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Big West basketball notes: CSUN needs defensive focus vs. Long Beach State
Reggie Theus knew the recipe his Cal State Northridge men’s basketball team needed to get a Big West Conference victory Saturday at Cal State Fullerton. The fourth-year head coach told his players it would take toughness, execution and rebounding. -- Orange County Register
Mind Blowing Chill Lounge Track Distorted Time Feat. EMILIA LOPEZ-YANEZ from SAN DIEGO
Received her Bachelor of Music degree from San Diego State University and her Masters of Music degree from California State University Northridge. She has performed internationally as a pianist/accompanist, as well as with the Los Angeles Philharmonic Institute, Opera Aguascalientes, The San Fernando Valley Men’s Choir and as a recording artist on the Music-Minus- One CD’s put out by the Marantz Piano-Corder company. Ruth’s songs have won many prestigious competitions including the New York Pro/Am Songwriting Festival, The Music City Music Festival, The John Lennon Songwriting Competition, The Shalshelet Music Festival, The Global Music Awards, and The Akademia Music Awards, to name a few. Ms. Weber is the director of the award-winning San Diego Jewish Men’s Choir, and is on the music faculty of Palomar and Miramar Community Colleges in San Diego, CA. -- PR Buzz
Lee Feldman, Gina Browne, and Alicia Olivares Awarded 2017 Super Lawyer Designations
Ms. Olivares was named a Southern California Super Lawyer in 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016 and in 2017, by the publishers Los Angeles Magazine. Alicia Olivares received her B.A. from Cal State Northridge, later attending Loyola Law School, graduating in 1995. -- WFMJ
Lee Feldman, Gina Browne, and Alicia Olivares Awarded 2017 Super Lawyer Designations
Ms. Olivares was named a Southern California Super Lawyer in 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016 and in 2017, by the publishers Los Angeles Magazine. Alicia Olivares received her B.A. from Cal State Northridge, later attending Loyola Law School, graduating in 1995. -- FOX Carolina
Hollyweed' prankster surrenders to LAPD, arrested in trespassing case, police say
The prank, they said, was an homage to Daniel Finegood, a Cal State Northridge student who pulled off the same act on New Year’s Day in 1976. -- Los Angeles Times
Is Your University’s Online Course Up to Code?
OLC’s latest scorecards are in line with what is new in online education, as more and more schools, like California State University, Northridge, are making sure their courses are designed accessibly: -- EdTech Magazine
Athens area events for Tuesday, Jan. 10
Faculty concert with guest violinist Lorenz Gamma: 8 p.m. to 9:30 p.m., University of Georgia Performing Arts Center, 230 River Road, 30602. An ensemble of Hugh Hodgson School of Music faculty — including Michael Heald, Maggie Snyder, D. Ray McClellan and David Starkweather — is joined by violinist Lorenz Gamma, a faculty member at California State University at Northridge and California Institute of the Arts. Free. -- Online Athens
LA artist in 'Hollyweed' sign prank surrenders to police
In an interview two days later with the online magazine Vice, Fernandez -- who goes by the moniker "Jesus Hands'' -- said the effort was inspired by a similar 1976 alteration of the sign carried out by Cal State Northridge art student Danny Finegood, who changed the sign to "Hollyweed'' as part of a school art project in response to a recent relaxation of marijuana laws. -- FOX 11
'Hollyweed' Sign Vandal Arrested
In fact, Fernandez's prank wasn't even the first time the sign was rebranded as "Hollyweed." The world-famous sign was first transformed to read "Hollyweed" way back in 1976, when Danny Finegood, then a young art student at Cal State Northridge, once hiked up to the sign with $50 worth of fabric and some friends and pulled a prank of his own. Here's what it looked like then: -- LAist
‘Hollyweed’ pot joke artist still laughing as cops close in?
In an interview two days later with the online magazine Vice, Fernandez – – who goes by the moniker “Jesus Hands” — said the effort was inspired by a similar 1976 alteration of the sign carried out by Cal State Northridge art student Danny Finegood, who changed the sign to “Hollyweed” as part of a school art project in response to a recent relaxation of marijuana laws. Finegood got an A grade on his project. -- MyNewsLA