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

‘Strangest Things’ makes sweet music

It’s said the bedroom is where the magic happens. It’s a refuge that is at once intimate yet isolated… A place of otherness… A heterotopia. Door closed, away from judgment, daydreaming, self-reflection and imagination are free to flourish, blurring the borders between headspace and meatspace. [sidebar title=”” align=”right” background=”on” border=”all”[Read More…]

Culture Corner

Welcome to the Culture Corner, a recurring series focused on the homesickness, culture collision and assimilation that California State University, Long Beach’s international students experience. It’s a chance to learn about another culture and see your own through a different pair of eyes. International student, Johannes Schoster from Germany is[Read More…]

Blind to American genocide

[sidebar title=”Blinded by history” align=”right” background=”on” border=”all” shadow=”on”] By Colton Maines Staff Writer CSULB American Indian Studies blindfolded the Prospector Pete statue late last Wednesday to promote Genocide Awareness Week. The university approved both the blindfold and the artwork to go along with the series of events in recognition of[Read More…]

Different sides of ‘Me’

Love, happiness, sadness, anger—these are not only the stages of a break-up but also some of the expressions intricately portrayed in the figurines playfully arrayed throughout the “So Many Me’s” student gallery. California State University, Long Beach ceramic arts student Kathy Yoon exposed her innermost self to gallery visitors in[Read More…]

The color of death

The rhythmic pounding of drums pierced the air around us. A man blared his horn, more reminiscent of the feasting call than Dia de los Muertos. The woman calls the spirits with a sound akin to a child’s shriek; the dead have returned. Children, dressed as the deceased, move to[Read More…]

A practical guide to carving a jack-o-lantern

Greetings, boos and ghouls! Yes, I went there. Brace yourself for spook-tacular word play and realistic guidelines on carving yourself a gourdeous jack-o-lantern in preparation for Halloween. Step number fun: Acquire a pumpkin. I don’t care how you do it. Buy it, pick it from a patch, or bribe your[Read More…]

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