Edgar Zatarain

8 Articles

MAC department partners with Vidiots to screen ‘Nightcrawlers’

Occidental College's Media Arts & Culture (MAC) professor John Trafton and the video store and movie theater Vidiots partnered to give a screening of the...

Businesses concerned about planned rapid bus line destroying ‘small-town Los Angeles enclave’

The Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (Metro) is building a Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) service, which will pass through Colorado Boulevard, where construction...

Opinion: The dangers of a convenient and effortless life

I was leaving a jazz bar in San Francisco on a cold and rainy night. My family and I called a Waymo to pick...

Opinion: How to start a disagreement

Ta-Nehisi Coates and Ezra Klein recently had a conversation titled “Bridging Gaps vs. Drawing Lines,” where they discussed the recent passing of Charlie Kirk....

California SB 98 requires notification of immigration enforcement presence on college campuses

Senate Bill 98 (SB 98) also known as the Sending Alerts to Families in Education (SAFE) Act, was signed into law Sept. 20. The law...

Opinion: From Trump to Zohran Mamdani — the new voice for the working class

I grew up in a working-class town where people worked as mechanics, construction workers or landscapers. Most of the people I grew up with, including...

Tacos Villa Corona opens second location on York and Eagle Rock Boulevard

Tacos Villa Corona opened a new location on York and Eagle Rock Boulevard in August. According to the owners, husband and wife David Flores and...

Opinion: Do restorative circles prevent harm or cause it?

There I was, with my fellow orientation leaders, sitting in a restorative circle. I had never heard of such a thing before. But after...