Latest Nintendo Direct brings more Mario, Fire Emblem, plus other new games
Ana Gonzalez, Head Editor
February 14, 2019
Gamers, time to throw your wallet at Nintendo once again; as they have announced brand new games as well as upcoming titles coming to the Nintendo Switch later this year. Yoshiaki Koizumi, Deputy General Manager of Nintendo, anchored the 36-minute-long Direct. It was Nintendo’s way of broadcasting...
Fighting the Bad Guys: Cancer patient sworn in as cop for a day
Esmeralda Rocha, Staff Writer
February 13, 2019
Filed under Community, Showcase
Houston-area 6-year old Abigail Rose Arias had her dream come true when she became the newest member of the Freeport Police Department. Abigail was sworn in by the Chief Ray Garivey after he learned about her interest in law enforcement. According to KPRC, Abigail has been battling cancer for two years. She h...
“Fluffy” brings nonstop laughs in new Netflix special
Ana Gonzalez, Head Editor
February 6, 2019
About a year after Hurricane Harvey brushed through the Houston area, Comedian Gabriel “Fluffy” Iglesias announced that he would film a Netflix special titled “One Show Fits All” at the Toyota Center. On January 29, that same special was dropped on Netflix. The 42-year-old comedian did...
13-year-old Wisconsin girl escapes abduction, kidnapper charged
Vivian Reyes, Staff Writer
January 24, 2019
Jayme Closs was abducted from her family's home October 15, 2018 in Barron, Wisconsin. An attacker forced his way into the Closs family home where he shot and killed her father and mother. Jayme Closs was thirteen years old when found in her family's home during the time her parents were shot...
Speech winner calls hunger, “Mass destruction”
Ana Gonzalez, Culture Editor
October 29, 2018
Filed under Community, Showcase
Competitors were in good spirits on the morning of October 20th at Houston Community College Eastside Campus, as the 4th Annual Speech Tournament went underway. A total of 19 competitors participated in the tournament. Danielle Stagg, HCC Interim Chair of Speech and Communication and Speech Professor ...
We are NOT The Enemy
Ana Gonzalez, Staff Writer
September 18, 2018
Filed under Commentary, Showcase
We’ve been hearing this almost every day: “The media is the enemy of the American people”. When President Donald Trump took office, one of the things he started doing was to attack the media for reporting “false news” on his presidential duties, and his moves. He hated how some journalists...
Express headed back to Houston?
John Cañamar, Head Editor
September 18, 2018
Houston looks to add Round Rock as Triple-A affiliate.
The Albany Movement: The Impact of Two Young Revolutionaries
Marquis Wiley, Egalitarian Contributor
February 18, 2018
Filed under Community, Culture, Showcase
It is still hard to believe that there was a time when America was legally divided in to “separate but equal” parts. Voting laws, interracial marriages, water fountains, even hospitals were segregated by Whites and “Coloreds.” White delivery rooms were properly maintained, while the Colored delivery...
“Hostiles” is a grand western with questionable morals
Fabian Brims, Egalitarian Staff Writer
February 2, 2018
When Kevin Costner revived the Western genre 27 years ago with his epic “Dances with Wolves,” he also introduced a new element of realism to the genre. Director Scott Cooper is now the latest person to fuse it into his work, and his noir-Western is definitely more than just a story about “cowboys...
Spielberg’s ‘The Post’ revives the thrill in political thrillers
January 11, 2018
While everyone is waiting for Steven Spielberg’s next movie, ‘Ready Player One,’ he used the time spent in post-production to quickly shoot a movie that is nothing less than a statement for a free press and its importance for democracy in America: ‘The Post.’ After compiling a report for the...
HCC mourns over loss of Mark Chavarria
Fabian Brims, Staff Writer
November 16, 2017
When I met Mark Anthony Chavarria for the first time, he was one of the instructors during my first semester at HCC for Radio and TV Field Production. He introduced himself by saying he worked on a small movie called “Inception.” I immediately liked his sense of humor. Around Mark there was neve...
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