California college DEI

Education

Some faculty say it's time to double down

Adolfo Guzman-Lopez is an arts and general assignment reporter on LAist's Explore LA team.

Published February 24, 2025 5:00 AM

A Black student stands in an open doorway facing a classroom with their back turned. They are wearing a light grey sweatshirt and an earthy green backpack, and they have long, dark braided hair. The open door is covered in posters that say things like "Black Space" and "You will not be erased." A couple of students are sitting in office chairs in the classroom. A water bottle refill along with a round table are in the room next to the classroom, on the other side of the open door.

The Black Academic Excellence Center at Cal Poly in San Luis Obispo.

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Some Southern California university employees who support student diversity programs want a stronger stand from campus leaders against attacks by the Trump administration.

Why now: A Feb. 14 "Dear Colleague" letter from new leaders at the U.S. Department of Education sent shockwaves through K-12 and higher education institutions. The department gave schools until the end of February to stop using race to admit students or for any other consideration, including any kind of targeted programs, including graduation services or dormitories.

Confusion on campus: Some Southern California college educators are waiting for leaders of their campuses to give them clear direction as to whether diversity programs and efforts will be curtailed or shut down — or whether the institutions will resist the Trump administration’s directions in court.

Why it matters: Diversity programs such as racial climate surveys, and cultural centers that target populations of students, help students graduate, their supporters say.

A letter earlier this month from new U.S. Department of Education leaders sent shockwaves through K-12 and higher education institutions. In a Feb. 14 "Dear Colleague" memo, the department directed schools to stop using race to admit students or for any other consideration, including scholarships, housing, and "all other aspects of student, academic, and campus life."

The department said it would enforce compliance at the end of February and punish institutions by withholding federal funding.

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The Trump administration wants colleges to end DEI programs. But what do those programs do?

In the face of uncertainty, some Southern California college educators are waiting for leaders of their campuses to give them clear direction as to whether diversity programs and efforts will be curtailed or shut down — or whether the institutions will resist the Trump administration’s directions in court.

“There are a group of us across institutions, especially in California, who are saying it's time to actually double down on doing diversity, equity and inclusion work,” said Liane Hypolite, a professor of educational leadership at Cal Poly Pomona. “This isn't the time to just comply … out of fear."

Providing data on how students feel

The letter paints diversity programs in a stark light.

“These institutions’ embrace of pervasive and repugnant race-based preferences and other forms of racial discrimination have emanated throughout every facet of academia” and led to discrimination, including of white and Asian students, the department said.

Diversity programs, supporters say, help the targeted students and the population at large.

The USC Race and Equity Center, for example, offers campus climate surveys, said executive director Jessica T. DeCuir-Gunby.

Those surveys can be taken by students or employees to “assess what's going on, see how everybody's feeling," she said. "And then based upon that, we'll, you know, write up a summary and give it to the leadership and let them know, this is what's going on in your institution.”

The goal is to improve inclusion of people of different races, ethnicities, religious, sex, and gender in schools and the workplace.

Rows of students inside an auditorium wear graduation attire.

“Everyone in academia is taking this letter very seriously,” DeCuir-Gunby said. “We are looking to leadership to help us to better understand their interpretations of the letter.”

USC spokesperson Lauren Bartlett said the university is studying the letter.

Spaces for culturally specific activities

The Department of Education letter says “many American schools and universities even encourage segregation by race at graduation ceremonies and in dormitories and other facilities.” It’s calling for those policies to stop.

Campus employees say cultural centers fall within that claim. Many colleges and universities have taken steps to create and fund cultural centers based on student groups’ race, ethnicity, sex, or gender.

[Cultural centers] end up being these spaces where students can find refuge that they often cannot find on the rest of their college campus.

— Liane Hypolite, Cal Poly Pomona professor

“[Cultural centers] end up being these spaces where students can find refuge that they often cannot find on the rest of their college campus,” said Hypolite of Cal Poly Pomona. “They are places where students get connected to services. They actually welcome in, for example, culturally relevant therapists that might work in the counseling center, but students don't feel comfortable going there."

That helps students' social and emotional well-being, she said, which raises the likelihood that they’ll stay enrolled in college and earn their degrees.

“I just haven't seen that kind of really solid communication saying, essentially, ‘We stand with our most marginalized students right now,’ which is what our students need to hear,” Hypolite said.

A man in a tuxedo and glasses holds a microphone in one hand and gestures to the audience with the other.

