By: David Motte | Staff Writer

Valley College Music Professor Robert Chauls led a noteworthy group of vocalists in his own musical adaptation of “Phantom of the Opera” Wednesday afternoon. The Music Recital Hall was transformed into the Opera de Paris of the late 1800s as D...

By: Kelly Davis | Staff Writer

For students interested in a career in nursing, Valley College’s Nurse Scholars Program provides a way to guarantee a position in the work field, which is becoming harder and harder to find work in. Valley has teamed up with COPE Health Solutions an...

By: Kate Holzhauer | Staff Writer

It is easier to find The Kansas City BBQ Company with your nose than your eyes. From the outside, it is just a sports bar shoved into the corner of a quiet North Hollywood strip mall. But the rich smells of meat being smoked over a hardwood fire are enoug...

By: Kelly Davis | Staff Writer

The most important decision a college student will make is often the most difficult and most delayed. According to Valley College’s Office of Research and Planning, 65 percent of enrolled students have yet to decide on a major, and 17 percent are un...

By: Kate Holzhauer | Staff Writer

With all the well-known restaurants in Los Angeles, Bistro 561 is a bit off the radar, but if you are looking for a $30 gourmet meal for two in a romantic setting that is walking distance from the theaters, shopping, and nightlife of Old Town Pasadena, th...

By: Carl Robinette | Staff Writer

Excitement charged the air of the art gallery at Valley College Wednesday night as a crowd of about 200 filled the room for the opening of “No Laughing Matter: Art and Humor in Southern California (a modest sampling),” a new art exhibit with a...

By: David Motte | Staff Writer

The year 2012 is just around the corner. For centuries, countless scientific discoveries and advances have been ascertained, bringing the world into a new age of enlightenment. Recently, however, there seems to have been a rising number in those concerned...

By: Kelly Davis | Staff Writer

With 20 percent of the population suffering from depression, or “living in a black hole,” as it’s commonly described, it is bound to have a major effect on college students, especially since the majority of those diagnosed with mental il...

By: David Motte | Staff Writer

Are you protecting your sexual health? That is what the Valley College Student Health Center is asking its students. Last Thursday, in an effort to promote National Condom Day on campus, the health center presented “Love Responsibly,” an event...

By: Kate Holzhauer | Staff Writer

Taco stands have become iconic fixtures in the Los Angeles culinary scene, providing cheap and convenient eats to people from all walks of life. Within a five minute drive of Valley College lie two very different versions of the classic taco stand: Hugo&r...

By: Ray Blumhorst | Staff Writer

Often taken for granted are the old bungalows lining the south side of Valley College, but little do many Valley students know how rich in history is that lowly section of Valley’s campus. In 1951, joy filled the spirits of Valley students to be so ...

By: Ray Blumhorst | Staff Writer

Bordered on the west by Ethel Avenue and on the north by parking lot E, Valley College’s Field House is an unassuming building. The Quonset hut-styled building has no apparent aesthetic appeal, and is surrounded by newer, and more architecturally di...

By: Ray Blumhorst | Staff Writer

On Oct. 7, 1949, the yet unnamed Valley College student newspaper ran a message prepared by Valley College’s first director, Vierling Kersey. “On Being Born A College,” read the headline. The words near the end of the first paragraph in ...

By: Guadalupe Gonzalez | Staff Writer

Kaiser Permanente is helping Darnell Camanzo follow his family’s footsteps in nursing by awarding him a scholarship to help him with his school finances. He and ten other Valley College nursing students were awarded Kaiser Permanente’s Deloras...

By: Cristina Serrato | Staff Writer

“Woo hoo!” rang through the phone as an exuberant Sandy Mayo announced her triumph over Hodgkin’s Lymphoma, a deadly cancer that she has battled for almost a year. Mayo’s doctor told her recently that the cancerous mass in her neck...

By: Josh Spence | Managing Editor

The genius of George Clooney as an actor is his ability to add life to characters that are seemingly born in the morgue. Combine Clooney’s abundant subtlety and charm with Jason Reitman’s thoughtful script and you get a smart and visual stunne...

By: Guadalupe González | Staff Writer

It was a happy birthday for Valley College’s honor society Tau Alpha Epsilon, who celebrated its 60th anniversary in Monarch Hall Wednesday. Speakers including faculty members Richard Raskoff, William Wallis, and Valley President Sue Carleo- congrat...

By: Ivan Zuniga | Staff Writer

The sound of a didgeridoo playing along with singers and stand-up comics delivering laughs it up the fireside room Thursday, during the first Black Student Union and Associated Student Union-sponsored open mic night “LAVC Got Talent” at Valley...

By: Ray Blumhorst | Staff Writer

Valley College Alumnus Ed Begley, Jr. appeared in a segment of FOX News’s “Your World” with Stuart Varney five days after his appearance at Valley, where he’d discussed climate change and global warming. Varney opened the segment q...

By: A.Ramachandran | Valley Life Editor

Ryan Husk’s “Cosmo, Cosmos & the Cosmos” opened the second weekend of Valley College theater series “After 4-Play.” The commentary on the complexities of modern love featured Courtnie DiPiazza as ‘everygirl’ S...