The James Logan Courier

By Julia Ortiz, Courier Staff Writer

Set in the roaring 1920’s, Bianca is a young woman with her whole life set before her. She has suitors waiting on her, an Italian mob boss as a father, and talents to please everyone, however, she will remain alone unless her older sister Katherine gets married. This sets a wheel in motion to set Kate up with a man just as fiery and opinionated as she is.

Hilarious scenes between two of the leads Kate and Petrucio, played by Jaiden Caballero and Jake McKee, filled the theater with laughter. Even old man Gremio, portrayed by Tom Hu, got into the action.

By Ajay Bains,Courier Staff Writer

This latest installment of the Star Wars video game saga gives you full control of your Jedi character, Starkiller.

Stars Wars: The Force Unleashed II starts off with Darth Vader trying to kill a clone of Starkiller, Vader's secret apprentice who died at the end of the first game who you, the player, control. After conducting some tests on Starkiller's clone, Vader claims that your character is another failure and tries to kill him. A vision comes to Starkiller and he defends himself and attempts to break out. After escaping, Starkiller sets out to find Juno Eclipse, your lost love interest and ship's pilot from the first Force Unleashed.

That’s where the player takes over and the controls are picked up along the way.

MISCELLANEOUS
Need Driver’s Education? Your place is the Adult School. Cost is $125. Monday, Tuesday & Wednesday, December 20, 21 & 22, 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. Applications are now available in your house office, or see Mr. Caruso in Room 77 for both an application and details.

Attention off-campus ROP students: There will be no Fremont classes on Friday. Be sure to have notes or ph one calls from your parents to the attendance clerks in your house office to be excused from Logan’s campus early. Without parent permission you will not be allowed to leave Logan, and will have to sit in your house office for the remainder of the school day.

Today is the last day to purchase PACT tickets in the Career Center during lunch only! Tickets cost $25 for this Saturday’s test.

By Matea Gold and Jordan Steffen
Tribune Washington Bureau (MCT)

McLEAN, Va. —: Aja Sutter is the kind of voter the Democrats could not afford to lose this year. The 26-year-old physical therapist, part of a legion of unmarried women that has long been one of the most reliable Democratic bases, enthusiastically voted for President Barack Obama in 2008.

But in last week's midterm election, Sutter cast her ballot for Republicans, frustrated by the administration's lack of progress in righting the economy.

"A lot of the things that were promised, in my opinion, didn't happen, and I wasn't satisfied," said Sutter, who noted that many of her female friends, feeling let down and ignored by politicians, did not even bother to vote.

By Billy O'Keefe
McClatchy-Tribune (MCT)

It's almost reflex to criticize the storyline portion of "Kane & Lynch 2: Dog Days" for being too short at around four hours long. But given how dishearteningly the story's backward steps outnumber its forward steps, four hours might be plenty — especially if you find the more inspired multiplayer offerings more to your liking anyway.

On the positive front, "Days" is a more polished third-person shooter than its 2007 predecessor. Finding cover actually generally works this time, and while the automatic weapons remain frustratingly inaccurate, the pistols and absurdly powerful shotguns are sufficiently precise. In addition to smoothing out the framerate, a clever new visual style presents the action as though it's being filmed on a handicam — video grain, compression artifacts, color separation, light streaking — and it effectively enhances the ugliness of the game's violence. (The nauseating shaky cam effect can, mercifully, be disabled.)

From wikipedia:
Benjamin Banneker (November 9, 1731 – October 9, 1806) was a free African American astronomer, mathematician, surveyor, almanac author and farmer.

It is difficult to people in the world to verify much of Benjamin Banneker's family history. Some writers have stated that he was a grandson of a European American named Molly Welsh, who came to colonial America as an indentured servant. Researchers have questioned this, as Banneker described himself only as having an African ancestry. None of Banneker's surviving papers describe a white ancestor or identify the name of his grandmother. The first published description of Molly Welsh as having come from Europe and as having been white was based on interviews with Molly's descendents that took place during and after 1836, long after the deaths of both Molly and Benjamin.

Read Dear Benjamin Banneker by By Andrea Davis Pinkney and Brian Pinkney, free from Google Books.