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Let It Ride
X-Fighters brings the superstars of FMX to the motorsports mecca that is Glen Helen Travel on any Southern California highway on any weekend and you’ll almost certainly see dirt bikes. Dirt bikes on trailers; dirt bikes in the back of…
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Freeze Frame
With all his success in music, movies and television, Ice Cube still remembers his days as a boy n the hood Remember the days when rappers just . . . rapped? That’s so old school. Nowadays they are also practically…
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The Misfits of Football
Indoor Football lives in the Inland Empire In the United States pro football is king. And not just in sports. It left poor baseball in the dust sometime around 1980 as Americans discovered it to be the perfect sport for…
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Hug a Tree
This Earth Day we shed light on some of the IE’s most memorable environmental mishaps For those of us who grew up in the Inland Empire during the ’70s and ’80s one of our indelible childhood memories is smog, thick-enveloping…
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The Men Behind The Fest
Coachella organizers talk Goldenvoice, The Glass House and everything that started the seminal music and arts festival “We’re proud of the IE; we think about it all the time.” That’s Goldenvoice president Paul Tollett, sitting in the Pomona bar Acerogami,&hel...-
The Check is in the Mail
Democratic hopeful Amos Young Jr. makes campaign promises—but not the ones you’d think By all appearances, Amos Jackson Young, Jr. has big plans for the upcoming Democratic National Convention (DNC) that is going to be held... -
Observe and Report
In the event of police brutality, Cop Watch IE is here to document everything and protect your rights A startup group of well informed tech savvy activists has plans to put rogue law enforcement on the beat in Riverside under&h... -
Hangar 24
Need to drown their sorrows Angels fans? Now you can do so with taste! Redlands-based craft brewery Hangar 24 adds itself to the stadium’s alcoholic lineup, according to The Press-Enterprise. Hangar 24 is one of two breweries... -
Sobering Thoughts
Pomona Assemblywoman Norma Torres We came close to a law that would have made sober drivers guilty of DUI Imagine that you, a medical cannabis patient, are driving home from work when a car driven by a stoned-out oxycodone add...
Shooting For the Stars
You’ve got a college degree in science-fiction . . . so what the hell can you do with it? Plenty, if the folks behind UCR’s upcoming Science Fiction and Technology Symposium are to be believed.
According to a university pre...
Casking the Brew
Hangar 24 revs up for American Craft Beer Week
For seven years the Brewers Association has recognized American Craft Beer Week, which starts on May 14 and runs through May 20 this year, and there’s no better way to celebrate&...
The Henry Clay People Keeps it 25
If I had a bucket list it would probably include a list of must-see-bands-before-I-die, and it would likely include The Henry Clay People. I won’t lie: I wasn’t one of the few lucky ones to have heard of the band…
Double The Fun
Bernie and Headhunters provide unique thrills and laughs as the best movies of the year so far
“Oh, what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive.”
That line came from writer Sir Walter Scott more than…






























