While visiting Cadillac Ranch, sophomore Melanie Moore met Food Network celebrities Jeff Manthorn and Duff Goldman from the hit show Ace of Cakes. 

Moore’s extended family from Arkansas was in town visiting and wanted to see the well known landmark. The family was surprised to find the crew of Ace of Cakes was filming there that same day. After spotting them, Melanie and her family went over to meet the people she had watched on television ever since the show first aired.

“I was nervous and excited about meeting them,” Moore said. “Even though they aren’t big celebrities it was still cool to meet someone off of TV.”

The show Ace of Cakes is about day to day trials of extreme cake decorating at Duff’s Bakery, Charm City Cakes. It features not only Duff and Jeff as head decorators but also the rest of the bakery’s employees. Melanie’s favorite aspect about the show is how they incorporate art into their cakes and how funny all of the stars are while dealing with those unique experiences.

“My favorite person is the receptionist, Mary Alice Fallon Yeskey,” Moore said. “She’s funny.”

For one day Melanie got to witness Duff and Jeff switch from decorating cake to decorating cars.

 “They were getting filmed while spray painting on the Cadillac’s and just having fun,” Moore said.  “They painted a cake on one.”

Some fans said this was only a warm-up.

“I think if we wait until we play a harder team, we’ll see how we do,” freshman Braxton Sides said.

Others said they already had their thoughts toward the future.

“I’m very excited about this season,” assistant principal Jerry Schaeffer said. “I’m excited about their offense and I expect great things from their defense. I think they’ll win ‘em all.”

Graduate Austin Cintella agrees.

“I think they’ll win state,” Cintella said. “From what I’ve seen, they’ve got great offense and great defense. They’re always watching the quarterback, stopping the ball before it gets any farther than it needs to.”

And some said they see a lack of experience, but do not expect it to be a problem.

“I personally think we have inexperience at the quarterback [position], but after seeing [Lubbock-Canyon], we might have a chance at a successful season,” junior David Martinez said. “I really think that we can make the playoffs this year. We have a strong senior class.”

The game revealed the team’s work ethic to students as well as a boost in attitude.

 “I think it’s good we’re getting a lot of confidence for our first game since we won,” senior Ashton Pedigo said. “Keep up the good work.”

The next game is Sept. 11 against Goddard High in Roswell, New Mexico at 2:00 p.m. Central.

Peter Cook is an internationally reputed Deaf performing artist whose works incorporate American Sign Language, pantomime, storytelling, acting and movement. His performance will be comedy based with storytelling and other acts. The $5.00 admission fee will admit ticket holders to the show and the reception following.

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The movie follows a 23 year old Canadian named Scott Pilgrim (Michael Cera) who is “between jobs”. He’s part of a band, the Sex Bob-ombs, and has a high school girlfriend, Knives Chau (Ellen Wong). His life seems happy and perfect until he meets and falls for an American girl named Ramona Flowers (Mary Elizabeth Winstead). However, in order for them to be together, Scott has to defeat her seven evil exes, who include a movie star, a vegan bassist, and Japanese twins.

Filled not only with video game action and great special effects, “Scott Pilgrim vs. the World” also has an amazing soundtrack and truly engaging characters. With songs from Metric, Beck, The Rolling Stones, and various video games, the movie is filled with dynamic sounds and exciting music. The characters are all believable, from Scott’s gay roommate Wallace Wells (Kieran Culkin) to my favorite character, the third evil ex and vegan, Todd Ingram (Brandon Routh).

All of the actors look like the characters they play down to a minute detail, which is a great bonus for fans of the comics. The actors also sell the characters’ personalities, truly translating them from the pages of a book to the big screen. Cera is believable as a young adult who struggles with life, Winstead plays the part of Ramona with a good dash of sarcasm, and Jason Schwartzman, who plays the last evil ex Gideon Graves, successfully conveys the evil aura of Graves.

As an added bonus for fans of comic books and video games, some members of the cast are from other comic book movies. For example, Brandon Routh plays the third evil ex. You may know him as the titular character from “Superman Returns.” Chris Evans, who plays the second evil ex Lucas Lee in “Scott Pilgrim,” also played The Human Torch in “Fantastic Four” and its sequel, “Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer.”

Over all, “Scott Pilgrim vs. the World” is a funny, enjoyable movie for not only fans of the comic books, but for anyone who enjoys a bit of nerdy fun. If you want a movie with romance, action, comedy, and a video game feel, then this movie is a must see. This PG-13 movie is still showing in theatres.

My first impression of Oscar’s when I went inside was it resembled just about every other Mexican food place I have been to and did not like: generic. The menu, despite the namesake, has a wide variety of choice. There are not only burritos, but also tacos, tamales, gorditas, rellenos the list goes on. Before we got our meals, we decided to get an order of chips and queso. It was not bad, but the chips were somewhat lukewarm, and the queso just standard. A little salt, however, remedied that. I decided to try their carne guisada burrito platter that night while the rest of my family ordered tacos and chile rellenos.

Once I bit into that burrito, every doubt I had dissolved. The wonderful taste of that tortilla-wrapped package bound for my mouth impressed me. Just about everything else could have been wrong with the restaurant, but the food that came out of there sealed this reviewer’s approval. As I sampled the other dishes, they, too, were as delicious as the one in front of me, but the chile relleno was a show stopper.

For four people at any restaurant, on average, it would cost approximately $30 or $40 to eat. For my family of four, the bill was only $23.12. And that is with chips, queso and four drinks. Refills are absolutely free, so do not worry about that, either.

My final verdict on Oscar’s: if you have not gone yet, go. It is a great place to eat any time they are open, and for the upperclassmen, it is close to the school, so you do not have to worry about time pressure. Suggest it next time you come to town for dinner. Just go.

Cheers!