Clips
The week ahead in L.A. theater, Oct. 8-15: 'Helen Lawrence,' Karen Finley and more
Upright Citizens Brigade All-Stars Improv comedy with “SNL” alum Horatio Sanz and others. Valley Performing Arts Center, 18111 Nordhoff St., Northridge. Sat., 8 p.m. $25 and up. (818) 677-3000. -- Los Angeles Times
UCB's Matt Besser & SNL's Sasheer Zamata Set for UPRIGHT CITIZENS BRIGADE ALL-STARS at The Soraya
Valley Performing Arts Center (The Soraya) brings one of the country's most respected improv troupes, Upright Citizens Brigade, to their stage on Saturday, October 14 at 8:00pm. Saturday Night Live alumnus Sasheer Zamata and UCB Founding Member, Matt Besser will lead the Upright Citizens Brigade All-Stars in a night of unpredictable antics. -- Broadway World Thousand Oaks
CSUN women's soccer breaks 1-1, 2-2 ties to edge Cal Poly for 3-2 win
The Cal Poly women’s soccer team rallied from 1-0 and 2-1 deficits on Sunday at CSUN to even the game both times, but the Matadors scored once more in the second half and held on to edge the Mustangs, 3-2 in the San Fernando Valley. -- KSBY
Cal Poly drops 1-0 decision Saturday evening after late CSUN goal
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
Valencia HS grads having a blast at The Blast
He and Mazzio met as teammates on an 8th grade Warriors Pop Warner football team. Both are graduates of Valencia High School, Trock by way of Charles Helmers Elementary School and Arroyo Seco Middle School, Mazzio via Castaic elementary and middle schools. Both are graduates of California State University-Northridge, and they were each in the other’s wedding. -- Santa Clarita Valley Signal
Sizzlin' Summer Sounds
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
Plymouth College of Art appoints new Vice Principal to oversee continued innovation
Born in California, Christy is a Bachelor of Arts graduate, magna cum laude, of California State University at Northridge, and holds two postgraduate degrees with distinction, Master of Arts and Master of Fine Arts from the University of New Mexico at Albuquerque. -- FE News - United Kingdom
Karine Poghosyan To Perform "Transformations" at Carnegie Hall
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
Mary Purdy – Teacher of the Year
Purdy earned both a bachelor’s and master’s degree from California State University, Northridge, and in 1977 got her first teaching job in East Los Angeles at Stevenson Junior High School. In 1981, she joined the William S. Hart Union School District as a teacher at Sierra Vista Junior High. Nine years later, Purdy began teaching English at Canyon High School, and took on the choirs, which were, at the time: Women’s Chamber Ensemble, Concert Choir with about 35 students, and Treble Choir, which was for beginning singers. The small, exclusive group, Madrigals, met in the evenings. In 1994 she added the Men’s Chamber Ensemble. -- Santa Clarita Gazette
Immigration crackdown taking heavy toll on California students
“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