Author: Azrael Montoya

Campus, Collegiate, Community

Get help for a good resumé

Azrael Montoya

AMontoya@foghornnews.com One of the key aspects in acquiring a job is building a coherent resumé, and Del Mar College can assist students in this area. The college holds a resumé-writing clinic twice every semester on the East Campus. The next resume writing clinics will be held at 1 p.m. Nov. 3 and at 11 a.m. Nov. 6 in the Career Kiosk in the Harvin Center. “A good resumé will get you an interview; it won’t get you the job,” said Vanessa Adkins, career coordinator for Del Mar College. To further assist students in building a resumé and seeking out a…

Campus

Professor tells of area’s rich history, culture

Azrael Montoya

Amontoya@foghornnews.om The history of South Texas is rich and far reaching. Professor Renato Ramirez made this much and more apparent at a recent genealogy lecture. Genealogy is the study of a family pedigree or account of the origin of one’s own family. This display was made possible because of Ramirez’s hard work and effort and his own personal connection to the history. The major contributor to this historical research is based on the work of Dr. Cleotilde P. Garcia. She produced a work called “Padre Jose Nicolas Balli and Padre Island,” which details the founding of Padre Island and the…

Entertainment, TV

Relentless battle for the American dream

Azrael Montoya

Johnny Faust and his friends drop out of school and move to Hollywood to start a rock band and make it big in “American Satan.” After they encounter the devil, what comes next will change their lives forever. Their band, The Relentless, goes from being poor and living in their van to living at the top of rock ’n’ roll heaven with power and money. Faust is the picture of the perfect fallen rock star from grace. The Relentless are gods among men in the world of sex, violence, drugs and rock ’n’ roll. They experience the duality of rock…

Entertainment, Movies

The almost never-ending ‘Death Day’

Azrael Montoya

“Happy Death Day” is the horror version of the film “Groundhog Day.” If a person wants myriad chances to correct one’s own life, this is that particular film. The main character in the film, Theresa “Tree” Gelbman (Jessica Rothe), keeps waking up in the same day, her birthday in a twilight zone of sorts because she must find her killer. She is a student in college on the wrong path of life decisions. She has an estrangement from her father due to some family history. She’s just an immoral and selfish person living her life recklessly. Each time she dies…

Community

Poetry series aims to inspire new writers

Azrael Montoya

  Oklahoma poetry legend Dorothy Alexander will hold a poetry reading at Del Mar College on Nov. 1. Alexander, born in 1934 in the middle of the Great Depression to a family of farmers, has created six collections of her own poetry since 2002 including “The Dust Bowl Revisited” and “Rough Drafts.” Her poetry covers her childhood as an Okie dirt farmer’s daughter to a career as a lawyer and then judge. She has curated regular poetry readings at Beans & Leaves Coffee House, Individual Artists of Oklahoma, Full Circle Books and other venues. Alexander finds inspiration for her poetry…