Nurse in the Kitchen | The Case for Plant-Based Eating
In the Emergency Department, I see chronic illness every day. The majority of my patients over 40 years old have either high blood pressure,…
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Pasadena Chalk Festival ‘22 | Building Community One Mural at a Time
Pasadena Chalk Festival ‘22: How a Piece of Chalk is Able to Create Extraordinary Art and Build Community One Mural at a Time! Imagine…
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Show Review | Moon Knight
Have you ever heard of Moon Knight before? In the past he may have been considered a more minor hero when it came to…
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Video Game Review | Life is Strange – True Colors
While video games have increased the number of canon LGBTQ characters that doesn’t mean they always hit the mark. Sometimes games fall into tropes and stereotypes…
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Series | Social Justice Tourism – Take Me Home, Country Roads
This was in May of 2020. The world was only about less than four months into the COVID-19 pandemic.
Even for a family of four with just enough space in our home and a reasonably sized backyard…
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A Poem by Julie Clark | Palm Branches
…But the palm waving
Crowds shouting
Hosanna, quickly turned
To Crucify him
When he did not do
What they thought
He was supposed to do.
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Pasadena, CA | A Tale of Two Runners, 2022
The year was 1859 and Charles Dickens was writing about the French Revolution…
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times,” wrote Charles Dickens at the beginning of his seminal book A Tale of Two Cities.
Documentary Review | The Reason I Jump
“What do you know about autism?” If someone asked me this question, I would have to answer honestly with, “Not much.” I know that…
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Documentary Review | Tony Hawk: Until the Wheels Fall Off
…what many might not know is that before he became the skateboard legend he is today, he was a skinny kid whose father was too involved in the sport and whose tricks weren’t considered cool enough…
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Video Game Review | Abzu
Have you ever been entranced by the beauty of the wildlife and plant life that lives underwater? Have you ever wondered what mysteries lay…
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Film Review | Winter on Fire: Ukraine’s Fight for Democracy
Occasionally there are moments in life when we are jarred out of the complacent routines of our lives and asked existential questions about who we are, what we value and who we care for. This is one of those moments…
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Exhibit Review | “Wake Me When I’m Free” – 2pacalypse
“Wake me Up when I am Free” exhibit is a room that has huge screens of falling rose petals and smells like a field of Roses. Jeremy Hodges & Nwaka Onwusa did an amazing job of curating an exhibit that highlighted Tupac’s life…
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