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…]
Arts & Life
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‘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…]
New adventures on the train
Beach Streets will be closing car traffic to downtown Long Beach on March 19. Patrons are encouraged to walk or bike to the event and discover everything from Retro Row to Pine ave. and back again. One alternative to arrive at the event may be a ride on the Metro[Read More…]
CSULB student Jonny Strang and his band members work to make it in a trying music industry
The likelihood of making a living as a musician if they’re not headlining the Hollywood Bowl or regularly featured on the radio is a virtual impossibility. For a student musician trying to get discovered, life becomes a balancing act. When Cal State Long Beach senior Jonny Strang and former CSULB[Read More…]
Listen to your Mothers
The exhausting, aching and kind of grooving album “When You Walk A Long Distance You Are Tired” aims to leave listeners — well, tired. Georgia-based group Mothers’ released their debut album on Feb. 26. The album features the dizzying vocal talent of guitarist and vocalist Kristine Leschper, whose vocal chords[Read More…]
FESTIVAL FEST 2016
Californians: It’s March. Music festival season is upon us. So start cutting down your shorts and growing daisies to shove behind your ears. And for the love of all good things check the line-ups, listen to something else other than Top 40 and learn something. Damn it. CRSSD- Madison Waterfront[Read More…]
Motherhood and ‘Sacrifice’
As people enter the West Gatov gallery on campus, large ceramic works of “Sacrifice “along the wall are visible that show both the images of an artist’s life and the hauntingly beautiful vision of a woman in them. Andrea Williams is a Cal State Long Beach junior art major[Read More…]
MOLAA enters young adulthood
The Museum of Latin American Art’s 20th anniversary invited guests to step into a historical storybook of the museum’s humble beginnings rooted in silent film and roller skates. MOLAA was filled with a plethora of pieces both familiar and unfamiliar to the museum’s walls. The pieces varied from light-up photographs[Read More…]
African music and dance return
Crowds were welcomed to experience both underwater sea life and the traditional African dance and music at the African-American cultural festival in the Aquarium of the Pacific. This past weekend the Aquarium of the Pacific in Long Beach hosted its 14th annual African-American festival. The festival included many avenues of[Read More…]
Squared Away
I strive for making a difference in my fellow veteran’s lives so they have the hope and faith I possess to overcome mental illness. When I was in high school, I started to hear voices and they kept me from enjoying company of others. When I found alcohol and the[Read More…]