Apple users whose arms have grown weary from carrying around a cell phone will only have to wait one month for a solution to their gadget-akin woes—the Apple Watch. Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook announced last week at a special event in San Francisco that the company’s first wearable device[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
BFA Senior Solo Shows: Home is where the art is
The Dr. Maxine Merlino Gallery on campus is providing a temporary home to sepia-toned photos of uninhabited dwellings framed in intricately woven fibers. “Uprooted” is a senior solo exhibition by Sheila Ann Rodriguez, a second-year master of fine arts student at California State University, Long Beach; it features her original[Read More…]
Na Lei Hulu I Ka Wekiu interprets Hawaiian history through hula
Sorry Los Angeles Times, but, according to Hawaiian cultural standards, newspaper organizations are only successful once a song has been written about them. Dancers from the San Francisco-based Nā Lei Hulu I Ka Wēkiu hula school performed at The Carpenter Performing Arts Center at California State University, Long Beach on[Read More…]
The “super senior” struggle at CSULB is real
Just as some students finish filing their late registrations and shell out $80 to look the part, many of their colleagues miss the four-year mark for graduation because they are balancing school and life obstacles. For Vicaria Norman, a self-ascribed “super senior,” the goal of graduating from college has been[Read More…]
Long Beach goes Irish For a Day
From ladies in roller skates to kilt-clad laddies playing bagpipes, the Irish For a Day festival gave Long Beach the chance to let the green beer flow. The main event was an hour-long parade that started at 1 p.m. on Saturday at Pine Avenue and Broadway. Attendees watched from the[Read More…]
Pow Wow invites Native-American tribes to dance through culture at CSULB
Sixty-six-year-old Carolyn “Woman of the People” Reyes danced to the beat of the drum as the cone-shaped jingles sewn to her dress chimed. Her dandelion-yellow “healing dress” was embroidered with homemade turquoise beads that mirrored the sunny skies. Tribes from all over the country gathered at California State University, Long[Read More…]
Whodunit: a mystery novel Q&A
CAPTION: Minnesota-based mystery novelist Blair London’s “Airport Staling” released in January. Thrill and suspense have seized readers for decades. From the late 1880s spyglass-equipped boxer in a floppy deerstalker, to the modern maven of mystery as the lead role of “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo,” mystery novels seem to[Read More…]
Judah & the Lion roar at the Wiltern
With a little bit of folk, pop and bluegrass, Tennessee-based band Judah & the Lion will jam at The Wiltern in Los Angeles on Wednesday. The trio is on tour with the eclectic crossover musician, Matt Kearney, and is amplifying sounds from their recently released EP “Kids These Days.” “When[Read More…]
‘Growing Up and Other Lies’ calls Adam Brody back in the game
Hipsters, unite! “Growing Up and Other Lies” makes it to the must-see list of meaningful-core films. With a screenplay dependent upon dialogue and the niche aesthetic of desaturation crucial to indie aesthetics, directors Danny Jacobs and Darren Grodsky put the anti-coming-of-age genre back on the marquee. “Growing up” will be[Read More…]
Covers mean nothing to me
“Seth Avett & Jessica Lea Mayfield sing Elliot Smith” Ramseur Records Released: March 17 Rating: 1 Star Cover songs are never as good as the original. Ever. Although there are some exceptions to this rule, Seth Avett and Jessica Lea Mayfield’s attempt to take on songs by the late Elliot[Read More…]