The beat goes on at the 20th annual Long Beach Step Show hosted by CSULB National Pan-Hellenic Council. Be part of the largest collegiate-produced step show in the Western US, where teams from all over the country will come together to compete. This community event is more than just top teams synchronizing in scandalous outfits [...]

Celebrating its 40th anniversary, Cal State Long Beach’s Pow Wow returns to the campus this weekend for two days of American Indian dancing, arts, crafts and food. (Trivia: the event also marks the 41st year of the university’s American Indian Studies program—the oldest of its kind west of the Mississippi.) There will be contests and [...]

The works in University Art Museum’s ‘Pieces of 9: Reframing the Collection’ might be old, but the dialogue isn’t

WALTON FORD’S ‘SIGHTS’
University Art Museum’s “Pieces of 9: Reframing the Collection” is not so much one exhibition as it is nine individual curatorial efforts, mini-exhibitions making up a larger, more complete showcase of favorite works from the [...]

TUES MAR 2 Long Beach officials announce that the search for the city’s new fire chief will extend to all qualified candidates. Well, all qualified candidates who have held the rank of battalion chief or higher, which totally kills my chances since, tragically, I never followed through with my childhood desire to become a fire [...]

“Enough is enough” is enough to bring together hundreds of CSULB students, faculty members and staff to protest state budget cuts, part of a campaign launched by Associated Students, Inc. called “More Than Numbers”—as in students are more than just their campus ID numbers. Music and dancing will kick-start the event and an aerial photo [...]

The ‘unconference’ that’s free and open to everybody

Woody Allen once said 80 percent of success is just showing up. That’s how the BIL Conference was born, when its founders decided to do what a few intrepid Long Beachers are probably considering for this weekend’s TED conference: just show up.
BIL is an “unconference,” created to [...]

CSULB’s Justine Schneeweis wants students to think about sex. It’s not as simple as it sounds
As the co-chair of Cal State Long Beach’s student group Feminist Organization Reclaiming Consciousness and Equality (FORCE), 22-year-old Justine Schneeweis helps organize such events as Take Back the Night and this year’s second-annual Sex Positive Week. Formed in the wake [...]

TUES JAN 5 Cal State Long Beach can’t admit any more students, has to shut down from time to time and considered shutting down its phone system to save money, so isn’t it comforting to know that amid all of this Kevin MacDonald keeps drawing a paycheck? You remember Kevin, don’t you? He’s the psychology [...]

PHOTO by JOHN GILHOOLEY
TUES DEC 29 Well, it went right down to the wire, but somehow Long Beach managed to pull off the worst election of the decade. Yes, the competition was stiff, especially from a little something I like to call the 2000 presidential election; but as bad and devious as that affair was, [...]

Vector Control says: Suck it, 2009!
“You know Wheelchair Dave, right?”
“. . .”
“Wheelchair Dave, Wheelchair Dave—you know him right?”
“. . .”
Belmont Shore, a week before Christmas, night of the boat parade. A couple of fellas who from the looks of them probably are familiar with the streets are talking. I am there for the parade but [...]