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Early Saturday morning, while the grass still glistened with dew and the sun barely touched the horizon, Associated Students began setting up for the Homecoming Game Tailgate Party. The pregame celebration, hosted annually by the Santa Monica College Alumni Association, would be the start of the day’s festivities which included games, music, and good food. Alumni, faculty, and current students...

On the eve of Halloween in 1985, a twenty-five-year old woman named Sylvia Seegrist, dressed in military fatigues, walked into the mall near my home, in the Philadelphia suburb of Springfield, PA. Seegrist killed three people, including a two-year-old boy, and injured seven others before being disarmed by a good samaritan. One of my friends had been there with her...

As more and more Brick-and-Mortar stores, or physical stores in a building location, are being threatened by increased online shopping by consumers, retail companies are coming up with new concepts to draw in customers. From stores without any inventory to places that serve wine and beer, retail companies are finding new ways to fight off the ‘Amazon Effect’ and changing...

“Station, this is Randy Bresnik Senior here with the students. How do you hear me?” “Well, Dad, got you loud and clear. Welcome, everyone from Samohi, to the International Space Station!” Santa Monica High School graduate Commander Randy Bresnik’s warm greeting to his father, SMSH students, and guests of his former high school from the International Space Station on Monday,...

Heal the Bay’s Santa Monica Pier Aquarium is gearing up for spooky family fun at Fishy Fest 2017 this weekend, Oct. 28-29. The Fishy Fest Halloween and Día de los Muertos celebration starts at 12:30 p.m., on Saturday and conclude at 5 p.m. on Sunday. Admission is always free for kids under thirteen who are accompanied by an adult, and...

On Thursday, Oct. 12, Santa Monica College’s Career Services Center joined forces with the Fashion Club, Goodwill, and the up-and-coming Career Closet, to host the campus’s first-ever Job Fair Prep Event. The brainchild of Career Services Advisor Ann-Marie Leahy and Fashion Department head Lorrie Ivas, this prep event presented students with the opportunity to meet department counselors, review their resumes,...

“I spoke with President Moon of South Korea last night," Donald Trump tweeted, "Asked him how 'Rocket Man' is doing. Long gas lines in North Korea. Too bad!” No, this is not Alec Baldwin’s version of the President from Saturday Night Live, this is the actual elected leader of the free world. The “Rocket Man” he is referring to is...

Just when it was safe to go back to the circus, Stephen King’s It arrives in theaters and Pennywise dances back into our nightmares to give a whole new generation a bad case of coulrophobia. The much anticipated New Line and Warner Bros. adaptation of King’s horror classic about a homicidal clown terrorizing a small Maine town, broke box office...

On the evening of Tuesday, September 26th, Santa Monica College hosted a screening of the documentary West Los. “I’m not Charlie from Culver City, I’m just Charlie.” Charlie Chacon, a first time filmmaker from Culver City, says this to highlight why he is making this documentary. He has spent the last three years trying to create a film about how...