CSU Chancellor Mildred García did email CSU employees about a week before the U.S. Department of Education letter that the Trump administration’s executive orders would not change the school's commitment to students.

“I write to assure you that, in this moment, the CSU will do what all great institutions — and great people — do in times of uncertainty and change. We will turn to and uphold our core values. We will honor our purpose. We will fulfill our mission,” García wrote.

The California Community College chancellor’s office did not specify how it will respond to President Trump’s directives.

“We are encouraging college leaders to continue their critical work in alignment with state and federal laws, regulations, and our shared goal of expanding educational opportunities, strengthening student pathways, and supporting workforce development to meet California’s economic needs,” said Melissa Villarin, a spokesperson for the California Community Colleges chancellor's office.

A way to meet the federal government’s own requirements

Biola University in Southeast L.A. County is a religious school; its mission is to offer a “biblically centered education, scholarship and service — equipping men and women in mind and character to impact the world for the Lord Jesus Christ.”

How will top university leaders respond?

The California Department of Education and the State Board of Education issued a joint statement Friday saying that the law hasn't yet actually changed: "Executive orders and memos cannot modify or override statutory requirements or regulations or unilaterally impose new terms on existing agreements."

But they did suggest that colleges and universities "consult legal counsel regarding the impact of any potential federal actions."

Leaders of the University of California and California State University systems have not announced whether they will comply with or challenge the Trump administration directives. Together, those universities enroll more than 750,000 students.

“As this type of action is unprecedented, we are consulting with the California Attorney General and higher education partners across the country to better understand the statewide impact of this letter,” said CSU spokesperson Amy Bentley-Smith in an email.

In some instances, California State University’s top administrators have followed policy changes carried out by University of California leaders.

Though UC President Michael Drake said in a video message Thursday that the university's mission and values have not changed, UC leaders have not specified how they will respond to the Trump administration's directives.

“The Dear Colleague letter issued by the Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights (OCR) provides guidance on the Department's interpretation of existing anti-discrimination laws and does not name any specific institution,” said UC spokesperson Omar Rodriguez.

“It indicates how OCR intends to enforce these legal requirements,” he said via email. He also noted that state law already restricts the use of race in college settings. “Given the UC’s compliance with Prop 209, we do not use race-based preferences in our practices.”

The stakes are high. How colleges and universities react to this order could shape generations to come.

“There's no other entity that is more influential in shaping American society and arguably the global society than the [U.S.] college and university,” said Eddie R. Cole, who researches the history of higher education at UCLA. “Nobody knows what to do and no one wants to do something preemptive."

Here's the full letter from the U.S. Department of Education

Arts & Entertainment

Red carpet standouts

We have some of the best looks from the Oscars

By Meredith Nierman | NPR

Published March 16, 2026 7:13 AM

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The Academy Awards were last night in Hollywood, hosted by Conan O'Brien. The stars walked the red carpet in a wide range of styles.

Keep reading... to check out the gowns, suits and jewels chosen by stars.

Michael B. Jordan stands on red carpet wearing black suit with silver chain and watch, posing in front of white 'Oscars' backdrop.

Amy Madigan wears a black and gold sequined jacket and black pants stands on the red carpet in front of a white 'Oscars' backdrop.

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Wunmi Mosaku wears a long, teal, sequined gown poses with hands on hips on the red carpet at the Oscars.

Ethan Hawke wears a black tuxedo coat with satin lapels and points with both hands on the red carpet at the Oscars.

Chloé Zhao wears a dramatic black gown with layered ruffles and a sheer veil covering her face, standing on the red carpet at the Oscars.

The Academy Awards were Sunday night in Hollywood, hosted by Conan O'Brien.

One Battle After Another took home best picture, in addition to awards for Paul Thomas Anderson for best director and best adapted screenplay. Sinners star Michael B. Jordan won best actor, and Hamnet's Jessie Buckley won best actress.

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A celebrated director gets his Oscar.

Paul Thomas Anderson won best director for One Battle After Another after three previous nominations for There Will Be Blood, Phantom Thread and Licorice Pizza. Anderson had already won several major Oscar precursor awards this year, including top directing prizes at the BAFTAs and from the Directors Guild of America, so he was the odds-on favorite. The other nominees in the category were relative newcomers: Ryan Coogler, Josh Safdie and Joachim Trier were all first-time directing nominees; Chloé Zhao was nominated (and won) for Nomadland at the ceremony in 2021.

