Two more artists have been announced for 88rising’s Head in the Clouds (HITC) Los Angeles music festival next month. The announcement: On July 24, the HITC Instagram account shared that Loren (stylized LØREN) of The Black Label and KnowKnow, a member of Chinese hip hop group Higher Brothers, will be joining the festival lineup.
April 19, 2021 in Columns, Lifestyle
A nod to the California area code, “The 626″ is a song released in 2012 by the Fung Brothers, a Chinese-American duo, whose music video explores Asian culture and restaurants in the San Gabriel Valley. Photo from @fungbros on Instagram.
“So what we hang out / so what we drink tea,” sings the YouTuber duo Fung Brothers in their iconic music video “The 626.” “We just eating good / In the SGV.”
When I applied to USC as a transfer student, I watched YouTube videos about Los Angeles and the city’s surrounding areas, mainly the fun music videos by the Fung Brothers. Many of those included videos about the San Gabriel Valley (also known as the SGV), such as “The 626” or Al Jazeera’s “Inside the Chinese Food Mecca of Los Angeles.”
Refresh LA, founded in the “Innovation in Engineering and Design for Global Crises” course, helps restaurants sell their leftover food to customers at decreased prices. (Photo Courtesy of Refresh LA)
In the virtual classroom setting of “Innovation in Engineering and Design for Global Crises,” Mallika Jain, Elisa James, Elina Xie and Dea Kurti were challenged to develop an innovative product or service to help solve an issue that was caused or exacerbated by the coronavirus pandemic. It was in this class, taught by David Gerber, Brad Cracchiola and Daniel Druhora, that the four students began to design their startup company, Refresh LA