RADAR Sessions: Lazy Camper
Lazy Camper subverted my expectations. When I heard Alex Le’s stage name, I figured I would be interviewing another singer-songwriter guy with a guitar and a pocket of love songs. What I instead found...
Breaches in respectability face repercussions
A live screening of the previously recorded 94th Academy Awards ceremony ran short of three hours long, but just one moment in the top of the third hour has pervaded public discourse in the...
UCR Late Night showcases student success
UC Riverside is home to many things, including citrus, scientific research and tartan. However, upon coming to the campus for the first time in the fall, I immediately noticed an extreme lack of resources...
41st-annual Writers Week brings literary luminaries to UCR
The 41st-annual Writers Week was carried out from Feb. 12 to Feb. 17, bringing a total of 20 writers to the UCR campus to read from their selected works and address questions. From UCR...
The Gilded Age has never looked this terribly bleak and dull.
This past year was especially unique for the Metropolitan Gala, with the event happening twice within the span of just seven months. The theme of the museum's two-part exhibition was “In America: An Anthology...
“Arthur Conan Doyle and the Imperial Armamentarium” unlocks diverse conversations
Most college lectures focus on one specific subject for the purpose of benefitting students within that field of study. For example, one can assume that a math major would have blundered if they attend...
Radar Sessions: Prince Rashid
When Prince Rashid walked into the room, I was unsure of what exactly to expect: Here was a Bengali rapper, whose music has been making rounds on social media lately, and has performed multiple...
Spring Splash Preview
Trey Songz- Spring Splash’s much-anticipated 2016 headliner is none other than Trey Songz. Born Tremaine Neverson, the R-and-B singer caused quite the frenzy when he emerged on the music scene. Hit songs such as...
89th Academy Awards Review
The 89th Academy Awards ceremony stirred considerable controversy when Faye Dunaway, the presenter for the Best Picture award, erroneously declared “La La Land” as the victor over “Moonlight” — the true winner. But that...
Film Fest: A memorable cinematic experience showing off UCR filmmakers
On Feb. 29, the Associated Students Program Board (ASPB) presented Film Fest, an event that showcased six works of fellow University of California, Riverside (UCR) student filmmakers where the top three student films would...