Past Stories
Skin Tones
Young buck rapper Kid Ink gets ready to drop bars for UCR’s Heat Music Festival
Ever since he moved to the majors earlier this year, rapper Kid Ink may have to change his name to just Ink—hip-hop scribes and critics…
Unnatural Acts!
Scripps Ceramic Annual goes organically inorganic
For some reason, every year I walk in to review the Scripps annual ceramic show—and that is every year—I’m once again shocked that it’s not filled with boring old tablew...
Hot Stuff
UCR’s Heat Music Festival marks its seventh year staying true to students’ tastes and delivering the hip-hop and EDM goods
How much anticipation is there for the 2013 Heat Music Festival at UC Riverside? When rapper Tyga le...
Fish Out of Water
Fish tacos are the bomb at Morongo Casino’s newest Tex-Mex restaurant.
It’s a blustery Friday in Cabazon, but inside the Morongo Casino, busloads of Chinese have parked their asses on bar stools, inhaling a numbing anesthet...
Killer Entertainment
Director Bryan Singer creates a new kind of superhero with Jack the Giant Slayer
Even as 2012 proved a watershed year in movie quality, with six $100-million-grossing blockbusters competing for the honor of Best Picture, it als...
Final Word
The future is coming and it’s going to sit on your face.
Google has invented computerized eyewear to video chat, take photos, search the Internet, check weather and get driving directions, according to CNET. Marketed as “Go...
Write Our World
MEMBERS: Ezra Echt (vocals), James Osyris (lead guitar), Thinzar Pyre (rhythm guitar), Eddy Medrano (bass) and Garrick William (Drums).
CITIES OF ORIGIN: Pomona, Walnut, Upland, Colton and San Bernardino (respectively).
KINDRED...
Keep Calm and Carry On
20+ Years of bringing Ska to the Masses
If you’re into Ska music, then you know of Madness, The Specials, and later No Doubt and Sublime as being the bands to help push Ska to the mainstream. ...
The Write Stuff?
Riverside ranks pretty low in a university literacy study—but it’s not all bad
The tenth annual study of America’s Most Literate Cities was released by Central Connecticut State University last month, and to no surprise t...
¡Ask A Mexican!
Dear Mexican: You mentioned in the past that your Dad is against illegal immigration, but that’s a voice you never hear. Why aren’t the legal immigrants and legal aliens “vocally outraged” about the illegals who drive d...
The Rundown
WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 20
Our latest communal WhatTheFuck is over, and in the aftermath of the Christopher Dorner Experience we become individuals again, sorting through and straightening out the mess that’s been made of our head...
Sloth
Sat, March 2
Sloths are known as lazy creatures that slowly makes their way through the jungles of South America. Choosing such a mellow creature to represent the band version must have been a joke because the rock band from&he...
“The New World”
Thru Sat, March 16
A future world in which technology is used to oppress citizens was first introduced in one of the greatest English-language novels of the 20th century, Brave New World. Since the 1930s (when Brave New World w...
The 7 Day Stretch
Thurs/2/28
MAYOR’S NIGHT OUT
Mother, should I trust the government? Ask them yourselves; they’re going to be fielding questions from the people. It seems like everyone will be there—the City Council Members, the City ...
Booze and Bacon
Those seeking a daytime party in Riverside last weekend had the time of their lives at the 4th Annual IE Beer and Food Festival where there was much eating, boozing and laughs to be had. How could a ticket, which…
Reward Offered After Double-Killing in Nuevo
Riverside County investigators are working a double homicide case and they’re looking for leads on who killed a woman and her daughter in Nuevo earlier this month.
Unless homicide detectives know more about the case than they...
