Highlander Newspaper

Wednesday night, KUCR hosted the final Barn show of the quarter, and they went out with an electronic, earth-shattering bang. This was KUCR's quarter to bring the campus exciting up-and-coming acts like Zion-I, Pachamama, Mika Miko and many more. This show kicked off with KUCR's very own DJ Shenanigans mixing laid back grooves from MGMT to Sigur Ros and transforming them into sped-up electro-dance bangers, setting the mood right for the rest of the warm night.… Post the First Comment

Before heading for Texas, Passion Pit played their last west coast show at the Glass House in Pomona on Saturday. Prior to their set, solo artist Cale Parks took the stage, previously a drummer for the bands Aloha and White Williams. Clearly mastering all types of percussion, Parks based his songs solely off of synths, drum beats and vocals.… Post the First Comment

Friday night was unusually cloudy for Orange County. Amidst the overcast weather, a modest crowd populated Anaheim's Chain Reaction as a short green bus sat parked out front. In the driver's seat sat Thomas Dutton, vocalist, guitarist and the sole creative member of Seattle's Forgive Durden.… Post the First Comment

To say that "Up", the latest in a long line of commercial and critical successes for Pixar, is imaginative, artful, and heads above its competition is almost redundant at this point. In fact, Pixar's films have maintained such a high level of quality that the only categories you can break them up into now are "amazing" and "Cars".… Post the First Comment

Last Tuesday afternoon was a stimulating time for prospective game designers, artists and writers at UCR. "Art, Entertainment, and Video Games", an event presented by the Mellon Workshop on Affect, Technics, and Ethics, featured Jenova Chen, a 28-year-old up-and-coming game developer, creator and co-founder of thatgamecompany.… Post the First Comment

Highlander: You were still in the conceptual stages of "Razia's Shadow" when most of the band left. How did that change the dynamics of Forgive Durden? Thomas Dutton: We'd completely demoed one song, "The Exit", and even had Brendon [Urie of Panic at the Disco] sing on it and everything already to kind of show other singers what we were talking about when we asked them about it and to show the label what we were talking about.… Post the First Comment

Once upon a time, there was a director named Sam Raimi who did a series of horror films called the "Evil Dead" trilogy, and they were good. What set "Evil Dead", "Evil Dead 2" and "Army of Darkness" apart were their focus on gallows humor, as well as a protagonist who welds a chainsaw to his arm and works in house-wares at a department store.… Post the First Comment

The Pacific Islander Student Alliance (P.I.S.A.) here at UCR hosted their first annual Luau at the Barn on Thursday. Members of the P.I.S.A. had been practicing various dance and vocal performances since Fall quarter for this premier. President and founder of P.… Post the First Comment