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Danny Finegood is probably the second great genius of the Hollywood Sign, and the hero of this story. In the early morning of New Year’s Day 1976, the day decriminalization of marijuana took effect in California, he brought $50 worth of materials and a few friends up to the sign and changed it to read HOLLYWEED. He was an artist—this was a project for his environmental sculpture class at Cal State Northridge (he got an A). He did HOLYWOOD the next Easter, OLLYWOOD during the Iran-Contra hearings, and OIL WAR in 1990, in protest of the Gulf War, although that one was pulled down before the sun rose, according to his obituary. Finegood not only understood the sign as art, but understood it as a collective work—by 1976, those Machine-ish letters staggering along the hillside had accrued enough shared meaning that they could be altered and still refer to that meaning, creating something simultaneously new, familiar, and extremely delightful. (Whoever went out of their way to create PEROTWOOD in both 1992 and 1996 probably had a less nuanced theory.) -- LA Curbed

The 6-foot-5 high-flyer returned to the Philippines last week just after leaving Creighton to move to the Big West where he will play for Cal State Northridge, another Division 1 school in the US NCAA. -- Spin - Philippines

—Baseball player Walker Armstrong (St. Joseph High) is staying closest to home. Armstrong signed with California State University, Northridge. -- Lompoc Record

“The humbling experience, I mean, it (stunk) going through it, definitely,” said Hurst, whose second-place Titans play a three-game series at Cal State Northridge (25-27, 11-10) beginning Friday. “But I’m grateful that I know how to get through and handle the adversity I’ve had the last couple of years.” -- Orange County Register