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CAITLIN WHITEAssistant Living Editor The CCB is known to most students as just another acronymed building that lies at the top of a never ending flight of stairs, but to many student journalists, this building has an entirely different meaning. For senior Jonathan Tamayo, the CCB is practically home. As executive producer of Pepperdine’s student run television programs, which … [Read more...] about Face in the crowd: Jonathan Tamayo

CRYSTAL TAYLORStaff Writer Everywhere the British vocalist goes, M.I.A. (Mathangi “Maya” Arulpragasam) causes a stir. Having been previously denied a visa to enter the United States and condemned due to the political nature of some of her songs. This artist is a one-woman revolt against societal conventions, and she brings her rebellion into her music and onto the stage at … [Read more...] about Hip Vegoose Music Festival certainly not ‘M.I.A.’

OLESYA SALNIKOVAA&E Assistant Good music is rare; great music is even rarer. Discovering new music that is great is a delicious pleasure that is reserved for the most rare of times. The other weekend, I happened to have one such moment when I accidentally came across a new artist whose music is refreshingly new and, at the same time, reminiscent of guitar and vocal … [Read more...] about Newcomers show signs of change

AMY LARSONStaff Writer Growing up, each of us heard again and again that we were unique. We heard it at school, from family, or from whichever Sesame Street character happened to be on television that day. When we were little, it was easy to believe that there was no one in the whole world like us. But now we have grown up. The world was smaller then, and we were much more … [Read more...] about Finding ‘you’ among the unoriginality