On February 18th and 19th the Santa Monica College's very own Broad stage held a Nat Geo Live presentation hosted by Emmy Award-winning wildlife cinematographer and documentarian Bob Poole. The presentation, "Gorongosa Reborn", used visually stunning footage from Poole's 6-part PBS/National Geographic International series on Gorongosa National Park, with Poole speaking to the audience about the rebuilding of wildlife in...

What is there left for Kanye to do? Depending on how you feel about a few of his albums, he has made somewhere between five and eight classics. He’s had world-beating hit songs and critically acclaimed albums that no one bought. He’s won 21 Grammys, been a universally beloved pop culture figure, and a universally despised one as well.“The Life...

The last superhero movie I saw in theaters was “Man Of Steel.” It was 3 years ago and it was very, very bad. Since then movies have come — like “Ant-Man” and “Avengers: Age of Ultron” — that I was sincerely interested in, but I just couldn’t take that step to get to the theater. Maybe I was scared I...

A year has not passed since the birth of film without movies concerning love, death, and war. They’re the universal topics everyone must battle with, and stories about them will be told until the end of storytelling, or time, whichever comes first. War has always seemed the odd outlier in this group though. Every human that will ever live will...

For rap’s first few decades, the rapper’s artistic parallel was the stand-up comedian. The early eras of rap, like comedy, were about one artist and their words. A rapper’s relationship with their beat was a spectrum, varying from artist to artist, much like that of a comic and their audience. The comic’s job is to write funny jokes and put...

The fifth album by the sound-transitioning pop band is undoubtedly a solid salute in the form of a lyrical and overdosed wave goodbye to the wild days of your messy 20s and single life. Lead singer Brendon Urie is comically credited in the CD booklet, "Panic! at the Disco Is: Brendon Urie." It seems to be a mild joke regarding...

The nominations for the 88th Academy Awards were unveiled Thursday morning. They are annually the biggest, dumbest, most frustrating exercise in all of cinema, and movie fans everywhere allow their energy to be drained by the results regardless. The Oscars manage to disappoint in the same confusing yet devastatingly transparent ways time and time again. Let’s check in on how...

"When It's Dark Out" by G-EazyG-Eazy is an Oakland rapper who has been regularly putting out mixtapes for almost 10 years now. Considering Gerald Gillum is only 26, this is a relatively impressive feat. Personally, I haven’t been listening to much G-Eazy over those 10 years, but it is clear that a lot of other people have been. In 2012...

King Push: Darkest Before The Dawn: The PreludePusha T is as good at rapping as anyone else doing it on planet earth right now. You may not know this, and it makes sense why. It’s not just that “Hell Hath No Fury” is turning ten this year and Clipse is long in our rear-view. It’s not just that he “drops...

After every unspeakable act of terror, America finds itself in a state of confusion, grief, and most of all, anger. With this, an inevitable cycle of backlash occurs, often with a spike in hate speech and in many cases, hate crime. We saw it in 2001, and we are still seeing it today. ISIL (also known pejoratively as Daesh) has...