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Korra will satisfy old fans and gain new ones

Korra will satisfy old fans and gain new ones

By Rachelle-Ann Esmele The Legend of Korra is an animated series that continues from the popular show Avatar: The Last Airbender. Viewers have eagerly anticipated this series, which they hope will conclude the open-ended stories from [...]

Movie Review: This Means War

Kitwana Nwagwu The movie This Means War  is about two CIA agents, FDR Foster (Chris Pine) and Tuck (Tom Hardy), fighting over a woman they both claim to love. Lauren (Reese Witherspoon) didn’t know who to [...]

Tongue-tied A Thousand Words disappoints

Tongue-tied A Thousand Words disappoints

Deijah Palmer Eddie Murphy stars as Jack McCall in a Paramount movie, A Thousand Words, which premiered on March 9. Jack McCall is a literary agent who stretches the truth on more than one occasion. Once [...]

Soldiers in Action

Soldiers in Action

                  Jesus Medina “The only easy day was yesterday,” says one o f the Navy  SEALs at the beginning of the movie Act of Valor. This quote is [...]

The fight in the skies

The fight in the skies

Red Tails amazes audiences with a story from history Adonte Matthews   Red Tails is an excellent movie about the Tuskegee Airmen, the first African-American pilots in the US Air Force. Throughout the movie, they face [...]

Screams for Project-Kai

Screams for Project-Kai

Lei Fisiiahi     Starting off with such a great year, Oakland High will be holding Oakland Highs Project Karaoke American Idol (Project Kai) in the school theatre on January 8, 2012.     Project Kai is [...]

Anticipated movies of 2012

Anticipated movies of 2012

Jason Muhammed Want to go to the movies but you and your friends can’t decide which movie to watch in a never ending list of movies to experience? We interviewed students at Oakland High and brought [...]

A triumphant debut for Glee Club

Lei Fisiiahi & Linda Saechao Lights! Camera! ACTION! Young actors make their way across the stage with a new persona acting out scenarios of the teen life. While the actors act out each scene, the vocals [...]

MW3 breaks sales records

MW3 breaks sales records

Daesean McNeal & Ken Tran   Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, released in the last second of November 7, at 11:59:59 p.m., was the most anticipated game of 2011. It has already won a Spike [...]

Graffiti Battle shows Oakland Pride

Graffiti Battle shows Oakland Pride

Jesus Medina & Guadalupe Hernandez   The annual Estria Invitational Graffiti Battle, which took place on October 8 in West Oakland, is meant to bring graffiti artists together from all over the world to showcase their [...]