Share: Just outside the Center of the Arts building, the upbeat tunes of “Uptown Funk” and “Feel It Still” can be heard as rows of new and returning drumline players hope to get into their desired section for the semester. For drumline students, the audition process starts before the fall semester begins. Prospective members need to go to drumline workshops in June and July. With a warm-up packet full of pep tunes in hand, they learn and practice their technique from drum techs to get …
Lancer Pantry continues to conquer food insecurity
Share: The once empty CC-212 has transformed into Lancer Pantry, crowded with bread loaves, canned food, pre-packaged lunches, and fruits. As the semester went by, Lancer Pantry has added more to their shelves and is serving 1,800 to 2,000 pounds of food per week, thanks to the numerous donors who’ve been supporting PCC’s newest student service all semester. Follow:
Fears come alive in PCC’s Little Theater
Share: Fears can be big or small, they can paralyze people or push them to their limit. They define who we are and how we think about the world around us. Once we acknowledge them, we can confront them, accept them or make fun of them. That’s what the show “Trepidation Nation” at Pasadena City College (PCC) is all about, fears and they way we deal with them. Fifteen theater students at PCC worked on the show made up of fifteen short one-acts each led …
Monsters, mad scientists and musicals? Oh my!
Share: As a child, he would dance and sing Weird Al Yankovic songs on top of the coffee table for his family. In middle school he tried out for his first musical ‘The Music Man’. He just got back from a sold out house Off-Broadway in New York with his comedy group. And now he’s back one last time for PCC’s production of Mel Brooks’ ‘Young Frankenstein’. PCC doesn’t have Gene Wilder or Mel Brooks, but it does have Alexander Mashikian leading what is said …