For many city-dwellers living in cramped apartment buildings, having an at-home garden isn’t a practical — or even physically possible — option. Cal State Long Beach industrial design seniors Jimmy Huynh, Brian Mar, Matthew Ulery and Patrick Soriano sought to create a solution to this common issue. The team started[Read More…]
Arts & Life
Content that focuses on popular culture, local art and music, entertainment and the events. Common topics include lifestyle, television and film, theater, music, video game, food, etc
Bob Cole Conservatory Symphony records scores for animation students at CSULB
Collaboration between professors and departments isn’t required at Cal State Long Beach, but when it’s done it can be favorable for students. Professors will work here for decades and never leave their department buildings. Wanting to break that cycle, illustration/animation professor Aubry Mintz and Director of Orchestral Studies and Director[Read More…]
Places to see for free
It’s very possible to get caught up in studies and simple pleasures during limited hours of free time and neglect the many places to visit and sights to see in Long Beach. On top of dealing with busy schedules, many students are also dealing with short budgets. Sometimes dorm residents[Read More…]
Pick your fee with Curensea
Cal State Long Beach alumna Natalia Kochan brings tossing coins in a street performer’s guitar case into the virtual world. Curensea is a digital platform that allows artists to express themselves and receive validation from others in the art community, as well as appreciative enthusiasm, through an online tipping service. Kochan[Read More…]
Laura Lopez and fellow MFA students take over CSULB student art galleries
Sculptures are scattered throughout the room, fibers are hung from the ceiling, screenprints and photographs are framed on the walls and an array of paintings line the adjacent room; in the corner, a majestic, painted jaguar peers into your soul. Master in Fine Arts student Laura Lopez sits outside the[Read More…]
Dreamer of dreams sleeps forever.
It was just Sunday night that I was quoting “Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory,” reminiscing about the imaginative movie, but I would have never imagined it would be the last time I thought of Gene Wilder while he was still alive. To find out less than 24 hours later[Read More…]
Intelligent brains wanted… for food
Here’s a call to all “The Walking Dead” and zombie fans, B-movie gore fans, horror-movie enthusiasts; -or anybody willing to give judges a taste of your brains for a scholarship prize of $2,000. The Zombie Apocalypse Scholarship awards $2,000 to students over the age of 13 who are currently enrolled[Read More…]
Dance department chair Andrew Vaca finds a way to offer dance minor to all at CSULB
Cal State Long Beach has made obtaining a dance minor easier than ever for students with loose feet and a passion for thrashing. Now at the Beach, students who want to declare a minor in dance can now do so after completing six units in the department. With the revised[Read More…]
Knott’s Berry Farm brings Halloween in early through new maze announcements and scares
Minutes prior to Knott’s Berry Farm’s big Halloween unveiling, a mysterious chamber was surrounded by ghoulish creatures wanting to claw their way into the casket. The monsters gathered from all edges of the theater, as gregorian chants began to play. Slowly, the box opened. Supervisor of park shows Jeff Tucker[Read More…]
Kimberli Meyer selected as new director of the UAM
Brian Trimble, who’s been the Interim Director for the University Art Museum at Cal State Long Beach for the past few years is stepping down to make room for Kimberli Meyer to take up the position as the permanent UAM Director. She’s worked at the MAK Center for Art and[Read More…]