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Pictures at an exhibition: Caer Ferguson cultivates art at Samo
“Look out for the future, you can call it Tate”
Candy dealers: Samo’s underground entrepreneurs

Samo Film Festival 2014
Verdugo brings back the fun, leads Vikings to league victories
From acoustic tunes to iTunes: Jason Pitts is "Just Playing"
Big Fish in a Bigger Pond: Steven Gordon does it again
Starved for victory, Samo wrestlers feed off middle school programs
"There is no clear leadership, no one wants to stand up for the captain's position" junior Gianni Forster said, "[Without] the senior leadership, it has been harder to practice, harder to focus, and harder to compete."
Cross the plane: on the field and in the mind
The beating heart of Samo's marching band
At Samo, Drumline plays the tricky role of being a group within a larger group. As a smaller section of marching band, they also perform as a smaller ensemble at games and have extra practices.
Sam Borghese
Cody Williams: captain off the field
Cody Williams returns to the football field to cheer on his teammates after a long season without him. This year he will star in a documentary highlighting football players who have suffered similar injuries.
Butterbeer to Heineken: Harry Potter growing up
Though it’s not celebrated every week, Harry Potter related events are welcomed by hoards of parties, thrown by people who have convinced themselves that their owl just got lost and any day now their acceptance letter to Hogwarts will be arriving, possibly bursting out through their chimney to defy the rule of their cruel, manipulating uncles with handlebar mustaches.
Daniel Katz: up in the air
Daniel Katz was infatuated with aviation from an early age. He always looked forward to watching the planes take off from the observation deck at Santa Monica Airport and visiting the Museum of Flying with his parents. While these experiences planted the seed in his mind of becoming a pilot later in life, Katz’s love didn’t really reach the skies until the summer of 2006.
A new soda parlor with an old-time feel
Tucked away in a corner of the 1916 Landmark Carousel building, a vintage soda fountain harkens from the past like the carousel itself. “Soda Jerks” is a new concession that opened on the Santa Monica Pier in July. For the record, a soda jerk isn’t an obnoxious person who spits up Coke. The soda fountain gets its name from the 1930s slang used to describe the youths who worked behind the counter jerking silver levers to hand-pump syrup and soda water.
Matt Tapia: a miracle man
The men and the music: Man Choir
Jain said. “It is one of my favorite days of the week. I spend lunch singing with my friends and we do fun songs that you wouldn’t usually see in a classical choir.”
Steven Gordon: all that’s jazz
“In recent months, I’ve really started diving into writing my own music. Over the summer I worked on the music for a short film, and since then I’ve been writing music focused around a story or a character,” Gordon said.
Amy Clark: from rap beats to art tweets
“What I really wanted to do was to make art out of something that wouldn’t usually be considered art.”– Amy Clark
School spirit back in blue
When a Samo student thinks of school spirit, they probably visualize a raucous group of juniors and seniors fervently screaming their graduation years until their lungs burst. Blue Crew aims to push that image aside, and take school spirit to an entirely new level.

Cosplay: A Subculture
Costume-Play, more commonly known as “Cosplay,” is a phenomenon that has been around for years, originating in the 1960s while “Star Trek” was airing on television. Star Trek fans would organize small Star Trek conventions, and come in homemade costume as their favorite characters. Now cosplayers travel across the country to conventions where they meet other cosplayers and sometimes compete in contests. Today, cosplay covers a broad spectrum of fandoms, a group surrounding books, movies, TV shows, video games, etc. Costumes are often made by their wearer, which adds an extra aspect of creativity.
From campus to cabin, Ramos is no chicken
To get away from city chaos, each month Irene Ramos heads home to Mount Pinos, her cabin and chickens — a welcomed respite.
Tayllor Johnson: rhythm and soul
Every word Tayllor Johnson utters is poetry. One of her passions, poetry enriches her life so that she speaks in verses, walks in dances. Her life is dictated by her passions to the point that being Tayllor Johnson is an art.
David vs. Goliath: Vidiots triumphs over Blockbuster
While Netflix offers convenience, Vidiots and Cinefile have begun offering more than just movies. In July, Vidiots began Vidiots Annex, which offers film study classes in everything from censorship in cinema to anime mythology to cult films as well as free screenings every Saturday night at 8. The movies they show on Saturdays are brilliantly selected, from Run Lola, Run to The Apartment. Their website includes ‘playlists’ of movies with common themes ( “Beyond Harry Potter” and “Manhattan Fabulous” to name a few).
In the face of loss, Escalera remains positive
Difficult though it may have been for him to step into the position, Escalera still gleans an obvious pride and pleasure from his participation in Samo athletics. A longtime football coach and former high school athlete, he harbors a deep-rooted belief in the power of sports to improve individuals and unite communities.