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One of the various teaser images from Madame Web, featuring the titular character (Dakota Johnson) and two of the Spider-Women (Sydney Sweeney and Isabela Merced).

Madame Web review: Wait… this isn’t Marvel???

By Natalia Nguyen and Kevin Pham March 4, 2024

DISCLAIMER: This review will contain minor spoilers about Madame Web. About an hour and 54 minutes after preview trailers ended, we came to the shocking realization that “Madame Web” was not a Marvel...

Cell phone pockets. Even before the ban, teachers were given tools to regulate phone usage.

HISD’s cell phone ban: Mixed opinions from students and teachers

By Natalia Nguyen and Neela Ravi February 21, 2024

On Tuesday, Feb. 6, Carnegie began enforcing a cell phone policy banning cell phone usage on school campuses for all students across the Houston Independent School District (HISD). This policy was officially...

A Sephora product display reportedly destroyed by a child.

Op-Ed: Let girls be girls

By Natalia Nguyen, Copy Editor February 6, 2024

Gone are the days of children frolicking over mulched playgrounds, navigating endless monkey bars, and tumbling down slides. Although I might have been more the type to hole up inside with a book (which...

Cindy and Natalias faces edited onto a Fortnite themed background.

Fortnite OG: where we droppin’ boys?

By Cindy Cui and Natalia Nguyen December 11, 2023

Returning to the days where the only viruses we were worried about was one that would crash our game, Fortnite has made an outstanding return. With the rerun of Fortnite OG, players all over the world...

Turner and her husband at their wedding in 2003

Maisha Turner: from rejecting rejection to inspiring CVHS students in STEM

By Natalia Nguyen and Cindy Cui December 3, 2023

If Maisha Turner’s life was a Free Body Diagram, her family would be the center of mass, with outside forces from every angle. Her life would have a positive magnitude of acceleration, but with an ever-changing...

Stock photo of 100 on exam

Three ways to get perfect grades

By Adrianna Guadalupe and Natalia Nguyen April 1, 2023

Contrary to popular belief, perfect grades are necessary to any form of success in life, not just college acceptance. Want a job? They’ll be asking detailed questions about your exact high school GPA,...

Our Missing Hearts is a dystopian novel that explores anti-Asian violence and discrimination.

‘Our Missing Hearts’: a dystopian novel’s reminder of our society’s shortcomings

By Natalia Nguyen, Copy Editor November 14, 2022

Heart-rendingly descriptive, Celeste Ng’s Our Missing Hearts illustrates a dystopian society that is uncomfortably close to our own. The book is a deeply disturbing and cautionary tale warning readers...

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