It’s 8 p.m. on Feb. 22, and students are crowding into the SRC North building after lining up for hours for a chance to get into Winter Soulstice (one of several yearly concerts held by UCR’s Associated Students Program Board). While the event was slated to begin at 7 p.m., students find themselves waiting an entire hour longer. With...
I had never judged a music contest before attending the FUSE DJ Competition. In fact, prior to the event, I had no knowledge of the nuances of DJing. Nevertheless I was thrust into the world of vivacious dance expression by being asked, along with two other judges, to determine which out of nine candidates would take home the title...
This was my second year returning to Insomniac’s Countdown NYE, one of the premier EDM festivals in SoCal. With a record of 78,000 attendees at San Bernardino’s NOS Events Center, the 2017 rendition had one of the strongest lineups in its wheelhouse compared to the other two raves occuring at the same time, OMFG! LED and Snowglobe Music Festival....
Southern California is full of glamorous and charming concert venues. From Riverside County to Los Angeles County, there is a setting for every music lover. Determining a venue’s ranking comes upon a multitude of factors: acoustics, parking, a perspective from a short person, seating and the atmosphere. Before buying tickets to your next concert, take a look at the...
Trigger Warning: This article contains content relating to sexual violence and sexual assault.
In a pitch-black theater and a single light illuminating her, Heather Marlowe stood and gazed at the audience, not to command attention, but to start a conversation about her experiences with rape
—bringing to the subject a candid honesty and gallows wit.
Performer, playwright and activist of “The Haze”,...
The UCR Department of Theater, Film and Digital Production continued their season this past weekend with the cloak-and-dagger thriller “Wilderness of Mirrors.” The play was a two-hour event in which a young journalist named Erin (played by Gloria Olivas) goes looking for answers about a spy who was recruited out of Yale for the CIA during World War II....
Friday evening, once again students were packed into the Barn to witness another performance this week. Lately, these Barn events have not been as common, and so to be at another high-profile event like this was wonderful. The reason for this occasion was a Spoken Word performance by New York artist Bex Kwan, aka Bxk, whose work focuses on...
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 upstairs room in the Riverside Public Library. The event featured Carlos Cortes, a professor emeritus of history at UCR, and Nan Friedly, a retired special...
The restaurant, lit by a smattering of candles and sconces lining the walls, was abuzz. People chattered at their tables, loud revelers ordered drinks along the bar and the clanking of dishes and indistinct voices echoed from the kitchen. Over the noise, a few telltale sounds could be heard. A violin was plucked, a guitar was tuned, a hi-hat...
UCR Drag Club hosted its second annual drag show with artistic performers and a beaming audience to prepare for the Halloween spirit.
The Haunted Drag Show enlivened the HUB on Oct. 28, filled with expressive and risqué performances by UCR students. Hosts Olga Marie Davis, UCR Drag Club’s president, and Maksil Lorenzo, recent UCR alumni, made sure to keep the...