Next Stop; Bergamot Station
Stepping off of the Expo Line to arrive at Santa Monica College's new Center for Media and Design, can be very unfamiliar and confusing for students this semester. It is highly likely that students unfamiliar to the area might confuse Bergamot Station with their new campus. Since the new campus is very close to the station, it is easy to confuse Southern California’s largest single collection of art galleries for yet another satellite campus.
Change In Venice Boulevard Divides Commuters
"It makes it a lot less a highway and more a parking lot," Gigi Grase said.
White House Halts Equal Pay Rule
Efforts towards providing equal pay between genders were set back on August 28, 2017, when the Trump administration halted an Obama-era rule requiring businesses to report their employees' wages by gender, race, and ethnicity. The administration argued that the data collection requirement would be both "enormously burdensome" to companies and ineffective in addressing the gender wage gap.
Indigenous Peoples Day Makes History
Los Angeles City Council replaces Columbus Day with Indigenous Peoples Day in a historic vote to change the city calendar.
American Sorrow: The Passing of Chester Bennington
Chester Bennington has passed, marking yet another sad loss this year from a defining generation of rock music.
Student, Director, Storyteller: A Conversation with Carrie Finklea
A Q&A with student director Carrie Finklea.
Podcast: The Lucky SOB
This podcast is meant to inform Santa Monica College students of the different courses they can take to fulfill general education requirements. For our first episode, we'll be taking a closer look at anthropology.
A Muslim Prayer Space On-Campus Shares Storage with the Science Building
Down the stairwell in the lobby of the Science Building is a small space packed almost to the brim with metal shelves, empty aquariums, abandoned bottles, and cardboard boxes.
Students Saving For The Future
Being a college student in today's world is far from easy, and being a graduate is equally strenuous. Student debt has become a dreadful topic among young men, women, and their families. Now, more than ever, current students and graduates are looking for ways to help with expenses.
Veteran Resource Center: Home Away From Home
Everyone needs a place where they can feel comfortable, either at work, school, or home. This is especially true for veterans, who are just getting out of the military and heading back to school.
The Sound & The Fury: The Passing of Chris Cornell
The sudden, tragic passing of rock vocalist Chris Cornell at an MGM Grand Casino in Detroit is a reminder of the passing of an era- the post-glam grunge hurricane of the 1990s- and a reminder of what is lacking in modern rock n’ roll, if not modern popular music in general.
A Photographer’s Journey Out of Addiction
The first 32 years of Daniel Bowyer’s life were chaotic, impulsive, and reactionary. It is a familiar and tragic story.
Emotional Responses, SMC’s Action, and Human Resilience
“When you open your heart to patriotism, there is no room for prejudice.”President Donald Trump delivered this line in his inaugural speech on January 20, 2017, while addressing a crowd that Press Secretary Sean Spicer, labeled the largest inauguration crowd in history.
Food Wars: The Pizza Episode
Have you ever debated whether or not you should buy food on campus or off campus?
Guardians of the Galaxy 2: Review
When the first Guardians of the Galaxy movie was released in 2014, Marvel gambled on producing a lesser known comic.
A Giant in Her Own Right: ‘Colossal’ Review
We knew her as the princess of Genovia, as Meryl Streep’s lackey, and as a starved and sickened prostitute singing of broken dreams. In Colossal, an experimental mash up of a sci-fi and rom-com flick, Anne Hathaway is back again.
Voices of Hope and its contribution at SMC
Strolling through the backstage corridor at Santa Monica College’s Studio Stage production of Voices of Hope, there was an almost etheric energy beaming from the cast. They cycled through pre-show rituals of bantering with each other over Ben Nye makeup kits and diction exercises.
A Revived DTLA Attracts Attention and Esteem
Once a lonely ghost town of skyscrapers after sunset, Downtown Los Angeles now boasts a vibrant, sprawling community that lasts through the night. This is an introduction to the current state of Downtown Los Angeles and how the city developed over the last ten years.
The True Meaning of Cinco de Mayo
Margaritas, tacos, parties, sombreros, and insensitiveness comes out here in the U.S. once Cinco de Mayo arrives on our calendars. Seeing a picture of our president eating a taco bowl while saying “I love Hispanics!” only adds to the insensitivity.