Day of the Dead sugar skulls essential to altars
Sugar skulls are incorporated into most Dia de los Muertos altars. While many shops and bakeries sell sugar skulls, the edible jewels are often made at home or at workshops.
Culture
Review: Ocean Campus art gallery--James Groleau
Groleau, a self- taught mezzotint artist from Oakland, and former City College art student, is drawn to dark psychological themes. Two of his exhibitions “Blood Bone Elegy” and “The Absence of Passion,” on display until Oct. 26 at the City College Gallery, express the complex suffering caused by war
REVIEW: New movie is a disturbing experience about loss of identity
Elizabeth Olsen stars as Martha, a young woman who attempts to find her place in a household cult disguised as a family and her struggle to find her own identity, in the the new psychological thriller “Martha Marcy May Marlene.”
QRC to celebrate National Coming Out Day
Along with the resource center, the San Francisco LGBT Community Center will incorporate National Coming Out Day as the kick-off to Economic Empowerment Week. The week-long event will offer financial workshops. Attendance is free and open to the public from Oct. 11-15.
Bay Area flash mob dances where you least suspect it
If a group of dancers suddenly appears on Oct. 8, blasting a Madonna musical medley in public, feel free to join in as they strap on their cone bras and strike a pose.
Review: Erotic film festival brings good vibrations to the Castro
The final night of the 6th Annual Good Vibrations Independent Erotic Film Festival treated attendees to an arousing night of sensual revelry and sex on the big screen at the Castro Theater.
New campus eatery, Latin Quarter, keeps up with SF food trends
A few years ago City College didn’t have the diverse eateries it has today. The students had two choices-- hot dogs or hamburgers. Although good choices, it wasn’t very representative of the many ethnicities attending City College.