Nature artists combat contentious reactions


Sometimes art involves a little more than just painting on canvas and hoping to get displayed in a gallery. For the Bulgarian-born artist Christo, art means stretching 5.9 miles of fabric in suspended panels over 42 miles of the Arkansas River in Colorado. Recently approved by United States federal regulators and slated for completion in […]

Netflix signs overseas streaming deal with MGM


Netflix has penned a deal with production house MGM to stream the latter’s movies in UK and Ireland when it commences operations there in early 2012, the company announced Nov. 7. It will become the exclusive subscription streaming provider of MGM movies in the region. Netflix will be providing most first-run feature films within a […]

Video interview: Kiffin


USC coach Lane Kiffin speaks after Tuesday's practice about the upcoming game against Washington and the team's current state.

Students get an education in “Financial Swagger”


“Banks prey on students just like us.” That’s what Gabe Albarian, a graduate student at the USC Marshall School of Business and author of Financial Swagger, is trying to tell students. On Nov. 8 at 7:00 p.m., Albarian gave a presentation that spelled out how undergraduates should take care of their financial education and learning […]

USC nabs top junior college recruit


On the first day of the early signing period, USC basketball coach Kevin O’Neill announced he received signed National Letters of Intent from two players, guard J.T. Terrell and forward Strahinja Gavrilovic. The 6-foot-3 Terrell, who attends Peninsula Junior College in Washington, was the No. 1 junior college player in America by Swannys Roundball Review. […]

Behind enemy lines: Washington


The last two times USC has met Washington on the gridiron, things did not end well for the Trojans. Former USC coordinators and current Washington coaches Steve Sarkisian and Nick Holt have gotten the better of the Trojans two straight years, notching a 16-13 win in Seattle in 2009 and a 32-31 victory in Los […]

Admissions Office hosts Twitter dialogue with students, parents


In a network-savvy move, the USC Admissions Office took its question-and-answer session online from 12:30 p.m. to 2:00 p.m. Wednesday. The Twitter-based information session allowed interested applicants and families to sit in on an admissions answer session remotely, as officers tweeted updates. From 1:30 p.m. to 2:00 p.m., the floor belonged to those remote Twitter […]