Pond Hockey Tournament raises $50,035 for Jablonski February 1, 2012 at 7:58 pm
Students and teachers swap outfits for Catholic Schools Week February 1, 2012 at 7:58 am
Catholic Schools Week kicks off with pjs and honors February 1, 2012 at 7:58 am
One Act play takes second place at sub-sections February 1, 2012 at 7:57 am
Youth In Goverment members lobby for government changes February 1, 2012 at 7:56 am
February 3, 2012
Nicole Sarquis, Staff Writer
History teachers tend to ramble off unrelatable facts about flappers, bootlegging, and the ease of life in the “Roaring 20s” during a typical U.S. History class, leaving their students with no real understanding of the subject. At the same time, English teachers’ enthusiasm over F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “The Great Gatsby” can only be understood if students reading the literary classic have a solid knowledge base of the time period the novel is set in. In an attempts to bridge the gap between literature and history studies, two teachers––Ms. Megan Kern and Ms. Anne Marie Dominguez––have paired up to teach their newly developed class, American Studies, to juniors, combining the... Continue Reading
February 3, 2012
Matt Muenzberg, Sports Editor
“Don’t miss.” That was the thought that ran through the head of senior forward Sanjay Lumpkin when he got the ball under the basket unguarded with three seconds left in the game. Lumpkin made the layup, giving the top ranked boys’ basketball team a 67-65 win over number two Spring Lake Park. “We were just trying to get a screen and roll on the top. The ball went into the corner and I just cut back door and no one was guarding me,” said Lumpkin. The Red Knights struggled to contain Spring Lake Park’s Sean Scott, who had a career night with 36 points, 13 rebounds, and six blocks in a packed, pro-Panther gymnasium. Head coach Mr. John Moore admitted that guarding Scott isn’t an exact... Continue Reading

Junior Shannon Galvin rehearses for the upcoming Les Miserables performance wither her fellow cast members. (Giulia Imholte)
January 27, 2012
Emily Kline, Staff Writer
Blue Water Theatre Company, one of the Twin Cities’ top performing arts groups for youth, is taking on “Les Misérables,” one of musical theatre’s most famous works, for their winter production. Juniors Rachel Hogen and Shannon Galvin, along with sophomore Rachel Wallace, joined the cast in late November and are currently in rehearsals for the... Continue Reading
February 1, 2012
Nick Hillson, Staff Writer
The Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) is a bill running through Congress in an attempt to curb the illegal uploading and downloading of copyrighted information and programs. Unfortunately, due to extremely vague wording and unclear definitions, the censorship proposed could extend to websites such as Facebook, various e-mails, and any other free forum. Not only is SOPA ineffective for all but the technologically impaired, but it violates our rights and benefits only a small handful of elites. SOPA works by requiring websites and Internet Service Providers (ISPs) to search through sent information and to censor any infringing material. Not only does this ignore the privacy guaranteed in the Constitution... Continue Reading

The Mock Trial team had a succesful season at several competitions due to immense practice and help from professional lawyers. (Photo courtesy of Jim Vogl)
February 3, 2012
Mallory Hoch, Staff Writer
Beginning in October, the Mock Trial team has practiced every night from 5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. in room 121 in preparation for upcoming competitions. Coming to a close on January 31st, the season ended on a strong note, making it to subsections before loosing their last competition. The season commenced with general practices to help initiate new members.... Continue Reading
| Sport | Date | Opponent | Result | W/L | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Boys Basketball | Fri, Feb 03 | Spring Lake Park | 67-65 | Read Story | W |
| Girls Basketball | Tue, Jan 31 | Minneapolis Southwest | 70-38 | W | |
| Girls Hockey | Sat, Jan 28 | Hill-Murray | 1-3 | Read Story | L |
| Boys Basketball | Sat, Jan 28 | North Branch | 82-21 | Read Story | W |
| Girls Basketball | Sat, Jan 28 | North Branch | 66-40 | Read Story | W |
| Dance Team | Sat, Jan 28 | Catholic Jamboree | J: 2nd/K: 3rd | ||
| Girls Hockey | Fri, Jan 27 | St. Francis/North Branch | 10-0 | Read Story | W |
| Boys Hockey | Fri, Jan 27 | Moorhead | 2-6 | Read Story | L |
| Wrestling | Fri, Jan 27 | Robbinsdale Cooper | 47-27 | W | |
| Wrestling | Fri, Jan 27 | Mahtomedi | 33-34 | L | |
| Boys Hockey | Thu, Jan 26 | Irondale | 6-1 | Read Story | W |
| Girls Basketball | Thu, Jan 26 | Chisago Lakes | 58 -45 | Read Story | W |
| Sport | Date | Time | Opponent | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Girls Hockey | Sat, Feb 04 | 3:00 | Totino-Grace | Parade Ice Gardens |
| Boys Hockey | Sat, Feb 04 | 7:30 | Spring Lake Park | Blaine |
| Wrestling | Sat, Feb 04 | 9:00 | TBA | Pine Island |
| Girls Basketball | Mon, Feb 06 | 6:00 | DeLaSalle | DeLaSalle |
| Boys Hockey | Wed, Feb 08 | 7:30 | Shattuck-St. Mary's | Shattuck-St. Mary's |
| Girls Basketball | Fri, Feb 10 | 7:15 | St. Louis Park | St. Louis Park |
| Wrestling | Fri, Feb 10 | 6:00 | Chisago Lakes | Home |
| Boys Hockey | Sat, Feb 11 | 2:30 | Totino-Grace | St. Louis Park |
| Dance Team | Sat, Feb 11 | 1:00 | Sections | Austin |
| Boys Hockey | Tue, Feb 14 | 7:00 | Chisago Lakes | Chisago Lakes |
| Girls Basketball | Tue, Feb 14 | 7:15 | Columbia Heights | Home |
| Girls Basketball | Thu, Feb 16 | 7:15 | Waconia | Home |
Chandy Clemens
November 2, 2009
Filed under Movie Reviews, Reviews
Instead of playing a game of tag football, there’s a new form of recreational “fun” everyone can partake in; it’s just a matter of whether you have the stomach. Also, a key requirement is some sort of weapon, a blunt object or semi-automatic rifle would do the trick. The object of the activity: killing Zombies. Enter “Zombieland,” a vision of the world where you shall no longer covet thy neighbor; your neighbor is now your enemy and intends to eat you.
