How to grow a Cash Stash!
December 22, 2011
Filed under Money, Uncategorized
The holiday season has come and gone, and so has your money! Every year the annual budget is stretched a little thin because of the need for family presents, a winter vacation, and maybe that one indulgence that you just cant resist! With the help of the Como Crier mathematicians, we have deduced... Read more »
Happy Birthday MLK Jr.!
December 22, 2011
Filed under Uncategorized
January 15th, 1929, the world was changed forever. Martin Luther King Junior was born in Atlanta, Georgia, to Reverend Martin Luther King Senior and Alberta Williams King. With an older sister Willie, and a younger brother, Alfred, Dr. King was raised in a Baptist family. Oddly enough, it is not... Read more »
The Earth, E.U., and You!
December 22, 2011
Filed under News, Uncategorized
With all this talk of global crisis going around, it is easy to be confused, confounded, and just plain complacent about the state of the international economy. One of the main subjects concerning this topic has been the financial problems the European Union has been experiencing, Greece for example,... Read more »
Illuminating the Third Knight
December 15, 2011 • Michael Clausen
Filed under Arts and Entertainment
There is already debate raging–across the internet, among film and graphic novel circles, and amongst my own friends–which will come to complete blood feuds in 2012. Thankfully just before the Mayans can claim our planet (and con artists our retirement savings) next year, the two biggest... Read more »
Another Earth Review
December 15, 2011 • Michael Clausen
Filed under Arts and Entertainment
Running time: 92 minutes, Rated PG-13 Let’s face it. Most movie trailers today suck. The execs and producers know they don’t have a quality script, cast, crew, what have you, and that to hint at their film’s themes or content (merely hint) would be ill-advised. So they slap some millions... Read more »
Top 10 Comic Book Films
December 15, 2011 • Michael Clausen
Filed under Arts and Entertainment
Since the birth of comic books, over a hundred films have been influenced by or based on the noble picture books. Of those, probably only 20% of them–on the short end of 1978–are worth seeing. Here are ten required, genre staples that deserve to be witnessed. Note: This list is completely... Read more »
Snow White vs. Snow White?
December 15, 2011 • by Michael Clausen
Filed under Arts and Entertainment
A curious phase in Hollywood is taking its course. No, not the general notion of remakes. That’s been rampantly going on this whole decade and especially the last one (this one is only years in;) but now it seems so many film classics (and many, many more non-classics) have been readapted that... Read more »
Testing and Testing and Testing
December 14, 2011 • by William Hageman
Filed under Life at Como, Opinion
For the past few years there has been an endless stream of tests being given at Como Park Senior High. Many of them have been given in the computer lab that sits adjacent to the library. These tests consist of the M.A.P., or Measure of Academic Progress test, the GRAD test that is given to those who... Read more »
Alumni Voices II Christine Claiborne
December 13, 2011 • by Christine Claiborne
Filed under Life at Como
So how does a 20 year old girl go about working not one, not two, but three jobs, plus go to school full time? I’d say pure dedication and determination. Exactly what is a typical week for me some may ask? It’s not as hard as it sounds. Being in college you have way more time between classes to do... Read more »
Welcome to America
December 13, 2011 • by Dan Baden and Britta Scott
Filed under Life at Como, Top Stories
On a frigid December day, the air outside Como Park Senior High School is so cold the trees are shivering, and puffs of air rise above a group of students like steam in a sauna. These students are waiting for the bus that will take them to the Minnesota state Capitol. But this is no normal field trip.... Read more »
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