TV spot puts all eyes on the Trojans


With thousands of USC fans making the dedicated pilgrimage to San Francisco today to watch the Trojans take on the California Golden Bears, everyone’s hoping the team doesn’t put up a stinker. In fact, this one’s a must-win for USC to salvage some pride, exert dominance and satisfy hordes of fans who accompany the team […]

Fairey plays influential role in evolution of street art


Street artists are usually seen as troublemakers. Many tamper with public property, create controversial pieces with charged messages and sometimes end up being arrested for the art they create. One of the biggest issues any street artist encounters is getting his or her work accepted as actual art. It’s tough to convince the average civilian […]

Haute Highlights


Festival of California Poets Writers, poets and all lovers of the arts, for that matter, have a lot to look forward to this weekend at the Festival of California Poets at the Hammer Museum. The Hammer Museum, Poetry Society of America and PEN Center USA will present this fifth annual event. This year’s festivities will […]

Letter to the editor


Same-sex classes beneficial Leslie Chang’s “Same-sex education not as detrimental as it seems” (Oct. 6) discussing the pros and cons of same-sex education reminded me of an experiment we did when I was finishing my graduate work in the School of Education in the mid-1980s. I was a teachers assistant in the program for the […]