On Saturday the Los Angeles Sheriff's department engaged in an hours-long stand off with a suspect who barricaded himself in a home on Lincoln and Ocean Park. According to neighbors, officers and a Sheriff's Department helicopter began surrounding the home, which sits across the street from an Albertsons supermarket, at approximately 11:57 A. M. Matt Turner and Jeremy Levine live...

Ladies and gentlemen, the wait is finally over. The pinnacle of awards season for films and filmmakers has arrived. This Sunday, The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ 87th Academy Awards ceremony (now officially known as The Oscars) will honor the best films of 2014, and with it evidently comes a new batch of winners whose works in the...

The Santa Monica College men's volleyball team, according to head coach John Mayer, has a mantra, "treat every game like it's a championship game."Friday evening's match against the El Camino Real Warriors may have been the best example of the Corsair men living up to its mantra, coming from behind to beat the previously undefeated Warriors 3-2. The fourth meeting...

As the last second ticked off the clock inside Cypress College's gymnasium on Friday, so to did the final second of the Santa Monica College women's basketball season as the No. 9 Corsairs fell to the No. 8 Chargers 103-75 in the first round of the California Community College Athletic Association Southern California Playoff Tournament. The Cypress Chargers started knocking...

“We’re gathered here today because we are tired of the senseless killing of our people,” said Malaika Tawasufi of the US Organization. “This is a protest to say we’re not gonna take it anymore.” On the 50th anniversary of the assassination, or martyrdom, of Malcolm X, hundreds of community leaders and members of South Los Angeles’s churches, labor unions, and...

The name “March in March” brings to mind groups of people marching together in solidarity for a cause, maybe even evoking the image of the protesters walking over the bridge in Selma to have their voices heard. Santa Monica College Associated Students Director of Outreach Yana Demeshko, who is also vice-president of Region VII of the Student Senate for California...

Spring semester has now begun and with it we begin our new printing cycle here at The Corsair. As with every new semester we have some new features in our publication and new editors tasked with bringing you the latest news, opinions and photos. In the past few weeks we have had to say goodbye to some staff and welcome...

Jesse Tapia wears faux snake print vans to support his love of animals and nonviolent approach toward fashion, holding his 40lb white and yellow Albino Burmese snake. He collectively owns 150 reptiles, which are kept in a contained facility, and all are acceptable for public display. But he won't be able to show his animals off for much longer. The...

Just about 42 million immigrants share common grounds in the United States, which alone accounts for five percent of the world's population and it literally screams out "I choose you to live, to raise my children, to grow old, to waste my money, to buy my house, to trust you with my bank account(s) and money." Why else would these...

For Oscar Arce, the films of Luis Bunuel are more than just cinema, they are life itself. Arce heads the Luis Bunuel Institute, which preserves items, scripts, memoirs and the films of the cinema master. On March 1, Arce will be involved in the double screening of two Bunuel classics at Santa Monica's Aero Theater: "Los Olvidados" and "That Obscure...