Share: Loud counts of “1, 2, 3,” direct a group of students learning steps to a new routine in room W102. Minutes later, they partner up and get into a big circle and start practicing the new routine with salsa music in the background. Follow:
Bargain-hunting wonderland
Share: This year, PCC dethroned the reigning Rose Bowl Flea Market to earn the title of Best Flea Market in Pasadena Weekly’s “Best of Pasadena 2015” list. “I think it’s pretty exciting because we are such a small market compared to the Rose Bowl [Flea Market],” said acting hourly flea market coordinator Lindsey Reed. “It’s a huge honor and it makes us excited to work more for our customers to have a great place to come on Sundays and for our vendors to take pride …
A colorful world into nature
Share: Nature is often seen as a place of peace and quiet, but artist Pierre Picot perceives nature in a completely different way. Picot paints his own form of nature by taking it to another reality. Instead of painting nature in a traditional representation, he paints nature in an imaginary world with a splash of colors and chaos. Follow:
Laramie Tells a Powerful Tale from Multiple Perspectives
Share: The lights dimmed in the Center for the Arts Theater as music began to play and help set the mood for what would be a powerful and moving tale of tragedy and its aftermath in the town of Laramie, Wyoming. Follow:
50,000 descend on JPL for annual open house
Share: If you look through the “Eyes on Exoplanets” software invented and provided for free by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, you’ll discover that not only is our planet just a speck—a “pale blue dot” in a sea of galaxies, each with thousands of stars of their own, each star with usually at least one planet orbiting around it—but that the already unimaginable expanse of the universe is actually still growing, and growing faster and faster apart. Follow:
Mural inaugurates Black Student Success Center
Share: The long awaited inauguration Tuesday of the Black Student Success Center hosted by the Ujima Club and Blackademia filled the CC building from corner to corner with students proud to make up the black community at PCC and be part of history. Follow:
PCC strives to be stress free
Share: There are a number of things that can cause a college student to stress out, from a homework assignment that they forgot to do to putting to together an application for transfer. Sometimes all it takes is a few deep breaths to make the weight of living seem so much lighter than it is. Follow:
Books, Straight outta Riverside
Share: “My neighbors are all drug dealers; they’re good at what they do. And I’m good at what I do. Seriously, that’s the way life goes.” Making people cry. That’s what Susan Straight is good at. And she isn’t an enforcer for her drug-dealing neighbors. She’s an author, and a really good one at that. Follow:
A push forward for Latino and Hispanic students
Share: About 45,000 books were given away free to children and students at the 7th Annual Feria de Educación hosted by CSU Dominguez Hills, Univision and the CSU Latino Initiative on Oct. 3. Follow:
Cydney Ee: Living the pop star dream
Share: This past summer has been a fruitful one for 21-year-old Cydney Ee, who beat out fellow pop star hopefuls from Los Angeles, New York and San Francisco to emerge as the champion in the Chinese-American talent competition ETTV Top Idol. Follow: