When a biographical movie is done with the consent of the subject's estate, there are bound to be a few unsavory details left out of the film. One such omission from this film being Cesar Chavez's antagonistic view of undocumented immigrants. Though I give this film credit for the slight allusion to it. When farm owners start looking to find...

Santa Monica College's Theater department kicked off its latest season of productions on Friday night with "Yellow." It had both some moments that shined and some imperfections that shown. The story revolves around the Westmorelands, who undergo a crisis when their "perfect" son, football star Dayne, played by Liam Watkins, is stricken by a previously misdiagnosed illness and the family...

As the dust settled from the two week long Coachella festival, Indio, California became home to a different kind of music festival the following weekend. For seven years, Stagecoach Festival has served as a west coast beacon for country music fans of all ages. Bringing together some of the biggest names of the genre such as Luke Bryan and Jason...

Confusion, angst, depression, longing, and systematic oppression; if these don't scream teenage years or puberty to you, you were lucky. Four songs into this musical, the lead character Melchior (Julian Comeau) says to second male lead Moritz (Zach Zagoria), "It's as if the whole world were mesmerized by penis and vagina." To which Moritz replies, "Well I am!" And that...

After spending most of my Santa Monica College tenure as a staff writer, opinion editor and managing editor of The Corsair Newspaper, I now stand with a bittersweet feeling knowing that this issue will be my last. A piece of me rejoices for the freed up time in my life that will be attributed to finalizing my transfer from SMC,...

Addiction: a “chronic disease of brain reward, motivation, memory, and related circuitry. Dysfunction in these circuits leads to characteristic biological, psychological, social and spiritual manifestations." Imagine being a prisoner of your own mind, a slave to your own thoughts and demons; feeling as if no one could possibly understand where you are. So you go find something, something that makes...

One month ago, a complete stranger called me a faggot. Even in 2015, in Santa Monica, on the Santa Monica College main campus. This still happens. I was doing an assignment for my photography class where our instructor challenged the students to take photos of groups of strangers without looking through the viewfinder. I photographed several people with no issue,...

This is our last issue for the spring semester and it is my last issue as Editor-in-Chief of The Corsair. We end the semester once more reflecting on the tragic events of June 7, 2013 when a violent mind decided to attack our campus and take three lives, including those of Margarita Gomez, SMC groundskeeper Carlos Navarro Franco and his...

For individuals pursuing a career in business, professionalism is essentially important. However, many college students may find it difficult to afford a suit after paying for their tuition, textbooks, and other daily needs. Eight years ago the Santa Monica College Business Administration started the Career Closet. A program that provides suits to SMC Business students in need for any business...

Studying in a different country can be difficult. Except that you have to adapt to a new culture and speak a foreign language, you experience a lot of new things. From clubs and grades to the size of our library, SMC international students compare SMC to the schools in their home countries. Name: Jae Soon ParkMajor: Political ScienceHome Country: South...