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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...

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...

Eagle Rock Neighborhood Council votes to redraft letter opposing development of Eagle Rock Plaza Home Depot

The Eagle Rock Neighborhood Council (ERNC) voted to redraft a letter expressing opposition to building a Home Depot in the Eagle Rock Plaza, during a meeting Oct....

‘They want to win’: Franklin High Rocket League advances to nationals

The Rocket League esports team at Benjamin Franklin High School has advanced to nationals at the Scholastic Esports Tournament. The National Esports Collegiate Conference (NECC) is one of the sponsors of the event....

Acclaimed Documentarian Divulges Advice and Anecdotes

Author: Kara McVey In 1955, a man named Albert Maysles strapped a 16mm camera to his hand, and, together with his brother David, journeyed across Soviet...

Hypochondriacs Pig Out on Swine Flu

Author: Lindsay Palmer We've all gotten those e-mails from the director of Emmons Richard Youngblood, warning us about the swine flu, telling us over and over...

The Nature of Things, The Things of Nature

Author: Richie DeMaria It was an encounter straight out of a Robinson Jeffers poem: One late August afternoon, Environmental Health and Safety Manager Bruce Steele found...

3×3 Basketball Bounces Back for Second Year

Author: Emily Phillips With 21 teams in the league this fall, an increase from only 12 teams competing in its first season last year, the Oxy...

Celebrating the Work of Oxy’s Own Avant Garde Filmmaker

Author: Kara McVey Last summer, the world of film lost a great force. Chick Strand, a legendary avant-garde filmmaker, died of cancer on July 11, 2009....

When Music and Politics Collide

Author: Aidan Lewis As the Nov. 4 election draws near, and candidates have less and less time to make their concluding remarks, I thought I might...

Rituals Remixed

Author: Daina Solomon Skull faces grin from the corner bakery's storefront. Children eat bone-shaped bread and skull-shaped candy. Neighborhood florists display baskets of golden marigolds. Scenes...

Music Festival Brings L.A. to Eagle Rock

Author: Parker Harris On Saturday, Oct. 2, Eagle Rock will transform from a sleepy enclave to a bustling urban neighborhood. With many people walking in the...