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Salvadoran Hip-Hop Is On the Rise

Filmmaker Junior Gonzalez made it his goal to show his Salvadoran culture in a positive light. Or, in any light at all, really. There were no films that he could think of on the subject, save for those on the notorious MS-13 street gang. "When I say I'm Salvadoran, some people will throw up gang si ... More >>

From Opera to the Terminator: Your Weekly Movie To-Do List

See also: *More L.A. Weekly Film Coverage Friday, Feb. 22 USC will be showing a free advance screening of Phantom, starring Ed Harris as the captain of a Cold War Soviet submarine who faces off against a rogue KGB agent (David Duchovny) trying to seize control of a nuclear missile. The film start ... More >>

Branford Marsalis on His Brief Time as an Angeleno Playing The Tonight Show

New Orleans-born saxophonist Branford Marsalis has been a household name since the early 1980s. Alongside his younger brother Wynton, he set the jazz world ablaze, earning his stripes on the bandstand with Art Blakey. From there, he found work in pop music (the Grateful Dead, Sting) and acting (Thro ... More >>

Disney's Tomorrowland Inspires an Art Show

LA Weekly Web Awards 2012: Javier Guillen, Best Instagram Account

Best Instagram Account Javier Guillen @goeastlos Javier Guillen didn't set out to become a social media maven. The 31-year-old East L.A. native was just fooling around with his iPhone — and trying to finish his degree at Cal State Northridge after a seven-year hiatus. But it didn't take long t ... More >>

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Why Dianne Harrison Struck It Rich at CSUN

$324,000 may be just the beginning

Art Students Blow Up the Blue Whale

Awkward: CSU Presidents Receive Pay Raises at Apocalyptic Meeting on Budget Cuts

Two doomsday scenarios were laid out by the California State University Board of Trustees at today's meeting: If the state cuts CSU funding by $250 million next fall, as it has promised to do if voters don't agree to the governor's proposed tax hike, the university system will either have to 1) rais ... More >>

L.A. Mural Ordinance Postponed Into Oblivion

Last October, when L.A. City Hall started drafting an ordinance that would lift the city's oppressive mural moratorium, we tried to be patient. Even though it had taken the City Council over a decade to get the ball rolling, we said, hey -- better late than never. We set aside our skepticism. We gav ... More >>

CSU to Vote on Presidential Pay Raise, One Week Into Student Hunger Strike

Awkward timing: Almost one week into a student hunger strike across the California State University system, in which 12 students are drinking only vegetable juice until CSU presidents lose their "housing and car allowances" and see their salaries "reversed to 1999 levels," the university's Board of ... More >>

CSU Hunger Strike: Northridge Students Won't Eat Until Admin Freezes Tuition, Cuts Own Pay

They've been warning administrators since last Friday that they'd do it, and the moment of truth has arrived: Four brave students from Cal State Northridge began their hunger strike against rising tuition yesterday, along with eight more CSU students scattered across five other campuses within the ... More >>

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Abdul Arian: 19-Year-Old Leads LAPD on Crazy Chase, Shoots it Out With Cops, Dies: VIDEO

Updated at the bottom: The LAPD says suspect told a 911 operator he had a weapon and was "gonna have to pull out my gun on them." First posted at 11:38 p.m. Wednesday As L.A. watched it live on TV, a 19-year-old man engaged in a shootout with police in which he ultimately died. He appeared to be ... More >>

'CSUN Asian Library Finals Freakout' Video Reignites 'Asians in the Library' Controversy

crzdcole via YouTubeDon't mess with finals girl.​After the rage over UCLA student Alexandra Wallace's "Asians in the Library" video had run its course, it seemed no troll-y imitator could recapture her shock value. We were, in a word, jaded. (Just ask this chick, who rubbed mustard all over he ... More >>

Antonio Villaraigosa's $30,000 a Day Trip to Asia: Another Empty Gesture as 13 Percent Jobless Rate Grips Los Angeles

KCETAntonio Villaraigosa with other people's money.​Thankfully, we have CitywatchLA explaining how Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa spends bundles of cash on pointless gestures. His trip to Asia, which will have zero effect on the Los Angeles economy, is burning $30,000 a day. Villaraigosa says he' ... More >>

Paul Koudounaris' "Empire of Death"

How an art historian became fixated on ossuaries

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'Occupy Colleges' Campus Walkout Today Has L.A. as Epicenter: UCLA, Cal State Northridge, Santa Monica College Participate

We had a little fun with the two-man "Occupy USC" operation yesterday. Perhaps the rich kids' school identifies more with the 1 percent of billionaires that is the ire of the Occupy Wall Street movement that started in New York a few weeks back and branched out to L.A. this week. It looks like the ... More >>

Cal State Northridge Scare as Man With Gun Reported in Oviatt Library

Oviatt Library.​Update: Following a fruitless police search for the man the library will reopen on-schedule tomorrow morning, a CSUN official tells the Weekly. Also, check out a photo of the person of interest after the jump. First posted at 12:39 p.m. Oviatt Library at Cal State Northridge w ... More >>

Pacific Standard Time Fall Art Preview Celebrates L.A., a Great and Shitty Place to be an Artist

Institute for Arts & Media, California State University, NorthridgeRoland Charles' Portrait with Veil (1978) from the PST exhibit at California State University Northridge​ Our awesome fall art preview issue, which landed on newsstands this week, delves into Pacific Standard Time, this ridicu ... More >>

