Tahitian dancers moving in ecstasy and Aztecs summoning a serpent god appeared on Friday night at Santa Monica College’s Broad Stage. With their show “Dance in American Culture,” SMC’s world dance company Global Motion presented an epic celebration of diverse forms of dance from east to west, and formal to tribal. For audience members, it was a global tour and...

Inside the vast, cavernous Los Angeles Sports Arena, a hidden city was actively alive. Care Harbor provided free health care services to nearly 3,000 low-income and uninsured patients from Oct. 31 through Nov. 3. The event was sponsored by an array of groups, including Dignity Care, LA Health and the Buddhist organization Tzu Chi. In the center of the arena,...

"The Square," a stirring, harrowing experience that takes the viewer inside the Egyptian Revolution of 2011 and its continuing aftershocks, is a chronicle of the human drama that drove the Arab Spring and defined the second decade of the 21st century. Director Jehane Noujaim filmed the events on the spot that began in January 2011. The documentary focuses on three...

With ticket prices going up and studios churning out factory products, movies are starting to lose some of their luster in the digital age when competing against a caravan of hit television shows. From "The Walking Dead" to "Breaking Bad," television is undergoing a renaissance that can range from the grand and fantastic to finely-tuned miniseries. In the 1970s, cinema...

What would an egg dancing the cha-cha look like? Laura Gorenstein Miller, choreographer, artistic director and founder of Helios Dance Theater, found herself imagining this picture for the animated film, “Puss in Boots,” directed by her husband Chris Miller. On Saturday morning, a large audience was treated to the show “Puss in Boots: From Drawings To Dance,” which mixed live...

When Rafael Silva left the heat and crystalline shores of Rio de Janeiro to play soccer in the United States, he never imagined he would find himself in the bone-crushing arena of American football as Santa Monica College's prime kicker. "I came here to play soccer," Silva said. "I knew the football coach. He's a friend of mine. He told...

Strange sounds, disembodied voices and faceless children are some of the apparitions reported to have manifested themselves at the Millennium Biltmore Hotel. Located in downtown Los Angeles, the Biltmore, which celebrated its 90th anniversary this month, remains an icon of old Hollywood and classic LA history. Over the years, the Biltmore has been a true witness to history. From 1931...

The destructive results of Global Warming in the Arctic tundra were shown in full color to attendees of the"Chasing Ice" screening at SMC on Tuesday. The short documentary was presented as part of the EcoAction Club's Sustainability Week activities. The club held the event in hopes of making students and faculty more aware and active about climate change. The presentation...

"12 Years A Slave," the latest film from auteur Steve McQueen, is a film of raw, brutal emotion. Its subject is the enslavement of a free black man in 1841 and his journey through a hell of oppression amid the fields of American slavery. It is history on film laid bare drop by bloody drop. The film stars Chiwetel Ejiofor...

The doors of the Barrett Art Gallery at The Broad Stage opened on Saturday to reveal the abstract works of Los Angeles artist Scot Heywood. The gallery show, titled "Scot Heywood: A Survey Of Large Paintings 2006-2013," showcased Heywood's smooth yet direct works which embody the abstract spirit with their defiance of narrative or convention. The paintings on display at...