Past Stories
Down To Earth
The Weekly knows you have a busy life, juggling school, work or play—who’s got time for Earth Day today? Here are a couple of Mother Nature-friendly products that make going green easy as falling off a landfill.
Cave Brot...
Celebration of Arts and Architecture
Sat, April 28
You’re truckin’ down the 101 at about 80 miles an hour on your way to a fabulous weekend in the City by the Bay, when you suddenly come across a sign: “HearstCastle, next exit.” Twenty miles pass…
All-American Bites
Zorba’s serves up Grade A-quality burgers and A+ refreshments
Ahh . . . burgers, the quintessential American staple; if you try it elsewhere, they’re just not the same. Travel the world and all you want to do when you retur...
The 7 Day Stretch
Thurs/4/19
MOON BLOCK PARTY
For the first time ever, the Coachella Music Festival is spread out over two weekends. For music fans this means more music, more new bands and obviously, more parties, too. So if you’re not on...
Return to Mango Street
An evening with Sandra Cisneros will be the highlight of UCR’s Tomás Rivera Conference
Each year through a conference named in his honor, UC Riverside celebrates the legacy of Tomás Rivera, the Chicano author and poet who b...
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-envelo...
Skip This Trip
Scares and chuckles cancel each other out in The Cabin in the Woods
Sometimes you can be too clever for your own good. If only the filmmaking duo of Joss Whedon and Drew Goddard remembered that before they teamed up…
Final Word
Everybody relax! Crawl out from under that table. North Korea—for the moment—remains incapable of attacking the United States.
North Korea also can’t attack any other part of the world including South Korea or anything re...
If You Want to Come to London . . .
Photo by Angel Ceballos
U.K.-based Yuck says it digs Americans
Yuck is having a pretty sweet week. The young, London-based indie rock foursome is in between sets at its first Coachella, and just dropped the single “Chew,” ...
Don’t Hate the Game—Or the Players
Photo courtesy of IE Heartless
New LGBT softball team hits all the bases when it comes to tolerance, acceptance
Gay marriage and equality for homosexuals are issues that will not go away in California or the nation as a whole....
¡Ask A Mexican!
BUY TACO USA! Gentle cabrones: My much-promised Taco USA: How Mexican Food Conquered America, has finally hit bookstores! Place your order with your favorite local bookstore, your finer online retailers, your craftier piratas, ...
The Rundown
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 11
School buses, like the dinosaurs to which they have been for so long and so insultingly compared in size, appear to be going the way of the once-roamed-the-Earth. The Jurupa Unified School District will lay ...
Shag and Harvey’s Seatbelt Handbag Release Party
Sat, April 28
In its effort to further complicate that perennial question, “Is it really art?” M Modern Gallery is hosting a release party for a new line of Seatbelt Handbags designed by the artist Shag (a.k.a. Josh Agle)...
The Lions and Peanut Butter Wolf
Wed, April 25
Jamaican-inspired reggae band The Lions will kick off the spring 2012 season at The Barn at UC Riverside, appearing alongside Stones Throw Records founder and master DJ Peanut Butter Wolf. Described by one critic ...
I don’t need no stinkin‘ rewards card!
To every freakin’ store I go to nowadays: I don’t have or want your membership or rewards card! I don’t want to give you my name. I don’t want to give you my email. I don’t want to sign up…
The Burningbed
MEMBERS:
Pablo Luna (singer, songwriter, guitar, keys, synths); Efren Vizcaino (vocals, bass); Jessie Melendrez (drums, percussion).
CITY OF ORIGIN:
Riverside, Upland and Corona.
RECENT RELEASE:
Adventos, Self Released (201...
Indigenous Choreographers Residency Q&A Part II
Tonight marks the end of the Culver Center’s hosted project “Indigenous Choreographers Residency” with a performance at 7 p.m. Yesterday, we highlighted the project’s starting point with coordinator Jacqueline Shea Murp...
After the Rain: Tomás Rivera the Legacy and Life
Though he started out as the son of migrant farm workers in Texas, Tomas Rivera ended up becoming a lauded Chicano poet, author and educator–and he was the first Mexican-American to be a chancellor for the UC system, spec...
Indigenous Choreographers Residency Q&A Part I
Last week, the Culver Center in downtown Riverside embarked on a journey to explore the interconnections and international dimensions of indigenous dance. In “Indigenous Choreographers Residency,” a research project coordin...
That Good Ol’ Fest
Coachella Weekend 1 goes out with a bang
DoLab and Solitary Inflorescence (Photo by Lynn Lieu)
Every year another epic Coachella takes over the desert. Since its inception 13 years ago, the festival –that began as a two-day...
