It’s been another huge year for A&E in Riverside this year. From the huge and laugh-out-loud success of “Spamalot” to the thrill of seeing 21-year-old Chance the Rapper perform at UCR’s HEAT concert (which actually happened!), the bar was set high for us this year — but this year’s successes simply set the bar even higher. Students may go...
Neo-psychedelia has been making waves in the indie music scene for the past couple years, with bands like Tame Impala bringing back that classic Beatles sound as well as Animal Collective incorporating psychedelic elements into experimental electronic/rock music. Unknown Mortal Orchestra (UMO) chose to go the second route and incorporated these psychedelic influences into their own unique, lo-fi and...
My goodwill towards action movies is uncharacteristically strong, partly because of “Mad Max: Fury Road” and partly because I recently re-watched the first “Die Hard.” Because of this, I decided to see “San Andreas,” the newest Roland Emmerich-esque vehicle that is kind enough to remind all of us that our current drought isn’t the only calamity that could befall...
I think it’s appropriate for this event to be named “The Last Laugh.” It’s the end of the school year, and everybody’s busy catching up on their classes, preparing for finals and buying copious amounts of coffee to actually start studying for exams during finals week. But fortunately, students were reminded that we’re not defined by how much time...
“Tomorrowland” takes a few Disneyland references and slaps them onto the background of a film that otherwise does not feel like a Disney movie. Brad Bird, known for his experiences in both writing and directing “Ratatouille” and “The Incredibles,” takes viewers on a ride through space and time to a reimagined city-sized version of Disneyland’s future-themed area of the...
The iconic scarlet speedster from DC Comics finally arrives to make his live-action network television debut in the CW’s “The Flash.” In its first season alone, it already races past the plethora of both superhero and general television shows and crosses the finish line, solidifying itself as one of the best new things to watch.
“The Flash” follows the story...
Introduction: A Call to the Arts
Ask a UCR student what they think represents a festival or a concert, and chances are they’ll conjure up hip-hop and EDM artists providing the beats for bodies to grind together in mosh pits denser than a mountain, an ample osmosis of THC rising above students’ heads and the all-too-familiar long lines and high...
Starting with the teaser, the episode “Johnny and Dora” made it clear that the “Brooklyn Nine-Nine” writers knew they’d left us with unfinished business last week. The episode opens with Scully (Joel McKinnon Miller) screaming, “No, no, no, no, you can’t take him from me.” We quickly find out that he’s referring to one of the precinct’s vending...
The word “apocalypse” implies an ending. Some people think it involves hellfire, a meteor, Cthulhu or some other type of cataclysm. Shows at the Barn are over the quarter. Some of us may never see another Barn show as UCR students. To herald this change, the Barn and KUCR had its own apocalypse on Wednesday night: a Comedy Apocalypse.
The...
Having a penchant for historically based plays, UCR professor Bella Merlin wrote a fascinating piece on one of the world’s first great actresses, Nell Gwynne. Titled “Nell Gwynne: A Dramatick Essaye on Acting and Prostitution,” this one-person, fact-based drama explores the complicated relationship between women and theater in 17th-century England.
“A lot of research went into writing this piece,” Merlin...