The James Logan Courier

By Beatrice Esteban, Courier Staff Writer

Thai Grata, off of Blossom Hill in San Jose, is a new restaurant serving various types of Thai food. They serve traditional dishes such as pad thai, pineapple fried rice, and curry.

My family decided to head over since my aunt is friends with the owner. We didn’t know what to expect, but since we have huge appetites, we ordered quite a few different dishes. The menu has quite a lot to offer, and even allows you to change the level of spiciness in most dishes to tailor to your own spice tolerance.

By Alyssa Pimentel, Courier News Editor

Language Arts teacher Ross Minor of room 531 is now selling homemade shanghai-pork lumpia for the Breast Cancer Awareness Run or Walk Event Fundraiser. The “Keep Abreast Walk” is a five to ten mile run or walk that is sponsored by a number of companies, and small community service groups including Elpida, the group responsible for this fundraiser.

Elpida, through Minor, is selling a bag of fifty shanghai-pork lumpia for $15 and a bag of a hundred pieces for $25. Anyone can order lumpia through Minor’s email, rminor@nhusd.k12.ca.us, or through elpidaladies@yahoo.com. He said that students can place their order either during third period and fifth period lunch as well but it’s preferable to contact him through email. Those ordering would have to pay when they place their order and leave their contact information. From there, the lumpia will be made in one to two days.

By Shamal Asnani, Courier Staff Writer

Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor’s latest movie, Gamer, is a science fiction action movie, which focuses on the idea of how dangerous mind control can truly be. The movies main character, Kable, is a death row inmate, who has been forced to participate in multi-billionaire Ken Castle’s latest human controlling video game, Slayer. In Slayer, death row inmates are controlled by other players, through the use of mind control, under extremely dangerous conditions, where the consequence of losing for the inmates is death.

By Shamal Asnani, Courier Staff Writer

The latest horror film to hit theaters, Sorority Row, is a movie which focuses on the tremendous consequences of a prank gone wrong.

The film starts off with the death of a sorority girl, due to a prank in which she was pretending to be dead in the first place. After her real death, the main characters of the film decide to abandon her body while they still can, deciding to move on with their lives and not face the consequences of causing an innocent girl's death. Some months later, instigators of this prank begin receiving text messages from the phone of the girl they killed. Soon after someone starts killing off anyone responsible for the death of this girl, causing them to believe her ghost has come back for vengeance.

By Ranjana Prasad, Courier Staff Writer

Recently I went to this restaurant called the Rainforest Café in San Francisco and it was a very adventurous place to dine.

The restaurant itself, interior and exterior, is themed as a rain forest, with sound effects of chirping birds, thunderstorms and rain reinforcing the illusion. Also, the ceiling of the restaurant is made into a starry night where the stars twinkle and every so often a shooting star passes by. There are also moving figures of gorillas hiding behind trees who come out thumping their chests and elephants waving their trunks while trumpeting. The best thing about this restaurant is the life-size waterfall they have right in the middle of the place and behind it is a man holding the world in his hands. You are supposed to feel as if you’re in a real rain forest.

Greta Garbo (September 18, 1905 – April 15, 1990) was a Swedish actress, by reputation one of the greatest and most inscrutable movie stars ever to be produced by MGM and the Hollywood studio system. In 1954 she received an Honorary Oscar "for her unforgettable screen performances", and The Guinness Book of World Records named her "the most beautiful woman who ever lived."She has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.


Watch the promotional "trailer" for Greta Garbo's film Camille, streaming in 256k MPEG4, free from the Internet Archive.