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Barbecue has ’em all talking at Texas Best BBQ in Valley Village
If there were courses in barbecue history taught at Cal State Northridge, a dissertation could be done on that. But myself, I’d prefer to do a dissertation on side dishes, which often intrigue me as much as the meat itself. -- Los Angeles Daily News
CSUN's Daniela Gerson: What Jared Kushner could teach Trump about the Holocaust
(CNN) -- The first person I heard from as news spread around the world of the United States banning refugees was my friend Steffi. Her grandfather was a Nazi. -- KITV
Treadway: El Cerrito High festival to spotlight school jazz programs
The festival “will include workshops, master classes, clinics, concerts, and adjudicated performances,” organizers announced. “Festival adjudicators and clinicians include Dam Gailey from the University of Kansas, Dr. Aaron Lington from San Jose State University, Joe Mazzaferro from Stanislaus State University, Gary Pratt from CSU Northridge, and Rob Tapper from the University of Montana.” -- East Bay Times
David Lynch films at the Egyptian among movie screenings in the Los Angeles area
Cinematheque at Cal State Northridge: John Cassavetes Retrospective: “A Child is Waiting” (1963), 7 p.m. Feb. 16. Free. Alan Armer Theater in Manzanita Hall, Auditorium Room 100. 18111 Nordhoff St. www.csun.edu -- Long Beach Press-Telegram
CSULB Theatre Arts Kicks Off Spring Semester with SHE KILLS MONSTERS
Amanda McRaven is a director, theater-maker, educator, and writer. She is the winner of the 2014 Ovation Award for Directing and a member of the Society of Directors and Choreographers and Lincoln Center Directors Lab. The former Director of Education for the American Shakespeare Center, she is now based in Los Angeles where she teaches Performance Studies at California State University Northridge and makes theatre with her company, The Fugitive Kind. -- Broadway World Los Angeles
Mark Sandler wins 2017 Hugh C. Atkinson Memorial Award
“Dr. Mark Sandler is a library leader of great vision whose innovative ideas and persuasive skills carried to fruition two of the most impactful initiatives in the history of digitization,” said Mark Stover, Hugh C. Atkinson Memorial Award Committee chair and dean of the Oviatt Library at California State University, Northridge. “His founding of the Text Creation Partnership brought together a number of academic libraries with Proquest, and this collaboration produced the seminal Early English Books Online database. Mark also championed the Google Book Digitization Project among the member libraries of the influential Big Ten Academic Alliance, thus greatly expanding the corpus of digitized books for both the Google project and the HathiTrust repository.” -- American Library Association
SCV athletes sign national letters of intent
“It does feel a little different,” said Santa Clarita Christian’s Chloe Edwards, who inked with California State University, Northridge for women’s soccer. -- Santa Clarita Valley Signal
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Local athletes celebrate college commitments on National Signing Day
Madison Burke of the Redlands girls soccer team signed with Chico State and Davis Moreno-Jaime of the Terriers boys soccer team committed to Cal State Northridge. -- Redlands Daily Facts
CSUN gets $880,000 grant to cut obesity in Canoga Park
CANOGA PARK >> Nearly one in five kids in and around Canoga Park is obese, public health officials say, with adults suffering slightly higher rates.
Now Cal State Northridge will work to cut the fat among low-income families in Canoga Park by helping them plant fresh vegetables, plan healthy meals and get more exercise. -- Los Angeles Daily News
Free exercise program encourages Turlock to get moving
Created at California State University, Northridge in 2012, the purpose of 100 Citizens is to provide the community with a structured, free exercise program intended to meet or exceed the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s minimum recommendations for physical activity, and ultimately improve the health and well-being of community members. Designed to be affordable, replicable and sustainable, the program focuses on the five components of physical fitness: cardiovascular endurance, muscular endurance, muscular strength, flexibility and body composition. -- Turlock Journal