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Lit Pick of the Week: “Hold Still” by Sally Mann

Radar is committed to all forms of art and entertainment and as such, will pick one book as a reading recommendation every week. This...

“La La Land” is a beautiful meditation on classic Hollywood

Hollywood musicals fell out of favor a long time ago — gone are the days of Fred Astaire, or Ginger Roots. From the ‘80s...

In Retrospect: In Memoriam of John Berger

Public intellectuals are a thing of the past and in some sense reached their heyday in the ‘60s. The days when intellectuals such as...

Lit Pick of the Week: “Augustus” by John Williams

Radar is committed to all forms of art and entertainment and as such, will pick one book as a reading recommendation every week. This...

Trauma, Loss, Transcendance: In conversation with Professor Paulo C. Chagas

December 2, 2015 is a date practically ingrained in the minds of any Inland Empire resident. On that date, tragedy befell when two individuals...

Lit Pick of the Week: “Citizen” by Claudia Rankine

Radar is committed to all forms of art and entertainment, and will pick one book as a reading recommendation every week. This week Radar’s...

In Memoriam: Leonard Cohen 1934-2016

This month augured two tragedies on the world stage: One, the election of Donald Trump as president of the United States and two, the...

DJ Lynnee Denise breaks down the politics of DJing

For most millennials, DJs are pretty standard fare, and in the world of music, practically ubiquitous. However, while DJs are practically ubiquitous now, the...

Elections are important, but so are other issues

Every elections cycle, media coverage tends to work out the same way: As the election year looms, elections discourse begins to trickle into the...

“La Jetee” is the greatest film ever made.

As a devoted film buff, the perennial question always arises: “What is the greatest film ever?” While this question is fundamentally unanswerable, it’s always...