Share: From covering large-scale current events to capturing life’s fleeting moments each publishing cycle, our photojournalists reflect on their work and select the five most compelling photos to be highlighted in this weekly updated gallery. Week 5 Week 4 Week 3 Week 2 Follow:
‘ICE OUT’ Gallery: Pasadena City College students rally against ICE
Share: On Thursday, Feb. 26, 2026 Pasadena City College (PCC) students organized a joint walkout to march in protest against ICE. Meeting in front of the Jack Scott Building, students marched from campus to Pasadena City Hall in hopes of empowering participants and onlookers. Our photojournalists followed along to capture these moments and their message as documented below: “[We want to] make sure our voices are heard and our message is clear that we want ICE out of Pasadena,” said Pearl Hsieh, a PCC student …
Pop stars should be bolder with their politics
Share: The outdated narrative suggesting that artists should “keep to themselves” when it comes to politics is being rewritten, and more pop stars need to get with the program. Today, advocating for human rights is an admirable trait that rarely costs musicians their fame anymore. Palestine, ICE raids, transgender rights, and child labor: a few words that anyone in the modern world has heard, and would trigger thoughts of concern or maybe feelings of hopelessness from an inability to make a difference. In today’s political …
Activist visited PCC to report on volunteering in Palestine
Share: On Tuesday, Nov. 25. PCC’s Environmental Sustainability club (ESC) hosted an event in collaboration with the Middle Eastern North African (MENA) club with an activist guest speaker providing a report-back after having just volunteered in Palestine for three months. The guest speaker, named Jamie, asked to remain identified by only their first name and for no photography, audio recordings, due to the stakes of their work. “I just got back early October from being in the West Bank for three months and that’s why …
GALLERY: Political cartoons
Share: In our opinion section, our journalists are able to express personal feelings on current affairs, many of which involve politics. Here are some political cartoon-like graphics made by our photojournalists complimentary to such pieces over the semester. Follow:
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 …
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. …
Scene Gallery: Sunsets during cloudy week of Sept 20. 2025
Share: This week, our photojournalists were tasked with seeking out and capturing sunsets. Featuring some shorelines out of town as well as light breaking through our recent local clouds, this gallery acknowledges autumn’s beginning as the sun begins to set on our year. Marcy Facundo-Moya/Courier A family rinses off sand as the sun sets on Venice Beach on Sunday, September 21, 2025.Guillermo Garcia/Courier View of Downtown Los Angeles during sunset at Ascott Hills Park, Los Angeles, on Tuesday, September 23, 2025. Altocumulus and altostratus cloud …
‘KPop Demon Hunters’: Golden in the charts and our hearts
Share: When summer break had just begun, I finally had the time to open Netflix and be greeted by the title screen of a new release: “KPop Demon Hunters.” As an animation lover and KPop dabbler, there was no way I wasn’t tuning in immediately. Seeing as the movie was a Netflix original, expectations were low, but it is definitely safe to say they were exceeded tenfold. The musical urban fantasy follows Kpop girl trio HUNTR/X, who secretly fulfill a generational duty of hunting demons. …
Comets fall out of orbit as men’s soccer continues their season-opening win streak
Share: PCCs lancers won their match 3-2 against Palomar college’s comets on Friday, Aug 29, creating a 3-game win streak to start off the season. Just 21 minutes in, midfielder David Canales made the first goal of the game assisted by forward Soleman Alveno-Donofrio. The goal came as a rebound after Canales and Alveno-Donofrio one-two’d their way through Palomar’s defense and Alveno-Donofrio’s shot at the net was blocked by comet goalie Amanueal Kidanemariam. The lancers kept the pressure on throughout the rest of the first …