Darude has been cooking up more than a sandstorm
While I am not sure if there is exactly a generational gap here, but for all early users of the internet, born in the latter half of the 1990s, there has been at least...
Conversations at the Culver presents intimate evening with bestselling author Jill Alexander Essbaum
At the center of the dimly lit theater room at the Culver Center of the Arts sits Jill Alexander Essbaum, bespectacled and sporting a colorful green dress. Essbaum is a noted American poet and...
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 named Syed Farook and Tashfeen Malik killed 14 people and...
Under The Radar: Issue 13
“The Handmaiden”
From the critically acclaimed director of “Oldboy” comes “The Handmaiden” — a story of love and deceit set in Japanese-occupied Korea. Based on the novel “Fingersmith” by Sarah Waters, director Park Chan-wook’s most...
Inlandia Poets gather to share their work
On the evening of Thursday, Feb. 2, Riverside community members gathered for a “Poetry! At the Library” event hosted by the Inlandia Institute to listen to the writing of two local poets in an...
UC Riverside hosts 40th annual Writer’s Week
Presented every February by UC Riverside’s Department of Creative Writing, Writer’s Week brings to campus a plethora of writers, authors, poets and novelists associated with the Riverside area or UC faculty. This year marked...
Inside UCR’s Super Smash Bros. Scene
It must have been a breezy, Wednesday evening in the spring quarter of 2016 when Christopher Iverson hooked up his sleek, compact white projector to his Wii U and took it right outside Surge...
Embracing the spirit of memento mori
On Oct. 28, downtown Riverside’s Barbara and Art Culver Center hosted a public print viewing of postmortem photography from the Gluck Foundation’s “From the Vault” series. The modest collection of prints dated back to...
Anxiety and Awe: The real Coachella
What do you think of when you hear the word Coachella? Celebrities, ferris wheels, H&M, Native American headdresses, cultural appropriation? I just got back from my fourth Coachella. When I hear the word, I...
Latino/a Play Project’s unique mission
Earlier this week, I sat down with Melanie Queponds, the creative director of the Latino/a Play Project and a fifth-year theater and English double major here at UCR, to discuss the group's mission, history...