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Homegrown Composer Marshall Mandell Creates Rock Opera Album
“The opera format is based on one of my earliest favorite albums, Tommy by The Who,” says Mandell, who studied music at Wayne State University, Berklee College of Music in Boston and California State University-Northridge. --The Jewish News
Drive Your Journey with Fred Arnold | Drive Your Journey with Lisa Kaul
Fred Arnold is an industry leader and veteran in the areas of mortgage lending and public speaking. Fred began his career in 1991 after graduating from California State University, Northridge. Fred is a mortgage professional with American Family Funding and his business is 100-percent referral based, and he has helped his clients obtain over $1 billion in mortgage loans over the past two decades. His belief is that if you help enough people get what they want out of life, then you will always achieve your goals and dreams. Fred often speaks to business and consumer groups on the economy, the state of the housing market, how to get the best investment when buying real estate, in addition to leadership, marketing and customer experience. Fred hosts a TV show, "Find Your Journey," on SCVTV and hosts the radio show, "The SCV Chamber Business spotlight," on KHTS AM-1220. Fred was recognized as one of the Top 40 Business People under 40 in Southern California by the San Fernando Business Journal and was named Mortgage Professional of the Year by the California Association of Mortgage Professionals in 2011. Fred currently serves on the OLPH school board, COC Foundation Board, Habitat for Heroes Advisory Board, SCVTV advisory board and Singles Mothers Outreach Advisory Board. He recently served as Chairman of the SCV Chamber of Commerce (2013), treasurer of the National Association of Mortgage Brokers (2013), Secretary of Matadors Community Credit Union and was President of the California Association of Mortgage Professionals (2008-2009). Fred is licensed by the California Department of Real Estate (01173600) and the NMLS (214841). --SCTV
Lowrider Magazine Hits a Major Roadblock
Cal State Northridge Professor Denise Sandoval called the magazine an important cultural document chronicling the late 1970's and early 1980's. -- NBC Los Angeles
California disaster planning continues to forget people with disabilities, audit finds
Cal State Northridge professor Flavia Fleischer, chair of the university’s department of deaf studies, agreed with Navarro’s view. -- Los Angeles Times
CSUN's Diane R. Gehart: “Why happiness is a conscious habit, not the result of auspicious circumstances”
Happiness is a conscious habit, not the result of auspicious circumstances. It’s a life skill that anyone can develop and master. The road to happiness has been clearly and consistently identified for millennia in different cultures. The Buddha and contemporary positive psychologists identify the same behaviors and attitudes that lead to life-long happiness. Unfortunately, these happiness habits don’t fuel capitalist economies, so they’re not readily promoted or reinforced. -- medium
Shifting readership ends Lowrider magazine, as much about Chicano identity as about cars
“It was really an art magazine, a community history magazine, all around the love of lowriders,” said Denise Sandoval, a lowrider expert and professor of Chicana and Chicano Studies at Cal State Northridge. It even funded a scholarship program for Latino students. -- The Detroit News
Audit: California overlooks poor, disabled in disaster plans
Cal State Northridge professor Flavia Fleischer, chair of the college’s division of deaf research, agreed with Navarro’s view. -- The Union Journal
La vida y la muerte de Lowrider: Cómo la revista de coches chicana dio forma a California
"Era realmente una revista de arte, una revista dehistoria de la comunidad, alrededor del amor a los lowriders", detalló Denise Sandoval, una experta en lowriders y profesora de EstudiosChicanos y Chicanas en Cal State Northridge. Incluso financió un programa debecas para estudiantes latinos. -- Arizona Daily Star (in Spanish)
The life and death of Lowrider: How the Chicano car magazine shaped California
“It was really an art magazine, a community history magazine, all around the love of lowriders,” said Denise Sandoval, a lowrider expert and professor of Chicana and Chicano Studies at Cal State Northridge. It even funded a scholarship program for Latino students. -- msn.com
Essential Arts: ‘Cats’ is the stage-to-film cat-astrophe we can’t stop talking about
More out of East L.A.: Lowrider, the car magazine that was also about Chicano identity, will cease to print but may still appear occasionally in digital form. Times reporter Dorany Pineda looks back at the history of the magazine, which Cal State Northridge professor Denise Sandoval said represented “the codes of the Boulevard: ... Pride, respect, corazón [heart], family, brotherhood.” -- Los Angeles Times