California State University-Long Beach

Justin Smith: The Heavy Metal Professor

One of the fascinating Angelenos featured in L.A. Weekly's People 2013 issue. Check out our entire People 2013 issue here. For lunch today in Culver City, Justin Smith has ridden his motorcycle up the 405 from Cal State Long Beach, where he teaches U.S. history classes as an adjunct professor. That ... More >>

Natashia Deon: Defense Attorney By Day, Novelist By Night

One of the fascinating Angelenos featured in L.A. Weekly's People 2013 issue. Check out our entire People 2013 issue here. At 24, Natashia Deon thought she had her whole life figured out. Despite hanging around L.A. nightclubs while working as a teenage promoter for radio station 92.3 The Beat, she ... More >>

Bill T. Jones: Inside the Famed Choreographer's Rehearsal Process

Choreographer, dancer, writer, director and winner of many awards and honors, Bill T. Jones turned 60 earlier this year. But he's still the most fit, most chiseled man in this room, which is filled mostly with college students who are 40 years his junior. Jones is in Dance Studio 3 at Cal State Lon ... More >>

Art Students Blow Up the Blue Whale

David Maghamifar, CSULB Grad From Italy, Dies When Car Flies off Pier at L.A. Harbor

The 25-year-old whose car flew off Pier 300 at the Los Angeles Harbor on Saturday afternoon has been identified as David Maghamifar. A Facebook profile that appears to belong to the victim says he grew up in Genova, Italy -- attending high school at Liceo Classico Emiliani -- before moving to SoCal ... More >>

VIDEO: Amazing Beer Machine Invented by Cal State Long Beach Students

Bartenders of Los Angeles, be stoked: A team of four students at California State University, Long Beach have mechanically engineered your new best friend. It hasn't really been branded yet, but the team member who uploaded it to YouTube describes it as a "beer machine," which is as accurate a name ... More >>

Annette Lujan: Woman Dies in CSU Long Beach Elevator Accident [UPDATED]

KTLA via DMVAnnette Lujan reportedly attempted to exit a CSULB elevator just as it began to move.​The victim has been identified as 48-year-old Annette Lujan, a resident of Huntington Beach. She had worked at CSULB's grants and contracts office for nine years. More details at the bottom. Orig ... More >>

'Occupy Long Beach' Campers Arrested for Refusing to Vacate Lincoln Park

Occupy Long Beach via Facebook​As the Occupy Wall Street movement spreads worldwide, it's also filling itself out here at home -- building slowly but surely in small towns and communities surrounding the big urban hubs. (Occupy Venice, Occupy Northridge, Occupy Irvine, Occupy Riverside, etc.) ... More >>

Origami Yoda and More at Earl Burns Miller Japanese Garden's Origami Festival at Cal State Long Beach

Lisa HorowitzOrigami Yoda, folded by Michael Sanders as part of Alison Redfoot-DiLidda's composition​ The Earl Burns Miller Japanese Garden at Cal State Long Beach turned out to be a lovely location to learn the art of origami, or Japanese paper folding, on Sunday. From humble beginnings mor ... More >>

Anthony Weiner Beware: Sexting is For Girls, According to Cal State Long Beach 'Sexuality & Culture' Study

RobW_​Looks like Anthony Weiner was tapping into a fertile new frontier. Turns out most of the sexters out there aren't pervs in congress. Rather they're ... women. So says a study from the journal Sexuality & Culture, which is put together out of Cal State Long Beach. After surveying 5,187 ... More >>

Bich Truong, Lisa Nguyen, L.A. Homicides No. 7, No. 8: Harbor City Man Strangles Wife, Daughter to Death Before Committing Suicide

Robyn Do via gofundme.comThe late Lisa Nguyen​A tragic murder-suicide on January 9 left two Vietnamese women -- 56-year-old Bich Truong and her daughter, 27-year-old Lisa Nguyen -- dead in their Harbor City home on the 25200 block of Petroleum Avenue. After relatives notified the LAPD of a go ... More >>

