On Sunday Oct. 6, 2013, the UCR Botanic Gardens celebrated 50 years of life with a five-hour festival from 11 a.m. - 4 p.m. Sunday’s festival included a docent-led tour of the gardens, hourly demonstrations from puppet-making to composting and the likes of KUCR, Bob’s Bee Rescue and Goodwin’s Organics. With something for everyone, both adults and even babies...
Getting Wet With Wick’s
I forgot all about the torrential rain and gridlocked 91 freeway once I walked into Wick’s Brewery Wednesday night. They had over 15 beers on tap from select craft breweries, including Stone, Lightning, Bootlegger’s and many more, along with six of Wick’s own beers and a delicious root beer for anyone under 21.
The brewery has a...
4 out of 5 Stars
Red Hot Kitchen, established in Riverside in 2011, is the second restaurant to come from Travis Cho after founding his popular original restaurant in Los Angeles. This restaurant is a Korean fusion taco shop that screams Mexican food, but is decorated in an Asian-esque fashion, with lucky bamboo shoots, fans, vases, and oriental art. The...
1. Space out the caffeine intake.
-Three Red Bulls won’t make you three times as productive, but it will make you crash three times as hard.
2. Avoid Youtube.
-Sure you can take time out for one four-minute video. But then it becomes twenty videos, and then you’re in “that” part of Youtube. And then Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles will never be...
My normal stroll from Coffee Bean to Rivera was interrupted with awesomeness this week by The HUB’s annual Chalk The Walk, Welcome Week Edition. From Sept. 30 to Oct. 2, scenes of Highlander pride stretched across the HUB’s upper patio, starring Scotty, the Bell Tower and a whole lot of creativity. None of us are strangers to the stress...
3 out of 5 stars
As UCR welcomed back the veterans and introduced itself to the rookies, all students were greeted with a slight change in HUB dining. Replacing Honor Roll Sushi Cafe, Sushi by Panda (no, really, that's the name) made its appearance on the opening day of fall quarter 2013. Not only is the new eatery located by...
Name: Kimberly Huang
Major: Business Administration
Area of Study: London, UK
Year: Junior
Due to indecisiveness and procrastination, studying abroad seemed perpetually labeled as “saved for later” on my undergraduate bucket list. Summer was close by, and I was in dire search of opportunities to pursue during the break. Tempted, I looked into the EAP program and discovered a short 3-week summer session...
1. You might be a freshman if you wear your keys and ID card on a lanyard.
-It’s OK, we’ve all been there at one point.
2. You might be a freshman if your opinion of Watkins 1000 is anything other than negative.
-Good luck finding a desk there that actually works.
3. You might be a freshman if you don’t know what...
Tina Kim
Year: Senior
Major: Entomology
Host Institution: International Summer School, Yonsei University
Chop! Chop! Chop! Here I am in Busan and handed an octopus that was chopped alive. It was still moving when it was given to me. I look around at my peers. They all had faces with expressions of surprise, disgust and curiosity, while the local people all had faces...
4 Stars
Situated inconspicuously by neighboring Back to the Grind on University Avenue and near the Mission Inn, D-Dogs, which opened in July, finally offers a great sports bar and grill to UCR students who are willing to make the trip downtown. As the name may suggest, hot dogs were aplenty.
As my group and I walked in, we were greeted...