The music was loud and the mosh pit was as alive. That sums up the night for Lacuna Coil at House of Blues in Sunset on Friday Oct. 16 on their “All that Remains” tour. Lacuna Coil, the Italian Rock band from Milan, formerly known as Sleep of Right and Ethereal, are known for their gothic style. On their newest album “Shallow Life” they kept the style and image, but they went from gothic to alternative hard rock. Although they… Read more

For 90 emotionally and physically grueling minutes at Matador Field on Sunday, the Northridge men’s soccer squad proved it could play with (and defeat) the No. 3 team in the nation. Coming into the match the Matadors’ postseason hopes were in danger, as they found themselves next to last in the Big West Conference. But with senior Robert Pate’s header from inside the box in the 77th minute of play, Northridge pulled off the 1-0 upset over a UC Santa… Read more

Whether you cringe at the thought of dressing up, work really hard on a costume, or fall somewhere in the middle, Oct. 31 is fast approaching. So what are you going to be for Halloween? If you are like a lot of students on campus right now, you can’t afford to spend a lot of money on one of those store costumes and I’m guessing you don’t have money to go ruining your bed sheets either. Luckily for the creatively… Read more

Dear Editor, I am a student in a COMS 356 class with two deaf students.  Throughout this semester these students have been without an interpreter for five out of the 12 class meetings.  I have watched their frustration and emotions overwhelm them to the point of walking out of class in tears.  This makes me feel guilty. As a hearing student that I am able to keep up with the curriculum and they are falling behind at no fault of… Read more

It seems every time a new study comes out asserting some mediocre observation about our society, we tend to latch onto the results as evidence to justify and explain away all of our suspicions or fears about a particular subject or group. “The Paradox of Declining Female Happiness,” a new study conducted by Betsey Stevenson and Justin Wolfers has made quite the splash on the op-ed pages of the Los Angeles Times, New York Times and countless feminist and anti-feminist… Read more

I sit down, with my laptop open and eye my phone eagerly. It’s almost 2:10 pm. I should be getting their call any minute now. My phone vibrates on the table, and I pick it up to see who it is. It’s not anyone on my contact list, so I answer it quickly. “Hello. Is this Braulio?” is heard in an Italian accent. Not the over the top kind you see on the Simpsons, just an accent. “Yeah, this is… Read more

In the last 5 years country music icons like Carrie Underwood, and Taylor Swift have skyrocketed the Billboard charts. Country has slowly made its way to the pop world and a new genre called “Country pop” has emerged. Twenty-year-old Johnny Cooper, a new up and coming indie artist from Texas, has made his way all throughout the West Coast. He is returning to Los Angeles to perform an acoustic show at the Key Club today. Cooper’s new album, “FOLLOW” has… Read more

View High-risk intersections in a larger map The following students from professor Linda Bowen’s Spring 2009 Journalism 410 class contributed to the story: Danielle Directo, Alexis Lipnicki, Megan Blumenthal, Alex Viray, Sandra Parada, Mike Tersigni, Brittany Glover, Tade Williams As a result of mounting concern over pedestrian traffic accidents, police conducted a sting operation April 2, 2009 at Reseda Boulevard and Dearborne Street, where 158 citations were issued within roughly three hours for failing to yield to pedestrians, said senior… Read more