CSU Long Beach Cheerleading Scandal: Coach Fired After Non-Student Ringer Helps Win National Title

"Bring It On"Boys can be cheerleaders, too! Just... not if they're alumni.​The good news: Everybody now knows that CSU Long Beach cheer came in first at Florida nationals this month! Congrats, guys. And, uh, the bad: No sooner did we find out, than the team was forced into forfeiting its title ... More >>

Kiplinger's best value colleges: UCLA makes the list

​Several University of California schools are among the nation's best deals and offer the most bang for the buck. According to Kiplinger's annual list of the 100 best bargains among the country's public colleges, no UC school makes the top ten, but several do make the cut. Which ones, you ask?

Cal State Fees To Go Up 10 Percent: Students Protest In Long Beach

Cal State Long BeachStudents get ready to pay more for your education.​Update: The board of trustees on Wednesday approved the two-tiered hike, including 5 percent for mid-year and 10 percent for next school year. First posted at 6:31 a.m. Angry students protested outside the meeting of the C ... More >>

WHAT'S NEXT, THE IRAQI HORROR SHOW?

CSU student fee hike is a big one: 5 percent slams California kids in November 2010

Abel Maldonado attacked the adults​If you attend CSUN, Cal State Los Angeles or Cal State Long Beach get ready, because costs for students and their families are taking a major leap, and graduate students are getting slammed even harder. Big college fee hikes were approved just minutes ago. R ... More >>

Supporters of Transgender Slashing Victim Rally in Long Beach

As part of a "Take Back the Night" event at Cal State Long Beach, organizers will denounce the slashing of a transgender male that took place on April 15 in a restroom on that campus.Sketch of alleged slashing assailant​The 27-year-old victim, according to news reports, was beaten and then had the ... More >>

Cal State Long Beach Closed Due To Storms, Flooding

​Campus officials closed Cal State Long Beach at 3 p.m. Wednesday as a result of flooding and hazardous road conditions that would greet many of its students. The closure is in effect through Thursday, officials said. "The determination was made because of the impact of flooding on campus and ... More >>

Vagina Ornaments: Deck The Halls With Salty Reproductive Organs From Marina Wood

​Marina Wood is a 26-year-old college student majoring in Cultural Studies. To make some money while in school, she is selling $6 Christmas ornaments shaped like vaginas. The vaginas are made of glitter and salt-dough, and are (presumably) salty tasting. Wood is working towards her Masters at ... More >>

Decision in Long Beach: State University Tuitions to Rocket Upward

How's this for your cost of living adjustment? The board of trustees for California's state university system voted today in Long Beach to increase student tuition by 20 percent -- even though the fees had been raised by 10 percent only two months ago. In addition, out-of-state tuition will rise alm ... More >>

Students Prepare for Budget Protest

View more news videos at: http://www.nbclosangeles.com/video.As LAist and TV/radio reports are noting, students are already gathering today ahead of tomorrow's protest at California State University, Long  Beach. On Tuesday the Cal State system's board of trustees will convene on the Long Beach ... More >>

Swine Flu Notes: Where's the Pork?

We're one week into L.A.'s chapter of the swine flu pandemic/panic and already people are asking, "Where's the pork?" Raised on bio-disaster movies and braced for the worst upon hearing of Mexico's initial death toll, Angelenos were expecting (not, I should stress, hoping) to see bodies in the stree ... More >>

Dance Pick: Victoria Marks' Not About Iraq

Military maneuvers at Long Beach State

Military Maneuvers

Victoria Marks’ terpsichorean polemic is Not About Iraq

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Tonight at USC's Annenberg School: Music Writers Ponder the Life and Death of Criticsim

So tonight at 7:30 at USC's Annenberg School, I'll be participating in a forum on the future of music criticism. Organized by the L.A. Times' chief pop critic Ann Powers, the panel discussion features fellow L.A. Weekly contributors Ernest Hardy and Oliver Wang; Pulitzer Prize-winning music criti ... More >>

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