Four short blocks south of the Santa Monica College main campus, a culinary institution is gaining its sea legs. Shaka Shack has been open for only two and a half years and has managed to gain a following strong enough to garner a four and a half star rating on Yelp and a growing number of glowing reviews from publications....

This letter has been long in coming, yet I am nervous even writing it that my position will be taken from me and I will be stripped of any honors. I am Courtney King. The Inter Club Council Vice Chair, Former SMC presidential candidate and Crafting Club president. It is the responsibility of me and two other directors to run...

The video of the Baltimore youth whose mother dragged him out of a protest against police brutality has, as they say, gone viral. And within hours of the video hitting the airwaves, my Media 10 students were emailing me. They’d seen this story before – more than 70 years ago. For if you scroll through the Friday, June 11, 1943...

On Friday and Sunday SMC's Dance Department once again staged its grand romp of global dances and international melodies known as Global Motion. But days before the performance, Corsair photographer Daniel Boyer was present at the rehearsals. His images capture the grace, beauty and athletic precision of the SMC dance department's performers and choreographers. Boyer was given the rare opportunity...

From the very first scene, "Mad Max: Fury Road" staples you to the wall and spins you around like a centrifuge until you feel yourself starting to blackout. Then it pulls you down and offers you a warm cup of tea and an icepack before throwing you headfirst through a fifth-story window into an alligator pond. "Fury Road" is a...

May is Mental Health Awareness Month and Santa Monica College's Psychological Services department is raising awareness through its Ready to Talk, Ready to Listen Peer Educator pilot program. Two student pioneers of this project are SMC psych majors Nicole Cutrona and Mirian De La Cruz. Both are working through an internship as 'Peer Educators' to essentially provide a service that...

On Monday afternoon, Santa Monica College Track and Field athlete Genesis Smith sat at the top of the bleachers at Corsair Stadium and stared at the track below. “I wish I was on my game a little more,” Smith said heavily showing the wear and disappointment from his previous competitions. As the only athlete from SMC’s Track and Field team...

For them it's about getting their side of the story out. On Friday a small group of local Palestinians and activists gathered in front of the Israeli consulate on Wilshire Boulevard to protest what they call the "Nakba," which in Arabic means the "catastrophe." In this case it means the day the United Nations declared the establishment of the state...

Spirits were high and the crowds were large on yesterday as SMC’s latest College Fair took place in the quad, with dozens of booths and representatives present. Aside from the typical UC’s or other popular universities, several new and obscure institutions had a presence at the fair. These particular schools, most of which are relatively new, specialized in a wide...

With one swing of the hammer Frankie Manes did what many students before him had tried and failed to do: hit the bell atop the High Striker three different times, winning himself an SMC Everywhere t-shirt. "Oh man, this is so amazing," said Manes, who's goal is to one day transfer to the University of Southern California. "I'm so glad...