Katy Buchmueller, senior Kristina Schmuhl, junior The newest show on MTV, Skins, encapsulates all facets of edgy teens’ lives: drugs, sex and rock’n’roll. One would think that this makes for an instant hit, but such a formulaic, generic cop-out of the British version, which started airing in 2007, has many [...]

Rico Fernandez, junior As his time at Maria Carrillo comes to an end, senior Sam Atoe has decided that he will be taking his talents to San Diego. He has verbally committed the Aztecs of San Diego State University, who will be giving him a full ride scholarship. “I really [...]

Derek Schmidt, junior Barbershop is not just another genre of music; it is whole different method of singing.  It’s a way to make four voices sound like 40, it’s a way for people all around the world to join together and sing, regardless of their backgrounds.             The Sugar Cubes, [...]

Kenny Kasper, senior In an economy in which an undergraduate degree is no guarantee for a job offer, students are trying something their parents’ generation may not have considered: not going to college, or at least not immediately.  Long recognized as a rite of passage in Europe, the gap year [...]

Marianna Mapes, senior Drab, yellow and lonely, the abandoned house next to Maria Carrillo High School isn’t the most welcoming sight. With its boarded-up front windows, it looks as though it has a few secrets. And its biggest secret happens to be its best-kept one: The house is part of [...]

Heidi Hirvonen, senior Kayla Kearney’s second home is the stage.  So when the Maria Carrillo High School senior, respected for her singing and acting skills, stepped out of her comfort zone at the Martin Luther King Jr. Assembly on Jan. 13 and 14 to publicly expose her homosexuality, Kearney was [...]

Marianna Mapes, senior It’s only on rare occasion that Hope Cupples wakes up with legs that aren’t sore. But for competitive equestriennes like Cupples, aching muscles come with the territory. The physical demands of horseback riding were among the many surprises awaiting her when she first got into the saddle [...]

Heidi Hirvonen, senior I have never much fancied myself a troublemaker.  Yet California State Law might beg to differ.                   On Nov. 11, my mother escorted me, clutching a faded speeding ticket in a damp palm, to the Santa Rosa Juvenile Court, where I was to be evaluated and [...]

Nick Pimentel, senior I care about the environment, I guess. Somewhere, in the back of my mind, behind the thoughts of the girl with the large bottom in first period, the girl with the nice eyes in fourth period and the girl I don’t have a chance with in sixth [...]

Kristina Schmuhl, junior Lexi Tonascia is not your average female sophomore. She obsessively watches her weight during the holiday season and is the center of attention in a room of rowdy boys. But how are these qualities unaverage you say? Well, Tonascia is a female wrestler.             Standing at 5’?, [...]