As the aroma of freshly made crepes filled the hallway of the Academic Services building, students learned about French history through poster boards and student presentations as they walked around the Francophonie festival held by the French Club on Saturday. The festival was a collaboration between the Cal State Long[Read More…]
Features
Features are not limited to features on people. Articles in the features category are in-depth, written analysis of a certain topic. This can include a feature of a restaurant, group, person, organization, location, hobby, club, etc.
High school students share their ‘Artful Healing’
The Museum of Latin American Art just launched an exhibition entitled “Artful Healing,” composed of community artwork curated by high school students. Located in the Port of Learning Gallery, the exhibit hosts work from a wide range of artists with various backgrounds, ages and abilities. Alongside MOLAA’s Education Programs Coordinator,[Read More…]
Birth, Death and Resurrection
Sophisticated portraits embellished in neon hue, detailed renditions of photographs and deliberate religious undertones adorned the walls – welcome to Nora Ayala’s exhibit. Ayala grew up in a conservative Seventh-Day Adventist home. The doctrine of Christianity made her continuously question her identity and certain events in her life because of[Read More…]
When lightning strikes
There are two types of people in my life: people who respond quickly and accurately to the question, “What house are you in?” and people I don’t have another conversation with. I know I speak for a huge population of millennials when I say my childhood, adolescence and early adulthood[Read More…]
St. Paddy’s events at the end of the rainbow
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…]
New adventures on the train
Beach Streets will be closing car traffic to downtown Long Beach on March 19. Patrons are encouraged to walk or bike to the event and discover everything from Retro Row to Pine ave. and back again. One alternative to arrive at the event may be a ride on the[Read More…]
CSULB student Jonny Strang and his band members work to make it in a trying music industry
The likelihood of making a living as a musician if they’re not headlining the Hollywood Bowl or regularly featured on the radio is a virtual impossibility. For a student musician trying to get discovered, life becomes a balancing act. When Cal State Long Beach senior Jonny Strang and former CSULB[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…]
Squared Away
I strive for making a difference in my fellow veteran’s lives so they have the hope and faith I possess to overcome mental illness. When I was in high school, I started to hear voices and they kept me from enjoying company of others. When I found alcohol and the[Read More…]
A history of the pros (and the cons)
If you found yourself in New York City in 1969, you could have probably reached into your back pocket and pulled out at least $1.50 — coincidentally, that would be just the right amount of change to buy yourself a one-day ticket to the first ever comic art convention. In[Read More…]