Walking by Jugos Azteca on York Boulevard, the first thing a passerby notices are the walls, painted an eye-catching lime green with large graphics of the shop's menu printed on a banner across the front. Inside, piles of organic cucumbers, apples and pineapples overflow behind the glass front counter. Three towering glass jars are grouped together near the checkout. Today...

As 2014 came to an end and the final "Colbert Report" aired, Kendrick Lamar humbly took to the stage to send off the host and his audience. Stephen Colbert jokingly mentioned that since this was the last episode, the show's previous performers, like Paul McCartney, Jack White and Nas, were technically Kendrick’s openers, and he was the main act. But...

While reading days loom, the idea of picking up a book for pleasure feels like a pipe dream. With the end of the semester in sight, students may soon have the opportunity to pick a novel off the top of their to-read pile. Or, an independent, local bookseller could recommend something new. Three nearby booksellers have distinct characteristics that set...

Four musicians, their instruments, amplifiers and a veritable jungle of monitoring, lighting and recording equipment are crammed into a repurposed office in the Academic Commons. Two photographers move about the room filming. They dodge equipment and duck wires to find the right angle. Behind the performers, fairy lights blink continuously. The decorations hang from a corner bookshelf, a relic of...

Washington University in St. Louis eliminated the sale of disposable plastic water bottles from its campus in January 2009. In 2013, Western Washington University became the largest public university to do the same. Occidental, however, used over 104,000 disposable plastic water bottles in 2014, only 30 percent of which were recycled, if our habits align with the national trend. This...

Faculty voted 83–45 against calling for the immediate resignation of President Jonathan Veitch in a meeting Tuesday, Director of Communications Jim Tranquada said. The vote was a direct response to a recent movement for diversity and equity at Occidental organized by the student activist group Oxy United for Black Liberation, according to Diplomacy and World Affairs Professor Sanjeev Khagram and...

The administration addressed Oxy United for Black Liberation’s 14 demands in an email signed by President Jonathan Veitch, Vice President for Academic Affairs Jorge Gonzalez and Chair of the Board of Trustees Chris Calkins Thursday morning. The administration agreed to meet every demand in some capacity except Veitch’s removal and the allocation of funds to the Diversity and Equity Board...

For Zweet Café to call itself a “special coffee boutique” on its website comes across as somewhat haughty — but nevertheless well-deserved. The coffee boutique on Eagle Rock Boulevard — previously a sweets shop called Zweet Station — opened in mid-October. On a weekday night, it had a homier atmosphere than your typical coffee joint. Instead of jittery customers typing...

Books of feminist theory are strewn around a round table and evocative photographs of two women wearing nothing but blankets and boots hang along the walls in a small room. These scenes are part of a new art exhibit by the Los Angeles female duo CamLab that opened two weeks ago at the Weingart Gallery. The duo Jemima Wyman and...

There are moments of semi-adulthood in college, like lying awake until 3 a.m. worrying about student loans, that invoke a longing to remain young enough to play in the sandbox forever. Then there are moments, like holding a beer in one hand and playing vintage pinball with the other, when you remember that sandboxes are more likely to contain used...