Huntington event confirms value of untraditional formats.

Allan Santiago, Opinion Editor

The Huntington’s vast gardens rendered an unusual, but pleasant, balmy evening Friday as Southwest Chamber Music opened its annual summer festival.

Both the setting and program were classical, and, accordingly, certain modernism could not be afforded – such as cell phones ringing, speaking in between movements, intrusive noises, and even under-dressing it seems.

Yet these flashes of modernity managed to make an appearance on Friday. [Read more →]

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Stacey Wang, Editor-in-Chief

With the semester coming to a close, the PCC Opera Workshop ended on a bittersweet note on Sunday with its double feature of “Dido and Aeneas” and “Not in Front of the Waiter,” also known as “Under the Aspidistra.”

As the climax of the opera students’ work thus far, the performance picked up slowly with its opening opera, Henry Purcell’s “Dido and Aeneas.” Acclaimed as a frequently studied Baroque opera by music students abroad, the story reenacted the droning tale of Dido, the queen of Carthage, and her love Aeneas, a Trojan prince. [Read more →]

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Charles Digal, Asst. Flipside Editor

SLEATER-KINNEY The Woods [2005, Sub Pop Records]

‘The Woods’ is your typical Sleater-Kinney experience: raw punk, thunderous drums and primal screams erupting from Corin Tucker’s vocal chords.

Sleater-Kinney remain true to their half-step punk, but on ‘Woods,’ the band takes a step further to become louder and harder. [Read more →]

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Stacey Wang, Editor-in-Chief

In a culmination of concepts, stories and experiences melded into an audio and visual expression known as film, seven PCC students received honors at a statewide student film and video festival this month.

Held by 3C Media Solutions, an educational media distribution network that producers an annual festival for California community colleges, the “Best of Show” award was given to PCC student James Allred’s ‘Final Vinyl.’ [Read more →]

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Brittany Wong, Assist. A & E Editor

The PCC Theater Department will be presenting “Bus Stop,” a drama-comedy popularized in 1956 through a film adaptation starring Marilyn Monroe.

The play, about disparate lives that intersect at a roadside diner during a snowstorm, is directed by Whitney Rydbeck from a script by William Inge.

“It deals with themes of isolation, longing for love, loneliness and surviving. The characters are all survivors, but they’re also all regular folk,” said Rydbeck before a preview last week. [Read more →]

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Black Student Alliance Promotes Awareness at cultural event held at CEC.

Rodrigo Mejia, Asst. Flipside Editor

The Black Student Alliance hosted a night acknowledging liberation through education and culture as fashion, hip-hop, and Talib Kweli etched the message into the many minds at CEC on Saturday night.

Kweli, renowned in hip-hop circles for his heedful and socially conscious rhymes put down the microphone usually reserved for spit swaddled mad flows and instead engaged the audience in a Q & A session. He addressed the preexistent dilemmas and modern place of African Americans. [Read more →]

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Internet Radio Sites Garner Interest Among PCC Students

Brittany Wong, Asst. A & E Editor

For the music-savvy among us, finding a good Web-based radio site is like making the climb up to the dusty attic of your grandparent’s house and stumbling upon the record collection of that one aunt with impossibly good taste in music.
With a couple of informed strokes on your keyboard, the Internet can expand your ears and open your mind to music territory that may have remained uncharted otherwise. [Read more →]

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Daijobu reunites on stage in Pasadena after a four-year hiatus.

Jeremy Balan, Sports Editor

On the hottest night of the year, in a literal back alley bar somewhere on the fringe of Old Pasadena, a revival was about to occur.

Daijobu, a band linked closely to the city of Pasadena and PCC, played for the first time in four years on Saturday night, amid hundreds of people packed into a room not much larger than the classrooms the former students used to sit in. [Read more →]

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PCC Students Showcase Their Diverse Work at the Art Gallery

Christina Demirchyan, Managing Editor

Walking into the PCC Art Gallery, audiences are struck with walls decorated with abstract, unique pieces that spark both thought and human interest.

The pieces presented were selected for this years Juried Exhibition of Art by PCC students.
Found within the gallery is a dark, melancholic piece filled with subliminal messages. [Read more →]

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Piano Concert Tells Interpretive Story of ‘Peter and the Wolf’

Allan Santiago, News Editor

The night proved plentiful in both melody and turnout as PCC performing faculty debuted a new Model D Steinway & Sons grand piano Saturday at Harbeson Hall.

What’s more, Superintendent-President Paulette Perfumo made her PCC stage debut as narrator in the closing duo interpretation of “Peter and the Wolf.” [Read more →]

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