Clubs clustered in Monarch Square Wednesday for Labor Union Club Day to promote their organizations and inform Valley College students about the labor movement. The theme also served as an effort to publicize Dolores Huerta's visit to the campus. She is the co-founder of the United Farm Workers of America.
Because Los Angeles is best known for its glitzy, star-studded Hollywood shindigs, the city and its residents often get unfairly labeled as shallow. To counter this limited view of the city, I decided to explore some of L.A.'s cultural offerings. After making my first and long overdue pilgrimage to the Getty Center, I decided to trek out to Pacific Palisades to see its sister museum, the Getty Villa.
The Valley Collegiate Players' most recent production, "Bullshot Crummond," requires a different kind of humor to understand the idea. Theatre enthusiasts may get more of the in-jokes than the average amateur, but the troubles are universal enough for everyone to be amused.
Enticing movements, influential lighting, differential costumes and spectacular dance routines each told a unique story at the Valley College dance concert over the weekend. "Emotions in Motion," the seventh annual Valleyspring dance concert was held on May 9 and 10, featuring Valley students and faculty.
Watching "Speed Racer" is like drinking too many "Red Bulls" and freebasing Pixie Stix, but underneath the hood of this ultra violet candy-colored spectacle is a family film full of heart The Wachowski brothers first outing since "'Thr Matrix" is based on the famous anime' cartoon about a youthful race- car driver and his close knit family who occasionally battle ninjas.
Valley College students glimpsed constellations, planets, black holes and quasars during the last star show of the semester, held at the school's Planetarium "Welcome to the evening site here," said Professor David Falk. "Please don't step on the crickets, we need them for the next show.