Every year, UCR’s Department of Theatre, Film and Digital Production hosts a film festival showcasing the work of current undergraduates, graduate students, alumni and faculty. The festival is a two-hour event consisting of a compilation of short films. The ad floating around campus shows off the poster art for the featured short this year, “Bad Timing,” written by Stu...
The Sister Spit spoken word collective formed in 1994 as an all-girl open mic show. In a time when open mic shows across the nation were filled with misogyny and prejudice, a brave group of women in San Francisco joined forces to empower women through lesbian-feminist poetry.
By the end of the 1990s, Sister Spit spread to the rest...
We are currently in a new golden age of heroes. Whether it’s in television, comics or movies, we have become enamored with superheroes again. Sadly, this reignited love has been betrayed by the flop that is “Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice.”
I miss the days when the biggest thing I was worried about was whether or not Ben Affleck...
“The White Album” was partially a relief to me. With a legendary band like Weezer that has been around for so long, the release of a new album feels sentimental because listeners feel like they have grown up with them and are proud to see that they are still releasing music. With this prominence, however, comes anxiety, for they...
The nights of New York City are run amok with organized crime that ride or die in the drug business. That’s where the so called “Devil of Hell’s Kitchen,” the vigilante known as Daredevil, comes in. As a now successful attorney by day, Matt Murdock (Charlie Cox) balances the life of his normal day time occupation as a lawyer...
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...
Robert Lees- “The Martian”: Childish Gambino does some math and Matt Damon gets home safely.
Racheal Adair- “Gravity”: One woman travels to a lake in the most dramatic way possible. She’s fine; no mention of future death by space debris.
Jessica Baker- The “Harry Potter” series: A wizard becomes renowned as the boy-who-lived-then-dies-then-lives-again, then names three children after dead people. But, all was well.
Christal...
Fresh off the Los Angeles leg of her tour and with her not due back in the studio until “those eggheads finish writing my newest songs,” Taylor Alison Swift took some time out of her busy schedule to perform a small set at the Highlander office.
“It’s a shame it’s your guys’ spring break, or other people might actually be...
“Day upon day, and year upon year, O city, walking your streets, / where you hold me enchain’d a certain time, refusing to give me up; / yet giving to make me glutted, enrich’d of soul …” - Walt Whitman, “Give me the Splendid, Silent Sun.”
Staring over the crowd of cars, neighborhood poet and avid sidewalk sitter Adriana Moore...
In the basement of the California Museum of Photography, down a spiraling metal staircase, is the current exhibition titled “Recollection,” which artists have created with the use of the museum’s Keystone-Mast Collection. This archive of photography dating between the 1870s and 1930s is the largest of its kind, naturally attracting artists from all over the world to try their...