Yeah, yeah, yeah another movie centered around the undead and truthfully, how many more characterizations can there be about flesh-eating people on the rampage? “Zombieland” twists around the genre and in the vein of 2005′s “Shaun of the Dead,” hits you with a lot of laughs while simultaneously splaying you with buckets of blood and flying limbs.
Without giving away real names, each character refers to one another as the place from where they came from. Firstly, there’s Columbus, from the city in Ohio (Jesse Eisenberg), who’s bland existence as a recluse and estranged child to relatives is turned upside down when an unsuspecting virus turns EVERYONE into zombified versions of themselves. This includes his girl-crush living next-door who turns from pretty to a cannibalistic demon within a matter of minutes.
Columbus’s structured routine pre-zombie life carries on into the new world of human carnivores by compiling a set of rules when confronting zombies. For instance, exercising regularly for “run-away from the zombie” scenarios, avoiding public bathrooms when you would least be expecting a Zombie to eat you, and shooting a Zombie a second time after the initial blow, or “douple-tapping.”
Columbus crosses paths with Tallahassee (Woody Harrelson), a modern-day John Wayne wielding all sorts of weaponry and obsessed with finding a Twinkie (so much so that he’s driving across the nation for one). Tallahassee agrees to let Columbus ride along in his supped up hyphen in there SUV, but unfortunatley, the two fall for the theatrical cons of Wichita (a fiery Emma Stone) and Little Rock (Abigail Breslin’s Zombie killing twin to her Little Miss Sunshine character), both sisters and hailing from Kansas. They steal the van and leave Columbus and Tallahassee dudes without a paddle.
The relationship between the two parties play out like a game of gender wars as they intersect paths frequently. However, the self-empowered, and no-need-for-men attitude of the sisters soon changes. They all decide to pack it in together and coast through their new post-apocalyptic lives as a “family” of sorts, hitting up various locations such as Hollywood hills (where the most least suspecting funnyman of our times makes a sidesplitting cameo) and a sprawling amusement park where the final showdown, man vs. zombie, explodes like the 4th of July.
There’s good times to be had with “Zombieland.” Director Ruben Fleisher is unrelenting in the gore/blood department, a forewarning to those easily nauseated, but nonetheless, his sophomore feature proves to be funny as hell and extremely clever. Before “Zombieland,” another “horror” movie called “Jennifer’s Body” was released to a critical and public barbecue for it’s failed attempts at mixing horror and comedy and characters that fell flat.
Now having seen both “Zombieland” and “Jennifer’s Body,” I would call the latter misunderstood, to say the least, and the former a success. “Zombielands’” blending of genre’s work mostly in part to the realism of its characters, easy-to-relate-to characters who speak in actual human tongue (Diablo Cody’s stylized dialogue worked for “Juno,” but felt alien for her characters in “Jennifer’s Body.”)
“Zombieland” holds little to no imperfections to speak ill of. If you’re looking to be jilted by pure, unmitigated thrills, then settle on into your seat for just that. Woody Harrelson is dynamite; akin to Robert Downey Jr.’s portrayal as a white man playing a black man in “Tropic Thunder,” Harrelson follows in Downey’s footsteps by going for broke in a crazy and gloriously hilarious fashion.
Nerdy leading man Michael Cera may have some competition with little known Jesse Eisenberg, his Jerrie-curl counterpart. Of course, like Cera in each of his movies, Eisenberg steals the show by perfecting the term “awkward” to a continuously laughable effect; that and because of his killer Zombie assassin tactics, which one would never suspect coming from such an introverted character.
“Zombieland” is a hoot-and-a-holler and satisfying as hell; from the onslaught of laughs to juiced up action, “Zombieland” could fit perfectly in a slot alongside B-movie, exploitation fare. Except where B-movies are usually plain stupid, “Zombieland” stimulates far-fetched action with an overflowing amount of wit to an awesome extent.
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