Share: The Smashing Machine movie was based on the private life experienced by the two-time UFC Heavyweight Tournament Champion, Mark Kerr, including his UFC career, personal hardships, drug addiction, friendship with Mark Coleman, and tumultuous relationship with former model, Dawn Staples. This movie followed the timeline during the 1997-2000 years. The film showcased topics covering the time when UFC was deemed violent, aggressive, dangerous, and with 36 states banning “no holds barred” fighting and cable providers refusal to air the fights. The biopic was centered …
‘What are we doing wrong?’ How to build a healthy relationship in the modern era
Share: Ross Szabo looked back at the students gathered in the Circadian and opened with one question: “Are college students having more situationships or relationships?” A brief silence filled the room as students reflected on their own experiences before pulling out their phones to vote through a shared link. Moments later, the results appeared on the projector behind Szabo. The verdict? Situationships – and by a landslide. Laughter and knowing sighs rippled through the room, a shared acknowledgment of the modern dating scene’s blurred lines. …
Want to network? PCC’s internship fair hooks you up
Share: The ever-growing crowd of students filing into the Creveling Lounge engulfed the room with a steady buzz of chatter and curiosity. Just outside the room’s double doors, a long line of incoming attendees stretched down the hallway, wrapping around a corner, to check in for PCC’s very first Internship Fair. Aware of the high demand of students interested in translating their skills into practical experience, Internship Developers Noel Gonzalez and Isabel Ochoa understood the need to host an event where students could network, ask …
In with the old and out with the new at ASPCC’s swap party
Share: For any student who walked into the WiFi Lounge on September 29 and 30, what was once a serene study room became a makeshift thrift store right before their eyes. Tables around the room were heavy with various items such as dresses, coats, books, CDs, and more. The Secondhand September Swap Party, held by the ASPCC Sustainability Committee transformed the space into a secondhand shop where students could take home items they liked that other students had donated. Influenced by the Lancer Closet, a …
Have a slice of Mid-Autumn mooncake at the International Student Center
Share: Colorful origami moons, rabbits, paper lanterns, and fall leaves transform the International Student Center’s (ISC) room for the Mid-Autumn Festival. With soft music playing in the background, participants were greeted with themed coloring sheets and paper mooncake cutouts to color and entertain themselves. In China, the Mid-Autumn Festival is held on the 15th day of the 8th month of the Lunar calendar, which falls on Oct. 6 this year. During this time families reunite in celebration of the harvest while enjoying mooncakes, akin to …
‘The Paper’ is not ‘garbage clickbait nonsense’
Share: In recent years mockumentary sitcoms have been on the rise, with shows like “Abbott Elementary” gaining profound success and Peacock’s new mockumentary series “The Paper” appears to be on the same path. “The Office” spin-off follows The Toledo Truth Teller (TTT), a virtually dead newspaper that new Editor-in-Chief Ned Sampson is tasked with reinvigorating. Overall, “The Paper” succeeds in its comedy, characters, and sitcom mockumentary humor, however, it leaves more wanting in its journalistic representation. One thing that makes “The Paper” stand apart from …
Paul Thomas Anderson’s masterpiece guides us through the culture war, one battle after another
Share: “Permanent revolution”, as coined by Friedrich Engels, is generally a concept far divorced from American action blockbusters, but Paul Thomas Anderson marries the two beautifully. ICE agents are threatened at gunpoint by a Black woman within the first ten minutes. Immigrants rally against swarming police in military fatigues and win. A cartoonishly evil Peter Thiel-like stand-in is shot by a teenager’s newfound love for her dad. And, it turns out, Anderson’s been hiding that he’s a great action director for decades, too! Anderson has …
Incoming Bombshells: Over 100 universities gather for PCC’s Transfer Island
Share: Last Wednesday, the quad became full of wistful students hoping to meet their perfect university match on Transfer Island. Love Island became the overall theme after a meeting between the Transfer Center and its project partner, the Strategic Marketing Communications office (SCAM). “Here at PCC, we like to be unique,” Transfer Dean Alexander Tameka said. “And so an idea emerged of Love Island, and we said, “What about Transfer Island, where they can come to meet their match?” The goal of Transfer Island was …
Homecoming becomes buffet and mosh pit as students make memories
Share: It was sunset at PCC with students dressed in old Hollywood attire lined up outside the Circadian. Inside, the music roared, and lights peeked through the glass at the line waiting outside. Attendees presented their PCC ID as a requirement, while non-PCC students had to sign waivers before entry. Walking in, people went to sit at tables decorated with playing cards, Hollywood stars, and movie tickets. Over time, the room became filled with chatter from students donning clothing from different eras. “The theme of …
New Cinnabon Swirl offers PCC students discounted delights and dayjobs
Share: As Autumn peaks around the corner, brown sugar, cinnamon, and vanilla swirl into a sickly sweet smell here in SoCal. Cinnabon Swirl Pasadena opened on Colorado Boulevard, right across from PCC’s campus, on Aug. 27 and has since then offered a 10% discount for PCC students, who also happen to make up a majority of their staff. Cinnabon Swirl is a co-branding of Cinnabon and Carvel, both owned by Go-To Foods that combines cinnamon buns and soft serve to create a new sweet escape. …