Riverside's Historic Landmark Hotel Celebrates Its 27th Annual Festival of Lights

Massey’s initial inspiration to create the concrete and steel-based sculpture came after an encounter with a homeless man roughly 21 years ago in Westwood, Calif. He was walking down the street late at night and wrongfully assumed that the 7 foot tall homeless man walking towards him was going to do harm. After the man proved Massey’s gut feeling wrong and continued down the road, the artist turned to creative expression as a way to document his experience.

"Rhinoceros," a production directed by Santa Monica College (SMC) Theatre’s Terrin Adair-Lynch, made its debut Friday, Nov. 22 at the school's Main Stage. The play, written by Eugene Ionesco in 1959, focuses on the transformation of a normal town into something unrecognizable to itself.

The SMC Guitar Showcase is a biannual performance put on by students and professors, intended to exhibit the hard work of guitar students each semester. This year’s showcase featured performers playing a variety of original guitar pieces and covers, some of which were accompanied by keyboard, percussion, vocals, and other backings.

Global Motion World Dance Company’s showcase on November 23 and 24 at the Broad's Stage portrayed pieces in over twelve different dance styles inspired by cultures from all around the world.

Adult Swim's second annual festival blended an affinity for music, entertainment, and culture featuring prime Adult Swim content and panels as well as a line-up with rising stars and hip-hop legends alike.

As Nazi Germany faces an inevitable loss in World War II, Johannes “Jojo” Betzler (Roman Griffin Davis) is undoubtedly ambitious in becoming a young, ten-year-old Nazi soldier.

For playwright Jeton Neziraj, growing up in Kosovo had the potential to hinder his creative process, as government regimes limited citizens’ access to viewing and publicly presenting art. However, his desire to pursue theatre overrode any constraints and instead inspired him to speak out against the systems that tried to hinder his creativity.

His most recent play, “Department of Dreams”, had its world premiere in the United States on Oct. 25 at City Garage Theatre Company’s current location, at the Bergamot Station Arts Center in Santa Monica.

The Getty Villa had encouraged students to wear a toga or stola (a Roman gown) to the event, and a number of the attendees went along with the theme. All the period clothing looked stylish, and enhanced the ambiance of the event.

Known as the outer peristyle, the Villa has an area with a long reflecting pool, attendant flower beds, and fruit trees. The pool was decorated with floating, illuminated colored lights, which produced a festive feeling.

The melancholic sound of a familiar melody can be therapeutic to some when life’s mishaps come spiraling down. SMC’s Center of Wellness and Wellbeing recognizes music therapy as a healthy alternative to express emotions and will offer a workshop on the subject on Tuesday, Nov. 19 titled Music and Mental Health: Using Music for Expression and Healing.

The workshop will be led by Dr. Loreno Meono, a success counselor, whose overall mission is to help individuals become more effective versions of themselves in their personal and professional lives.

Santa Monica College's (SMC) Theatre Arts department presented E.M. Lewis's play "Infinite Black Suitcase" in the Studio Stage in the Theatre Arts complex. Directed by Carl Anderson, the performances took place on Oct. 25 - 27, 31 and Nov. 1-3.

On Oct. 25, 2019, the FIGat7th event corporation held a Dia de los Muertos event, at 7th and Figueroa St. Among the festivities were a tequila tasting, silk-screening, poster-making, MAC glamour eyes, and a DJ.

Strobe lights and eardrum-shattering screams set the tone for Steve Lacy’s show at the Wiltern theatre in Los Angeles on Oct. 30. Since the musician released his solo debut studio album in May, Lacy has gained popularity worldwide. His current tour, named Apollo XXI after his solo album, began in Chicago and will end in the United Kingdom.

Lacy has been deemed the epitome of a “21st century musician” in the public eye. While he has since upgraded to more professional software, the musician produced his first tracks on an iPhone in his mother’s Compton home and found his beginnings with guitar through the video game "Guitar Hero."

The Skirball Cultural Center recently opened an exhibition of Stanley Kubrick's photographs made in the years 1946 to 1950, when he worked for Look Magazine. Kubrick is better known as a film director, helming such classics as “2001: A Space Odyssey” and “The Shining.” Titled, “Through a Different Lens: Stanley Kubrick Photographs,” the exhibition opened Oct. 17 and runs until March 8, 2020.

On Oct. 26, 2019 people from all over Los Angeles came together to honor Terry Fox at the Santa Monica Terry Fox Run to help raise money and awareness for cancer research.

The Santa Monica Terry Fox Run is a 5km race that takes place annually on the Venice Boardwalk, right across from the Shutters Hotel.

Terry Fox was a Canadian athlete and cancer research advocate, who lost his leg in 1977 during his battle with bone cancer at the age of 18 years old. Terry Fox’s first hand battle with cancer inspired him to run the length of Canada, with a prosthetic leg, starting on the east coast in St. John, Newfoundland to raise money for cancer research in what he called the “Marathon of Hope.”

On November 2 and 3, the Santa Monica College (SMC) Contemporary Dance Ensemble portrayed nearly two hours of moving artistry at the Fall 2019 showcase.

Writer of "We Summon the Darkness" shares what inspired the writing of this film.

Adult Swim Festival returns to downtown Los Angeles for another year of live music, comedy, games, and rides.

SMC students have the opportunity to learn about their environmental impact at the 2019 Sustainability Week, taking place during activity hour from Oct. 28 to Oct. 30.

After Walt Disney Studios’ and Sony Pictures’ brief split, the two studios have since found a way to get back into the Spider-Man business together. In late September, Disney and Sony renegotiated how they would share the Spider-Man intellectual property and reached a new agreement allowing Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige to return again as co-producer for the third Marvel Spider-Man film. Tom Holland will also be returning as the iconic web-slinger.