Culture
Culture
Book Club reads outside an ‘academic context’
According to Book Club president Sage Dezerin (senior), around 20 dedicated members attend the club each week and around 50 more students signed up...
Culture
Anahid Yahjian tells a story of hybridity through MAC residency
Occidental’s Media Arts & Culture (MAC) department welcomed this year’s Artist-in-Residence, filmmaker Anahid Yahjian ‘11, Sept. 8-11. The residency included three events: a film screening...
Culture
UEP course ‘demystifies the chicken’
Fostering chickens is essential coursework for "Urban Sustainability: Raising Animals as a Part of Regenerative Agriculture," an Urban & Environmental Policy (UEP) course. According...
Culture
RAINS affirms Indigenous and Native identities on campus
For Indigenous students at Occidental, Resilient Alliance of Indigenous and Native Students (RAINS) is working to create a dedicated space to explore cultural identity and foster...
Arts & Entertainment
From Borat to band names, Brick Wall Comedy Club brings stand-up to the Green Bean
With the chubby, pensive face of comedy god Louis CK in the background, 30 plus students packed into the Green Bean Coffee Lounge on...
Arts & Entertainment
“The Get Down” and “Atlanta” navigate hip hop’s past and future
After decades of shows that focus overwhelmingly on white, middle class Americans, a recent spate of TV shows finally welcomes a cast of diverse...
Arts & Entertainment
Where is Wonder Woman? A Call for Female Superhero Representation
With a string of new smash-hit blockbuster superhero films coming out every summer, it’s easy to forget that not all action-packed, special effects-filled movies...
Arts & Entertainment
Glee Club and Pacific Opera Project collaboration provides new opportunities for Occidental Music
The Occidental College Glee Club dove headfirst into this semester by putting on a full operatic production in conjunction with the local company, the...
Arts & Entertainment
Guillermo del Torro exhibit at LACMA brings new meaning to horror
One does not enter into a space like LACMA with the expectation to be scared, but del Toro’s retrospective exhibit, full of his beautiful...
Culture
Low End Theory Will Make You Cooler
There’s a specific kind of “LA cool;” A septum-pierced, political-street-artist brand of cool. But the stereotypical, young LA transplants aren’t actually gifted in art...
Culture
New Oxy Arts Director aims for inclusivity and collaboration
Exciting things are happening with Oxy Arts, largely thanks to new Director Deena Selenow. Selenow has a wide array of artistic experiences. She has...
Culture
Occidental student artists debut mixed media exhibit “Phases” on Colorado Boulevard
A dual-exhibit of graphic art by Occidental seniors Irene Lam and Elizabeth “Lizz” Wu is showing Los Angeles what the "arts" in liberal arts...
