Lourdes Portillo Film Screenings
The double feature and Q&A helms the Hammer Museum’s multi-month exhibition Radical Women: Latin American Art, 1960-1985.
The Santa Monica Minute : Episode 9
Quick look at events taking place in and around Santa Monica College for the week of September 25, 2017.
Uniting the Four Corners
On the evening of Tuesday, September 26th, Santa Monica College hosted a screening of the documentary West Los. “I’m not Charlie from Culver City, I’m just Charlie.” Charlie Chacon, a first time filmmaker from Culver City, says this to highlight why he is making this documentary. He has spent the last three years trying to create a film about how the lowrider culture within West Los Angeles was a way to unite former rival neighborhoods.
Healing the Bay: Coastal Cleanup Day 2017
Dotted along the coast of Venice Beach with a backdrop of grey skies, early morning beachgoers for miles carried buckets and scanned the sands. Instead of filling their buckets with typical beach treasures such as shells, stones, or the occasional starfish, these shore hunters were filling them with cigarette filters, straws, and plastic bottle caps.
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.