Vera Michaelson, Dental-School Grad, Shot Dead by Doctor Husband Alex in Valley 'Murder-Suicide'

FacebookPolice say Vera Michaelson was shot twice in the head by her husband yesterday.​A 32-year-old immigrant from Belarus named Vera Michaelson lay lifeless in her Tarzana driveway last night, her dead husband Alex Michaelson, 39, at her side -- and a pistol between them. The couple had tw ... More >>

Kirk Spiegel, Second-Grade Teacher at LAUSD's Pinewood Elementary, Commits Suicide off 210 Freeway Overpass

FacebookSecond-grade LAUSD teacher Kirk Spiegel​Updated throughout. Early this morning around 2 a.m., 49-year-old Kirk Spiegel -- a Los Angeles Unified School District employee, according to LAUSD -- jumped to his death off the 210 freeway overpass in La Canada Flintridge. "He was a second-g ... More >>

CSUN: 'Day of Action' Protest at Cal State Northridge Today; LAPD Sends Out the Troops (Just in Case)

Activist Student CoalitionSigns of the times for students.​The kids will be all over the street today, and school's not even out for summer. No, it's the annual Day of Action protest to decry those massive hikes in state college tuition and fees that make gas prices look friendly. And althoug ... More >>

ARIANNA HUFFINGTON IS A BLOODY GENIUS

UCLA Report: Cal State Northridge Students Out There Stressin', Strugglin'

California State University NorthridgeCSUN brochure models appear not to have partaken in survey​It's apparently big news this morning that 2,000 surveyed students at California State University Northridge are not cool with their tuition rising while their financial aid does not. They are in ... More >>

Tihomir Petrov, Cal State Northridge Math Professor, Charged for Allegedly Peeing On Rival Academic's Door

Pee.​Ah, university professors. They're always up to their elbow patches in the finer points of wonkery, the state of democracy, the race to find new life forms in outer space, and, in this case, urine. Yeah, looks like a dispute between to profs at Cal State Northridge culminated last month ... More >>

Everything That's Wrong With the Valley

Cal State Northridge Prof Says His Website Was Not About Thai Sex Tourism, Though It Certainly Appeared To Be

Kenneth Ng's site was not about Thai sex tourism, the prof says.​A Cal State Northridge professor's controversial Thai sex tourism site appeared to be back up recently after he was shamed into taking it down. Economics professor Kenneth Ng last week defended the site as being about "what it r ... More >>

Rock'n Comic Con: The Stunning Cutout Animation of "Paper Animals"

"Paper Animals" is a charming student film project by Michelle D. Reese, who graduated from California State University Northridge a few weeks ago. We first saw the cut-out animation short on her laptop in the exhibit hall at Rock n' Comic Con last Saturday. She has since posted it on YouTube. Miche ... More >>

What Was Keith Richards' Favorite Nosh at Canter's Deli?

Image Courtesy of: STONES BILLBOARD COPYRIGHT 1972 SUNSET STRIP BILLBOARD BY JOHN VAN HAMERSVELD POST-FUTURE.COM​ Our writer Michael Simmons always digs up the interesting people and the interesting quotes. This week's print edition of the LA Weekly features a great, different take on the Ro ... More >>

Cal State Northridge Professor Shuts Down His Thai Sex Site

​A Thai sex-tourism site run by a Cal State Northridge professor is being voluntarily taken down after the prof and and the university decided it wasn't good for the school's image, the Daily News reported Monday. Economics professor Kenneth Ng told the paper that bad press over his BigBabyKe ... More >>

Cal State Northridge Professor Defends His Thai Sex Site

BigBabyKenny.com​Cal State Northridge associate economics professor Kenneth Ng was outed by the Daily News Tuesday as the publisher of a website that focuses on sex tourism in Thailand, but the school is not going to try to discipline him and stated that it supports his freedom of speech. The ... More >>

Brick's Picks: Eye and Ear Control

Sisters With Voices: The L.A. Ladies Choir

“I walked in and all these wonderful women were singing, and I just went, ‘Whew, I’m at home.’”

Morning Sixpack: A News Roundup

Rabbinical Board Breaks Barriers Southern California's Board of Rabbis broke with tradition by selecting a woman and a lesbian as president. West Hollywood Rabbi Denise Eger is the first in both categories in the board's 72-year history. L.A. Times, Jewish JournalGood News But Not Great Cal State No ... More >>

Best Music for Cars: KXLU

Christopher Columbus: "Lost Paradises"

A voyage of musical discovery

Wooster Group's Hamlet; Alex Lyras' The Common Air

All the world's a remix

Musical Voyage of Discovery

Tom O'Day, Louis Hock, Fantasy Islands

The Liberated Chicano

Rodolfo Acuņa

Cloud Over the Promised Land

A new report shows that black Los Angeles is getting grim

Richard Alarcon Interview Transcript

Republican Dawn?

A Trip to Purgatory

Exhuming Camarillo State Hospital's Troubled Past

Dutch Metal

The Leonardo of pinstriping

Futile Force

Better ways to fight terrorism than killing people

Working for Themselves

Day laborers gather in Northridge

The Inside Scoop on Summer Gigs

Job programs for the young and inexperienced