Global Citizenship Festival highlights International Education Week
Samanta Kubon
November 17, 2011
With over 3000 international students, studying at Santa Monica College, classes buzz with thick accents and different languages. With its 11th annual International Education Week, SMC is celebrating its diversity with events, such as foreign movie screenings, music, dance and food from all around the... Read more »
NaNoWriMo Memoir 50,000 words, 30 days
Mia Shilpi
November 3, 2011
November is National Novel Writing Month, a month-long challenge to write a novel of at least 50,000 words in 30 days. Described in its motto as “Thirty days and nights of literary abandon,” NaNoWriMo – as it’s known informally – is a massive challenge. Makers of writing software and coffee... Read more »
No time to delay on Big Sunday
Michael Miller, Staff Writer
May 18, 2011
Her hands and clothes speckled with paint, Makeba Stallings of Los Angeles coaches her son Tyler on how to paint properly. Their work-in-progress, an oversized War and Peace theatrical prop, is nearly complete but there is much more work ahead. The mother and son team are surrounded by half finished... Read more »
SMC film club presents Arna’s Children
Sophia Zhorne, Staff Writer
May 10, 2011
Sitting cross-legged on a Moroccan style couch, SMC student Yonatan Mallinger tells a story of the history behind the documentary Arna’s Children, which was shown to students and faculty last Thursday, May 5.. Arna’s Children is a documentary written and directed by Juliano Mer-Khamis. The... Read more »
Poets of the American West, a poetry reading
Nick Lotz, Staff Writer
May 10, 2011
Poets Carol Davis and Carol Muske-Dukes appeared this past Tuesday at Poets of the American West, a poetry reading which took place at Santa Monica College, celebrating the poets’ works anthologized in New Poets of the American West. David St. John, another poet scheduled to read at the event,... Read more »
USC’s annual festival of books still going strong
Breanna Balisteri, Staff Writer
May 4, 2011
In today’s world, vampires and werewolves are beloved. And although they do not exist in the real world, they have become some of the most famous characters in pop-culture fiction books. Books are the imagination’s muse. They are a means of escape from the dullness of everyday life. Books... Read more »
Pillow Fight Day is a hit
Nick Lotz, Staff Writer
April 28, 2011
Feathers layered the park an inch thick, floating into passerbys eyes and mouths. Taylor Branch, 19, of Northridge, wore a surgical mask over her mouth to protect herself from the onslaught of feathers floating through the air due to the pillow fight. “There are feathers everywhere, there’s... Read more »
SMC displays “Good Food” art exhibit
Jennifer Ferrada, Staff writer
April 5, 2011
With the worlds’ many ongoing global issues affecting the way we consume our food, new ways of learning to appreciate food, both visually and physically, are frequently appearing. Different issues were surveyed through student artwork at the opening reception of “Good Food,” an exhibit... Read more »
“Horrorwood” pays tribute to slasher classics
Natali Miltcharek, Staff Writer
October 19, 2010
Halloween is still only just around the corner, but artists are already celebrating all things horror. This past week, the WWA Gallery in Culver City premiered their latest exhibit. “Horrorwood,” an art exhibit featuring over 55 independent artists, presents several different works that pay... Read more »
Culture Collide Festival makes its first big splash in LA
Jonathan Mendoza, Staff Writer
October 12, 2010
You have to hand it to a show that sets up a music stage in a church and fills it up better than Pat Robertson coming to town. Filter’s first annual Culture Collide Festival, held in Echo Park last Thursday through Sunday, was the magazine’s rendition of the massive music festivals you’ll... Read more »
