Share: Sitting in the PCC gymnasium, there is a wall dedicated to honoring past students who went on to achieve incredible athletic accolades. Professional basketball player John Quincy Trapp solidified his spot on the PCC hall of fame in 2002 and had a spectacular career that respected his California pride. However, after a career filled with ups and downs, he mysteriously went missing and was unable to see the praise the college gave him. Born in 1945, Trapp began his basketball journey at Highland Park …
The good, the BBAD, and $20 breakfast burritos
Share: As a self-proclaimed breakfast burrito connoisseur, seeing a $20 breakfast burrito makes me angry. Not because a $20 price tag can’t be justified, but because I cannot wrap my head around what could make a breakfast burrito cost $20, unless it’s coated in gold. Regardless, I set out to understand why customers pay the high price for a breakfast burrito. “Usually I would never pay $20 for breakfast, but I’ve heard good things, so I wanted to try it,” said Marcos Inostros, patron of …
Pasadena urban warfare training could be a precursor for World Cup
Share: While impromptu military exercises are not uncommon in the choppy political climate of modern America, gunshots and helicopters were not noises Pasadena residents expected to hear at 2 a.m.. After the drill that took place at abandoned Saint Luke’s Hospital concluded, the event left American citizens skeptical and curious. With the FIFA World Cup partially taking place in Los Angeles, a military exercise can only be seen as a calculated way for Trump to send a message to the thousands of international fans coming …
Students pay the price for PCC’s free food shortage
Share: From Tuesday through Thursday, 10am to 4pm, hundreds of Pasadena City College (PCC) students pack around the R building for a single snack. A hand held burrito, a slice of cake, a granola bar, or a single carton are the items students left with after a 10 minute wait. This wasn’t always the case for PCC’s Lancer Pantry, just the week before, students were allowed 3 items; two burritos and a juice carton, instant noodles and a granola bar, or a banana, a bag …
OLIVE YOUNG opens first U.S. store in Pasadena
Share: OLIVE YOUNG, South Korea’s biggest health and beauty retailer, opened its first U.S. store in Pasadena on Friday, May 29, 2026. “Pasadena is proud to welcome OLIVE YOUNG to our city as part of our continued efforts to foster a vibrant, diverse, and globally connected local economy,” said Pasadena Mayor Victor Gordo, at the store’s opening ceremony. OLIVE YOUNG’s Global Communications Lead Rena Kim shared that the company decided to open a physical store in the U.S. since it represents the world’s largest beauty …
Students continue to stay longer at junior college, but for varying reasons
Share: As college admissions roll in, some second year Pasadena City College (PCC) students will transfer to 4 year universities while others are staying longer than planned. Regardless of growing stigmas, many students have taken pride in their decision to spend more time in junior college, as they say it offers them time to figure out their educational aspirations. “When I was a student at PCC, I started in [the] Fall semester of 2019…I finally left PCC in June of 2025,” said Alyssa Velasquez, a …
There is peace now that ‘Euphoria’ is finally over
Share: After seven years of euphoric storytelling, Euphoria’s finale gave viewers a boring and unsatisfactory final season. Fans were let down by the lack of consistency, as plotlines built up over the last couple of seasons went nowhere. Viewers were left confused by scenes that felt more like shock value than story telling.Yet the series finale of Euphoria has given viewers some sort of sufficient relief, in that it’s finally over. Despite a lackluster final season, at least the series finale was full of action, …
Internship program for students cancelled this year due to funding constraints
Share: With no warning or official announcement about its cancellation, Pasadena City College (PCC)’s annual internship program Intern Pasadena will not continue for the 2026 summer cycle due to limited grants. Intern Pasadena was first launched by PCC’s Freeman Career Center in the summer of 2024. The program gained its funding from the PCC Foundation through a grant called the Community Excellence Grant, designed to fund innovative projects of faculty and staff. This grant comes from the $30 million Mackenzie Scott grant the college received …
My Territory: The overpriced paradise I’ll never regret visiting
Share: There’s something beautiful about the game of basketball, I’m truly romantic about it. The way the leather of the ball grains against your skin as you dribble, how the loud screeches of kicks against the hardwood floor rings against every heartbeat, and that enchanting swish that sounds when you drill the perfect shot. The game has an eerily magical feeling to it, and has captured my heart in a way no other sport has come close to doing. Eventually, basketball became more than a …
Pasadena program proves ‘strong communities start with strong dads’
Share: Every Monday, at 6 p.m., a group of men file into a room at the Flintridge Center, some of them just coming off of work or class, and they sit down at a table together and begin to eat. Each mouth that is being filled has a story about how they ended up with a seat at this table, but what they all share is the reason they came. Each of these men are dads who are working to become a bigger and better …