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Rockhaven: California’s Feminist Sanitarium, a photo essay

Rockhaven: California’s Feminist Sanitarium, a photo essay

The history of California is fraught with unsaid tragedies. The raven, glamorous mythology of Old Hollywood is enticing, but it overshadows the consequences and perils of such a fame-oriented society. In Montrose, deep in the La Crescenta Valley, there is a place...

Las Fotos Project: Empowering young women through photography

Las Fotos Project: Empowering young women through photography

The En Visión: Picturing the Self exhibition opened at the Museum of Latin American Art in Long Beach on June 11. Described as a collaborative exhibition, En Visión features works from MOLAA’s Permanent Collection as well as ones from the Las Fotos Project, a...

What it’s like teaching at your former school

What it’s like teaching at your former school

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Who Inspires You?

Who Inspires You?

“There never was a great soul that did not have some divine inspiration” – Marcus Cierco We all have a person who inspires us. A person who strives us for greatness. A person who supports our aspirations. A person who is there for support and molds us into a fighter....

Mobile Street Photography

Capturing emotion into photography without losing the essence of the story is a difficult task to accomplish but Sion Fullana, a mobile street photographer, manages to do that perfectly by remaining invisible to his subjects. Fullana wanders the streets of New York...

Camua captures student life on film

Camua captures student life on film

Every day teenagers scroll through dozens of photos, rarely taking pause among the countless selfies and sunsets. However, some photos manage to transform a mindless scrolling into a deeper reflection. Junior Raphael Camua’s photography has taken social media by storm...

Team Heideman: Keep Calm and Fight On

In 2011, beloved Mira Costa English teacher John Heideman was diagnosed with prostate cancer. Recently, his conditions have worsened, as he is now fighting metastatic cancer of the bones and tumors in his liver. After the...

Aspiring filmmaker Max Tullio went from paint to production

In the 7th grade, he decided that he wanted to be a filmmaker. Like most jovial hobbies, his family and acquaintances thought it would pass over as a phase; it never did. Now, after having been named a California States Arts Scholar for Film and the Mira Costa High...