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Tom Petty’s Estate Remembers Jim Ladd, Inspiration for “The Last DJ,” After Sudden Passing
Petty was one to always come to Ladd’s defense. When Ladd had been fired from a DJing job, Petty played the song at Cal State Northridge in defiance. At the time of the firing, Petty also said, “Jim Ladd was fired this week for having an imagination.” -- American Songwriter
‘He lived for the music’: Jim Ladd, ‘The Last DJ’ who inspired Tom Petty song, dies aged 75
In 2011, when Ladd and a number of his colleagues were sacked from KLOS after it was acquired by Cumulus media, Petty paid tribute during an intimate performance with the Heartbreakers at Cal State Northridge. -- Yahoo! News
UCLA men’s basketball vs. Cal State Northridge: What you need to know
The Bruins (5-4), who have lost three of their past four games, will look to extend their home winning streak to 30 games when they face the Matadors (7-3) on Tuesday night -- Los Angeles Daily News
California Is Desperate for Affordable Housing But Can’t Stop Getting in Its Own Way
Housing costs and homelessness have become the top political issue in the state, prompting officials to set ambitious goals to build more housing, faster. Los Angeles is aiming to construct more than 450,000 new homes by 2029, a feat that would require five times as much construction as occurred in the previous decade, according to a May report from researchers at the University of California Los Angeles’ Ziman Center for Real Estate and California State University Northridge. -- The Wall Street Journal
In Los Angeles, a 49-unit apartment complex is taking 17 years to complete, the result of complex laws that exacerbated California's affordable housing crisis
According to a UCLA and CSU-Northridge analysis of building permits from 2010 to 2022, constructing an apartment building in California took an average of four years during that period. -- Business Insider
Governance Reform Advocates Share Final Recommendations for City of L.A.
The Los Angeles Governance Reform Project (LAGRP), a coalition of academic experts from USC, CSUN, UCLA, Pomona College, among others, held a Zoom meeting to discuss their final recommendations for governance reform. Experts from Catalyst California, Common Cause and other organizations joined the professors to discuss their thoughts on the topic as well. -- MyNewsLA
Developing Opportunities: L.A. County, Cal State System and More
The trustees of the California State University system announced Wednesday that they are seeking statements of qualifications (SOQ) from interested and qualified entities capable of doing a design-build to take part in a competitive request for proposals (RFP) process to construct the Matador Success and Inclusion Center (MSIC) at Cal State Northridge. It will be a new campus building housing the Identity Based Resource Centers, the Ethnic Studies Center for Research, Activism, and Community Empowerment, the Community High Impact Programs group, the Matador Achievement Center, and the Athletics Administration offices. The building will be a standalone structure of roughly 40,000 gross square feet. The RFP will follow submission of an SOQ. Maximum acceptance cost is estimated at $50.8 million, with rounding. -- Industry Insider, Government Technology
Travels with Charles
Back in Kyiv, Charles and I head to the Premier Palace, a historic hotel built in 1912 and a favorite of the rich and famous. Charles has wanted to visit for a long time and regales me with its storied past as we settle into the beautifully panelled cigar lounge and light up. We discuss literature and quote poems back and forth, and Charles tells me about the great writers he has known. He does this utterly without pretence—in fact, the stories seem to crop up by accident. He spoke French to Jack Kerouac at parties at his parents’ house, “a nice enough fellow but perhaps a little forlorn.” His father called Kerouac “Jean-Louis.” He also knew Ray Bradbury quite well—when they first met, he asked the writer about Rudyard Kipling. Bradbury told him that when he’d asked the great Anglo-Irish novelist Lord Dunsany who the greatest English writer of the 20th century was, Dunsany told him Kipling—“and I have never found any reason to disagree with that opinion.” Charles also knew Aldous Huxley’s wife, “bright eyes, a halo of white hair, thick Italian accent,” and met Christopher Isherwood at Cal State Northridge. -- The European Conservative
'General Hospital' Actor Jack Axelrod Dies at 93
Axelrod shared his passion for acting by teaching at various universities such as Penn State, Temple University, Cal State Northridge & Bakersfield, and CalArts. Additionally, he served as a guest instructor at the Speiser/Sturges Acting Studio in Los Angeles.-- Newsmax
CSU Northridge vs. San Jose State Women's Basketball Predictions & Picks - December 18
Monday's contest at Matadome has the San Jose State Spartans (4-6) squaring off against the CSU Northridge Matadors (2-6) at 3:00 PM (on December 18). Our computer prediction projects a victory for San Jose State by a score of 66-60, who is slightly favored by our model. -- KCRG