Open book


Najeeba Syeed-Miller, a professor at the Clairmont School of Theology, speaks with Manal Omar, author of Barefoot in Bagdad: A Story of Identity — My Own and What It Means to Be a Women in Chaos, Tuesday night in Doheny Memorial Library.

The legacy of USC’s own ‘Dancing Doll’


What if I told you the man who truly paved the way for the likes of Charles White, O.J. Simpson, Marcus Allen and Reggie Bush never won a Heisman Trophy, a national championship or found himself heading up the backfield for an NFL team? Would you believe me? Odds are, unless you knew the history […]

Cycling event gets Angelenos out of cars


After serving as the epicenter of California car culture for more than half a century, it’s no wonder Los Angeles residents only take to the streets for Lakers championships and riots. Sunday, however, will hopefully change all that as a seven-and-a-half-mile stretch of Los Angeles asphalt gets closed off to cars and opened up to […]