A splash of colors mixed with an array of imaginative materials like comic book clippings, yarn and “Caution: wet floor” signs cover the walls and floor space of the Gatov West Gallery on upper campus. Senior studio art major Katia Swihart’s exhibit “Description of a Struggle” is a brightly colored[Read More…]
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Dine Out Long Beach is back
Get ready to invigorate your taste buds this week at 40 restaurants across town, during the annual Dine Out Long Beach restaurant week, happening Feb. 19-25. Elizabeth Borsting, founder of Dine Out Long Beach, said restaurants across Long Beach will be offering prix-fixe menus — menus only available during the[Read More…]
CSULB interior design student places NEXT’s student design competition
The workplace of the future will include open spaces, innovative technology and designs and ideas from Cal State Long Beach’s Bailey Rehmann. Rehmann, a CSULB interior design major, is the first interior design student from California to place in the NEXT Steelcase Design Competition. Going up against 90 other schools[Read More…]
7th annual spring Long Beach Comic Expo
Long Beach was a comic book wonderland over the weekend for the 7th annual spring Comic Expo. Headlining this year’s expo were familiar big-time stars such as “Aquaman”/”Game of Thrones” actor Jason Momoa, comic book legend George Perez, “Supernatural’s” Ghostfacers and World Wrestling Entertainment Hall of Famer Rikishi. Russell Nolti[Read More…]
Alumni take director chairs in Long Beach Playhouse
Sean Gray graduated from Cal State Long Beach in the spring of 2008 and two years later, so did Madison Mooney. The two have more in common than graduating from the same university, though – they both got promoted to directors at the Long Beach Playhouse this year. The Long[Read More…]
Shotokan Karate Club empowers students at The Beach
Battle cries echo through the halls of the Kinesiology building as the class moves as one. Sporting the gi, the students in KIN 60A are members of Cal State Long Beach’s Shotokan Karate Club, the oldest martial art organization on campus. Shotokan is a style of karate that was developed[Read More…]
Contemporary choreography collaborations
Imagine it is the end of last August and the fall 2016 university semester has just begun. You have been inspired by a personal experience, aspects of history — or even by the human mind. You gather your peers to work with you for four months choreographing an audition piece[Read More…]
National Condom Day at CSULB
Feb. 14 not only marked Valentine’s Day, but also National Condom Day – non-coincidentally – and just like many other campuses across the U.S., Cal State Long Beach joined in on the annual event by handing out free condoms. CSULB’s efforts to honor the less popular of the two holidays[Read More…]
Finding diamonds in the rough
The student art galleries at Cal State Long Beach are home to a collaboration between a student artist painting abstract profiles on canvas, and one who paints portraits on abstract surfaces. Senior BFA in drawing and painting students Elmer Guevara and Robert Nehemiah present “Immaterial,” an art exhibit focusing on[Read More…]
Overdraft at Steelcraft
Steelcraft isn’t an individual restaurant, but rather a collection of vendors tucked away in an array of used shipping containers reclaimed from the Port of Long Beach and Port of Los Angeles on the corner of Bixby Road and Long Beach Boulevard. Its website makes sure to point out that[Read More…]