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Written by Amanda Tong
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I AM AN ANTI-GEISHA. I am not Japanese, I am Chinese. There is a difference between the two, you know. I have gigantic size nine feet, crater zits that break out through my 'silky skin' before and after and during my period, and a loud mouth that screams profanities and insults and my mind. I have a little potbelly, I have an a— that needs to go to the gym. I have hangnails and calluses and blisters and baggage (emotional, historical, and whatever the hell else kinda of baggage that is keeping HIM from taking a chance on someone who actually gives a sh— about herself)."
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Written by The Lowell Staff
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United States: Wendigo
By Andrey Kobzar
Driving to a friend's country farmhouse, a family from the city hits a deer. The buck is left twitching by the side of the road, and a group of hunters that was tracking it emerges from the woods. One of the hunters takes aim and fires, as eight-year-old protagonist Miles looks on from the car.
This is the opening scene of Wendigo, directed by Larry Fessenden. The film is about an innocent boy, Miles, who is subjected to the evil within Otis, the hunter who kills the deer. Otis harasses Miles' father about hitting the deer and proceeds to terrorize the family throughout the movie, shooting at their house and flashing them intimidating looks.
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Written by The Lowell Staff
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Jack-o-lanterns glow on Belvedere street
By Austin English
IF YOU'VE ALREADY visited that one infamous haunted house in your neighborhood countless times — the same one you were too scared to go to when you were younger but now couldn't care less about — going to Belvedere Street this Halloween might be a nice change of pace.
Belvedere Street boasts an over-abundance of elaborate haunted houses, its own Halloween photo booth — where those in costume can get their picture taken — and even a local man who hangs by the rafters of his house and hands out candy to apprehensive on-lookers.
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Written by Ashley Yueh
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David Hathwell will get up on his desk and rip
off his shirt before a class full of students and reserve
Wednesday nights to watch shows on the WB network
— all in the name of education. Forging a bond with his students
is essential to his teaching.
“I want to see what kids are doing, what kinds of experiences
kids identify with, who their models are,” Hathwell said.
As a teacher, Hathwell’s taste in prime time television is one
of his most loved eccentricities.
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Written by Michelle Konstantinovsky
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While countless people gorge themselves on
winter treats around the clock this holiday season,
those celebrating Ramadan will do just the opposite.
Ramadan is the ninth month of the Muslim calendar, and
Muslims consider it a time to concentrate on their faith, instead
of the events of everyday life. Fasting is one way of doing this.
“We don’t eat from sunrise to sunset, and that includes water,”
Muslim junior Dena Takruri said. “Basically, people try
to get up before the sun rises and eat a nice breakfast to keep
them running throughout the day, and then they break fast at
sunset.”
All social classes practice the Ramadan fast.
More fortunate people are reminded of the hunger the less
fortunate feel. Muslims consider fasting a spiritual, moral and
physical discipline.
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Written by Derek Steer
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At exactly 5:37 a.m. on Dec. 21, the earth’s axis will reach a 23.5-degree tilt, marking the winter solstice, the day with the fewest daylight hours and the longest night. Originally, people of northern latitudes celebrated the winter solstice as a rebirth of the sun,
a sign that the warm spring season was coming. Today neopagans such as Wiccans still celebrate the solstice, which is referred to as Yule. Wiccans mark Yule with a special ritual and meals the evening before and the morning of the solstice.
According to Wiccan sophomore Holly Smith, Wiccans worship both a god and a goddess. On Yule, they celebrate the return of the sun after six months of short days, which symbolizes the rebirth of the god.
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Written by Matthew Mewhinney
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Senior Hanayo Arimoto will become spiritually
and physically fit by sweeping out dust and making small
repairs to her house — all in preparation for Oshogatsu,
the Japanese New Year.
Oshogatsu, which falls on Jan. 1, is the most important holiday
in Japanese culture, according to Japanese teacher Kiyoto
Takemoto.
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Written by Derek Steer
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Could you, would you see The
Grinch? I would see it in the rain. And
in the dark. And on a train. And in a
car. And in a tree. It is so good, so good, you
see!
With the return of The Grinch Who
Stole Christmas in movie form, the
works of Theodore Seuss Geisel, also
known as Dr. Seuss, are returning to
popularity.
According to
the Internet
Movie Database
at www.imdb.
com, the movie was
hugely successful in its
opening weekend,
grossing $55.1
million and
jumping to the
number one spot
on the box of- fice charts, even
though reviewers trashed it.
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