Past Stories
The 7 Day Stretch
Thurs/2/7
PEOPLE IN GLASS HOUSES
Ever take something life-changing for granted? The Claremont Heritage Foundation will help you discover a newfound appreciation in the film People in Glass Houses; you’ll never look at local h...
Keeping Her Composure
Pitzer College showcases the power of spectacular feminist art with “Martha Wilson”
Walking up to the Pitzer College Art Gallery, my senses tightened up with excitement. As I am momentarily blinded by the clean white space ...
Eat Me
Sex Issue: Exploring the connection between love, sex and food
There is a very close relationship between love, sex and food. Very sensory-driven experiences, having sex and eating food and sweets are the two most satisfying hu...
Rock the Bells
Photo by Bill Gerdes
Las Campanas proves that it’s much less bland than it used to be
Who doesn’t love the Mission Inn, that hodgepodge of architecture, that pastiche of the Spanish Mission, the Asian Garden and the Pr...
Final Word
We’re fat. We’re lazy. And we lo-o-ove to smoke.
That’s according to the 2013 Community Health Profile, a report released by the County of Riverside Department of Public Health.
Turns out residents of Riverside County are...
Castle Pines
MEMBERS: Jesse Briseño (bass), Nick Barrientos (lead guitar), Sterling Fairfield (drums) and Leandro Barrientos (vocals/rhythm guitar).CITY OF ORIGIN: Corona.
KINDRED SPIRITS: “Wilco, Radiohead, Arcade Fire, My Morning Jacke...
Shock and Ska
Buck-O-Nine has come a long way from writing songs in their underwear
Experiencing a Buck-O-Nine show these days is about the same as it’s always been over the past two decades or so since this popular SoCal ska-punk group’...
The Betrayal
Torture was the name of the game at Guantanamo—a former Muslim chaplain knows first-hand
As President Obama is now settled into his second term in office, the crucial issues of the day still seem to revolve around gun contro...
!Ask a Mexican!
Dear Mexican: The pinche Republicans are making a gigante ruido about their “Hispanic” senators in Congress. Wachale! Lets call a pendejo a pendejo. Please discuss with tu audienca what Mexicans really think about Cubans in...
The Rundown
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 30
A couple of Riverside County sheriff’s deputies respond to a case of highway robbery, and what do they get for their trouble . . . you know, besides their wages and benefits and eventual publicly paid pe...
Finch
Thurs, Feb. 8-Fri, Feb. 9
Some bands stage a comeback only to fizzle out and return to the dead from whence it came. Finch is unquestionably not one of those bands. After scaring fans with an “indefinite hiatus” in 2006,&he...
“Simply Red”
By Jen Ponder
Opens Sat, Feb. 9
As one of the longest running annual exhibitions in the history of Pomona, the dA Center for the Arts’ “Simply Red” revels in tradition as well as the instinctual relevance of the color&he...
Tour de Palm Springs
Sat, Feb. 9
Lance Armstrong might have given the sport of cycling its worst scandal in the history of sports since the Black Sox Scandal—but let’s just move past that, OK? The fact that cycling—its doping scandals aside...
Stealing the Show
Force of nature teams up with Jason Bateman to create comedy classic Identity Thief
Two years ago, Melissa McCarthy hit the big screen in Bridesmaids, unleashing a performance that was so boldly original that she became an inst...
Youthful Indiscretion?
They say life imitates art. In this case, life was like the missing subplot from 21 Jump Street. Two dozen students have been arrested in an undercover drug sting at Chaparral and Temecula Valley high schools, according to The ...
February Food Events
You won’t want to miss some of these amazing food-centric events coming up this month. Seriously, don’t miss a single one. (Event information is subject to change).If you see an event not listed here and woul...
For the Love of Chocolate
Tis’ the season to give in to your chocolate indulgence. Unfortunately, it’s also the season for overspending and commercialized Valentine’s Day candy. Retailers like Target and Walmart can suck an everlasting...
Riverside now has a Farrell’s Ice Cream Parlour
A week prior to the grand opening of Farrell’s Ice Cream Parlour Restaurant’s Riverside location on Jan. 31, Weekly editor in chief Roberto C. Hernandez (and his family) had an opportunity to enjoy an invite-only e...
Bite Right
There’s nothing stronger than a hungering appetite. Those buff men who can pull trains with their sheer physical strength? It doesn’t even compare to an enduring craving. The kind that clouds your judgment, distract...
Man Grabs Cop’s Gun, Cops Shoot Man, Prosecutors Clear Cops
There’s lots of things one shouldn’t do when being arrested. Grabbing a cop’s gun is probably at the top of that list.
If it’s not, it should be.
That’s what San Bernardino County sheriff’s deputies say Kenneth Muno...
