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National City entrepreneurs struggle to keep business afloat during COVID-19 pandemic (with podcast)

A combination of high COVID-19 cases, surging unemployment hinders Highland Avenue’s smallest businesses

Katia Pechenkina, Vicky Pineda, Gabriel Schneider, and Susana Serrano • June 24, 2021

The second oldest city in San Diego County has been hit disproportionately hard by a distressing combination of soaring COVID-19 infection rates and surging unemployment throughout the pandemic.

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Barbershop owner continues his business on his own

La Rumba was forced to shut down two separate times due to COVID-19 restrictions

Susana Serrano, Multimedia Journalist • June 23, 2021

Inside the barbershop, bachata music was blasting and the blue walls were decorated with Dominican Republic memorabilia and posters with the most popular fades, tapers and buzz cuts.

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GALLERY: A tour of Highland Avenue’s small businesses

The street is home to small, locally-owned restaurants, barbershops and markets

Vicky Pineda, Multimedia Journalist • June 23, 2021

Highland Avenue was once known for lowrider car cruising. Now it is National City’s downtown, a strip where small businesses reside.

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City College alumna takes graphic design program to new level (with video)

Archana Verma's submission earns international ranking

Jillian Fortner, Multimedia Journalist • June 9, 2021

Every year, graphic design students from around the globe are asked to design a magazine for a major international competition. City College alumna Archana Verma chose to create a science magazine because the subject is integral to everyday life.

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PODCAST: City Times Sound team reflects on remote production

Student leaders in the program discuss the difficulty of being online

Assad Khalilzadeh, Program Director • June 8, 2021

With San Diego City College still closed for in-person classes, the first news radio class since the start of the pandemic recently wrapped up remote production at the end of the spring 2020 semester.

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REVIEW: Music video featuring Vel the Wonder has City College ties

Director Nahla Valdez in a San Diego City College alum

Candise Berry, Multimedia Journalist • June 7, 2021

The music video for the song, "Got Me Like Me" is different from any other video I have ever seen before.

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MAGAZINE: City College artists navigate the pandemic

City College artists continue to create during the pandemic

Rachel de la Torre, Multimedia Journalist • June 4, 2021

Due to COVID-19, artists all over the world have had to navigate creating, showing and selling their art to the public in new ways. San Diego City College is home to incredible artists of all kinds -- performers, painters, ceramicists, sculptors, multimedia artists and everything in between.

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MAGAZINE: 6th Annual Festival of New Plays goes digital

The 6th Annual Festival of New Plays was recorded by City Times Media for online streaming

Marlena Harvey, Managing Editor • June 3, 2021

Students and staff of San Diego City College spent weeks putting together eight plays, five of which were recorded by the City Times Media Team in the on-campus TV studio production.

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PODCAST: Looking back at the best of Sex and Sexuality podcast

The seven-episode podcast is available online

Vicky Pineda, CTM Operations Manager • June 3, 2021

Marlena Harvey, Managing Editor of the City Times has been speaking with counseling interns at San Diego City College, Tristan Hartley and Laurel Marks.

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City College scholar-athletes score in the classroom

75 student-athletes had a 3.0 or better GPA in the fall

Vicky Pineda, Operations Manager • June 2, 2021

Despite more than a year with COVID-19 and San Diego City College being closed, student-athletes excelled in their classrooms.

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PODCAST: City College Theatre student discusses how courses were affected by the pandemic

Spring 2020 production of "Urinetown" was postponed

Michelle Botello, Multimedia Journalist • June 2, 2021

San Diego City College student Gary Tallaksen discusses the changes in the classes and the production of theatre classes.

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City College’s vice president chosen for new role

Denise Whisenhunt will be Grossmont College’s new president

Gabriel Schneider, Editor-in-Chief • June 1, 2021

Vice President of student affairs, Denise Whisenhunt, was ecstatic to get a call from Grossmont College revealing that she was appointed to be the new president.

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