Culture
Culture
‘American Immigrants’ brings freestyle storytelling to Keck
The improvised comedy show "American Immigrants" was performed at Keck Theater Sept. 25. The show was produced by comedians Vivek Venugopal and Anthony Veneziale, who create...
Culture
TAFOC creates dedicated space for transgender students
The Trans Action Front of Occidental College (TAFOC) is a new club formed Fall 2026 to support the collective interests of transgender students at Occidental. According to...
Culture
Nahuatl course teaches Mesoamerican language and thought
Department chair & professor of Latino/a & Latin American Studies Lisa Sousa teaches a course called "Nahuatl Language, Writing, and Culture." The course is cross...
Culture
‘Truth has always come first’: Brian Joseph speaks to survivors
Investigative journalist and author Brian Joseph spoke at the Seminar for Survivors event in Choi Auditorium Sept. 19. The event was hosted by Survivor Strategies and...
Arts & Entertainment
Underdogs stole show, broke boundaries at 86th Annual Academy Awards
Stranded in space, a scientist must scrape together means to survive from destroyed, orbiting satellite scraps. Kidnapped from his family and forced into slavery,...
Arts & Entertainment
Get twitchy with it in revolutionary collective gaming experience
What if 80,000 people played a video game, and they all shared one controller? Recently a user on Twitch.com, a website where users can...
Arts & Entertainment
Dr. Dog brings 12 years of albums, original sound to Observatory stage
Depending on the track, Dr. Dog's sound can span from baroque-pop, folk, soul or psychedelic rock. Since they began touring in 2002, the band...
Culture
Ukeleles, songstresses, dancers descend on Thorne Hall for Apollo Night
Apollo Night, Occidental's annual talent show, filled Thorne Hall with cheering crowds and 15 different musical acts on Friday night. Most of the performances...
Arts & Entertainment
Student talent flourishes at New Play Festival
Student writers and audience members packed the house of Keck Theatre for the sixteenth annual New Play Festival. "This year, with student and professional...
Arts & Entertainment
Minimal money, maximum fun for a night out in Los Angeles
Task: Explore the neighborhoods surrounding Occidental to see what local restaurants and events Los Angeles has to offer for one night under $15. ...
Arts & Entertainment
Professor Ronk dazzles students with original poetry reading
Donning an entirely black outfit and black-rimmed glasses, Professor of English and Comparative Literature Studies (ECLS) Martha Ronk stepped up to the lectern.Students chattered...
Arts & Entertainment
Miyazaki's final film epitomizes career-long aesthetic
It was a quote from engineer Jiro Horikoshi that inspired Oscar-winning animator and head of Studio Ghibli Hayao Miyazaki to tell the aeronautical engineer's...
