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Thomas Holguin/HIGHLANDER While I am not sure if there is exactly a generational gap here, but for all early users of the internet, born in the latter half of the 1990s, there has been at least one...
View ArticleConversations at the Culver presents intimate evening with bestselling author...
Adrian Dizon/ HIGHLANDER At the center of the dimly lit theater room at the Culver Center of the Arts sits Jill Alexander Essbaum, bespectacled and sporting a colorful green dress. Essbaum is a noted...
View ArticleUC Riverside hosts 40th annual Writer’s Week
Faraz Rizvi/ HIGHLANDER Presented every February by UC Riverside’s Department of Creative Writing, Writer’s Week brings to campus a plethora of writers, authors, poets and novelists associated with the...
View ArticleUnder the Radar: Issue 21
Etheridge Knight COURTESY OF POETRY FOUNDATION Etheridge Knight can seem like a bit of a curiosity to most students of literature: A black poet who wrote a few books of verse in his literary career,...
View ArticleAnxiety and Awe: The real Coachella
What do you think of when you hear the word Coachella? Celebrities, ferris wheels, H&M, Native American headdresses, cultural appropriation? I just got back from my fourth Coachella. When I hear...
View ArticleInside UCR’s Super Smash Bros. Scene
It must have been a breezy, Wednesday evening in the spring quarter of 2016 when Christopher Iverson hooked up his sleek, compact white projector to his Wii U and took it right outside Surge 173. The...
View ArticleEmbracing the spirit of memento mori
Adrian Dizon/HIGHLANDER On Oct. 28, downtown Riverside’s Barbara and Art Culver Center hosted a public print viewing of postmortem photography from the Gluck Foundation’s “From the Vault” series. The...
View ArticleHonoring the spirits of lost loved ones with Concheros, Mexica Art at UCR
Archive / The Highlander Woodwind sounds of the Conchero dancer’s whistle and the steady, percussive beating of huēhuētl, a cylindrical drum made of wood and swamp cypress, marked the commencement of...
View ArticleUCR Arts: A deep dive into the museum’s intricate exhibitions
Courtesy of CHASS@UCR Before UCR Arts emerged in downtown Riverside in 2010, it was initially composed of three separate museums: The Jack and Marilyn Sweeney Art Gallery (1963), the California Museum...
View ArticleSAG-AFTRA members consider the ramifications of new contract
After 118 days of striking, the Screen Actor Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA), the union representing over 160,000 actors, reached a tentative deal for a new...
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