Elina Hughes waits patiently in her lever drive Wijit wheelchair as people move freely in and out of the conference room to use the microwave. The 20-year-old communications major is accompanied by her personal care aide Maria Vazquez. Although she has her laptop and iPad to assist in communicating,...
The Getty Museum will be closing its “Breaking News: Turning the Lens on Mass Media” exhibit at the Getty Center in Westwood at the end of April. Artists’ works in many different media were on display. The title of the exhibition must be a play on words because nearly every...
Oy, with the birthdays already! There is no character in modern television history who helped redefine the “TV single mom” more than Lorelai Gilmore did on the hit comedy-drama series “Gilmore Girls.” Equally, there is no actor in the world who could have brought such a smart, witty and charismatic...
Shawn Wagner, 22, and a botany major, plans to transfer from Citrus College to Humboldt University. She played Marie, the leading lady of “The Epiphany”, and has been acting for over ten years. “I have other passions, but theatre is something that is ingrained in me,” Wagner said. “It...
Citrus College is aca-perfect. “Vocalosity” is a two-act Broadway program that comes from the creative mind of Deke Sharon, the artistic producer of “Pitch Perfect.” The performance grooved it’s way to the Haugh Performing Arts Center on Nov. 12. From barbershop quartets to The Beatles and Bruno Mars, Vocalosity...
It’s the second weekend of Desert Trip, or “Oldchella” as the millennial crowd called it. A new festival created by the owners of Coachella as a throwback of sorts for a younger crowd to be introduced to influential artists who paved the way for the new guard. Tucked away...
Aspiring playwrights can compete to showcase their stories, if selected by screenwriting professor Neil Weiss, during the Emerging American Voices project in the Citrus College Little Theatre. Francesca Flores took advantage of the opportunity to introduce her coming-of-age story that follows a girl searching for her own place...
Dave Miranda started forming ideas for a show 15 years ago, after witnessing the scenes of crimes, accidents, and even police corruption while he was working as a crime scene investigator and forensics expert. He worked as a mechanic and a contractor amongst other jobs, but it was working...
Paper or Plastic? Who would imagine such a trivial question would be such a big deal? Welcome to the world of competitive grocery bagging. “Baggers,” written by Chelsea Barron, 21 and a theater major, is the story of a young ambitious woman named Jamie Zelinger who is a maintenance...
Some people are born destined for greatness. Whether it be to climb Mt. Everest or write the great American novel, these people suddenly wake up and realize their purpose on this Earth. That’s exactly how narrative writing major Aly Ferguson, now 21, felt when she first started writing in...