University Art Museum presented its first free on-campus farmer’s market on Monday after collaborating with Food Forward, a nonprofit organization that rescues excess produce from farmers markets and links it with people in need. “Produce on the Plaza,” which took place next to the UAM on lower campus, was created[Read More…]
Events
Lifestyle events that occur on or off campus should be categorized under “events.” Events differ from performances in that performances stage or present a play, concert or other forms of entertainment while events do not. Examples of events include the Long Beach Zombie Walk, Week of Welcome and Queen Mary’s Dark Harbour.
Phenomenal filmmakers strut CityWalk
Steven Spielberg, Jordan Peele, and other directors helped unveil Universal CityWalk’s multi-million dollar renovated movie theater, the Universal Cinema. Ron Meyer, the vice chairman of NBCUniversal and Karen Irwin, president and COO of Universal Studios Hollywood, were in attendance to give speeches and celebrate the theater’s opening. Emmy Award-nominated filmmaker[Read More…]
Beach Hacks at CSULB
Musk still lingers in the University Student Union ballrooms from the hundreds of computer and electrical engineering students who spent the night in the auditorium for Beach Hacks. The 24-hour hackathon invited students of varying specialties and skill sets to gather and create. From April 22-23, students worked through the[Read More…]
Pete Lee at CSULB
They say that nice guys finish last, but that doesn’t seem to apply to introverted comedian Pete Lee, who finished as a semi-finalist on “Last Comic Standing,” and later won Best of the Fest at the 2012 Great American Comedy Festival. The nice guy routine is paying off for Lee,[Read More…]
Newport Beach Film Festival
Newport Beach will be hosting over 55,000 attendees while featuring over 350 films from over 50 countries at the 18th annual Newport Beach Film Festival. The event will take place from April 20-27 and show films from both independent and studio backgrounds. Among the various countries and cultural backgrounds being[Read More…]
Environmental sustainability is promoted in Earth Week Eco-Fair
Sustainability, renewability and personal well-being: these were the themes of the Cal State Long Beach Eco-Fair held on Tuesday in celebration of Earth Week. The Eco-Fair took place in front of the Speaker’s Platform and featured kiosks from a plethora of groups, including Cease Animal Torture, Student Health Services, Long[Read More…]
Sneak peek of Earth Week
It’s not quite time to celebrate mom, but it is nearing that time of year we do something special for Mother Earth. International Earth Day is on April 22, but Cal State Long Beach Sustainability is bringing Earth Week to campus starting today, with events throughout the week leading up[Read More…]
Nicholas Kristof at CSULB
Pulitzer Prize-winning author, and long-time New York Times op-ed columnist Nicholas Kristof is coming to Cal State Long Beach tonight. Kristof is scheduled to deliver a keynote speech at the Carpenter Performing Arts Center at 7 p.m. He is known as a writer and activist, often focusing his efforts uncovering[Read More…]
Surviving and thriving at Coachella
College students ready to dance and run around the desert at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival this weekend (or next), I hope you make your time there worth the hundreds of dollars you have undoubtedly spent in preparation for it. I was fortunate enough to plan my first[Read More…]
Entertainment and Media highlighted in the Industry Spotlight Series
Blizzard Entertainment, Live Nation, United Talent Agency; all of these businesses and more will be present at the Career Development Center’s Media and Entertainment Industry Spotlight Series on Thursday from 3-5 p.m. at Brotman Hall 250. “This is the second time we have done media entertainment as part of the[Read More…]