You don’t have to like the idea of making a dragon your personal home pet, but if you wish to become a Viking, strap on a sword and get ready to catch a dragon. In 214 pages, Cressida Cowell’s “How to Train Your Dragon” reads like a bedtime story and inspired the beloved animated film […]
The debut of Instagram propelled the selfie culture into the darkest age of profile picture taking our generation has seen to date. Let’s be realistic. The most common selfies are the ones where the people look extra cute, partially because it’s a quick way to get positive comments about their appearance. It’s easy. Flip the […]
The best part about eating at your favorite restaurant is ordering your favorite item off the menu and enjoying the sweet, guilty pleasure. It’s not often people dare to veer from their usual tastes to explore a menu’s variety. It’s quick and easy to know exactly what you always want from a certain restaurant, but […]
Zombies may not be as useless or over-romanticized as we think anymore, especially when they are coming together for a good cause. A slow-moving herd of the undead made its way down St. George Boulevard Saturday at the fourth annual Zombie Walk hosted by Comics Plus to raise food donations for Dixie Care and Share. […]
Luke Skywalker has nothing on Ender Wiggin. A decade after the debut of the Jedi, “Ender’s Game” by Orson Scott Card, winner of the 1985 Nebula Award for best sci-fi novel, sparked controversy and intrigue in the science fiction realm of literature. The first movie adaptation of the novel hits theaters Nov. 1. Battle simulations […]
Being a student at Dixie State University on the cusp of its evolution into a university is nothing short of thrilling; the state of Utah is going under a similar evolution in its changing views on same-sex marriage. In March, three same-sex couples living in Utah filed a challenge against the Utah Constitution Amendment 3. This lawsuit […]
In front of a gathered crowd at Highland Park in Washington, Tanner Kirk, a 16-year-old from Magna, rolled his wheelchair to center-stage and told the story behind his disability. He suffers from dystonia, a result of coming out of a three-month coma after his suicide attempt in 2012. It causes his body to twist in […]
If I am on the same page as everyone else, all of the government shutdowns, foreign country invasions and live television twerking have become so radically prevalent to the point of eye-rolling boredom. To top it all off, there’s the new Affordable Care Act regulations to be aware of. In all honesty though, not many […]
Young adult novels have left a sour taste in the mouth since the debut of “Twilight” and seem to contain the same boring formula for telling the same boring story. Boy meets girl, girl meets boy. Boy and girl deal with an existential crisis. They bond over mutual misery. Girl breaks boy’s heart. Boy saves […]
High 25 mph winds forced the Dixie State University men’s golf team off the green in the final round of the Chico-Interwest Insurance Wildcat Classic Tuesday holding its spot in sixth place overall. The weather warning announcement was made at the Sevillano Links field shortly before the shotgun start at 8:30 a.m. PST. The players and coach Brad Sutterfield […]