Michael B. Jordan won a rare acting award for a genre movie.

A Black man with facial hair holds an Oscar aloft. He's in an all black suit with a high collar.

Sinners is a drama, but it's also very much a genre film. It's horror. It's vampires. Those are not the kinds of films that most often win Oscars for actors. But Jordan, with his first nomination, won over performers from much more traditionally awards-friendly films. Three of those actors (Leonardo DiCaprio, Timothée Chalamet and Ethan Hawke) already had multiple acting nominations before this year.

The last actor to win for a genre film might have been Joaquin Phoenix for Joker, since that was technically a comic-book movie, but that one did away with most of its genre trappings and pressed itself into a dramatic mold, which Sinners emphatically does not. Before that, while definitions of genre aren't bright lines, you might have to go all the way back to ... Anthony Hopkins in The Silence of the Lambs, if you consider that horror? Maybe even further? At any rate, it's a great win for an actor who has been beloved at least since The Wire almost 25 years ago, who's been doing rich and varied work ever since. His victory is also a win for his lengthy and fruitful collaboration with Ryan Coogler in Sinners, but also in Fruitvale Station, Creed and Black Panther.

Amy Madigan, the award-winning straight-up monster.

A white woman with light hair wears sun glasses

(We don't mean Amy Madigan the person, of course.) Madigan won best supporting actress for her deeply unsettling and entirely singular performance as Aunt Gladys in Weapons, which is even more fully a horror movie than Sinners. While the nominated cast members from Sinners — Jordan, Delroy Lindo and Wunmi Mosaku — play regular people who are swept into an unreal situation, Madigan is playing, essentially, the boogeyman (boogeywoman?). It's thrilling to see the Academy recognize a performance that is as weird and funny and scary as just the last few minutes of what Madigan does in Zach Cregger's terrifying story of a town that sees a whole classroom full of its children disappear.

The casting Oscar makes its debut.

A white woman holds an Oscar in both hands.

This was the first year that there was an Oscar for casting, which is very much overdue — there have been casting Emmys for ages. It was easy to argue for any of the nominated casting directors. Marty Supreme and The Secret Agent both deploy nontraditional actors in some roles, Sinners and One Battle both use a wide variety of well-known and well-regarded stars in interesting ways, and Hamnet places most of the weight of an enormously heavy story on the shoulders of just a couple of performers, including best actress winner Jessie Buckley.

Cassandra Kulukundis, who won for One Battle After Another, not only has been working with Paul Thomas Anderson for ages, but she also worked on casting (get this) for both The Brutalist and Harold & Kumar Go To White Castle. But all the nominees have tremendous resumes. Francine Maisler, who was nominated for Sinners, was the credited casting director for Arrival, Creed, Baby Driver, Widows, and Challengers! Honestly, the biggest problem in the category was that everybody couldn't win.

A first in the cinematography category.

A Black woman speaks on stage as two women nearby applaud.

Autumn Durald Arkapaw, who won best cinematography for her work on Sinners, was only the fourth woman, and the first woman of color, to be nominated in the category. She becomes the first woman to win. Sinners is a sumptuously, inventively, beautifully shot film, and the cinematography is one of the core crafts that makes it so effective.
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Education

LA's community colleges

A former undocumented immigrant sits at the helm

Julia Barajas explores how college students achieve their goals, whether they’re fresh out of high school, pursuing graduate work or looking to join the labor force through alternative pathways.

Published March 16, 2026 5:01 AM

A man with medium skin tone and short dark hair sits behind a wooden desk in a corner office, looking out at a distance. He is wearing a white collared shirt, a black tie, and a powder blue suit jacket.

Dr. Alberto Román, chancellor of the L.A. Community College District, in his downtown L.A. office.

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Last spring, Dr. Alberto Román was appointed chancellor of the L.A. Community College District. Since then, he's had to lead LACCD's response to a federal government that's taken an aggressive stance toward undocumented immigrants, many of whom are enrolled in community colleges.

How immigration detentions are affecting students: According to Román, some students have become the head of their households overnight, after having their parents detained and deported. Alouette Cervantes-Salazar, who runs East L.A. College’s Dream Resource Center, also said “quite a bit” of students have moved to take coursework online.

Support for students in mixed-status families: The district’s Dream Resource Centers are hustling to provide legal support, temporary housing options, additional mental health services and food vouchers for affected students.

