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Spring 2012: Vol.5, No. 1

The Insider: Spring 2012: Vol.5, No. 1

Glendale’s student magazine enters its fifth year with a plethora of stories. Community: Inside the archives at the public library and memorializing a fallen police officer. Challenges: Women recover from domestic violence at the Y.W.C.A. and a personal account of living with, and beating,…

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The basis of our governments being the opinion of the people, the very first object should be to keep that right; and were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter. 

– Thomas Jefferson, 1787

People

Victoria Burrows: Pet Placement Superstar

At around 8 a.m. every Sunday, Victoria Burrows arrives at a US Bank parking lot on the corner of Sunset Boulevard and [Read More]

Jonathan Erland: A life in Special Effects

February is a busy time for the film industry, culminating in the Academy Awards at the end of the month. Although [Read More]

Karine Armen: Keeping her mother’s spirit alive through positivity

Karine Armen has been an avid photographer and world traveler, [Read More]

Double rainbow over the San Gabriel Building. Photo by Bertha Cardozo.

Campus

Something for everyone…

Welcome to the 5th issue of the Insider! Glendale Community College’s campus magazine is staffed by the students of the Journalism 107 class, feature writing for magazines. [Read More]

Challenges

Eating Clean: Tips for a Healthier Lifestyle

Many people are trying to become healthier in a world dominated by convenience, fast food [Read More]

Interstitial Cystitis: a personal quest for a cure

9:30 p.m.: go to bed. 9:50p.m.: get up and go to the bathroom. 10:22p.m.: get up and go [Read More]

Silent Cries: Recovering From Domestic Violence at the YWCA

Think back to a time when you felt powerless.  That fight in grade school or that [Read More]

Community

Out and About: The Verdugo Curse

More than $2 billion dollars a year are spent on psychics in America, according to Money Market financial and stock reports. From romance advice, medical “healings” and [Read More]

Opinion

Personal Account: Cosmetic Surgery Changed My Life

Girls all around the world grow up playing with Barbies… The image of the perfect [Read More]

THE TERROR ENDED AND GOD SMILED: My spiritual experience through a terrorist attack

“Please Mommy, come back. Don’t go.” “Mom is in the corner rocking back and forth [Read More]

Personal Account: I Dropped Out of High School

Tick, tock, tick, tock. Every minute of every day that I spent in high school passed [Read More]

Arts and Letters

Café Bravo…begs for an Encore

Café Bravo…begs for an Encore

Kebab is to Glendale, what tacos must be to East L.A. If you’ve grown up in the city, like I have, you know this. In Glendale, you can have the best kebab you’ve ever had in your life at a gas station. It’s everywhere and it’s that good. It’s one of the many [Read More]

Album Review: Intervals – In Time

Album Review: Intervals – In Time

The all-instrumental Canadian quartet Intervals have unleashed their five-song EP “In Time” upon society, and it’s [Read More]

Playlist: On the Road

Playlist: On the Road

Don’t you even think about revving up that engine unless you have assembled the ultimate road trip playlist that will [Read More]

Young People’s Problems: Millennials and Movies

Young People’s Problems: Millennials and Movies

Alexis Neiers, erstwhile model, actress and felon may well be the voice of the Millennial Generation. “God didn’t give [Read More]

Insider Video

Ashley Carey is a videoblogger specializing in politics. In “Leon Panetta, Soldier Suicide, and Blazing Saddles” she takes on the thorny issues of national defense and government accountability.

Staff Blogs

  • Agnes Constante: online portfolio of news and feature stories.
  • Ashley Carey: an aspiring news reporter and video blogger.
  • Brandon Dean: sports-oriented journalism portfolio of a former staff member.
  • Catherine Yesayan: Beyond the Blue Domes: Personal accounts relayed in a charming and conversational manner by an Iranian-Armenian-American writer
  • Erica White: The Living Room Lounge: Personal and conversational blog with music links.
  • Jennifer Do: Petite and Hungry: a culture blog about food, fashion and art
  • Raven Jake Dawes: Observations of a Western Legend. Jane Pojawa writes the Raven Jake blog with her husband. Focus is primarily on travel and natural history.
  • Troy Cornell: “Living for the World” – while you sit at home: travel, politics and observations of a former staff writer.
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