After a title-winning trip to Hawaii during the USC sand volleyball team’s spring break, the Women of Troy will look to continue their six game winning streak as they take on Pepperdine this today at 5 p.m. in Merle Norman Stadium. Last week in Honolulu, senior Kirby Burnham and freshman Sara Hughes won four matches […]
Indie rock band Real Estate brought their smooth, calming sound to Hollywood’s Fonda Theatre on Tuesday, along with opening acts Kevin Morby and The Shilohs, for a night of rich surf rock. The concert was the last of the band’s eight-show West Coast tour with the Shilohs. They head out to the East Coast for […]
More than 160 years after his terrible ordeal, Solomon Northup is still making history. 12 Years A Slave, adapted from Northup’s harrowing account of being kidnapped and sold into slavery in the pre-Civil War South, won Best Picture last night at the 86th Academy Awards, beating out a slew of powerful contenders, including Gravity, American […]
If you don’t speak Russian and you don’t speak German, you might want to think about taking a crash course in Rosetta Stone before watching Stalingrad out of concern that a subtitled film about an epic tale of love and war would be too much for the monolingual brain. And you would be right — […]
The Trojans would be expected to enter the season’s first away game against the Long Beach State Dirtbags at Blair Field with confidence, given their 5-3 victory last Sunday over North Dakota State thanks to the walk-off home run in the 12th inning by junior Omar Cotto Lozada. This assumed confidence, however, could be checked […]
The Marshall School of Business announced Tuesday it will launch a new Masters of Science in Social Entrepreneurship program beginning fall 2014. The program, established by Marshall’s Brittingham Social Enterprise Lab, aims to educate students who hope to solve social problems such as poverty, education and gender equity by creating their own enterprise or working […]
Downtown Los Angeles became a thrift shopper’s paradise on Sunday as vintage collectors and admirers gathered together for the Los Angeles Vintage Fashion Expo. The expo took place inside the Los Angeles Convention Center from Feb. 7-9. Attendees had the opportunity to shop from more than 50 vintage fashion dealers and exhibitors from across the […]
On a cold, cloudy Friday night, a single high-strung Japanese rock band set the glistening crowd at Club Nokia ablaze. The crowd itself was ready to spontaneously combust on its own as it anxiously sat 20 minutes in anticipatory fervor. Fans waited at least three hours ahead of time to ensure a guaranteed spot in […]
On Wednesday, 21-year old Bryan Barnes, one of two men charged with the murder of two USC graduate students from China, pleaded guilty to two counts of first-degree murder. According to the Los Angeles Times, Barnes will serve two consecutive life terms and will not be granted parole. On April 11, 2012, Ming Qu and […]
Charlie Schmidt walked onto the stage at the Echoplex Theater to a soft applause. Despite their excitement, the crowd stayed quiet for the star of the show ¬— not Schmidt, but the easily frightened cat in his hands, known to the Internet community as “Keyboard Cat.” Schmidt’s cat was one of many animal celebrities at […]