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CSUN Showcase Throws Spotlight on Hollywood’s Future Filmmakers

The stories are as diverse as their filmmakers: An ex-gang member struggling to help his mother return home. A son fulfilling his father’s baseball dream. A father struggling to provide for his son. Two lonely people battling solitary confinement. An effort to negotiate peace in the middle of a war. -- San Fernando Valley Sun

Harry Belafonte’s singing career started as an intermission filler at a jazz club

“They didn’t need us to be in the movie,” said Grandmaster Melle Mel, who wrote and performed the track “Beat Street Breakdown” for the film, during a lecture in February at California State University, Northridge. “They just wanted us to write the song. Harry is an eloquent guy, so I’m transfixed, just listening to him. I was inspired by his conversation. -- Andscape

Best Things To Do This Weekend In Los Angeles And SoCal: April 28 - 30

'Invocations' Composed and Performed by Serj Tankian CSUN alumnus Serj Tankian is best known as lead singer of System of a Down. He returns to The Soraya on Saturday, April 29 at 8 p.m. for a performance that showcases his new suite of symphonic and cinematic compositions — as well as his more than four-octave vocal range. Joining him on Invocations are the CSUN Symphony Orchestra and the Northridge Singers. While in-person tickets are completely sold out, livestream viewing tickets are available for $19. -- LAist

Wentz CSUN Studio hosts Classic Cole Porter concert

California State University Northridge’s Joshua Wentz gave his students and local artists a chance to shine at the Classic Cole Porter concert held at the Santa Clarita United Methodist Church on April 15. -- Santa Clarita Valley Signal

State of California Funds $2.7 Million for Pioneering Research of Legacy Cannabis Genetics and Culture

The study is being collaboratively led by a multidisciplinary team of researchers, including Domini Corva, Ph.D., principal investigator and assistant professor of sociology and program leader of the cannabis studies major at California State Polytechnic University, Humboldt; Genine Coleman, co-principal investigator and executive director of OC; Rachel F. Giraudo., Ph.D., co-principal investigator and associate professor of anthropology at California State University, Northridge; Todd Holmes, Ph.d., co-principal investigator and historian with the Oral History Center at the Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley; Eleanor Kuntz, Ph.D., co-principal investigator and co-founder of Canndor, a cannabis herbarium and co-founder and CEO of LeafWorks, a genomics and plant science company. -- Cannabis Business Times

L.A. City Reparations Commission Hosts First In-Person Event

A final proposal is expected to be transmitted to City Council and the Mayor by early 2025. California State University Northridge (CSUN) College of Social and Behavioral Sciences was announced as the academic researcher to conduct the study of harms experienced by Black residents in the history of Los Angeles. -- Los Angeles Sentinel

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