Highland Parkers are chomping at the bit to get a gourmet donut from the new shop Donut Friend on the corner of Ave. 51and York. Prior to their soft opening Wednesday, they were so inundated with calls asking when they would open that they set their phone to roll straight to voicemail. Entering Donut Friend is strikingly similar to entering...

As the sun began to set on Thursday night, a crowd of around 150 students descended upon the Gilman Fountain for the third event of the Green Bean Fall Series: the RAW Records showcase. Multicolored lights crawled up trees like luminous vines and black cables coalesced at the base of the fountain to power the amplifiers of four separate student...

The fervor over "Grand Theft Auto Five" (GTAV) has calmed down and gamers are finally getting sleep. Most of GTAV is set in Los Santos (a Los Angeles clone) and centers around a series of heists. Back on many people's radars after the release of GTAV, the 1995 film "Heat" captures the sun-drenched, gritty city that is Los Angeles. Like...

On the bottom floor of Weingart Center for the Liberal Arts, the printmaking studio is humming with activity. Colorful samples of art projects line the walls and indie music blares. The students themselves are equally as lively; chatting but focused on their work. Abbey Williams (senior) is one of the 10 studio art majors in her graduating class. Williams has...

A record high of nearly 100 Occidental students have become involved with KOXY this semester, the result of recent expansion and outreach by members of the KOXY staff. “Last year we had a big initiative with getting the word out for KOXY, and this year we’re seeing the benefits of that,” KOXY Programming Director Allan Van Vliet (junior) said. The...

Occidental's dining services may have recently been ranked as the fourteenth best college for food in America by The Daily Meal, but rather than informing students about measures to improve the quality of its products, the school has instead sought to implement a new meal plan system that is unequal and discourages on-campus purchases. When news broke last semester that...

The pulse of the bass ascends the dark stairway leading up to a packed venue. A crowd gathers every night at Dim Mak Studios, a unique club where people from all parts of the city can hear renowned or up-and-coming DJs spin sets. The club is open to everyone over the age of 18 and has a $15 entry fee,...

I recently spent a day on a romantic mission: poking around used bookstores. At each store, I moved up and down aisle after aisle of slightly disheveled shelves, my eyes scanning every spine. I pulled down countless books to peruse author bios, blurbs on dust jackets and occasionally sample the first few pages. These were books that I wanted to...

The Airliner Bar is transformed every Wednesday night into an eclectic musical madhouse called Low End Theory. A $10 cover fee grants access to the Lincoln Heights venue. The ambiance is entirely authentic with limited space, a low-set stage and a powerful sound system encourage a unique face-to-face, dance hall climate. Many Los Angeles greats, such as Flying Lotus, Glitch...

A blacktop dance floor burns under the midday sun. Oversized speakers, the bass cranked to its decibel max, blast noise across crowds of people dressed in colorful, minimal clothing – bedazzled bras and flowered head wraps, glitter and rhinestones, tie dyed booty shorts. On Saturday, Sept. 14, this year’s Mad Decent block party landed in Los Angeles with a splash...