When Alberto Román was a boy growing up in the Mexican state of Durango, his father was often far from home. Most times, he’d be gone for months.

Román’s father, Javier, had a third-grade education. And when work was scarce in Mexico, he’d venture north to the United Sates and take whatever job he could find.

Javier washed cars. He worked in factories. He picked crops. He built houses.

“He was a guy you would find at Home Depot,” Román told LAist. “He did whatever it took to put food on the table and provide [his family] with shelter.”

Román missed his father terribly, and he relished the time alone with him. When his father would return to Mexico, they'd hike to a majestic statue of the revolutionary Pancho Villa, where Román and his father could also look out at their city.

Román did not know it then but, soon, that view would become a memory. When he was eight, his father returned; but, this time, Javier took his son, his daughter, and his wife with him back to the U.S. The family settled in Rialto, in California's Inland Empire. Suddenly, Román had a new home and new challenges to contend with.

A family of four people with medium skin tone and dark hair — including a mother, a father, a small boy, and a little girl—pose for a photograph outside of a brick dwelling. The mother and daughter, both clad in long skirts, smile. The father and son are clad in pants and collared shirts.

The move to Rialto unfurled a series of labels and experiences. Román became undocumented; an “English language learner”; a teenage father; a parenting student. With time, he became a naturalized U.S. citizen and, then, a first-generation college graduate who would one day earn a doctorate.

Today, Román serves as chancellor of the Los Angeles Community College District, which includes nine campuses and more than 200,000 students.

A lot of these students are parents like he was, Román said, and the vast majority of them have to work to help put themselves through school.

And many of them are also immigrants.

Leading LACCD's response to immigration policy

Román was appointed chancellor last May. Soon after, the Trump administration unleashed its militarized mass deportation effort, which included raids and a show of force throughout L.A. County.

One of the chancellor’s responsibilities is managing LACCD’s response to the Trump administration.

Undocumented college students in the U.S. are racially and ethnically diverse. California has an estimated 100,000 undocumented students, who make up a small percentage of the overall higher ed population. The majority of those undocumented students are enrolled in community colleges.

In conversation with LAist, Román referred to the ongoing raids and immigration detentions as “inhumane.” He also described the experience of a student whose father didn’t come home one night. After being detained by immigration agents, Román said, the student’s family “didn't know where he was for two months.”

The student was 20 years old when her father was taken. Overnight, she became the head of her household. Now, on top of fulfilling her responsibilities at school, she has to figure out how to keep herself and her younger siblings housed and fed.

To support students in mixed-status families, the district’s Dream Resource Centers provide them with legal support, temporary housing options, additional mental health services and food vouchers.

Alouette Cervantes-Salazar coordinates East Los Angeles College’s Dream Resource Center, which provides support and services for undocumented students; DACA and TPS recipients; and students in mixed-status families.

According to Cervantes-Salazar, the Trump administration’s deportation effort has transformed campus life. When the raids began last summer, she said, “quite a bit” of students who used to take classes in person moved to complete the semester online.

For some, Cervantes-Salazar added, online coursework has become preferable because it enables students to better juggle school and work. For others, the fear of getting to and from campus amid roving immigration patrols has become a decisive factor.

Whether the Dream Resource Centers' support will be enough to meet student needs remains to be seen, but Román takes their stories to heart.

“These are the stories of our community,” he said. “These are the stories of our students. These are the stories of their parents. And they are our stories, because they come to us for an education.”

From 'English language learner' to college graduate

Román’s story in the U.S. began in the 1980s. After moving to California, it took Román about two years to learn enough English to communicate with his classmates. Until then, his time in school was lonely.

Back then, dual language immersion programs — an educational model that teaches students in English and another language (such as Spanish or Mandarin) to achieve biliteracy — were rare in the U.S. At Román’s elementary school, he said, they were nonexistent.

To help him learn English, Román’s educators placed him in a separate room for about three hours a day. He was given a stack of books. His job was to put on headphones, listen to audio recordings of the texts and do his best to follow along.

When Román tried speaking English, some students made fun of his accent. A bilingual child who struggled with Spanish was tasked with serving as his interpreter.

Román said he cried to his parents. “I'm not happy here,” he told them. "Let's go back.”

His parents made it clear that returning to Mexico was not an option. They’d been poor and had limited schooling, and they wanted something different for their children. Though neither of Román’s parents got to finish high school, he said, they were determined to send their children to college.

