By Joel Hanke |Staff Writer| Burn LA's event 'Family Affair' brought the house down with high energy music, live blacklight art, indoor fire and aerial performances. This was their first event of the new year held on Jan. 11 at the Mission Control warehouse located at Marina Del Rey. Mission Control can be an extremely difficult place to find if you have not been there previously. The back of the building can be seen from the main street (Jefferson Ave) but is somewhat hidden amongst a line of other industrial warehouses used for more contemporary reasons during the day. The entrance itself is located about a quarter mile down an alley way located just south of Jefferson. The … [Read more...] about Burning down the house
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Know the land, know the Native Americans
By Tom Stillwagon |Staff Writer| James Ramos, Chairman of the San Manuel Band of Mission Indians, visited CSUSB last week to speak to a class of approximately 200 students about his work with the San Manuel tribe and addressing misconceptions Californians have about the Native American people. The speech was given to Professor James Fenelon’s Race & Racism class on Jan. 26. Ramos, a Serrano Indian, performed a pair of traditional songs, singing and playing a large rattle made out a gourd to open his speech. One of the songs was about native hunters searching for the big horned sheep. “A lot of people think that all Indian tribes hunt the buffalo,” said Ramos. “Yet the buffalo … [Read more...] about Know the land, know the Native Americans