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Cal Poly men's soccer junior goalkeeper Simon Boehme recorded seven saves Saturday evening, but CSUN forward Emmanuel Usen, Jr.'s 83rd-minute goal marked the difference as the Mustangs fell at Matador Soccer Field, 1-0. -- KSBY

An ubiquitous pianist, composer, and arranger, Reed grew up playing gospel music in his father's storefront Baptist church, starting at the age of five. He was bitten by the jazz bug at a young age after hearing recordings of Blakey, Ramsey Lewis, and Dave Brubeck. Reed started out in the bands of Teddy Edwards, Gerald Wilson, Clora Bryant and John Clayton. He attended Cal State Northridge for one year during which he toured briefly with Wynton Marsalis at age 18. A year later, Reed joined the Marsalis Septet (1990-91; 1992-95). He spent two years with the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra (1996-98) and also worked in the bands of Freddie Hubbard and Joe Henderson (1991-92). He continues to perform and record with an assorted multitude of masters from Wayne Shorter to Clark Terry. -- Playbill

Ms. Poghosyan’s musical studies began in her native Yerevan in Armenia at the School of the Arts No. 1, and continued at Romanos Melikian College and the Komitas State Conservatory. Her teachers in Armenia included Irina Gazarian, Vatche Umr-Shat, and Svetlana Dadyan. After moving to the United States in 1998, she received her BM, summa cum laude, from California State University in Northridge under Françoise Regnat, and her MM and D.M.A. degrees at Manhattan School of Music under Arkady Aronov, completing her D.M.A. in a record-breaking two years with a thesis on Aram Khachaturian’s works for piano. Her recent CD, “Khachaturian Original Piano Works and Ballet Transcriptions,” released on the NAXOS label, has received rave reviews and earned her world-wide acclaim for her exceptional performance and styling. David Dubal the revered piano authority, author and radio host stated about Kariné’s playing of Khachaturian’s music, “She immersed herself in the piano music of Aram Khachaturian to such an extent that her performances have elevated the music to a higher sphere. I know this for certain as I have played many of these pieces and found details of inflection, rhythm, and technical prowess that I had not imagined the music possessed. This is an important debut recording and it brings to us in Kariné Poghosyan’s work, a pianist that we should hear as soon as possible in recital or on disc. Khachaturian would be excited to hear his colorful works played with such idiomatic styling. This is Khachaturian playing that will not be rivaled!" -- New Jersey Stage

“We may see it all as rhetoric and posturing, but I’ve witnessed kids from elementary school to college level stressed out and traumatized,” said Alejandra Acuna, an assistant professor at Cal State Northridge who studies trauma among urban youth. “We’ve got 8-year-olds worried their parents will have to go back to Mexico. I saw one student literally crying in the elevator. If you’re undocumented, it’s not just rhetoric — it’s about survival.” -- East Bay Times