spilled from the sidewalk into downtown Los Angeles, where glassy-eyed street nomads wandered the city blocks. Jagged pieces of glass, paper bags and other discarded debris littered the alleyways and roads that wound their way through Third and Seventh, and Alameda and Main. This is Skid Row— famous for violence, drugs, homelessness and rampant, uncontrolled chaos. The dark section of...

IN BRIEF Tragedy at SkeptiCamp When Guest Speaker Suffers Heart Attack During the SkeptiCamp conference held in HS 165 on Saturday, May 7, Gregory Bart Jr. from the Center for Inquiry, and part of the greater Los Angeles community of skeptics, collapsed after giving a presentation questioning the results of the OJ Simpson Trial. Emergency medical aid was immediately provided...

As the SMC Opera Club set up a piano, two microphones, and a few speakers, preparing to perform at Club Row, a man stepped up to his turntables about 100 feet away. He welcomed everybody to the event, and began to play dance remixes of Top 40 pop songs — loudly, to compete with the already high level of crowd...

I used to detest every aspect of my generation — every Snapchat, “like” and kid staring at their phone received a scowl of disgust from me regardless of how happy they looked. It seemed the adult thing to do, to stand back with another generation and point at the growing crops, critiquing every step of their growth. I finally experimented...

Before spring break on April 10, The Corsair's Ashleen Knutsen reported on the protest by the SMC classified staff workers over wage increase negotiations taking place between the Classified staff and the Board of Trustees. A month later, they were back at it again. A group of classified staff members once again gathered, signs in hand, at the parking lot...

Ornamental Bike Brought down, possibly vandalized One of the two decorative metal bikes normally screwed onto the concrete blocks in the Pearl Street smoking section was discovered by members of the Corsair Editorial Staff in the early morning hours on Wednesday, May 4. The bike was found resting near its original position, but out of its moorings and on the...

The atmosphere was highly charged as thousands of supporters came to hear the highly controversial republican presidential nominee Donald J. Trump speak at a relatively unannounced rally at the Pacific Ampitheatre in Costa Mesa on Thursday, April 28. Temperatures were already heating up for Trump's supporters while they waited in line for their favorite candidate. They led chants against republican...

The other day upon paying for a male friend of mine’s lunch, I caught myself saying “Yeah, fuck gender norms” to no one in particular, with a sense of pride in the fact that I had defied the rules of gender that currently plague our society. The cashier across the counter from me responded with furrowed brows and a look...

There’s one special day a year where you might have your face and attention buried in your phone while you type a text, and then out of the corner of your eye, you spot an astronaut strolling by. You might start questioning your sanity when you then see Chewbacca making a cup of boba, but when you see Buzz Lightyear...

When Kevin Maxwell first told his grandmother he was going to make a film about her life, her first question was “how are you going to do that?” It was a fair question. At that time, Maxwell had never made a film, and had only recently left a full-time government job, working with the Transportation Security Agency.“No one in my...