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William Okuwah Garrett Dies: ‘Hollywood Shuffle’ Editor & Music Video Director Was 73
As the millennium turned, Garrett left the industry for a new calling. He earned his masters in special education at Cal State Northridge and, with a group of fellow teachers, started a pilot high school called Leadership in Entertainment and Media Arts (LEMA) in L.A.’s Lincoln Heights neighborhood. Working with students who appreciated his knowledge, guidance, patience, kindness, respect and love, he often said it was his “most fulfilling work.” -- Deadline Hollywood
Holiday happenings in 2022 around Los Angeles County
London Handel Players – A Baroque Christmas: 7 p.m. Dec. 18. Tickets $76. The Soraya at CSUN, 18111 Nordhoff St., Northridge. 818-677-3000. www.thesoraya.org -- Los Angeles Daily News
The enduring legacy of Joe Cardella’s “Communication for the Creative Mind”
Robert Chianese, longtime collaborator and former California State University Northridge English professor, became the founding president of the ARTLIFE Foundation, formed to preserve Cardella’s legacy following Cardella’s passing in 2018 at age 72. Chianese said Cardella lived by his motto. -- VC Reporter
Angels Sign Justin Garza; Kenny Rosenberg Designated For Assingment
The Rays drafted Rosenberg in the eighth round of the 2016 MLB Draft out of California State University, Northridge (CSUN), a school that has not produced many Major League players, but was the college playing grounds of former Angels infielder Adam Kennedy, current Minnesota Twins pitcher Joe Ryan, Oakland Athletics prospect Denzel Clarke and St. Louis Cardinals farmhand Justin Toerner. -- Yardbarker
Dinara Hires General Counsel and Head of Compliance
Guerra has a bachelor's degree in business management from California State University of Northridge. -- spoke
Gil Cedillo defends decision not to resign, decrying ‘cancel culture at its worst’
Boris Ricks, CSUN associate professor of political science, said the fact that Cedillo failed to attend City Council meetings for almost two months was problematic. -- Los Angeles Daily News
Foul @#$%ing Language
Ahmed Ali Akbar: Dr. Kenneth Luna is a linguist at California State University Northridge, where he teaches a class on the linguistics of swearing called Forbidden Language. When you look at a language’s swear words, it’s all about what a culture finds taboo. Taboos are the forbidden things in our society. The first category we’re going to talk about are words that we find gross or uncomfortable.
Kenneth Luna: So there’s certain themes that seem to reoccur cross-linguistically and, you know, across culturally. So for example, things that have to do with excrement, orifices in the body, bodily fluids, things related to illnesses and pestilence, things to related to genitals, sexual intercourse. -- Crooked Media
Metro Board adopts plan for upgraded bus service in the northern San Fernando Valley
400 new bus shelters at busiest stops; Improved shelters, real-time travel information, and seating at five stops - including CSUN; -- Urbanize LA
Best Of 2022: At KCRW’s Morning Becomes Eclectic, it’s Novena Carmel and Anthony Valadez’s Mix And Flow
As for Anthony Valadez, he is very much a child of the 818 (the area code of the San Fernando Valley). Valadez, by his own account, was always all about the music. By his senior year in high school, he was already working at local college radio station KVCM. Then, when he attended Cal State Northridge, their public radio station KCSN, which had gone all classical (after being all country and before that jazz and classical) operated independently. Valadez felt that students should have shows on the station, so he lobbied the station manager; and when that failed, he appealed to the college’s Dean – end result: Valadez got his own show – Mondays from midnight to 2 AM, playing a mix of music. “That was fun… It was like a burrito of different favors, different flavors, different ingredients.” -- Forbes
Local teachers training in ethnic studies for future required classes for students
"I've been doing this for many years. I can see firsthand what ethnic studies mean to students. Their heart goes off, their eyes light up, they walk out more energetic because they finally feel someone talks about them and their experience," said Professor at Cal-State Northridge Theresa Montano. -- CBS 8