If you were to call a man in New England a Patriot, he would greet you warmly and thank you. If you were to call a man in Dallas a Cowboy, he would likely give you his hat. If you were to call a Native American a "Redskin," you would likely be punched in the face, deservedly so. There is...

For the average student at Santa Monica College who traverses its grounds from south to north, the landscape is full of the growing, changing landscapes of construction sites in motion. One trip across the campus forces students to walk around a shiny new building whose courtyard is not yet complete, the beginnings of a new gym and, upon arrival on...

The Santa Monica College lady Corsairs volleyball team defeated the San Bernadino Valley College Wolverines in straight games: 25-19, 25-13, 25-14. The Corsairs dominated, running off multiple runs of five or more points, including winning eight of the first 10 and 10 of the first 15 in the final set. Greta Schmittdiel led SMC in kills with 15 of the...

As the dust settles on the experiment that was the Made In America Festival in Grand Park in Downtown Los Angeles, it’s time to take a look in the giant streaming obelisk that united Philadelphia and Los Angeles to figure out what we learned. Kendrick Lamar and Kanye West won nights one and two respectively and weed was as omnipresent...

In the Historic Core of Los Angeles, life hums along quietly. However, Saturday night was different. The echoes of youth cascaded over the newly renovated Grand Park. Bass lines that could have been mistaken for small earthquakes shook the local architecture. The Made In America Fest had taken over. The product of Sean "Jay-Z" Carter and Budweiser, the two day,...

The fans who filed into the second day of the Made In America music festival knew who was as the headliner for the night. Shirts foretold the coming of Yeezus and basketball jerseys proudly bared the name and number of an unheralded player, "Bound 2." As The Beatles' "Come Together" played over the Marylin stage sound system, the anticipation rose...

Saturday nights on the Sunset Strip have been the home of the the eccentric and the vain since the Whiskey a Go Go opened its doors in 1964. There were only two changes to that truth last night: one, there was a larger crowd and two, the music that attracted them spilled into the street. The seventh annual Sunset Strip...

When the scaffolding comes off a new building in an important corridor of a city, it is only fair to have a modicum of excitement for the shiny and new. The new Walgreens that opened last Friday at the corner of Pico Blvd. and Lincoln Blvd. falls below even the lowest bar of excitement. The oversized drugstore is a stucco...

Filming began on a new advertisement for Santa Monica College, Wednesday. The advertisement featured groups of student volunteers dancing along with the song and chart topper “Happy” by Pharrell Williams. Though the college brought in an outside director for the shoot, the choreography was often left to the volunteers while basic crew duties were carried out by SMC film students....

Thousands of people lined Main Street in Santa Monica, Calif. on a balmy Friday morning to kick off the fourth of July weekend by watching the eighth annual Santa Monica Fourth of July Parade. The parade, hosted by the Ocean Park Association, featured a slew of creative spins on the traditional due to the theme of the parade, “May The...