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In his seventh release under his band, Bright Eyes, Conor Oberst seems to talk about every major religion. The People’s Key feels like it leaves the listener overwhelmed. From the opening song, “Firewall,” we get a profound ramble from Danny Brewer, a Texan friend of Oberst, about how Hitler comes to life from reptiles in …

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The film, “Blue Valentine,” discusses the dichotomy common to many relationships. Two individuals, one who is “blue” and one who is a “valentine,” play in conflict. Ryan Gosling’s character, Dean, marries Michelle Williams’s character, Cindy, after he finds out she is pregnant. It is suggested the child isn’t his, but he chooses to marry her …

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Former Fullerton College Artist in Residence James Milford Zornes died last week from complications of congestive heart failure. He was 100 years old. “If you work honestly and work for yourself with true integrity, you can serve as a way of thinking and creating,” Zornes said in a March 1999 article for The Hornet. “When …

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Robbie Miller is a mixed-media artist and Fullerton College art instructor who says he is obsessed with the factious world, especially “the clean, plastic, and crisp” Orange County. “My favorite thing about Orange County is how it looks like a golf course,” said Miller. “Everything is in its perfect place.” Miller currently resides in Huntington …

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The John Lennon Educational Bus pulled into the lot between the 200 and 1000 buildings to bring music technology to Orange County. It was Fullerton College’s first time recording in the five million dollar mobile studio: seven Fullerton music students, past and present, as well as faculty advisor Bruce Babad, wrote, recorded, and produced an …

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Fullerton College Fine Arts professor Megan Geckler’s sculptures are, without a doubt, stunning. “Set a Course for Wayward Schemes,” named after a lyric by indie-pop stars Belle and Sebastian, is her first piece this year, installed at a busy corner in downtown Los Angeles. Created wholly out of bright multi-colored flagging tape used by construction …

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What price would you put on musical education? Fullerton College recently put $220,000 worth of grant money towards the most sophisticated and finely tuned pianos in the world, in an attempt to draw the best up-and-coming musicians to the campus. During the summer of 2007-2008, Fullerton College’s Fine Arts Music Department was awarded the Vocational …

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Wendy Maruyama is a contemporary artist and professor at San Diego State University. Her current exhibit in the FC Art Gallery is smashing the traditional views of Japanese ancestry and fusing them with her life in America. Maruyama conveys her ideas through bold images of sex, freedom and commercialism. Her Mid Career Exhibition, consisting of …

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