A man with a curled ginger mustache, bandana around his neck and brown wool hat atop his head holds onto his bike and surfs the ebb and flow of the L. A. Metro train. Everyone else in his car sits. At the 23rd Street Expo-Line stop, he walks his bike out of the Metro, pauses, turns his bike lights on...

Dust off that felt fedora and get ready for some heavy office drinking because Mad Men is back, and it's just in time for finals season. For those unfamiliar with the show, Mad Men follows the inner-workings of a '60s era Madison Avenue advertising agency and the lives of the Ad men and (very few) women who work there. If...

Many think improv died in the '90s and stand-up comedy takes place exclusively in comedy clubs that have minimum drink requirements on top of ridiculous ticket fees. Well, maybe short-form improv died in the '90s, but some of the best comedy shows now don't happen in traditional comedy clubs and range from free to only ten dollars. Welcome to the...

Every Occidental College applicant is required to respond to multiple writing supplements. Although you might not remember what you wrote, surely you remember painstakingly responding to these prompts. These supplements allow the college to learn more about the individual applicants as well as gauge their writing abilities. I meticulously wrote answers to these prompts only a year ago; now a...

Pop Pop. 300 fans of NBC's Community squished into a multipurpose room at Los Angeles Community College this weekend for the world's first CommuniCon. At the root, Community is a show about a study group at a community college. Over the show's three seasons, Community has gained a huge cult following due to the show's quirky nature and pop culture...

After years of rocket fire and jilted rhetoric from both sides, the news of rocket fire in Israel and Gaza two weeks ago first felt like déjà vu. Apart from the scale at which the rocket fire hit both sides, there is a fundamental difference that separates this proliferation of attacks from others; this rocket fire physically reached further into...

Before Sandy hit the Northeast last week, both political parties presumed that the way the Obama administration would handle the after-effects of the storm could play an instrumental factor in deciding the election. Conservatives like Sean Hannity speculated that Sandy would be "Obama's Katrina", while liberals believed that if the Obama administration brought speedy storm recovery, his chances for re-election...

Students and administration alike loves to talk about Occidental's long history of political and social action, from Barack Obama's first political speech to Martin Luther King Jr. speaking at Thorne. I had hoped that in coming to Occidental, a school with such an extraordinary history of social justice, I would be swept up in activism and finally find my voice....

Occidental should have been courteous enough to leave a note before Fall Break started that film crews were coming to campus last Tuesday. Students who checked and made it all the way to the end of Oxy Digest on Oct. 15 were notified that the TV show "Arrested Development" would be coming to campus the next day to shoot its...

Colorado Boulevard was closed to traffic Saturday afternoon and late into the evening to accommodate the 14th Annual Eagle Rock Music Festival. The perfect way out of the 'Oxy Bubble,' the festival offered 11 stages and over 70 musical acts. The festival was open to the general public and offered something for everyone, from families with little kids to angst...