Yes, Beautiful Islands is indeed beautiful.
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Geo-tagging helps pin down popular places
Competition is rising up over social mediaâs latest craze: geo-location. Designed for mobile users, geo-location allows you to share your location with friends. There are several applications currently leading the geo-location bandwagon, including Foursquare, Gowalla and Facebookâs Places, which was introduced Aug. 18. Not surprisingly, the feature, just more than one year old, is not [...]
Read the rest of this article »Leaving behind medicine for music
Brian Ralston â renowned film composer and graduate of Thornton School of Musicâs Scoring for Motion Pictures and Television program â was once an emergency medical technician involved in clinical research for pharmaceutical companies and poised to apply to medical school. For any artist, starving or not, a career in medicine is a clear antithesis.
Read the rest of this article »Three staples for college cooking
Unless youâre still living with your parents, chances are that youâre either sharing a small kitchen with several other housemates or youâre stuck in a dorm without a kitchen where you barely have room to store a Heinz squeeze bottle. Therefore, you might not find it wise to purchase more last-minute items, but you might [...]
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The first week of school is always exciting. Classes are full, faces are smiling and first impressions are being made, whether you realize it or not. âDonât judge a book by its coverâ is a hard mantra to abide by, especially when everything is new â from the school year to the campus to the [...]
Read the rest of this article »In 2006, USC Professor of theatre practice Brent Blair got a gig putting on a theater workshop  for Downtown Los Angelesâ oppressed garment workers. But this was not a morale-boosting production of Midsummer Nights Dream. In fact, Blair didnât even bring a script. Instead, employees who worked within the largest concentration of garment industry sweatshops [...]
Read the rest of this article »Peter Lee Johnson, a sophomore majoring in popular music performance, is at the forefront of the rebellion that our generation heralds, but he once shared in the same uncertainty that most college applicants face amid the cautionary din of overzealous parents. From the age of 4 Johnson was immersed in classical music, a hobby that [...]
Read the rest of this article »Restored film takes a twist on fairy tale
In 2009, the digitally restored print of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburgerâs classic, The Red Shoes, debuted at the Cannes Film Festival. This marked the final chapter in a seven-year restoration effort led by Martin Scorsese and longtime editor Thelma Schoonmaker. Last July, a copy of the print was released by Criterion on DVD and [...]
Read the rest of this article »Cityâs transition leads to a renewed sense of community
While the dust is settling on USCâs latest overhauls â University Gateway apartments and the Commons-turned-Ronald Tutor Campus Center â Los Angeles is going through a long overdue remodel. Just as the stale square building in the center of campus has been replaced with a lofty community center flanked by an expansive plaza, neighborhoods across [...]
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