Restaurant review: The Melting Pot

Sara Guglielmo, Reporter
February 19, 2012

Fondue makes one think of chocolate covered strawberries or pretzels. The Melting Pot offers chocolate fondue, but that is not all. The restaurant also serves cheese fondue, as well as many other types. The Melting Pot restaurant is located in Reston and is not very far for those of you who live in Great... Read more »

Movie review: Woman in Black

Avani Hegde, Reporter
February 16, 2012

Do you believe in ghosts? Arthur Kipps was a very rational man and never believed in spirits. That is, until he started seeing a strange woman in black. In the movie, Arthur Kipps, a widowed lawyer, leaves his four year old son for a few days while he sells an old house. When he reaches the town nearest... Read more »

New businesses opening in Great Falls and McLean

Cathy Kiess, News Editor
February 14, 2012

You walk up and open the clear glass door, step onto the linoleum floors and the door swooshes behind you, enveloping you in the sights and sounds of the new store. The only question is, which one? With a Starbucks opening in the Great Falls Village, a Microsoft store at Tysons, and a promised frozen... Read more »

#Hashtags taking over Langley

Ashley Ryan, Copy Editor
February 8, 2012

Twitter is becoming the new Facebook. Students around Langley are switching from muploads (mobile uploads) to twitpics (Twitter pictures) and from amassing Facebook friends to trying to get more Twitter followers. But what makes Twitter so new and exciting? While on Facebook, posters have to worry how... Read more »

Restaurant review: Coastal Flats

Amanda Baird, Reporter
February 4, 2012

You walk in to find colorful metal fish hanging from the ceiling above the hostess stand. As you wait for your table, you smell an aroma of freshly baked bread and other great food. At Coastal Flats in Tyson’s Corner you’ll find seafood, salads, burgers, and more. If you enjoy seafood or Sweetwater... Read more »

Music review: upcoming artists

Rosie Brock, Photo Editor
January 31, 2012

Lana Del Rey Lana Del Rey’s melodic voice hums and the 24 year old singer/songwriter’s lyrics sound more like they should be echoing out of a vintage Victrola record player rather than 21st century headphones. Del Rey, born Elizabeth Grant, is a rising artist with a truly unique essence, in both... Read more »

Play review: Two Gentlemen of Verona

Alex Krial, Reporter
January 28, 2012

Beyoncé’s “Single Ladies,” U2’s “Beautiful Day” and “With or Without You,” and club music – not something you would usually expect to hear at a Shakespeare play, right? That was just the scene during the Shakespeare Theatre Company’s performance of Two Gentlemen of Verona at... Read more »

TV Review: Pretty Little Liars

Katherine Rohloff, Assistant Editor
January 27, 2012

If you are familiar with ABC Family’s Pretty Little Liars, then you are probably all too familiar with the girls’ staged faces of horror, the endless amounts of dead ends, and the overall ridiculous pranks from A. Pretty Little Liars is mainly about a group of girls from Rosewood,Pennsylvania, whose... Read more »

Movie review: New Year’s Eve

Avani Hegde, Reporter
January 24, 2012

The movie New Year’s Eve is a fun and entertaining movie that takes you through the stories of a several couples in New York on New Years Eve. The movie contains several separate stories, some of which are connected and some of which aren’t. During one plot two strangers are stuck in an elevator... Read more »

Movie review: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

Li Chien, Staff Writer
January 22, 2012

To most of us, Sep. 11 will forever be known as 9/11. To Oskar Schell, however, Sep. 11 will forever be known as “the worst day.” Oskar Schell (Thomas Horn), a fictional character in the new movie Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close, is an intelligent, creative boy that doesn’t exactly hang with... Read more »