The Arts Council for Long Beach is looking for 20 creative, art-loving Cal State Long Beach students to become part of their paid internship program Creative Long Beach and help them expose the community to more art. Starting April 4, CSULB students will be able to apply for an internship[Read More…]
Arts & Life
Content that focuses on popular culture, local art and music, entertainment and the events. Common topics include lifestyle, television and film, theater, music, video game, food, etc
Students shorten the GAP
Column: It took little persuasion to recruit students to participate in yesterday’s counter protest against the Genocide Awareness Project. Students parked themselves across the lawn near the Hall of Science, holding signs with phrases including, “My oppression is not your moral battleground” and “I am paying $4,000 for this?” As[Read More…]
Chicano author speaks at Cal State Long Beach
The overfilled lecture hall was silent as students not only listened to a short story but experienced the emotions written in its pages. Manuel Muñoz, a native born and raised in California’s Central Valley, is a renowned author who identifies as gay and explores how Chicanos struggle with poverty, family[Read More…]
Damn ladies, back at it again
Whether life imitates art or art imitates life, the introspective questions of the past don’t always matter. Especially not when art looks so fashionable. Films, in particular, have a habit of influencing a wide realm of people and cultivating ideas regarding romance, friendship and, of course, fashion. “Clueless” (1995) Dionne:[Read More…]
Art District comes alive
The streets of Downtown Long Beach are filled with artists. Some work with brightly-colored chalk on the crowded sidewalks, and others implement spray paint to create portraits of iconic figures in history. Around these artists, the crowds attending the Long Beach Art Walk observe — and admire. The Long Beach[Read More…]
It’s Pow Wow time
Native American students held the first Puvungna Pow Wow at Cal State Long Beach as a means of establishing their presence on campus and celebrating their new journey as college students. 46 years later, the Pow wow continues — a celebration of life, culture and community. This weekend, the Puvungna[Read More…]
Column: College students leaving God behind
Students are leaving organized religion in flocks at Cal State Long Beach to embrace a lifestyle where their spirituality is strong but their belief in a higher power is optional. Collecting data from over 14,000 students attending 136 colleges, UCLA’s Higher Education Research Institute found that students are likely to[Read More…]
Paglalakabay at Carpenter’s
A night filled with with love, laughter, and unity — the Pilipino American Coalition celebrates their 30th Pilipino Cultural Night among the Filipino community at the beach, enriched with culture and tradition. Daphne Ong, a senior health care administration major and PAC’s current president, said that this year’s cultural night[Read More…]
Slutever
The “Unslut” documentary calls for social change in highlighting the damage of slut-shaming. The “Unslut” documentary left its audience in silence and caused tears of empathy and sympathy to fall from the eyes of its viewers. The film, which was put on my the Women’s Gender Equality Center, YWCA and[Read More…]
‘King Kendrick’ sounds the alarm
Grammy-winning artist Kendrick Lamar reintroduces his fans to critiques on the demanding, rigid nature of the modern music industry while celebrating blackness through raw, pre-disco funk. Kendrick Lamar’s album “untitled unmastered.” was released by Aftermath/Interscope (Top Dawg Entertainment) records on March 4. The album addresses issues such as racism, classism[Read More…]