Román’s older sister graduated at the top of her class and went on to UCLA. Román aimed to follow in her footsteps.

But, when he was a high school senior, Román learned his girlfriend was pregnant. He was 17, and he wasn’t sure how fatherhood would square with pursuing higher education.

When Román told his parents there was a baby on the way, they remained steadfast. "Now you have all the more reason to go to college," his father told him. That fall, Román enrolled at UC Riverside.

To help provide for his son, Román got a job at Payless ShoeSource, where he worked up to 40 hours a week. When possible, Román stacked his classes on Tuesdays and Thursdays, to keep the rest of the week open for work.

“It was tough,” Román said. “I was getting home at 10, 10:30 at night, trying to read, trying to do essays, trying to be a father.”

“In moments of weakness,” he added, he contemplated quitting school. But, like his parents, Román wanted a better life for his son.

A young man with medium skin tone, short dark hair and a light mustache holds a baby over his shoulders. The father and son are in the driveway of a sun-bathed home.

Román graduated with a bachelor’s degree in political science in 1999. When he crossed the stage at his commencement ceremony, his child, his parents and his sister beamed from the audience.

Today, Román connects his lived experience to that of students at the district, 70% of whom study part-time. “That’s because they're working, because they have families,” he said.

Last spring, Román watched thousands of new graduates embrace their loved ones after receiving their diplomas at a commencement ceremony at the Greek Theatre.

“When I see my students on stage waving their degrees — despite all the challenges they face — that award is so much more meaningful,” he said. “I know what they went through.”

Best Things To Do

Weekly events

St. Patrick’s Day, a punk novel reading and more

Laura Hertzfeld

Published March 16, 2026 5:00 AM

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In this edition:

Plus, see world-famous actors perform stories about the ocean, listen to French synth-pop, check out photos from the border and more of the best things to do this week.

Highlights:

Show Timoth é e Chalamet who’s boss and go to the ballet. We have a great dance community in L.A., and this special performance from American Contemporary Ballet of two classic George Balanchine pieces displays the extraordinary talent required for ballet and the art form's lasting impact.
Actors and musicians take to the Saban stage to present stories and songs from the sea in The Ocean: Our Liquid Universe. This one kicks off with Sharon Stone and Lily Tomlin, and features performances from Dave Bayley of Glass Animals, Bruce Vilanch, Bellamy Young (Scandal) and many more sharing moving works about the importance of our oceans, just ahead of L.A. Climate Week. Plus, LAist readers can use the code OCEANLOVER for 10% off VIP tickets.
Did you know there’s donation-based yoga, outside among the friendly spirits of Hollywood Forever Cemetery, several times a week? Start your day off with Kundalini, Vinyasa flow or meditation with some of L.A.’s top teachers. Check the schedule and bring your mat, towel, water and, of course, sunscreen.
Back in 2017, I took a road trip to Tecate, Mexico to see JR’s enormous installation of a towering image of a child peering over the Mexican border across to the same, dusty southern California landscape on the other side. It was a powerful message about humanity, immigration, and social justice. He brings that photo and many more to a new solo show, JR: Horizons, on view now at Perrotin.

Eid Mubarak to all those celebrating the end of Ramadan this week! If doughnuts are part of your tradition, find out why, as LAist’s Yusra Farzan digs into the history of this Eid specialty.

Licorice Pizza has your music picks; on Monday, you can celebrate the best in pop at the 2026 iHeartRadio Music Awards at the Dolby Theatre, while on Tuesday, R&B singer Son Little plays the Troubadour. Tuesday and Wednesday, New Orleans songstress Madeleine Peyroux presents WE ARE AMERICA: Songs That Give Us Hope at the Blue Note. Also on Wednesday, shoegaze stars Nothing are at the Belasco, and a whole bunch of bold-faced names will be at “Toby Gad & Friends” at the Hotel Café. On Thursday, hip-hop legend Talib Kweli plays the Blue Note, Australian dance artist 1tbsp plays the Fonda, Irish indie-pop duo 49th & Main play the El Rey Theatre and Canadian folksters The Barr Brothers play their first of two nights at the Troubadour with support from Benjamin Lazar Davis.

Elsewhere on LAist, you can check out the history of restaurant menus in Koreatown, meet the local veterans performing Shakespeare or grab a ticket for our dance class with Alvin Ailey Dance Theater on March 24 — no experience required!

