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While National News Dominates Headlines, Local Government Shapes Daily Life More Directly, CSUN Prof Says
In an era when national issues often dominate public attention, some of the most immediate challenges affecting daily life are occurring at the local government level. -- San Fernando Valley Sun
Southland to mark Earth Day with cleanups, events and free transit
At Cal State Northridge, students and community members will gather for an Earth Day event featuring free plants, food and information about environmental programs. -- Los Angeles Daily News
Día de la Tierra: Así promoverán la protección del medio ambiente en el sur de California
En Cal State Northridge, estudiantes y miembros de la comunidad se reunirán en un evento por el Día de la Tierra que ofrecerá plantas y comida gratuitas, además de información sobre programas ambientales. -- Telemundo 52
Earth Day Cleanups, Events And Free Transit Planned In LA County
At Cal State Northridge, students and community members will gather for an Earth Day event featuring free plants, food and information about environmental programs. -- Patch Los Angeles
Southland Celebrates Earth Day with Cleanups, Events, Free Transit
At Cal State Northridge, students and community members will gather for an Earth Day event featuring free plants, food and information about environmental programs. -- MyNewsLA
ITALIAN OPERA LAB: TRADITION AND THE FUTURE OF OPERA IN LOS ANGELES
The first edition of the initiative took place from March 10 to 13 and was developed in close collaboration with the College of Humanities and the Department of Modern and Classical Languages and Literatures at California State University, Northridge (CSUN), with the support of Professor Patricia Miller, Director of Special Projects in Italian Studies (MCLL), and the Opera Festival of Chicago, represented by conductor Emanuele Andrizzi and General Director Sasha Gerritson. One of the highlights of the program was a roundtable at The Soraya (CSUN), moderated by Artistic Director Thor Steingraber, titled “The Art of Italian Opera Singing and UNESCO.” The discussion explored the cultural, historical, and artistic significance of Italian opera, bringing together members of the Opera Festival of Chicago, Professor Patricia Miller, soprano Elisabetta Russo, and James Tumminia, executive producer of the documentary Viva Verdi!. -- ItaloAmericano
National Poetry Month Highlight: the Benjamin Saltman Poetry Award
Benjamin Saltman was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in 1927, and completed his graduate education at Claremont Graduate School. He began writing poetry seriously in 1965. He received several awards and fellowships including two NEA awards, and a Creative Writing Fellowship for 1987 and 1988. He won a John Williams Andrews Award for a long narrative poem from Poet Lore, a Chester H. Jones Foundation Award, and an Anna Rosenberg Award for a poem about the Jewish experience. His work appeared in numerous magazines over the years, among them the Hudson Review, Mississippi Review, Poetry Northwest, Southern Poetry Review, Ironwood and Kayak. For twenty-five years he taught verse writing and contemporary American literature at California State University, Northridge, where he was emeritus professor of English. -- Red Hen Press
CSUN Research Finds Genetic Decline May Have Doomed Neanderthals
A Cal State Northridge anthropologist and an international team of researchers have found that a lack of genetic diversity among the last Neanderthals in Europe may have contributed to their extinction, according to a study announced Tuesday. -- MyNewsLA
CSUN CINEMATHEQUE presents NOT WANTED (1949) written and produced by Ida Lupino
NOT WANTED (1949) Seduced. Abandoned. Alone. With-child. Only Ida Lupino would dare tell a story so taboo in post-war Hollywood. Special interview presentation with Bridget Donovan, daughter of Ida Lupino & Howard Duff. Part of the Cinematheque series, ON DANGEROUS GROUND THE FILMS OF IDA LUPINO: BEHIND THE CAMERA -- Northridge-Chatsworth Patch
Things to do in the San Fernando Valley, LA area, April 16-24
Kinesis – Emerging Choreography 2026: California State University, Northridge, Department of Kinesiology presents three performances by student choreographers and dancers at the annual Spring Dance Concert, 7:30 p.m. April 22; 2 and 7:30 p.m. April 23. Tickets $20; $10 seniors and students. Plaza de Sol Performance Hall at CSUN, within the University Student Union (east side of the campus off Zelzah Avenue and south of Plummer Street), 18111 Nordhoff St., Northridge. 818-677-2488. csun.edu/health-human-development/kinesiology. Reservations here: news.csun.edu/events-feed/kinesiology/ -- Los Angeles Daily News