Author: Katie Babbitt

Entertainment

‘Castlevania’ debuts new season

Katie Babbitt

Show, based in hit video game, speaks to the evils of humanity A lot of people may brush off “Castlevania” as another show based off another videogame but it is so much more. Whether you know how the series will end or not, this show speaks about the evils of humanity and the fight to preserve it. Season two kicks off giving the viewer more backstory about Lisa Tepes and how she came to pass at the hands of the Church of Wallachia. This felt pivotal because it tied into the reason Dracula seeks to end all of humanity. We…

Entertainment, Video Games

Latest ‘Spider-Man’ game revives the character

Katie Babbitt

The new Spider-Man game is nothing short of a beautiful homage to the friendly neighborhood superhero. We find our young hero once again fighting all sorts of enemies from the comics and saving every civilian in sight, all while trying to lead a normal life. This new game, simply titled “Spider-Man,” has as much story as side quests so there is always plenty to do. The cool thing about the side quests in this game is that they tie into the story just as much as the main quest line does. A lot of games make side quests that really…

Entertainment, Series

‘A Series of Unfortunate Events’ breaks the mold

Katie Babbitt

The Lemony Snicket series changes it up for its second season While Season 1 of “A Series of Unfortunate Events” followed a specific format in it episodes, that formula is slowly broken in its second season. We rejoin the Baudelaire orphans at Prufrock Preparatory School with Count Olaf hot on their trail. Unlike the previous season, the Baudelaires are not always privileged with single guardians who always end up dying on them. Instead they travel to even more, as Mr. Poe put it, “adventures in all sorts of exotic locales.” Count Olaf, played by the incredibly talented Neil Patrick Harris,…

Campus

Stepping outside your comfort zone

Katie Babbitt

Katie Babbitt kbabbitt@foghornnews.com Looking back at the Texas Intercollegiate Forensics Association tournament, every day was different in its own special way — and incredibly intense. First off, I volunteered to do an event on Nov. 1 that would last me all day Nov. 3, one I knew nothing about. I did this because my debate partner’s teammate had to cancel at the last minute. This event was NPDA, or team debate. I felt terrible virtually the whole day. I will not lie and say I kept it together; there was more than one time I wanted to cry and did.…

Community

Parks Service offers jobs

Katie Babbitt

Katie Babbitt The National Parks Service is an attractive job option for some students. Patrick Gamman and Oralia Fernandez visited Del Mar College on Oct. 25 to give a presentation on why students should apply for a job in the National Parks Service. As a man who has been in the National Parks Service since 1990, having worked in a variety of national parks and the Peace Corps., Gamman shared why he chose to give this presentation to Del Mar students. “I worked a lot in the National Parks and Corpus was a good fit to tap into the local…