Written by Deiana Hristov
Few things in this world are so rich, so indulgent, so pure as a spoonful of creamy peanut butter. When it comes to condiments and spreads, peanut butter takes the prize. Every food you eat, from brownies to pretzels, is elevated to a whole new level when coated in the...
Written by Grace Ding
2 p.m. Drive to Los Trancos Open Space Preserve
2 to 5 p.m. Hike trails
6 p.m. Eat dinner at Bumble
Located in Los Altos, Los Trancos Open Space Reserve is a perfect hiking spot with beautiful views to spend the first day of your long weekend. There are many trails...
Written by Stina Chang
Take a trip down memory lane and escape to a place where only Halloween exists. Tim Burton’s “The Nightmare Before Christmas” follows the pumpkin king Jack Skellington and his adventure of taking over Christmas. Bored by the same Halloween routine, Jack accidentally stumbles...
Written by Joanna Huang
Shortly after Nathaniel Hawthorne published "The Scarlet Letter" in 1850, religious authorities began to criticize this novel. The book has Hester Prynne, forced to don a letter A for adultery, cope as an outcast of Puritan society with her child. Meanwhile, Prynne’s...
Written by Ariel Pan
Banned for being sexually explicit, age-inappropriate and containing offensive language, John Green’s Printz Award-winning "Looking for Alaska" was the most challenged book of 2015.
A mere 221 pages long, "Looking for Alaska" is split into two parts: a before and an after....
Written by Jenna Marvet
“Halloweentown,” the first of four similarly titled Disney Channel Original films, is a gift from the late 90s that keeps on giving. The film follows 13-year-old Marnie, her two younger siblings and her quirky grandmother Aggie, who mysteriously only visits on Halloween...
Written by Helen Nguyen, News Editor
One can almost smell the fall and feel the Halloween spirit when watching “It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown”. This beloved movie is a 1966 American primetime animated television special based on the comic strip “Peanuts” by Charles M. Schulz––it...
Halloween is a major holiday in America, with nearly 65 percent of Americans decorating their homes for Halloween. In other places in the world, Halloween is just as prevalent. In China, people celebrate the Ghost Festival: Teng Chieh. The Ghost Festival is a traditional Chinese holiday...
Written by Anyi Cheng
Pleasure reading is dying a slow, terrible death, and we are doing nothing to stop it.
The change is one that happened gradually—too slow for me to be aware that it was happening at all. It’s shocking how little I now actually read for pleasure, especially when I used...
Written by Samuel Tse
Today, the cake is threatened by the pie, a lower deity whose only place is a stepping stone for the advancement of the prodigious cake, who cake lovers must support in this time of need.
First off, a cake is a versatile dessert. There are many different forms this...
Written by Deiana Hristov
Call me “Eggo-tistical”, but in the breakfast world, waffles reign supreme. Compared to the waffle, the flaccid, weak pancake crumbles into a soggy mess. Why? Well, for one, it’s a texture thing. Think of a waffle, which consists of a perfect marriage between a soft,...
