Alci Rengifo

Award-winning writer as well as film school graduate with a wide variety of interests ranging from the arts to current events. Santa Monica, California

Worked on 592 assignments, created 246, named on 221 bylines for The Corsair.

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PHOTO: Sunset Music Festival

Photos for the sunset music fest...

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The heat wave ends with war in the Middle East

This week's issue of The Corsair is a collection of reporting on the latest campus political news, some local festivities, the boiling inner streets of South Central Los Angeles and reflections on the new war now brewing in the Middle East. The recent shooting of Ezell Ford by the LAPD South Central Los Angeles has sparked small but determined waves...

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Art Exhibit at the Broad

The gallery is empty. The room is pleasantly cool. The desk operators are patiently awaiting arrivals and making the last necessary adjustments. While you look around and watch how the white walls and wooden floor in the yellow lighting give off an elegant glow, you thank yourself to have dressed accordingly. In Roxanne Sexauer’s opening at the Barrett Art Gallery...

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Out of the ruins of addiction

Ten years ago, Greek first year Santa Monica College student Chrissa Loukadakis was battling a powerful addiction to drugs. Rather than remember it with despair, she now carries expression of pride in herself, because after years of battle she managed to turn her life around and made it back to school.“I come from a family that was very messy and...

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Conditioned to Disrespect

Now that spotlight for the Ray Rice issue has shifted to the National Football League administration, including league commissioner Roger Goodell, discussions about domestic abuse and its place in the home have now come to light. Domestic violence is a common occurrence for women. According to the recent global prevalence figures from the World Health Organization, 35% of women worldwide...

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Students over 35, Santa Monica College

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Steven Tart: number 71

Santa Monica College starting left tackle Steven Tart always has two fans watching him on Saturday afternoons when he and his brother A. G. take the field. Tart can hear his mother cheer at every home game. His brother, Shakur Rashinduddin, not so much. Rashindduin is there though, out on the field with Tart on the sidelines, watching his back...

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Neeson's latest sleepwalks among the tombstones

Liam Neeson may be taking "A Walk Among the Tombstones" but we the viewers are walking into two hours of boredom. This is a movie that wants to be clever and mysterious but instead it's stale, uninspired, and clichè. It's not necessarily terrible but, it's just so “whatever.” I seriously can’t find a better word, that's how little this movie...

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Sunset Strip fest features the good, the bad and the weird.

Saturday nights on the Sunset Strip have been the home of the the eccentric and the vain since the Whiskey a Go Go opened its doors in 1964. There were only two changes to that truth last night: one, there was a larger crowd and two, the music that attracted them spilled into the street. The seventh annual Sunset Strip...

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Obama's deadly September surprise in Syria

A year after his first failed attempt at rendering Syria to dust, Emperor Obama has now unleashed the dogs of war on the restless Middle East. Instead of chemical weapons, as was the case last year, the main cause of the bombing campaign in Syria, which began Monday night, is the rise of ISIS, or the Islamic State of Iraq...