For those unfamiliar with Japanese culture, Shodo Girls gives a unique look into the art of calligraphy as we watch a group of high school students enter a calligraphy competition involving music and dance.
Trekking and climbing Nepal’s mountains is some climbers’ dream, but when a group of 100 climbers witness Chinese border agents shooting and killing Tibetan refugees in 2006, their adventure becomes a nightmare. Tibet: Murder in the Snow, is a new documentary based on the experiences of the mountaineers and the Tibetans whose lives were forever altered after being part of this tragedy.
The documentary film “Resilience,” shown at this year’s Pacific Rim Film Festival, presented a touching hour of two families and cultures coalescing across national borders, in spite of the thousands of miles between them.
“Summer Wars” is an animated feature from Mamoru Hosoda, the director of “The Girl Who Leapt Through Time.” It takes place in what appears to be an alternate present, in which everyone is connected via OZ, a digital world that resembles a hyper-evolved Facebook.
Never mind waiting for autumn to actually start– it doesn’t take much for us to begin thinking about cooking stews and other things inappropriate for what Santa Cruz calls cooler weather.
In this week’s edition of The Starving Student, City on a Hill explains how to cook quinoa in a unique way. A wonder-grain from the Incas, quinoa is definitely healthy enough to get away with being fried in a little olive oil.
After a hard match against California Lutheran University, UCSC women’s soccer will be working day after day to make it into the playoffs.
Morgan Mathias shares her coming out story and her continuing journey as a queer individual.
Sincerely interested in people and conversation, Uyenmy Yamamoto opens up about her experiences and how she realized she was a queer woman.
How a simple interaction with her mom led one second-year coming out.