Past Stories
The 2007 Chocolate, Wine & Jazz Festival
Tired of decay and destruction? Take your mind off the monstrosities Mother Nature has unleashed and escape to Crossroads Riverview Park in Corona this weekend, where excellent wine, hors d’oeuvres and dessert await in a ...
Baby Tattooville
Over the weekend, the historic Mission Inn Hotel will be transformed into a hub of the current pop surrealist art scene, hosting the Baby Tattooville event. Featuring such heavyweights as Gary Baseman, Luke Chueh, Frank K...
WHITMAN
In October of 2006, Whitman, a Riverside-based noise-folk one-man outfit, was living in a small house that he shared with a stripper he didn’t know and the stripper’s he’s-here-all-the-time-he-should-pay-bills...
Tokyo Police Club at The Glass House
“Do your neighbor a favor,” say the mouths of babes. “Steal their morning paper.” More than an adolescent prank, Canada’s Tokyo Police Club are committing social commentary. Songs like “Cheer...
The Joshua Tree Roots Music Festival
For many years it seemed that the few souls who stopped over at Joshua Tree were either sun-baked desert rats, bohemian artsy types, drug-addled hippies or extraterrestrials traveling via saucer. As this year’s edition of...
: HAIL THE JEW DAWN!
The Hanukkah Tour, a definitely unorthodox yet artistically kosher package of Hebrew noisemakers, aims to celebrate the Festival of Lights with a lunatic zeal. It features the very first visit to US shores by Yidcore, a ferocio...
THE PALM SPRINGS INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
One of the Southland’s glitziest, most prestigious film fests kicks off next week, and the best thing is that you don’t have to hop on a plane and endure sleepless nights on a cold airport floor.
Where else ca...
BONNIE RAITT
Redheaded guitar slinger Bonnie Raitt—offspring of mid-century Great White Way fixture John—was born with perhaps the most bafflingly inappropriate background for one who has spent decades trading in the blues. Desp...
WIFE SWAP
Meet the Caddels of Corona—Steve and Jinxi, just your average IE homebodies trying to raise three kids. Average, except maybe for the awesome full-arm tats, cool piercings and free-thinking atheist worldview. And th...
HELMET
With the plethora of Seattle bands that broke into the early-‘90s rock mainstream, it’s a little baffling that the new alternative sound precluded almost any band that didn’t call the city home. The then...
SOUNDS LIKE RIVERSIDE FILM PREMIERE AND CONCERT
Don’t be deceived by last week’s Weekly cover story on the locally-famous Empire garage bands of the 1960s, lest you think that era ended with Lyndon Johnson. Garage bands are perpetually forming in the IE, an...
THE MORENO VALLEY MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. CELEBRATION
We could sure use him now.
Four years into a bloody, senseless war that has no end in sight, six years into a conservative regime that likes to give tax breaks to the rich while letting the middle class suffer,…
ONE SIZE FITS ALL
Focusing on global child exploitation, One Size Fits All follows the lives of four kids under the strict laws of their oppressors in such places as a sweat shop in Indonesia, a sugar cane field in the Dominican Republic, ...
PAULA POUNDSTONE
So she’s made some mistakes. Getting arrested for a DWI back in ‘01; lingering a decade or two too long in that ‘80s blazer-and-necktie look . . . hey, nobody’s saying Paula Poundstone is perfect. ...
THE RIVERSIDE DICKENS FESTIVAL
Riverside is hardly the first place one thinks of when contemplating a festival dedicated to all things Charles Dickens, that 19th century creator of very large, very English novels—all cravats, meat pies, workhouse...
THE 2007 WESTERN REGIONAL LGBTQIA COLLEGE CONFERENCE
Last year, UC Riverside was named by The Advocate as one of the country’s best colleges for gay and lesbian students, so it’s only fitting that this annual confab takes place right here in the IE. With an acti...
THE HORSEPAINTERS
It’s not every day you hear soulful country-rock, but that’s exactly what you get from the Horsepainters. This SoCal band’s unusual but pristine sound and style is primarily the product of Dave Clucas, t...
THE RIVERSIDE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
People who don’t live here have no idea that the IE is home to a slew of terrific film fests. Hell, people who do live here have no clue, either. But between the larger, celeb-studded affairs like the Palm Springs…
OZOMATLI
OZOMATLI
Unless you’ve been living in cave somewhere, you know that Ozomatli is the most ethnically-diverse band in the universe. But to cop a phrase, it don’t a mean a thing if it ain’t got that swing, ...
INVISIBLE CHILDREN
INVISIBLE CHILDREN
This haunting political documentary starts off like Jackass and ends like Blair Witch. Three naive dudes with shaggy Southern Cali haircuts enter Uganda, knowing little about the extent of the country&...
THE PALM SPRINGS NATIVE AMERICAN FILM FESTIVAL
Pop quiz: In what year was the first film written, directed and produced by Native Americans released? Not until 1998—wholly a century after the birth of film—and if that answer comes as an unnerving shock, th...
DIE HUNNS
Duane Peters, skateboard badass turned punk rock oracle, shouts with more caustic sneer, furious disgust and fuck-the-world disregard than it seems any normal human being could muster. It’s an approach burnished over the ...
UCR FESTIVAL OF WORLD MUSIC
If you’re looking for something a bit more culturally-enriching than just shamrocks and green beer this St. Paddy’s Day, the third annual UCR Festival of World Music presents an exotic, aural feast with divers...
THE OLD SCHOOL REUNION II
THE OLD SCHOOL REUNION II
Back when you were young and innocent, sexologists MC Rob Base and Candyman taught you about the birds and bees. Namely, that it takes two and involves huggin’ and tuggin’ and ...
THE PEG LEG SMITH LIAR’S CONTEST
Thomas “Peg Leg” Smith, a mountain man from Kentucky notorious for his consumption of whiskey as well as wild exaggeration, struck out west to the California heartland in search of fame and gold. He barhopped ...
THE SOWETO GOSPEL CHOIR
<p>Simultaneously familiar and other-worldly, the Soweto Gospel Choir is the right group performing at the right time. While so much of our fragile planet is being torn apart by social and political divisiveness, this glo...
THE BLASTERS
<p>For almost three decades, the Blasters have carried the torch for their own blistering style of "American Music," and the band’s driving force has always been its indescribably intense founder, singer-g...
DAVID SEDARIS
David Sedaris, the funniest homosexual American male French expatriate, is coming to the Inland Empire. Now, why would he be doing this? A bad booking agent? Who knows, but I can’t wait to hear him read his pieces in his...
