Students will soon feel the impacts of the recent increase in California's minimum wage. To account for this state-wide wage increase, the Associated Students of Occidental College (ASOC) may have to reduce financial support to student services or increase student body fees for the 2014-15 school year. The state-wide minimum wage increase to $9 per hour, which comes into effect...

Italy. A 21-year-old man was killed when part of a crucifix fell on him Saturday in the town of Cevo. Another man involved in the accident is said to be in critical condition at a hospital in the northern region of Italy. The incident occurred during a ceremony before the canonization of former popes John Paul II and John XXIII,...

York Boulevard has witnessed an assortment of gastronomic additions in the past decade. Just four months ago, New York Snow — a storefront serving "snow cream" — transplanted from its original location in Little Tokyo to join the bustling boulevard. New York Snow's "snow cream" is an alternative to ice cream and frozen yogurt. Though the name of the frozen...

Brunch is the king of meals. It combines everything to love about breakfast and lunch into one stupendous plate comprised of all kinds of flavor dimensions, with sweet and savory uniting in heavenly harmony. In Old Town Pasadena, KTCHN has mastered brunch for daily delight. Instead of filling their plates with fake syrups and sad excuses for vegetables, KTCHN makes...

As the sky went to black Saturday evening, hipsters, popcorn, burgers, a classic hearse and an FM radio station channeling "Harold and Maude" came to life at Electric Dusk Drive-In. The downtown Los Angeles drive-in theater, open year-round, began its third movie screening as part of its summer series, featuring director Hal Ashby's 1971 classic cinematic endeavor. The Electric Dusk...

Students gathered on Branca Patio under Los Angeles' starless sky Thursday night for a medley of student performances that included beatboxing, stand-up comedy, a cappella and guitar solos. This open mic, co-hosted by the Green Bean and Raw Records, was the second of the semester and marked the last event in the Green Bean's spring series, ending the yearlong event...

I recently downloaded the hit iPhone game "2048," which has consumed all of my free time. It's so addicting that I once narrowly avoided walking into a parked car while gazing at the magic on my phone. "2048" has taken Occidental by storm. Many students play it while waiting in lines for food or can be heard sharing their high...

After four long, yet simultaneously ephemeral years at Occidental, I will reap the fruits of my laborious days spent here, along with about 500 other seniors, in a little over two weeks. The two research papers standing between my Bachelor of Arts degree and me make it highly unlikely that I will cross off from an impossibly long list many...

“A new era has begun, one started this time in the laboratories and factories of America. No doubt the period from 1945 to the destruction of our civilization in the next world war will be called the Television Age by future historians,” John Utzinger wrote in an April 1951 issue of The Occidental Weekly. Some 63 years ago, Utzinger boldly...

Two Sundays ago, as I drove down Eagle Rock Boulevard to my house in Cypress Park, I was met with barricades and flashing lights. But it was not for a double homicide, which had last shut down this stretch of road. Instead, as I pulled over and got out of my car, I was met with the sound of hundreds...