Director Tim Hetherington dies in Lybia


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Tim Hetherington, the co-director of the Academy Award-nominated documentary Restrepo, was killed in an attack in Libya Wednesday morning. The attack was caused by a grenade, which also killed and injured several other journalists and photographers. The 41-year-old filmmaker was scheduled to be honored in Los Angeles by the Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America, […]

Black Eyed Peas open production school


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When you first hear the word “peapod,” you might think of vegetables or maybe those infant costumes that stores sell around Halloween. The Peapod Foundation, the Black Eyed Peas’ organization, definitely has nothing to do with either one of those things. The Peapod Foundation began as a charity that held toy drives for Los Angeles […]

On These Shoulders We Stand set for campus screening


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Not everything began with Stonewall. Such is the pretext of Glenne McElhiiney’s On These Shoulders We Stand, a new and groundbreaking documentary about Los Angeles’s gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender community from the 1950s through the early 1980s. On Thursday night, McElhiiney will screen her film on campus in Taper Hall Room 202 at 6 […]

Draft defections give USC an edge in Pac-12


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After the USC men’s basketball team was ousted in the First Four of the NCAA tournament, I thought there was a slight possibility it could lose junior forward Nikola Vucevic to the NBA after a stellar season. After all, who would blame him? I’d probably get tired shouldering USC’s inconsistent offense and facing constant double […]