Occidental College

Rape Crisis at Occidental College Spurs Sharp Critique -- in Poetry

Daniel Bosch is the father of a student at Occidental College -- and such, he's keenly aware of the rape crisis the campus has endured in the last year. Students and activists alike have decry a series of sexual assaults committed by students, and an administrative reaction that seems more intereste ... More >>

Occidental College in Crisis? Readers Respond

A SNAP Iron Chef Challenge in Santa Monica

To show how meals with fresh food can be made on a Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) budget, chefs Nyesha Arrington of Wilshire Restaurant and Stefano de Lorenzo of La Botte will be facing off tomorrow, April 27, at The Gourmandise School in Santa Monica Iron Chef-style. Arrington and ... More >>

Obama's Occidental Records Remain Under Wraps Despite Birther Orly Taitz's Lawsuit

An O.C. birther who took Occidental College to court in an attempt to get the Eagle Rock school to release President Obama's undergraduate grades and records lost the case this month, according to the campus paper, The Occidential Weekly. The woman, Rancho Santa Margarita attorney Orly Taitz, argue ... More >>

Eye On New orleans

The Lions Give Roots Reggae New Life

[Editor's note: Jeff Weiss's column, "Bizarre Ride," appears on West Coast Sound every Wednesday. Be sure to also check out the archives.] Reggae was spawned during one broiling Kingston, Jamaica, summer, spread to the world via the mesmerism of Bob Marley, and now serves as a dorm-room rite of pas ... More >>

The Original Food Trucks

Loncheras are riding the food truck tidal wave

Pomona College Caught in 'Wave of Anti-Immigrant Hysteria,' Says Professor

The illegal-immigration debate is on fire at Pomona College in far-east L.A. County. "You'd think that if any place was going to be a safe haven for immigrants, it would be at colleges and universities," says Peter Dreier, a professor at Occidental College in L.A. proper. "But that doesn't seem to ... More >>

Is This the Golden Age of Television? A Zocalo Event Asks the Question

Considering the airwaves are cluttered with dejected bachelorettes, fist-pumping and wars over things as trivial as cupcakes, it's difficult to imagine this as a time when television should be revered. Or is it? That was the prompt at hand during last night's Zocalo Public Square event: "Is This t ... More >>

Your Shows of Shows

L.A. Wind Fans Occidental College Fire as Students Evactuated: Power Outages Reported Across Region

Updated at the bottom with the fire out. First posted at 1:24 a.m. Among the wind-related calamitous happenings overnight, including trees into homes and power outages far-and-wide, was a grass fire on and around the Eagle Rock campus of Occidental College, President Obama's alma mater. You gotta ... More >>

Top 5 Weekend Food Events: Eric Schlosser, 1886 Birthday, Cheese Store of Silverlake 10th Anniversary, Filipino Food and Cocktails Whole Hog Butchery

Guzzle & NoshA diagram of a pig's delicious parts.​ Now that the Beaujolais Nouveaus have been uncorked, here's a Beaujolais-free roundup of weekend events. Eric Schlosser Speaks at Occidental Fast Food Nation author Eric Schlosser returns to Los Angeles to receive and honorary doctoral degre ... More >>

Eric Schlosser Returns to L.A. on Nov. 17

(L to R): Evan Kleiman moderates a discussion between Michael Pollan and Eric Schlosser.​Fast Food Nation author Eric Schlosser, who visited Southern California in February to talk with Michael Pollan and Evan Kleiman about the business -- the very big business -- of food, returns to Los Angel ... More >>

L.A. Participates in the First National Food Day

Krista Simmons​On Monday, October 24, local foodists can celebrate Food Day, a national initiative pushing for equal access to healthful, affordable food produced in a sustainable, ethical way. Angeleno organizers have banded together to create some great events locally, and after the past few ... More >>

How Do You Like Your Contemporary Ballet?

Good Food Jobs A Few Local Opportunities

abrowncoat/flickrOjai Olive Oil: Your food job?​ Thanks to Michael Pollan, the mainstreaming of farm-to-table activism, and co-ops, many college students graduate with the hope of working with food -- in the ever-expanding field if not a field itself. While ten years ago, they'd have been a ... More >>

Mini Sneak Peek Of L.A.'s Best Coffee App: 4 Coffee Bars

T. NguyenEspresso Cielo in Santa Monica​ If you read our interview with Mark Lamberton earlier today, you'd know that the London-based younger brother of Blue Crow Media's Derek Lamberton was recently dispatched to Los Angeles to swig untold cups of coffee as research for their upcoming L.A.'s ... More >>

Donald Trump Calls Out Obama For His Stoner, Underachieving Days at Occidental College in L.A.

