Terrance Ware As the current vice president, former treasurer and ICC representative of the Black Collegians Club (BCC), Terrance Ware Jr., 19, has a track record of being a leader. “I’ve been a captain for every [sports] team that I’ve ever played for,” Ware said. “I like leadership. I like to be in a position where I can make sure...

On April 1, I went to see a play called "Cheatin’" by Del Shores. I went in with the intention of liking this play. After all, the SMC theater department was generous enough to let me get in for free just for a measly review. The staff at the theatre was very kind to me, one of them even showed...

Under a ceiling filled with gold stars, disco balls, colorful metallic spirals, streams of paper cutouts and Christmas lights, a group of overheated millennials enjoyed the magically validating experience of watching, or rather participating in, a performance by up and coming west coast band Walter Etc. As the band shifts from its former identity Walter Mitty and his Makeshift Orchestra...

I don’t follow @RealDonaldTrump on Twitter because he is an awful, xenophobic racist and I feel no need to add to the seven million followers he already has. I also read pretty much every single thing Trump ever tweets because no one in history has ever written better tweets, and no one in the future ever will. Trump has absolutely...

Over his long musical career, Frederick "Keith" Fiddmont, a saxophonist of 45 years, woodwind specialist, and Director of Jazz Studies at Santa Monica College, has performed with legendary musicians such as BB King, Gladys Knight, the Temptations, James Brown, and Stevie Wonder. A St. Louis native, Fiddmont has had a burning passion for jazz music as long as he can...

The world of old Hollywood has become an endless source of fascination for modern storytelling. From recent best picture winner “The Artist,” to 2015’s “Trumbo,” artists have found themselves looking back to the beginning of America’s most profitable art form. The trend makes complete sense. The birth of Hollywood was a glamorous and absurd time, filled with incompetence. Santa Monica...

SMC was recently approached with the opportunity to host an album preview for rising Harlem rapper A$AP Ferg’s new release “Always Strive and Prosper,” which would include an appearance from the rapper. It was to be held in a room at the Cayton Center on the afternoon of Monday, March 22. The proposed event would have involved between 50 and...

The turning of the calendar to March indicates that we have survived another year of Hollywood’s flop season. Every year of cinema inevitably gets off to a slow start as studios reserve January and February to dump off the projects they wish had never happened. You can tell 2016 was no different by watching people do backflips to pretend “Deadpool”...

You've found yourself trapped in a room with a few other individuals you may or may not know. There's barely enough light to see your hands in front of you. There are no cell phones and no connections to the outside. You try to open doors but they're locked, and then... a glimmer of hope in the form of a...

Due to his status as a political underdog running against one of the most famous politicians in the country, it is almost impossible to debate Senator Bernie Sanders’ legitimacy as a presidential candidate without comparing him to Hillary Clinton. This is ultimately to Sanders’ disservice, because he is not just an exciting alternative to an obviously flawed candidate, he is...