A stylish, 21-year-old girl sits across the table, glamorously out of place, on the ground level of Santa Monica College’s Bundy Campus where she, Shyrel Haddad, awaits for her classes to begin.
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October has arrived, Halloween is approaching, and Los Angeles is ready to celebrate the "spooktacular" holiday all month long. Whether it be heading to the closest theme park, a bone chilling maze, or a wildly themed-party each weekend, LA is sure to have something for everyone.
Venom breaks record for largest October opening weekend in the box office but disappoints across the board. Its been awhile since we’ve seen Venom on the movie screen, and many are asking, was it worth the wait? The answer is no, unfortunately the long awaited venom movie fell short of its expectations.
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Dozens of students filled the hushed auditorium on the evening of Tuesday, September 25, eagerly awaiting sound that never came. Santa Monica College’s guest speaker, George Langworthy, gave an impromptu Q&A session when the audio at the screening of renowned documentary, Vanishing of the Bees, went awry.
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The Silver Gavel Award-winning documentary, "And Then They Came For Us," is a collection of personal interviews from former concentration camp children. First-hand witnesses combined with vivid historical data and photography brings 1942 closer to today. The touching testimonies of those recalling such an experience through the eyes of a once innocent childhood.
Diversity, pop culture, and fashion: take a few steps onto any one of the five campuses at Santa Monica College (SMC), and you’ll witness these three characteristics in students every few feet. Eclectic and traditional tastes come together across campuses to highlight SMC's proud cultural diversity, embracing the artistic pursuit of self-expression through fashion.
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As many students adjust to classes whilst balancing jobs, internships, and other tasks this semester, eating healthy can seem daunting when there are only so many hours in the day. Luckily for Santa Monica College students, there are many options within the city to grab lunch that will fuel your body with enough energy to thrive during your busiest days.
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Spike Lee’s new joint features one of the director’s most profound and prolific films since Do The Right Thing and Malcolm X.
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The Twilight Summer Concert Series are back with a whole new look, and a new name to match: Twilight on the Pier. The improved series is taking place on Wednesday evenings for the next three weeks. Originally commenced back in 1984, concerts originally took place during the summer in Santa Monica.
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As the bee population crisis has shuffled into the consciousness of Californians in recent years, a captivating film screening makes its way to Santa Monica College with prevalent timing. On Tuesday evening, Sept. 25th, Vanishing of the Bees - a documentary directed by Markus Imhoof - will be shown at the Center for Media and Design Campus.
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On Saturday, Sept. 22, The Hammer Museum, under the guidance of curator Aram Moshayedi, will unveil their second exhibition for the season: Hammer Projects: Shadi Habib Allah. Allah’s creations will transport his viewers to Liberty City, an impoverished neighborhood of Miami, to examine its economic conditions, more specifically, corner stores.
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Grab some sun screen, a hat, a few friends, and a water bottle and head down to the beach this weekend Saturday, September 15, and join the Coastal Clean Up Day effort! SMC students and staff will gather together on Pico and Bay Street in Santa Monica from 9 a.m to 12 p.m. to help clean up our beach. Free parking and water will be available for those attending the event.
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After Donald Trump’s Hollywood Star was pickaxed again for the second time on July 25th, 2018, the two men who undertook this unique act of protest met for lunch and to talk activism in Beverly Hills.
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Santa Monica College's Fashion Program will be holding its annual fashion show next Monday
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Up to 3,000 SMC students are estimated to be experiencing homelessness
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Three years after Everest, Director Baltasar Kormakur’s latest movie is another real-life-based adventure tale. While the proceedings in Everest brings a team of six climbers to a fight for their lives, in Adrift, Tami Oldham (Shailene Woodley) gives hope for a better outcome when she successfully rebuilds mast and sail in a barely floating boat. All this effort is driven by the need to save her love, Richard Sharp (Sam Claflin).
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