Events

JR: Horizons

Through Saturday, April 25
Perrotin
5040 W. Pico Blvd., Mid-City
COST: FREE; MORE INFO

An aerial shot of an art piece depicting a large image of a child looking over a border fence.

Back in 2017, I took a road trip to Tecate, Mexico to see French photo artist JR’s enormous installation — a towering image of a child peering over the Mexican border across to the same, dusty Southern California landscape on the other side. It was a powerful message about humanity, immigration and social justice. He brings that photo and many more to a new solo show, Horizons, on view now at Perrotin.

WORDTheatre's The Ocean: Our Liquid Universe

Thursday, March 19, 7:30 p.m.
Saban Theatre
8440 Wilshire Blvd., Beverly Hills
COST: FROM $30; MORE INFO

A poster that reads "The Ocean Our Liquid Universe" above an assortment of actors.

If you haven’t been to a WORDTheatre event, you’re in for a treat, as actors and musicians take to the Saban stage to present stories and songs from the sea. Producer Cedering Fox pairs performers with stories that speak to them, and brings short pieces to life in unique ways. This one kicks off with Sharon Stone and Lily Tomlin, and features performances from Dave Bayley of Glass Animals, Bruce Vilanch, Bellamy Young (Scandal) and many more who will share moving works about the importance of our oceans ahead of L.A. Climate Week. Plus, Best Things to Do readers can use the code LAist for 15% off all tickets.

Yoga at Hollywood Forever Cemetery

Ongoing
6000 Santa Monica Blvd., Hollywood
COST: DONATION; MORE INFO

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Did you know there’s donation-based yoga, outside among the friendly spirits of Hollywood Forever Cemetery, several times a week? Start your day off with Kundalini, Vinyasa flow, or meditation with some of L.A.’s top teachers. Check the schedule and bring your mat, towel, water and, of course, sunscreen.

Richard Hell

Thursday, March 19, 7 p.m.
Beyond Baroque
681 Venice Blvd., Venice
COST: FREE, SOLD OUT BUT MAY BE AVAILABLE ONSITE DAY-OF; MORE INFO

Punk icon Richard Hell heads to (where else) Venice to read from his novel, Godlike. A story about love between two young poets — a 27-year-old man and a teenage boy — is “based on Arthur Rimbaud and Paul Verlaine’s notorious affair, but set in the epochal downtown poetry scene of filthy 1970s New York.” Take yourself back to a grittier (and simpler) time. The event is sold out, but tickets may be available in person on the day of the reading.

Vendredi Sur Mer

Wednesday, March 18, 8 p.m.
The Roxy
9009 W. Sunset Blvd., West Hollywood
COST: $35.25; MORE INFO

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I’ve been using French music and ChatGPT to practice my French language skills lately, so I’m pretty into Swiss songstress Vendredi Sur Mer. She brings her dreamy French synth-pop that evokes time in the Swiss Alps to the Roxy; her latest album, Malabar Princess, is out now.

St. Patrick’s Day Parking Lot Party

Tuesday, March 17, 12 p.m. to 10 p.m.
Cat & Fiddle
742 Highland Ave., West Hollywood
COST: FREE, DRINK AND FOOD SPECIALS; MORE INFO

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Corned beef and cabbage, Guinness, whiskey specials and a burlesque show are all on tap at the annual St. Patrick’s Day party at the Cat & Fiddle pub. Raise a glass and say sláinte to another year of Irish luck.

ACB presents Blanchine: Twin Masterpieces

Through Friday, March 27
Bank of America Plaza
333 S. Hope Street, Downtown L.A.
COST: STARTING AT $65; MORE INFO

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Show Timothée Chalamet who’s boss and go to the ballet. We have a great dance community in L.A., and this special performance from American Contemporary Ballet of two classic George Balanchine pieces — La Source (presented for the first time in Los Angeles in more than 40 years) and Concerto Barocco — displays the extraordinary talent required for ballet and the art form's lasting impact.

It's our spring member drive!

The Brief

Providing data on how students feel

Spaces for culturally specific activities

A way to meet the federal government’s own requirements

Further Reading

How will top university leaders respond?

Here's the full letter from the U.S. Department of Education

A celebrated director gets his Oscar.

Michael B. Jordan won a rare acting award for a genre movie.

Amy Madigan, the award-winning straight-up monster.

The casting Oscar makes its debut.

A first in the cinematography category.

Leading LACCD's response to immigration policy

From 'English language learner' to college graduate