Results tagged “pepperdineuniversity”

This month at LAist, we've been covering breakfast in our Wake Up LA series helping you explore new morning nosh options. On Saturday, there's a one-time breakfast event that we highly encourage you to attend -- one that continues the spirit of giving that exemplifies a man who gave his life for the people of this city. In honor of fallen LAPD SWAT member Randall Simmons, from 7:00 to 11:00 a.m. at the LAPD & LAFD Recruitment Expo, a ten-dollar pancake breakfast will provide direct help to his family and support the recovery of Officer Veenstra, who was injured during the gun battle two weeks ago today.

Solving the age-old problem of "how do I properly get the perfect amount of mud on my balls", 17-year-old Cameron Kruse has gotten the attention of Science Fairs, Major League Baseball, and a local beach-side university. Little known fact: brand new baseballs straight out of the box need to be rubbed with a certain amount of special mud to prevent the balls from slipping out of pitchers' hands. Using a brilliant combo of lasers,...

Today we got an email from a concerned Pepperdine alumn whose words made us think that there just might be trouble in paradise Dear Editor: As an alumnus of Pepperdine University, I am deeply troubled by recent events at the University and the active suppression of free speech on campus. Pepperdine, like all American colleges, should be an “open marketplace for ideas” rather than an agent for indoctrination. Unfortunately, the University continues to practice...

Lucy Lawless @ The Roxy Great Northern, Gray Kid, Foreign Born @ Little Radio George Winston @ Pepperdine University, Smothers Theater Ray Wylie Hubbard, I See Hawks in L.A. @ McCabe's Warner Drive, Itis @ Viper Room Volto @ The Knitting Factory War @ Canyon The Fucking Champs, Earthless, Citay @ Spaceland Girl Talk, Matt & Kim, The Gray Kid @ The Echo Neurosis, Red Sparowes @ El Rey Aztlan Underground, Juan the Mannequin,...

LAist is happy to announce the opening of grunion season--the time of year when these silvery sardine-like fishes come ashore in waves for nighttime spawning runs. The uncannily "scheduled" runs follow the phases of the moon, and you can ogle the spawning frenzy after dark at local beaches.

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LAist's latest contributor, Kevin Kelly, caught a performance of MacHomer on 1/29/2005 at Pepperdine University.

Knowing that the plays of Shakespeare and the hit television show "The Simpsons" are two pieces of superior entertainment that have been running longer than their counterparts, LAist couldn't help but get excited when we heard about the unique entertainment experience called "MacHomer."