Obama in L.A.​We've seen the photos of President Obama during his L.A. college years. He's got some hair. And his pants had flair. And, well, he even admitted to smoking "reefer" in his 1995 memoir. Yeah, we even imagine a "bow-chica-bow-wow" soundtrack following the future president named Ba ... More >>

President's Day: Who is Modern History's 'Most L.A.' U.S. President?

The Oval Office.​Ah, President's Day. A time to celebrate our favorite dead guys (at least the ones we can remember), bask in the glow of our empty mailboxes, and congratulate our overpaid, federal-job-having relatives for finagling yet another day without work at our expense. But what it's ... More >>

Is L.A. Deserving Of Being Ranked In Bottom Half Of America's 'Smartest Cities' List?

Angelyne is L.A.'s poet laureate.​Los Angeles is the second-largest city in the nation and home to NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (the home of true rocket science), Caltech, UCLA, USC and President Obama's alma mater, Occidental College. Our entertainment industry, high-tech hubs and Pacific ... More >>

L.A., You're Not As Smart As You Think: San Francisco And New York Are More Educated

​Los Angeles is the land of UCLA, USC and those brainiacs at Caltech, not to mention President Obama's alma mater Occidental College, the Claremont Colleges, Pepperdine, Loyola Marymount, Cal States ad infinitum, etc. So one might might think that the nation's second-largest metropolitan area ... More >>

Short Attention Span Dinner Theater: Your Week in Food, 10/10 - 10/16

In which we highlight the past week in food, either at home or abroad. "We play a lot of his music and Snoop's music, Diddy's music, and Eminem on our breaks on the TV shows. It's all rap."

Play It Again, Jean: Casa Bianca Once More

Ask Mr. Gold: Play It Again, Jean. Casa Bianca Once More

Photo credit: Anne FishbeinMr. Gold, with dim sum menuDear Mr. Gold: I used to like Casa Bianca before the lines stretched halfway to China, but I have to admit it's been a while. I know - good neon and checked tablecloths and everything, but is it still worth a visit? --Jean, Sierra Madre Dear Jea ... More >>

Celebrate 30 Years of L.A. Farmers' Markets at City Hall This Thursday

These days it seems like no matter where you live in Southern California, there's a farmers' market or two nearby offering fresh, locally grown fruits and veggies. Yet while farmers' markets in Los Angeles have a long history, (Third and Fairfax passed the 75 year mark earlier this summer) the Garde ... More >>

Good Form Meets Good Markets: Redesign Your Farmers' Market Competition

Image by Michelle Park and Manny Garcia​Got an idea for a nifty vending cart, or a crazy cool produce stand, or food transport method? Then consider entering the GOOD Magazine's Redesign Your Farmers' Market competition. The goal is to encourage "designers, architects, farmers, chefs, vendo ... More >>

Morning Sixpack: A News Roundup

I Spy A Chinese-born former Boeing employee will stand trial for economic espionage related to charges he passed on to China documents concerning the space shuttle, Delta IV missiles and Boeing's C-17 transport plane. Long Beach Press-TelegramThis Round's for You Four steel containers holding ammuni ... More >>

Nite Jewel's 8-Track Hustle

Making lo-fi disco music on an analog tape recorder, creating beat-based fantasias and art-damaged breakdowns

Inauguration Day: The View From Obama's So Cal Alma Mater

The swearing in at Occidental College, plus, trying to get the Spider-man comic book featuring our new superhero president

2008: A News Quiz

By Greg Critser 1. Minor Irritants A certain wearer of these Kawasaki 704 eyeglasses: A. Conjured endless anxiety and concern for the future of the republic B. Got a $6 million book deal for portraying said eyeglass wearer C. Instigated the "hot librarian" movement in American fashion D. Wi ... More >>

2008: A News Quiz

Hark! the Harry Shearer Sings!*

What to do in L.A., December 5-11

Farm Aid: Auntie Em's Produce-Driven Dreams

An Eagle Rock favorite takes a fresh approach to cooking

Political Palates: Obama's Taste for Kine Grindz

And McCain's preference for poorly regarded Tex-Mex

Smart Art

When a Black Man Sees Himself Through White Eyes

That sweet spot

Festival Beating

Day of the Drum and Watts Towers Jazz Festival

Rage Against...

Bruce Willis, Maxine Waters and Living Wagers, plus a new religion for Teddy “The Gay Hypocrite” Haggard

True Colors

Give Us Back Our Damn Flag

The leftist case for patriotism

Goldberg and the Guv

12 Art Moments

Horsefeathers II

Hollywood ponders the profits of patriotism and war

Get Wet

A Vision for the City: Participant Profiles

A Vision for the City

A Weekly roundtable on the issues, movements and prospects for a progressive Los Angeles

20th Anniversary Edition

Less Than the Sum of Its Parts

Our fragmented progressive movement, and what to do about it

From Liberty Hill to the Living Wage

A brief history of Progressive Los Angeles

Local anti-war groups struggle to mobilize opposition