Nearly everyone who’s lived through a few elections will tell you this year’s is one of the craziest in living memory. The most obvious reason is Donald J. Trump, the former reality television star and real estate mogul who announced his candidacy last June. I’m not going to argue for why Trump should or shouldn’t be president. Whether he’s a...

After several years of nearly constant construction, the time has come for a smoother connection between downtown Los Angeles and the city of Santa Monica, with an expansion of the Los Angeles Metro's Expo Line. Beginning on May 20, tourists and locals will be able to ride into downtown Santa Monica, specifically all the way to Colorado and 4th street,...

On April 23, Beyonce surprise-released her sixth album “Lemonade” as an exclusive on TIDAL, the music streaming service she owns along with her husband Jay-Z. As if this wasn’t a significant enough cultural event on its own, it marked the beginning of a three-week thrill ride of noteworthy album releases, both expected and unexpected. Between April 23 and May 13,...

The bustle of the SMC Main Campus library is a familiar one. The sound of zippers closing and opening backpacks every few seconds. A student takes out an intellectual sandwich — two textbooks with a MacBook stuffed between them. Another student notices the time on his dimly lit computer screen and throws everything into his backpack, zips it abruptly and...

Dressed in a scarf patterned with stars, pants covered with planets and hair adorned with pencils and plastic stars, guest lecturer and astronomical historian Shelley Bonus took over the John Drescher Planetarium on Friday night. To a crowd of nearly 30 attendees, she spoke about what we know about our solar system’s largest and possibly oldest planet Jupiter and its...

In a sea of disagreement and contradicting points of view, one topic that has loudly come to the surface is that of gender equality. In what should be changed in the Declaration of Independence: All men and women are created equal. The most obvious advancement in the equality of genders is the very existence of Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton,...

At only 17 years old, Alejandro Diaz de la Torre decided to move from his home in Madrid, Spain, to the U. S. As the son of a diplomat, he has lived in many different countries in his life, but decided that Los Angeles is where he would be pursuing his education. After spending one year at Kaplan, an English...

As the SMC Opera Club set up a piano, two microphones, and a few speakers, preparing to perform at Club Row, a man stepped up to his turntables about 100 feet away. He welcomed everybody to the event, and began to play dance remixes of Top 40 pop songs — loudly, to compete with the already high level of crowd...

I used to detest every aspect of my generation — every Snapchat, “like” and kid staring at their phone received a scowl of disgust from me regardless of how happy they looked. It seemed the adult thing to do, to stand back with another generation and point at the growing crops, critiquing every step of their growth. I finally experimented...

Ornamental Bike Brought down, possibly vandalized One of the two decorative metal bikes normally screwed onto the concrete blocks in the Pearl Street smoking section was discovered by members of the Corsair Editorial Staff in the early morning hours on Wednesday, May 4. The bike was found resting near its original position, but out of its moorings and on the...