Celebrate a day filled with luck, laughs and memories while chugging a pitcher of green beer as you enjoy a variety of events and St. Paddy’s festivities. Throughout the Los Angeles area, there are a variety of restaurants, bars and pubs that are celebrating and dedicating a day for the[Read More…]
Events
Lifestyle events that occur on or off campus should be categorized under “events.” Events differ from performances in that performances stage or present a play, concert or other forms of entertainment while events do not. Examples of events include the Long Beach Zombie Walk, Week of Welcome and Queen Mary’s Dark Harbour.
Chicano author speaks at Cal State Long Beach
The overfilled lecture hall was silent as students not only listened to a short story but experienced the emotions written in its pages. Manuel Muñoz, a native born and raised in California’s Central Valley, is a renowned author who identifies as gay and explores how Chicanos struggle with poverty, family[Read More…]
Art District comes alive
The streets of Downtown Long Beach are filled with artists. Some work with brightly-colored chalk on the crowded sidewalks, and others implement spray paint to create portraits of iconic figures in history. Around these artists, the crowds attending the Long Beach Art Walk observe — and admire. The Long Beach[Read More…]
It’s Pow Wow time
Native American students held the first Puvungna Pow Wow at Cal State Long Beach as a means of establishing their presence on campus and celebrating their new journey as college students. 46 years later, the Pow wow continues — a celebration of life, culture and community. This weekend, the Puvungna[Read More…]
Paglalakabay at Carpenter’s
A night filled with with love, laughter, and unity — the Pilipino American Coalition celebrates their 30th Pilipino Cultural Night among the Filipino community at the beach, enriched with culture and tradition. Daphne Ong, a senior health care administration major and PAC’s current president, said that this year’s cultural night[Read More…]
Slutever
The “Unslut” documentary calls for social change in highlighting the damage of slut-shaming. The “Unslut” documentary left its audience in silence and caused tears of empathy and sympathy to fall from the eyes of its viewers. The film, which was put on my the Women’s Gender Equality Center, YWCA and[Read More…]
Motherhood and ‘Sacrifice’
As people enter the West Gatov gallery on campus, large ceramic works of “Sacrifice “along the wall are visible that show both the images of an artist’s life and the hauntingly beautiful vision of a woman in them. Andrea Williams is a Cal State Long Beach junior art major[Read More…]
MOLAA enters young adulthood
The Museum of Latin American Art’s 20th anniversary invited guests to step into a historical storybook of the museum’s humble beginnings rooted in silent film and roller skates. MOLAA was filled with a plethora of pieces both familiar and unfamiliar to the museum’s walls. The pieces varied from light-up photographs[Read More…]
African music and dance return
Crowds were welcomed to experience both underwater sea life and the traditional African dance and music at the African-American cultural festival in the Aquarium of the Pacific. This past weekend the Aquarium of the Pacific in Long Beach hosted its 14th annual African-American festival. The festival included many avenues of[Read More…]
Pachuco Swing dance revisits Chicano resistance
Pachuco style is coming back to life this Friday night at Cal State Long Beach. The Chicano Latino Studies Student Association will be hosting its second annual Pachuco Swing dance from 6:30 p.m. – 10 p.m. in the Kinesiology East Gym. Organizers Julieta Hernandez, Luis Guerrero and Nancy Haro are[Read More…]