1. Chloe and Rachel’s Holiday Movie Favs!
With Winter Break fast approaching, you might be looking forward to or dreading spending two weeks with your family. Maybe you’re stressed out about the five projects due after the break or all the holiday preparations still to be ...
2. Café Gratitude restaurant review!
Café Gratitude is a not terribly intimidating building located on Shattuck in downtown Berkeley. Warm bricks and a green overhang are indicators of little but a typical Berkeley establishment. But upon closer look, something becomes apparent, troubling. ...
3. Guns N’ Roses: Chinese Democracy - Review
2/10
There was once a point, many years ago, where Guns ‘n Roses was a fun, kick-ass band. Sure, they stuck in a sappy ballad or two on each album, but the vast majority of their songs were about drinking, partying and getting laid- taking it easy, rock ‘n roll style. ...
4. Prop 8 Has Passed, but others are still Fighting
Proposition 8: the measure to grant gay and lesbian marriage was a heated topic for months prior to and following the 2008 elections. Unfortunately for many, this proposition passed, defining marriage as only between a man and a woman.
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5. Lucia and Eline rate their 6 favorite websites
Websites are a huge part of all our lives and after some extensive research; we came up with our favorite sites http://youmakemetouchyourhands
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We LOVE this site. Think about it… Funny accent, hilarious guy speaking and an amazing way of ...
6. Can Zimbabwe Learn to Share?
On September 15 of this year, current president Robert Mugabe and opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai signed a historic power sharing deal. This is one of the first times Mugabe has ever had to consolidate power; he has been the president of Zimbabwe for over 20 years. The decision for a power sharing deal between the two political rivals comes ...
7. Movie Review: Rachel Getting Married
Rachel Getting Married
Directed by Jonathan Demme
Screenplay by Jenny Lumet
Starring Ann Hathaway, Rosemary DeWitt, Bill Irwin, and Debra Winger
Rachel Getting Married is an intense, poetic, and moving film starring Ann Hathaway as a barely recovered addict, who when released from rehab goes directly to her sister Rachel’s wedding. The ...
8. Halloween: Just For Little Kids?
As another Halloween approaches, pumpkin patches are bustling, fake cobwebs are being strung, and bags of candy are being stashed away to prevent premature consumption.
While elementary school-aged children have by now determined their costumes for trick-or-treating (and the younger ones have already worn them around the house ...
9. Who Wears it Best?
Have you ever been strolling down the hallways of Albany High School, feeling confident in your new Abercrombie jeans, about to go show yourself off to your first period class, when you see some random freshman wearing the same ones? On any given day at AHS, your shine is bound to be stolen ...
10. The Iditarod and animal cruelty
The Iditarod a dog sled race that covers 1,150 miles of Alaskan mountains and frozen rivers was won this year by Lance Mackey. The race, which lasts between 12 and 17 days (depending on each musher) is considered by some as inhumane. Because 54% of the dogs who start the race ...
11. Homecoming Thursday - Generation Day
Even though I like to avoid turning the school website into a senior propaganda machine during Homecoming, the freshmen need some constructive criticism.
There is a subtle distinction between decorating the school and covering it in colorful trash. For example, Styrofoam cups are not an effective ornament. Strewing sheaves upon sheaves of green ...
12. Podcast episode 1: America; really not a bad place to be
In the first ever Albany High Cougar Online podcast, Chris Jones shares his views on why America really isn’t such a bad place to be after all.