Heavy Metal Culture: Clarifying Misconceptions Held By Many Due to Media Portrayal

Year after year, big, metal festivals like Ozzfest, Wacken Open Air, Monster of Rock, and the newly formed Mayhem Festival, bring millions of metal fans together in appreciation of the ever-so-popular genre.But for almost 40 years, the genre has been witness to numerous attacks by the mainstream media and has constantly been stereotyped, dismissed and condemned.

Study Abroad Group Reunites

If you walked into La Nueva Posada around 3:30 in the afternoon on Sunday, you would’ve thought you were in Mexico. The live band, the food, the décor and the atmosphere could’ve made you forget that just outside the door was simply Foothill Boulevard in Pasadena, CA.

WEEKEND: Audrey Yun

Eighteen-year-old Audrey Yun never has a dull moment. She keeps herself busy with friends, school, and work, but somehow finds time in her daily planner for a weekend photo shoot. Yun, a first-year PCC student, is an aspiring design major with hopes of transferring to UCLA in the near future, but as for now, she’s living the moment.