Category: Column

Campus, Column, Entertainment, Music

Covering Austin City Limits Festival as a first-time music journalist

Layla Fonseca

The Austin City Limits Festival celebrated 25 years at Zilker Park for two music-packed weekends, and I attended as media with a three-day weekend wristband for weekend two.  I like to call ACL “home,” having attended four times now. As a concert and festival lover this is my dream festival to work at, and I always joke after festival experiences that I could “write an essay about it.” Months prior I had learned that through my credentials as Editor-in-Chief of the Foghorn News, I could apply for a media pass.  So, at the beginning of September I sent out my…

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Riding the B: Reality smashes public micconceptions

Matthew Martinez

The sun was scorching the metal arch above my head, the blowing wind from passing cars filled the streets. A few minutes passed and a public transport stopped for nearby passengers to be taken where they needed to go.             Stepping onto public transport for the first time can bring a wave of anxiety and a sense of unsafeness for many people. However, spending a few short hours riding the city’s transit lines reveals a contrast between public perception and the reality on the ground: The buses are exceptionally safe. To decrease the fear of riding the bus for the…

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Riding the B brings people together from all walks of life

Christopher Munoz

After always being curious about the red buses driving around the streets of Corpus Christi, I was excited to learn about Del Mar College students being able to ride for free with their ID.  In class, we were assigned to get on the bus and find three people to talk to and ask them a few questions. “Don’t take anything valuable, be aware of your surroundings,” said my aunt when I told my family about my assignment. She had lived in Germany for a while and used the bus all the time there. The first time she used the bus…

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Riding the B: Bus remains a safe form of travel for DMC students

Alyssa Davis

While working on an assignment for class to take advantage of the Corpus Christi Regional Transportation Authority bus fare waiver for DMC students, locals were able to shine some light on challenges they face while riding the bus. Coming from Knoxville, Tennessee, where public transportation is essential to getting around downtown on game days and weekends, navigating the bus has never been an issue for me. Even for a first timer, riding the bus there is simple; you get on the bus, wait for it to get to your stop and you get off. For residents here in Corpus Christi,…

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Riding the B: Public transportation in Corpus starts conversations

Heavenly Rodriguez

Riding local transportation all the time is not something I am unfamiliar with. Growing up in New Jersey it was a way of life for me, whether that was hailing a taxi with groceries in hand, or using the subway system to visit family in New York City. In Texas, public transportation is viewed as limited and a secondary option for multiple reasons. Whereas in the high metropolitan areas on the east coast it’s the backbone for the working class.  I chose the Hillcrest/Baldwin route. Upon initial arrival to the bus shelter I was greeted by plenty of pigeon droppings…

Column, Theater

Trail to Oregon produced and directed by Del Mar College student

Paul Farias

Have you ever heard the phrase “don’t show them how the sausage is made?” For two months, that’s exactly what I had to do to the team I was leading. I recently produced and directed my first theatrical production, “The Trail to Oregon!” under Fifth Wall Company, the same group that brought you “tick, tick…BOOM!” earlier in the year. The show is a silly interpretation of the Oregon Trail video game, with the crude humor cranked up to 10. For my version of the show, I wanted that cranked up to 11 and that’s what I was looking for in…

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The unnoticed mental health crisis post-COVID

Brianne Dubose

2020. We all remember where we were and what we were doing. I lived in one of the first cities on lockdown. I lived in Bushwick in Brooklyn, New York, and was just a few days shy of my 21st birthday. At one point, I lived in the most affected neighborhood in the United States. I remember summertime, ambulance sirens wailed outside my apartment all week. I received news of people who I grew up around passing. The friends I made when we all moved to New York to chase our dreams were suddenly packing up and heading home. We…

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How community theater works around Corpus Christi

Paul Farias

Over the past two years, I’ve been a part of Corpus Christi’s theater scene. In that same time, I’ve been through a few shows here at Del Mar College as well. There are plenty of differences between the two, and since I’m involved in another community show, I figured now’s the time to look back on it. The first thing you have to do for any theater show is audition. Between community and college theater, these feel the same: you fill out a form and maybe provide a resume. Typically, community theaters will take your headshot, though college theater does…

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Not just for the aesthetics: Small changes for Earth Day can have lasting impact

Danielle Dews

Another Earth Day has passed, with special events and celebrations. But Earth Day shouldn’t just be a social media post we  make every year. The day was created in 1970 as a response to pollution and environmental damage humans have contributed to. It was the beginning of the modern environmental movement.  Earth Day is meant to be an opportunity for us, as humans, to show how we can help Mother Earth by doing significant environmental acts such as community cleanups, planting trees, and recycling. “We are protecting the Earth now for our future generations,” Del Mar student Madi Harlow said…

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Column: Social media quietly moved boundaries of infidelity

Lola Ponce Gamboa

Here’s a question worth sitting with: how easy it is, really, to cheat on your spouse or significant other on social media? Not “cheat” in the old obvious sense. No motel keys. Receipts of purchases. No lipstick on collars. Just a phone, a screen, and a few taps of the thumb. A like here. A DM there. An old flame popping up under the innocent banner of “People You May Know.” Social media didn’t invent infidelity, but quietly redesigned it. Platforms promise connection, nostalgia, and community. What they also offer is access: instant, private, low-risk access to people outside your…