As a first year, I was part of the Nature Writing Cultural Studies Program (CSP) taught by professor Keith Naylor of the religious studies department. Our class went for a short hike at Eaton Canyon, near Pasadena, as an accompaniment to a lecture on arid landscapes. It was my first semester in Los Angeles and, after having the chance to...

Theater Professor Laural Meade sits alone in the lamdas of Occidental’s Keck Theater, watching a cast of student actors rehearse the play “Tell Me I’m Beautiful,” written by Nikki Resendez (senior). “Just a teaching point here — actors, I don’t see you taking notes,” Meade said. “You should be writing all of this down. You’ll thank yourself a week from...

An older man wearing thin glasses and a postboy cap admires a tall paper structure with billowing folds like sails in the wind. Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) patron Donald Liegler is a longtime fan of Frank Gehry, the legendary architect whose six decade-long career is celebrated in an ongoing retrospective at the museum. In conjunction with the...

Walking through the cavernous entrance of Downtown's new and long-awaited contemporary art museum, The Broad, is an exhibition experience like none other. The building itself is a work of art, and within it lie some of the greatest pieces of our time. Over 250 pieces are on display from over 60 artists, including some of the most renowned names in...

Members of Bike Share are reaching out to the community for information on the growing number of on-campus bicycle thefts in order to encourage Campus Safety to implement more comprehensive surveillance measures. Bike Share sent out an anonymous email survey Sept. 6 asking victims of bicycle theft to provide details of their experiences. Bike Share's survey addresses information such as...

The artists in the photo above the piece online are as follows, L to R: Wild Life, Skechy, Obey Giant, and Free Humanity. In the 1980s, LA was considered the mural capital of the world. But in 2002, public murals were banned after unsightly graffiti tags and dishonest marketing started to dominate the urban landscape. The city lost its title...

Inside the Eagle Rock Brewery Public House, tables full of 20-somethings sipped on beer and wine while sampling items from the restaurant's menu, which offers more than typical pub grub. The selection will certainly surprise patrons expecting typical brewery fair of burgers, fries, fish and chips or chicken wings. The original Eagle Rock Brewery opened in 2009, but the owners...

Zenith Virago introduced herself as the local death walker when she met Art History and Visual Arts Chair Broderick Fox at the Byron Bay International Film Festival in 2012. Virago, the subject of Fox's new documentary "Zen and the Art of Dying," presides over non-traditional weddings and funerals in her adopted home, Byron Bay, Australia. Fox's most recent documentary, which...

For the first time since starting InternLA/PDX, Occidental's Career Development Center (CDC) has decided that former participants may not apply for a second internship in the program within the same city. A number of InternLA alumni, myself included, were surprised and disappointed to hear this news. It cannot be denied that earning $3,900 at an undergraduate internship in ones' field...

Kelly Wourms (senior) is putting his classroom education in Media Arts and Culture to work in the real world under his stage name, Terrys Tacos. As a music video director and photographer for the Seattle-based music collective THRAXXHOUSE, Wourms got the opportunity to document the group's founding members, Key Nyata and Mackned as they represented the 40-plus member conglomerate at...