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opinionPage 8 January 2010 January 2010 Page 5 entertainment The Face of Fashion

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8. I Gotta Feeling- Black Eyed Peas9.Down- Jay Sean10. Watcha Say- Jason Derulo

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Newly Released Movies:Avatar

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It’s ComplicatedAlvin And The Chipmunks:

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Youth In Revolt

Coming Soon:The Lovely Bones- Jan 15

Book Of Eli- Jan 15The Spy Next Door- Jan 15

Legion- Jan 22Shutter Island- Feb 19

20th Century Fox’s newly released movie has resulted in a huge up-roar worldwide. While some critics have panned it as a CGI-ed rehash of Pocahontas, audiences have given it glowing reviews. Set in the 22nd century on the alien planet of Pandora, “Avatar” is the story of an ex-marine who is thrust into the inter-species hostilities between humans and the indigenous 11ft-tall, blue-skinned Na’vi people. He soon has to decide on his allegiance to his own species or the Na’vi. “Avatar” took 15 years to film. Director James Cameron (award winning director of “Titanic”) invented a special 3D camera espe-cially made for the filming of this movie. Although the story line was predictable at moments,the special effects in this movie are breath-taking. Avatar’s meteoric rise to the #2 biggest box office hit of all time (#1 being Titanic) through excellent word-of-mouth makes it a worthwhile two and a half hours. Many Austin students have already made the venture to the movie theatre to see “Avatar”. Senior Briana Hess describes the experience as “amazing, everything looked so real. The movie is so worth paying the expensive movie theatre prices”

Aisha Khan

Pocahontas Meets The SmurfsAvatar Stars At The Box Office

Christy Wolterman Staff Writer

It’s practi-cally tradition for Fort Bend ISD to switch around the yearly sched-ule. Every year it’s something new. Whether Win-

ter Break is shorter, or school starts later, it seems like Fort Bend is constantly unhappy with the sched-ule, moving it around over and over and over again. Perhaps the biggest change this school year is the shift in exam dates. Rather than keeping the

exams after the Winter Break as usual, the district decided to change the schedule around again. Our last benchmark period is only seven weeks long as opposed to the normal nine. With all the shuffling of schedules and drastic changes year after year, the overall changes are somewhat discomforting to the students. Sophomore Anh Huynh, when asked about the changes this year, said “It’s a good change, I think. Now that exams fall before our break, there’s no stressing and worrying about exams soon after. Instead of spending winter break studying, we are relaxing and tak-

ing a well-deserved break from the stress and strain of school. We’re able to start with a clean slate instead of forgetting half of every-thing we learned over a period of weeks.” Exams are a tense and monu-mental period, but most people are rather pleased with the change. Although the year is hardly per-fect, and there have been some complaints, most people agree that Thanksgiving break was too short and that school should start ear-lier. This way can get out in May instead of June. For once, the large majority is satisfied with this one change in exam dates.

Another sophomore, Sarah Hernandez remarked, “It’s freeing. Breaks are supposed to be about relaxation, and we’re finally getting that this year.”

Rhea Turakhia

Switching Schedules Fashion is a creative cycle where the faces of tomorrow walk the grand stage of today. From the cre-ative minds of Chloe, Val-

entino Garavani, Raquel Allegra, Christian Siriano, Yotam Solomon, and many others, the runway has al-lowed them to reach new horizons as these artists push forth ideas that are renovating our idea of style. The truth remains that the same Italian leathers and German cutoffs our moth-ers still indulge themselves with aren’t making the

headlines the way they use to. In 2009, runway fashion went head to head as critics craved for innova-tion, momentum, and something irresistible. One of those most influential events was Mercedes Benz’s New York fashion week. It emerged before the city showing off indie-urban and vintage inspired

pieces. Twice a year, the Big Apple invites high powered media moguls and well cel-ebrated people of the year. Individuals like Eva Mendes, Kerry Washington, Blake Lively, and Estelle flew in from all over the United States to attend the event in New York. The win-ter pieces were in-troduced early in the

year as spring and fall pieces were introduced midyear. Soft feminin-ity was the theme of this winter and the genera-tions of today have pow-ered that with darker colors, a simple mid slip belt, and the traditional black leather jacket. You can find some of the pieces widely celebrated at the event in retailers like Saks Fifth Avenue and boutiques through-out Uptown Park and the Galleria. Although trends are still followed religiously all over the world, they have ceased to set the bar. Dressing to your own standard, feel, and taste is what traditional

fashion is all about. Not throwing on a dress or a hideous head band just because you saw it flaunted on a model. The universe of fashion is more than girls walking down an isle or naive expression. It’s about passion, existence, and a form of beauty meant to rivet you into an in-tensely creative world.

AustinLegend.net Online Poll!What is the meaning of the winter season to you?

Religious reasons 11.8%

Holiday Songs on 99.1 5.9%

Family & Friends 5.9%

Love <3 0%

I prefer summer... 0%

Gifts!!! 0%

It’s cold...? 0%

All of the above... and then some! 76.5%

Sophomores Bobbi DeSplinter and Riddhi Yagnik study for the upcoming finals.

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