Technicolor. Psychedelic. Vivid. Like those weird dreams you get if you eat dinner right before going to bed. And in your dream, the steak appears alongside little gnomes lounging on the dinner table, next to an extravagant bouquet of outlandish flowers. Those are the images Erik Sandberg, illustration professor and professional artist, captures. Sandberg recently returned from a lecture and slideshow presentation that he gave about his “Hairy Children Portrait” series at the University of Tennessee, in November. The “Hairy… Read more

At the first State party of the Obama Administration, a couple managed to get through the first security check point at the party. This is very terrifying to me. I remember when President Kennedy was shot and killed from a book depository in Dallas, Texas, more than 40 years ago. I would hope that with technology, the security might have improved through the years. My first reaction was, who is the Secretary of the Treasury? The Secret Service has traditionally… Read more

CSUN On-Point Special 12/01/09, Host: Tiaira Nowlin from Lincoln Harrison on Vimeo.

An unsuccessful robbery was reported on Nordhoff Street between Reseda Boulevard and Yolanda Avenue on Tuesday night. After a K-9, search the suspect was not found and the search was called off, said LAPD Officer Karen Rayner. At 7:45 p.m., a robber tried to snatch a purse from a female pedestrian. After one shot was fired into the ground, an unidentified security guard and the victim’s brother chased the suspect into a home on the 18100 block of Nordhoff Street…. Read more

Thirty years after hip-hop was born in the Bronx, N.Y., many of the people who were at the first block parties, heard their first rap or beat box, and saw their first breakdance did not imagine what it would become, or the places the genre would reach. Not to mention the influence it would have on the generations to come.

At age 5, Susan’s mother asked her what she wanted to be; Susan remembers answering “a doctor.” That dream has not gone away, but it has changed. She has decided to be a nurse instead. As a child she remembers periodically receiving migraines, and those migraines are what drove her to the dream of becoming a nurse. Now that she has joined the military, she will receive the opportunity of fulfilling that dream. Susan Padilla, a 19-year-old public health education… Read more