bottom your way to the top

By Katheryn Consuegra, Arts and Entertainment Editor January 22, 2024

Sophie Ellix-Bextor’s song, “Murder On The Dancefloor,” had taken over my entire FYP. All of the videos to the song were teenagers walking out of a movie theater utterly flabbergasted after watching...

Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Chalice of the Gods

The Chalice of the Gods review: Percy Jackson is also drowning in college apps

By Katheryn Consuegra, Arts and Entertainment Editor December 4, 2023

BREAKING NEWS: Seniors are now required to complete troublesome quests for Greek gods to get recommendation letters for college! Or this is at least the case for our beloved Percy Jackson.  After 14...

Erica Harris graduating from University of Texas at Austin with a degree in English

Erica Harris is becoming the person she taught us about

By Katheryn Consuegra and Natalia Nguyen April 24, 2023

Recently, CVHS English teacher Erica Harris was hired as a program administrator at Rice University’s George R. Brown School of Engineering's Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, where...

Houstons Burger Bodega

Burger Bodega Review: a taste of H-Town in a New York-style smash burger

By Katheryn Consuegra and Neela Ravi March 10, 2023

To the inattentive eye, Burger Bodega appears to emulate New York City bodegas, millennial-styled corner stores selling anything from lottery tickets to a hot cup of joe. The walls are lined either with...

Amelia Dimoldenberg winking and pointing at the camera in Chicken Shop Date.

“Chicken Shop Date” Review: Love and chicken (featuring your favorite celebrities)

By Katheryn Consuegra, Arts and Entertainment Editor February 18, 2023

First dates serve a critical role in establishing how a potential relationship will develop. They usually involve a face-to-face encounter where each person gets a chance to know the other better and decide...

Op-Ed: Dear Swifties and Congress, you need to calm down.

Op-Ed: Dear Swifties and Congress, you need to calm down.

By Katheryn Consuegra, Arts and Entertainment Editor December 13, 2022

At 10 a.m. sharp on that dreaded day of November 15th, 2022, war began. My shaky fingers were ready to move when the laptop light dimmed and my focus was not torn from the 2000+ queue line that wouldn’t...

Taylor Swifts new album Midnight is a journey of emotional turmoil and turbulence.

Life is emotionally abusive and so is Taylor Swift’s album “Midnights”

By Brooke Bushong, Katheryn Consuegra, and Neela Ravi November 14, 2022

                  Taylor Swift is the best friend we’ve never met, except at midnight.  Her 10th studio album, “Midnights”...

U.S. States Abortion Bans Landscape. Created by Fortune Research.

High school seniors are applying to more blue-state colleges after Roe v. Wade overturning

By Katheryn Consuegra and Ella Pham September 23, 2022

According to an August survey conducted by Best Colleges, 39% of all prospective college students said that the overturning of Roe v. Wade, which had protected women's rights to abortion, will affect...

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