Pedestrians walking along Eagle Rock Boulevard Monday night likely noticed the smell of frying oil, warm cheese and curry wafting from the parking lot of All Star Lanes bowling alley. The band of aromas came from about eight food trucks ringing the lot. In the middle, vendors sold wares including jewelry, cake pops and clothing. A DJ set the tone...

Spoken word combines social justice and activism, poetry and performance. It is an art that, at its best, exposes the performer’s vulnerability as a way to connect people. In 2010, Occidental's Spoken Word Club brought this art form to campus, and now, members are competing on a national stage. This past week, Occidental’s spoken word team—comprised of members Daphne Auza*...

The photographs are haunting both in what they depict and what they predict: Low-lying slums inundated by water, the destruction of New Orleans’ Lower Ninth Ward following Hurricane Katrina, the impending peril of a tsunami impacting Southern California. The Annenberg Space for Photography’s current installation, "Sink or Swim: Designing for A Sea Change," explores the reality of sea level rise...

Over 4,000 miles from its namesake and currently 50 degrees warmer, Reykjavik Outpost took advantage of its LA locale to bring artists and designers to Saturday's pop-up shop event. The local talent infiltrated the Icelandic boutique, sporting platinum blonde hair with dark roots, shift dresses and chunky, asymmetric jewelry. Two frenetic Icelandic women bustled in and out of the back...

If my life was a video game—and sometimes I think it really is—different vacations would be the add-on packs to my main game. In this life-game hybrid of mine, the most recent add-on, or downloadable content (DLC), "Adventures in San Francisco," would cover all of my spring break shenanigans—hot tubbing, reading comics and playing a ton of "Fallout 3 Game...

From 1933 until the end of World War II, the Nazi Party of Germany committed art theft on a massive scale, stealing over 650,000 works throughout Europe. It was the greatest art theft in history and a devastating blow to Europe's cultural heritage. But in the latest series of attacks on ancient artifacts, the Islamic State (ISIS) has one-upped Nazi...

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...

Coffee culture is on the rise in Northeast Los Angeles, where the new owners of Zweet Station are preparing to join the ranks of Café de Leche, Swork, The Coffee Table and a slew of recently established caffeine-oriented shops. Owners Kacey Sourakli, Paul Austad, Marvin Manzon and Nikki Manzon had Occidental students in mind when they decided to transform Zweet...

There is an unexpected love affair going on in Silicon Valley. As tech titans like Google, Facebook and Apple jockey for supremacy in the ever-changing digital age, they have partnered with the most eminent architects of our time to reinvent the world in which we work and live. Google recently commissioned world-renowned European architects Thomas Heatherwick and Bjarke Ingels to...

Students often assume the history they learn about through museums, textbooks or historians is an accurate and truthful narrative. Filmmaker Jesse Lerner challenges this assumption in his film, "Ruins: A Fake Documentary," which he screened to a large crowd of students and professors in Choi auditorium March 5. Before the film began, he primed the audience with a warning. “Beware....