Nick Geiger, a Phi Delta Kappa historian, often rides his bike to school, stating that it is healthier and eliminates the hassle of finding parking. In his bike rides home from Santa Monica College and to other places in the city, however, Geiger has been involved in his fare share of close calls on the road. Geiger retells a close...

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...

Today a total of forty five SMC students and staff members from the dance department will not be heading to class but rather will be heading to the Los Angeles International Airport, to hop on a flight to Beijing, China. The trip to Beijing will be the dance department's second visit to China's capital since September of 2013. The objective...

All the noise, dust, banging and commotion at The Broad Stage is to expand the facility and experience for SMC students, educators and the community. This expansion will add yet another amazing element to the already unique Italian horseshoe design of the original facility built in 2008. When all the dust clears, "The Performing Art Center, East Wing will house...

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,...

Many in Southern California have heard of Universal Studio’s Halloween Horror Nights, equipped with men with swinging chain saws, cackling Chuckie characters, and unforgettable lengthy mazes that reach to the darkest corners of your nightmares. Universal’s gore kings and queens will be opening their doors to this fantastic Halloween extravaganza this Friday, September 19th at 7pm. Walking through one maze...

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...

The Ice Bucket Challenge is not a novelty. Reaching about 1.2 million hits through Facebook videos and 2.2 million hits on Twitter between July and August, the phenomenon of so many charitable donors and volunteers willingly pouring ice cold water over their heads in support of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis patients (ALS), became “the thing” of this year’s summer. But why...