Hiding in a box in your parents’ garage or under your older brother’s bed there might be an old, outdated console.  Rather than recycling or selling those antiques, plug them in and enjoy them again for the reasons we have listed inside. 1. The Internet just went off… Probably one of the most common reasons for my household of gamers to plug-in the NES is that our Internet went out. Connectivity to the Internet is a key part of the experience… Read more

Many polling places are inside schools, libraries and public buildings, but for precinct 9000304A in Chatsworth voters visit Alyce Garcia’s house. Garcia and her neighbors have been running the polling place for their precinct out of their houses for almost the past 20 years. Joseph Martin, a precinct officer, used to offer up his living room for the polling place until handing that responsibility to Garcia nearly 10 years ago. Martin describes the job of precinct officers as making sure… Read more

Story by Alex Curran It’s Friday night and the room is about half filled with wide-eyed kids in their late teens or early twenties ready to virtually fight each other. “It will get a little busier around 11 p.m. or Midnight,” Dae Lee said before he caught himself. “Or it may just stay dead. Last week we closed at Midnight because it was just dead.” Lee works at the Family Fun Arcade at on Balboa Boulevard just north of Devonshire… Read more

Last Thursday CSUN hosted two events that should have gone hand-in-hand.  “Where’s the Money?” gave an opportunity to learn more about the CSU’s budget and the second Big Politics event provided a chance to meet with people who can directly affect education. My question for all the students who were at Thursday’s “Where’s the Money?” lecture, all the student activists and all those who were not at Big Politics is: where the fuck were you? First up in the evening… Read more

Community members from and various Islamic groups protested outside the LAPD Devonshire division Monday, demanding an investigation into the police shooting of a 19-year-old man after a high speed chase last week. Abdul Arian was shot dead by LAPD early April 12 after leading police on a high speed chase down the 101 freeway. Initial police reports stated Arian was on the phone with 911 dispatch and told them he had a gun.  After pulling to the side, Arian got… Read more

During the raid on Occupy LA the Los Angeles Police Department broke California law and Mayor Villaraigosa called it “perhaps one of the finest moments in the history of the Los Angeles Police Department.” An initial standoff between protesters and police started the night of Nov. 27 and continued to just before rush hour the next morning. Villaraigosa’s announcement of the eviction Nov. 28 at 12:01 a.m. brought thousands of protesters and hundreds of journalists to the area around City… Read more