On Saturday, Oct.19, FM Nights will return to Back to the Grind Coffeehouse in downtown Riverside. FM Nights is a concert series hosted by KUCR every few months that highlights some of the station’s favorite local bands in some of the station’s favorite Riverside community spaces. This week’s event is a five-band bill filled with some of So-Cal’s harshest...
10. “The Wages of Fear” (1953)
Henri-Georges Clouzot’s nail-biting odyssey features anxiety in its most welcoming form. Its suspense is unbounded — featuring a story of four men who are hired to transport trucks of nitroglycerin across a remote South American jungle to extinguish an oil fire. An adaptation of Georges Arnaud’s novel of the same name, the film follows...
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Now, more than halfway through season two of “The Last of Us,” and with only two episodes left for audiences, the critically acclaimed series adaptation continues to stay generally faithful to its original video game namesake.The show attempts to explore the same themes of violence and characters that fans have come to form long-lasting love-hate relationships within the...
The name “Justin Bieber” carries weight among different generations, whether young or old. Bieber began his life with humble beginnings, hailing from Stratford, Canada, raised by a single mother. As a child, Bieber was fairly normal, playing games and sports with his friends. However, his talent for music set him apart from his peers. He played music on the...
The Culver Center of the Arts is perhaps one of the most important cultural centers in Riverside. Located about five minutes from Mission Inn, the center hosts exhibitions, film screenings and even poetry readings. This Friday, the center hosted one such event, celebrating two poets, Heather Altfeld and Troy Jollimore, as a part of their regular series “Conversations at...
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With a limitless medium in his hands and the ingeniousness to match it, Satoshi Kon produced some of animation’s most unforgettable work. In just nine years, the animator made four feature films, one television series and one short film — and though his life was tragically cut short in 2010, his stamp on the animation and filmmaking world had...
While everyone was busy watching “Bird Box” and playing “Bandersnatch,” I decided to settle down and watch a Netflix Original called “You.” I initially thought it was going to be pretty generic, but I was wrong. Based on a book written by Caroline Kepnes, “You” follows the main character Joe, the manager of a small bookstore, as he stalks...
From Friday, Oct. 10 to Sunday, Oct. 13, Lake Perris State Recreation Area transformed into the psychedelic haven of bum gypsies and groundbreaking musicians alike in an event known as Desert Daze. It was my first time experiencing the Daze so I had to go all out — full weekend passes, camping and everything. The silky smooth, folk-rock set...
As I stepped into the surprisingly spacious screening room of Downtown Riverside’s Culver Center, I expected “Martha Marcy May Marlene” to be a cookie-cutter psychological thriller. The independent film was released early 2011 at the Sundance Film Festival and only saw a limited release. What I saw instead was a film that is as much about questions of identity...
On March 3, De La Soul released their entire discography on streaming for the first time, excluding a one-day-only occurrence in 2016. For a new generation of hip-hop listeners, recognizing the iconic group De La Soul is a difficult task. But how could this be if modern sounds from Tyler the Creator to Childish Gambino take inspiration from the...