The James Logan Courier

By Krystal Henderson, Courier News Editor

Notice anything different today as you sauntered around campus? Did you noticed how easy it was to walk in the hallways, and howquiet it was in the Spot?

Well, today is Senior Cut Day, an unofficial "holiday" and tradition at James Logan High School

"Today was one of the worst days all year," said House 12's attendance secretary, Michele Bazzel. "Every twelfth grader called in sick today!"

By Charles Yi, Courier Film Critic

“Semi‑Pro”, directed by Kent Alterman, is yet another slapstick comedy starring Will Ferrell.

Set in 1976, Jackie Moon (Ferrell) is a singer who uses the profits from his one hit single “Love Me Sexy” to become a sports impresario and purchase a team in the American Basketball Association (ABA), the Flint, Michigan Tropics. The ABA announces plans to merge with the National Basketball Association (NBA), the upper echelon of professional basketball in the United States, but only four teams will be able to move to the more established league.

By Lewis Beale
Newsday (MCT)

The caveman film. So ridiculous, so kitschy, so irresistibly watchable. The release this week of "10,000 B.C." serves to remind that this debased genre — down there at the bottom of the film food chain with slasher flicks and teen sex comedies — has been with us for decades and shows no signs of going the way of the Neanderthal.

Think "Clan of the Cave Bear." Or "Encino Man." It soon becomes obvious that the terms "Oscar-winning cinema" and "caveman flick" are mutually exclusive (so maybe 1981's "Quest for Fire" won an Oscar for best makeup. It sure didn't win any awards from Cro-Magnon historians). Which is probably why the creators of "10,000 B.C." have called it "a sweeping odyssey into a mythical age of prophecies and gods."

By Sarena Bains, Courier Staff Writer

Papillon is located on 37296 Mission Blvd., just west of the Niles Blvd. in Fremont. Papillion, which in French means butterfly, has been serving people for more than twenty years. Once entering the restaurant you are kindly welcomed and seated in a traditional dining room. They offer four types of dining rooms each with its own unique setting.

By Christina La, Courier Editor-in-Chief

Henry, emotionally unstable, refuses to move on after his wife, Kate, is killed on their wedding day. As annoying as Kate is with her orders, she comes upon an ice sculpted angel that she ordered but realizes it is an angel without wings. Furious, Kate demands the man to take it back and bring her one with wings. As the man is unaware of what is behind him, Kate is relentlessly trying to stop the man from backing his truck into her wedding decorations. Kate is crushed by the ice angel that falls out of the man’s truck, leaving her crushed to death as she goes off into the afterlife.

Milton Avery (March 7, 1885 – January 3, 1965) was an American modern painter. Although born in Altmar, New York, he moved to Connecticut in 1898 and later to New York City.

He supported himself with factory jobs and for many years he lived in obscurity. In 1917 he began working at night in order to paint in the daytime. For several years in the late 1920s through the late 1930s Avery practiced painting and drawing at the Art Students League of New York. Roy Neuberger saw his work and thought he deserved recognition. Determined to get the world to know and respect Avery's work, Neuberger bought over 100 of his paintings, starting with Gaspé Landscape, and lent or donated them to museums all over the world. With the work of Milton Avery rotating through high-profile museums, he came to be a highly respected and successful painter.

Read more about Milton Avery and his paintings, and see examples of his work, free from the Artchive.