Mary J. Blige has come far from the start of her career as a background singer on uptown records in 1989.  Blige has been a musical legend since her debut in 1992 with the release of her first album “What’s the 411?”  Production for Blige’s debut album began in 1991. Sean Combs, a 21-year-old A&R executive at Uptown Records, became her executive producer. Andre Harrell, Combs’s supervisor, named Blige the “Queen of Hip-Hop Soul.”

A new Disney superhero has hit the big screen. “Big Hero 6” is a light-hearted animated film featuring a young inventor and his robot.

The audience finds themselves in the future, city of San Fransokyo, a twist of San Francisco and Tokyo. 

The November general elections are here and many voters mailed in their ballots last week, while today students and citizens can vote in-person at local polling places.  Measure M, California State governor, U.S. representatives as well as many other political propositions are up for voting. 

Since Executive Order 1068 went into effect at the beginning of this academic year, a number of religious clubs have been derecognized on campuses across California. Former California State University Chancellor Charles Reed put this order in place.

Sonoma State University was founded in 1961 with a student body of 274.  Since then, Sonoma State has grown to a student population of 9,120; where as approximately 3,100 of them are residential students, primarily freshmen and sophomores.

Sept. 1. If you haven’t seen the signs posted in stores everywhere, I’ll tell you what this date means. Sept. 1, is the day that plastic bags have been banned from use in stores, and a ten-cent charge for paper bags have been put in place. This ban date is only for Sonoma County, though other cities and counties are pushing to put a ban on plastic bags as well.

I caught myself talking to a couple of girls in a sorority last week, which got me thinking, “What exactly is a sorority, and why were they created?”  Google told me a sorority is a, “society for female students in a university or college, typically for social purposes.” Google also told me the Latin root ‘soror’ means sister. 

If asked what defines you as an individual, what would you say? In today’s culture self-expression and individualism is highly valued. Individualism in particular is ideal to reach.  A majority of society is trying to be different from everyone else; the whole hipster trend is an example of individualism.