After two weeks of rehearsals, the Guardian Ambassadors and Model Minority Theatre Collective, in partnership with the UCR Department of Media and Cultural Studies and the Department of Theatre, Film and Digital Production, presented “Princess Ten Ten and the Dark Skies” in Humanities 411. Adapted for the stage by Maggie Herskowitz, a CSULA and Boston Conservatory graduate, and composed...
If someone were to to tell you that The Observatory — the Santa Ana-based music venue which previously hosted such events as the hip-hop focused Day N Night and emo fest When We Were Young — were to organize a music and taco festival headlined by norteno legends Los Tigres del Norte, with a roster including eclectic Londoner King...
Childish Gambino's “PHAROS” event was not your usual concert. The “tour” only lasted a weekend and was only in one venue: Joshua Tree. While some may consider Joshua Tree the middle of nowhere, this set location offered the perfect atmosphere to enhance his already mysterious concert.
For access to the event, you needed to download the official “PHAROS” app which...
Some of the greats will be gracing us once again in the form of holograms for UC Riverside’s 2016 Spring Splash concert. After the loss of one of UCR’s biggest music events, Heat, ASPB decided that they needed to take it up a notch to compensate for the devastation that swept the campus; ladies and gentlemen, I think it’s...
In between the constant controversy surrounding HEAT and landing in the middle of winter quarter, ASPB’s Winter SOULstice always flies a little under the radar. This is not to say that this annual event is underrated by the students, just that it does not garner the raging profile of the other concerts available to the student body — something...
Torrential downpours throughout Southern California this past weekend rendered movement anywhere in the Inland Empire and Orange County Area a herculean task. However, these conditions seemed to go practically unregistered by the thousands of attendees of SOULQUARIUS music festival at the Santa Ana Observatory Grounds on Saturday, Feb. 18. While the Observatory has hosted festivals before, such as Beach...
You might remember your typical spelling bee competitions from elementary school. You would stand up in front of a microphone, be given a word and then you would have to spell it out and hope you spell it right. Simple, right? Well maybe not for the characters who appear in, “The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee,” a play...
An audience of approximately 400 people filled half of the Riverside Municipal Auditorium with mosh pits, shouts and sexual movements that vaguely resembled dancing, for the Associated Student Program Board’s (ASPB) Winter SOULstice. Featuring performances from Doja Cat, Kelela and The-Dream, the Feb. 18 concert brought together the wildest crowd to the most “turnt” R-and-B performance in ASPB history.
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”,...
Riverside’s capricious weather made for a dreary morning on Wednesday, May 10, but was nevertheless lightened up by a jazz performance at Arts 157 featuring trombonist Kevin Sliwoski and pianist Dhiren Panikker, a Ph.D student and Ph.D candidate in ethnomusicology, respectively. The duo put on a fascinating display of jazz to an audience of about twenty people, all intrigued...