Category: Features

Epiphany: Shawn Wagner

Shawn Wagner, 22, and a botany major, plans to transfer from Citrus College to Humboldt University. She played Marie, the leading lady of “The Epiphany”, and has been acting for over ten years. “I have other passions, but theatre is something that is ingrained in me,” Wagner said. “It...

LIFE’S A PITCH: Singer Cheeyang Ng on what inspired him to join the touring Broadway ‘Vocalosity

Citrus College is aca-perfect. “Vocalosity” is a two-act Broadway program that comes from the creative mind of Deke Sharon, the artistic producer of “Pitch Perfect.” The performance grooved it’s way to the Haugh Performing Arts Center on Nov. 12. From barbershop quartets to The Beatles and Bruno Mars, Vocalosity...

Desert trippin’: Citrus alum/musician scores the gig of a lifetime playing alongside living musical legends

It’s the second weekend of Desert Trip, or “Oldchella” as the millennial crowd called it. A new festival created by the owners of Coachella as a throwback of sorts for a younger crowd to be introduced to influential artists who paved the way for the new guard. Tucked away...

Screenwriter Francesca Flores gets the chance to see her three-years work come to life

  Aspiring playwrights can compete to showcase their stories, if selected by screenwriting professor Neil Weiss, during the Emerging American Voices project in the Citrus College Little Theatre. Francesca Flores took advantage of the opportunity to introduce her coming-of-age story that follows a girl searching for her own place...

Q&A with Student Trustee Jennifer Chavez-Ramos and ASCC President Vanessa Salinas on their influences and the challenges of being Hispanic women in leadership

Growing up in a very traditional Hispanic household, Jennifer Chavez-Ramos, had her whole life mapped out for her by the family. As a child,she stayed at home with her mother cooking and cleaning while her father and brothers went out to experience life. It was expected by the time...