Movie review - Alita: Battle Angel
By: Lyndsey Stocks
NORTHRIDGE - Alita: Battle Angel is about a girl finding her strength and purpose as she works to defend her land.
Alita is a cyborg found in a scrap yard by a doctor who works to give her a working mechanical body. She can’t remember her past but knows there is importance in her previous life. She starts to meet new people and learn the difficulties of living in Iron City. She learns a new game that could be her chance to experience the sky city up above her. After the fall of civilization hundreds of years prior, all but one sky city fell. With just one sky city left, most people in Iron City spent their days continuously working hard for an overseer that tempted people with the chance of going up if they completed enough criminal activities to help the city. Alita finds herself falling in love with a human who dismantles cyborgs to earn money to be able to go up to the sky city. People are working for the chance to go to Sky City, as it is off limits to the people of Iron City and they believe this to be their only opportunity to go up.
Christoph Waltz stars as the doctor who gives Alita a body and helps her to learn her past and how to navigate through Iron City. He works to repair people and their mechanical body parts. Throughout the movie, the director does a very effective job showing Alita’s past, shown as flashbacks when she is fighting in battles to defeat criminals within the city.
Overall, Alita: Battle Angel is a movie that explores the life of a cyborg experiencing a whole new life while trying to uncover her past and where she came from. It is an excellent Sci-Fi action that most teenagers and young adults can enjoy. Alita: Battle Angel is currently playing in theaters and will be available for purchase in May 2019.
- Lyndsey Stocks (‘21) is the Assistant Web Editor of The Viking Vault. [email protected]
By: Lyndsey Stocks
NORTHRIDGE - Alita: Battle Angel is about a girl finding her strength and purpose as she works to defend her land.
Alita is a cyborg found in a scrap yard by a doctor who works to give her a working mechanical body. She can’t remember her past but knows there is importance in her previous life. She starts to meet new people and learn the difficulties of living in Iron City. She learns a new game that could be her chance to experience the sky city up above her. After the fall of civilization hundreds of years prior, all but one sky city fell. With just one sky city left, most people in Iron City spent their days continuously working hard for an overseer that tempted people with the chance of going up if they completed enough criminal activities to help the city. Alita finds herself falling in love with a human who dismantles cyborgs to earn money to be able to go up to the sky city. People are working for the chance to go to Sky City, as it is off limits to the people of Iron City and they believe this to be their only opportunity to go up.
Christoph Waltz stars as the doctor who gives Alita a body and helps her to learn her past and how to navigate through Iron City. He works to repair people and their mechanical body parts. Throughout the movie, the director does a very effective job showing Alita’s past, shown as flashbacks when she is fighting in battles to defeat criminals within the city.
Overall, Alita: Battle Angel is a movie that explores the life of a cyborg experiencing a whole new life while trying to uncover her past and where she came from. It is an excellent Sci-Fi action that most teenagers and young adults can enjoy. Alita: Battle Angel is currently playing in theaters and will be available for purchase in May 2019.
- Lyndsey Stocks (‘21) is the Assistant Web Editor of The Viking Vault. [email protected]
New taco place gets great reviews
By: Anna Kohler
NORTHRIDGE - Alexandria is not a very big town, but the village still has new and fun things to offer like a new and very unique place to eat. Local Northridge family, the Stones, opened the Village Taco in December.
Housed in a renovated structure, Village Taco is only open three days a week: Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays. This is because the owner, Jonny Stone,also has a carpentry business, so during the week he does detailed woodwork in people’s houses and doesn’t have time to work the taco stand.
On Fridays and Saturdays, they are open 11:30 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. and on Sundays they are open 9:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.
All of their food is plant based, which means everything you eat there is derived from plants, or vegan. They serve tacos and things that would usually require meat, but they just replace it with vegan-friendly substitutes.
The inside of the restaurant is decorated very uniquely, covered in maps and skateboards and even has a surfboard over the bigger table.
Dreya Stone (‘19), daughter of the owner and current Northridge student claims, “The maps symbolize how much our family travels, and the skateboards are something that my dad has always collected, and we all have ridden them since we were little.”
Since it is cold out right now, they only offer seating inside, but eventually seating options will include a patio with more seating.
Village Taco has great reviews. Students who have visited, like Lileigh Berling (‘20), say it is definitely a 10/10 and they would recommend it!
So take a quick drive to Alexandria and stop in and try some new food!
- Anna Kohler ('20) if the Social Media Publisher for the Viking Vault.
By: Anna Kohler
NORTHRIDGE - Alexandria is not a very big town, but the village still has new and fun things to offer like a new and very unique place to eat. Local Northridge family, the Stones, opened the Village Taco in December.
Housed in a renovated structure, Village Taco is only open three days a week: Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays. This is because the owner, Jonny Stone,also has a carpentry business, so during the week he does detailed woodwork in people’s houses and doesn’t have time to work the taco stand.
On Fridays and Saturdays, they are open 11:30 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. and on Sundays they are open 9:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.
All of their food is plant based, which means everything you eat there is derived from plants, or vegan. They serve tacos and things that would usually require meat, but they just replace it with vegan-friendly substitutes.
The inside of the restaurant is decorated very uniquely, covered in maps and skateboards and even has a surfboard over the bigger table.
Dreya Stone (‘19), daughter of the owner and current Northridge student claims, “The maps symbolize how much our family travels, and the skateboards are something that my dad has always collected, and we all have ridden them since we were little.”
Since it is cold out right now, they only offer seating inside, but eventually seating options will include a patio with more seating.
Village Taco has great reviews. Students who have visited, like Lileigh Berling (‘20), say it is definitely a 10/10 and they would recommend it!
So take a quick drive to Alexandria and stop in and try some new food!
- Anna Kohler ('20) if the Social Media Publisher for the Viking Vault.