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Making room for creativity: Adult art classes at Oxy Arts

As part of the course Community Engagement in Education, Occidental students create relationships with community partners and participate in a service learning project. For their...

Drummer Lily Pesikoff keeps her own tempo with Enny Owl and the Backroom Rumors

At 18 years old, drummer and singer Lily Pesikoff (first year) is not even old enough to get into the clubs she plays at....

Campus takes unprecedented actions to power through heat wave

Southern California faced a record-breaking heat wave at the beginning of the school year, with temperatures as high as 108. With six out of 13 dorms not having...

NELA filmmakers spotlighted at eighth annual Highland Park Independent Film Festival

The eighth annual Highland Park Independent Film Festival took place Oct. 1–2 at the Highland Theatre. The festival featured 31 films by NELA filmmakers including “Brandi Finds...

‘Lit Crawl: L.A.’ lifts words from the page

Author: Henry Dickmeyer Tucked away in the Antaeus Company Library in the North Hollywood (NoHo) Arts District, Los Angeles's bundled-up literati listened to the theater company's...

Eagle Rock Crime Rate Soars

Author: Noel Hemphill Recent statistics from the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) report a 200 percent increase in rape, 170 percent increase in armed robberies and...

Eagle Rock Music Festival returns, controversy over reduced size

Author: Malcolm MacLeod Next Saturday Oct. 5, the Eagle Rock Music Festival (ERMF) is coming back to town, albeit with significantly fewer performers. The festival has...

Student artist unveils installation in local gastropub

Author: Nina Greenebaum   The exposed brick walls and naked light bulbs hanging from high ceilings of The York give the Highland Park bar a modern, minimalist...

Gentrified York breeds inequality

Author: Damian Mendieta Just a few blocks away from campus, Highland Park has been the home of a large Latina/o working-class community for over 50 years....

Watching over the sprawl: The story behind L.A.’s helicopters

Author: William Stupp To the city's non-natives, they are an inexplicable presence. Always circling overhead, they rattle newcomers and make for exciting stories to tell their...

Local flea markets offer serendipitous steals to shoppers

Author: Leah Nomkin|Brenna Reid|Macarena Blando Demarco|Emily Shugerman It is no secret that Los Angeles boasts a wide array of flea markets, distinctive for their goods, customers...

Laurie Pepper: A Taste of Musical Los Angeles in the ’60s

Author: Emma Lodes Sex, drugs and jazz: The defining elements of Laurie Pepper's early life swept up by the culture of arts and music in 1960s...