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MiraCosta College creating a jazz tradition in North County

Falker was teaching at the University of Southern California and California State University Northridge before being hired at MiraCosta in 2006. The music department was more focused on technology and production at the time, but the school had plans to open a new concert hall in 2010 and was looking to expand performances. -- San Diego Union-Tribune

As Empires Fall hopes to take main stage at Vans Warped Tour

The Newbury Park resident is a bit of a worrier, which is why he has a career backup plan. If music doesn’t work out, he’ll transfer to CSU Northridge and continue his studies in film, which he says is his “other passion.” -- Camarillo Acorn

Cheech Marin, a singular Renaissance man, talks about comedy, pottery, pot, art and his new memoir

His second interest was pottery, cultivated in the ceramics lab at Valley State College (now Cal State Northridge). “I just fell in love with it,” he recalls. “The first time you center a piece of clay, you feel this force in the universe. I describe it in the book like this tuning fork went off in my loins. It’s where my recessive Mexican craft gene came out. It was like, ‘Vato!’” -- The Herald - SC

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