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 ...
Texas Sized Early Voting Turnout
Sarah Al-Shaikh, News Editor
October 29, 2018
As the clock struck 4:30 pm, the last couple of early-voters for the day trickled into Harris County Public Health Main Campus. While there was not a line leading out the building, as we saw on the first day of early voting, the energy and eagerness to vote were nonetheless still in the air. Several...
Texas Contemporary Art Festival
Ana Gonzalez
October 11, 2018
Filed under A&E, Showcase, Uncategorized
Hundreds, if not thousands of artists and art enthusiasts flocked over to the George R Brown Convention Center during the weekend of October 4 for the Texas Contemporary Art Fair. The fair welcomed more than 3,500 guests into the convention center, which became a massive turnout. Curators, art ...
Juventus’ scorer switches to defense
October 3, 2018
Juventus soccer star, Cristiano Ronaldo is being accused of raping a woman nine years ago in Las Vegas, Nevada. The woman is now suing Ronaldo in a civil act case she made against him. Kathryn Mayorga claims Cristiano Ronaldo raped her in a Las Vegas hotel on June 13, 2009. She signed a nondisclosure...
Got Parking?
Wendy Cortes, Staff Writer
September 18, 2018
Filed under Campus, Community, Showcase
Nothing starts the semester and welcomes us all back to school, more than spending precious learning time driving around campus searching for a parking spot. How tedious to have to spend valuable learning time going in circles, rising up numerous levels in a parking garage, to find out there are no spots...
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
Fabian Brims
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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