The California State University’s Public Affairs office released an independent review of the incidents that occurred Nov. 16, 2011, resulting from protests at the CSU Chancellor’s Office in Long Beach. The review — released April 24 — critiques the planning, procedure and actions taken by CSU police and associates. “The purpose of the report was [...]

Cal State Fullerton’s musical production of Little Women: The Broadway Musical follows the lives of four young women growing up in Concord, Mass. during the Civil War. The first couple of minutes do an excellent job of grabbing the audience by the reins and getting them accustomed to the atmosphere and mood of the 1860s [...]

“In life, stay f****** curious, stay f****** wild. This is not the rehearsal, this is real life. Right now, boredom will not get me tonight,” said Refused lead singer Dennis Lyxzén as Refused was getting ready to play the last moments of their set at the sold-out Glasshouse Concert Hall in Pomona. Boredom was the [...]

The Cabin in the Woods is quite the contradiction. It has pretty much every element of any horror movie you can think of, but the film is quite original. It breathes new life into a genre that has been stale for far too long. If you don’t know, The Cabin in the Woods was completed [...]

Katniss Everdeen captures the audience with her wit, charm and archery skills. Katniss (played by Jennifer Lawrence, last year’s Academy Award nominee for best actress in Winter’s Bone) is a 16-year-old girl living in District 12 in a post-apocalyptic America called Panem, perhaps a few centuries from now. Panem is comprised of 12 districts serving [...]

The Grammy Award-winning experimental rock band The Mars Volta continues to mystify the ears of listeners with their latest masterpiece, Noctourniquet, which was released on March 26. Taking over three years to record, bandleader, producer and guitarist Omar Rodriguez-Lopez took his dictatorial leadership to a whole new level for Noctourniquet. Personally writing most of the [...]

It’s a full invasion in Mass Effect 3, and the Reapers appear to be taking over the universe after conquering Earth. Only Commander Shepard and a group of soldiers are able to stop them. The story begins as Earth is attacked by the invading army of Reapers, zombie-like creatures that attack everything in sight. Several [...]

John Carter has all the best qualities a blockbuster movie can offer: action, romance, flying ships and Mars. John Carter, which is first set in Arizona in the late 1800s, follows a Civil War veteran who discovers a portal to Mars, where he finds himself caught in the middle of a tribal conflict. Because he [...]